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17.12 / 10:13

UPS security information reports rights Updates Japan’s MUFG to invest up to $5 billion in Shriram Finance for 20% stake in major India bet

Mint’s requests for a comment.Amid media reports, Shriram Finance informed the exchanges late Tuesday that its board is scheduled to meet on Friday to consider a proposal to raise funds through a rights issue, preferential allotment, qualified institutional placement, or any other permissible mode. The transaction is expected to be carried out through a fresh issue of equity shares and/or other eligible securities, the company had said in the regulatory filing.The development comes on the back of a larger trend by global strategic players looking to enter India with large buyout deals.

17.12 / 07:39

markets Provident Gap Align Bill innovations International Mint Explainer: Why the insurance bill 2025 marks the industry's biggest reform in decades

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 16 December, represents the most significant reform of India’s insurance sector in decades. The bill seeks to amends three core laws—the Insurance Act, 1938; the LIC Act, 1956; and the IRDAI Act, 1999—to liberalise foreign investment, strengthen regulation, introduce new intermediaries, and accelerate insurance penetration in line with the government’s goal of ‘insurance for all by 2047’.

17.12 / 07:13

COST UPS Manufacturing Mobile wellness Cycling stage Punjab plans EV sops in new industrial policy as states compete for investments

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The electric vehicles (EV) sector is expected to take centre stage in Punjab, as the state lines up an expanded package of incentives to attract fresh investments under the new industrial policy that is likely to be launched in January.

17.12 / 07:13

UPS Digital Booking Election Universities social Courts Big Tech's capture of state authority seems easy in a world where it’s hard to escape the clutches of technology

Denmark has cancelled Christmas—or Christmas cards at any rate. From the end of this month, the nation’s postal service will no longer carry letters.

17.12 / 07:13

markets Digital wellness Trade performer Updates Devina Mehra: Before going DIY with your stock portfolio, ask if you can really beat professional fund managers

I don’t know that much about stock markets, but want to start investing in equities.”“What is the point of just investing with mutual funds and portfolio management services (PMSes)? I want to learn and do it myself.”These are some of the questions I get. Often, the unsaid part is, “It is so boring to say that I am invested in a combination of fixed deposits, mutual funds and PMSes.

17.12 / 05:13

markets Racing economy President reports Interviews Inside Trump’s narrowing search for the next Fed chair

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Donald Trump’s search for the next Federal Reserve chair is stretching into the new year, and the way the race is unfolding is offering investors an early look at what matters most to the White House and what questions the president is asking candidates. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that a decision on the next Fed chair is unlikely before January, even as Trump interviews candidates and publicly signals frustration with the central bank’s direction.

17.12 / 04:07

COST UPS pandemic country Destinations In charts: Why India's foreign tourist numbers are set to disappoint in 2025

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is shaping up to be another difficult year for India’s tourism industry. Foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) have struggled in the first nine months of the year and may once again fall short of pre-pandemic levels.

17.12 / 03:29

markets UPS security economy Universities reports rights Spooked by AI and layoffs, white-collar workers see their security slip away

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Office workers are filled with anxiety. Tuesday’s jobs report was the latest ominous sign in an era of big corporate layoff announcements and CEOs warning that AI will replace workers.

17.12 / 00:37

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equity benchmarks extended their decline for a second straight session on Tuesday, driven by persistent selling pressure from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and weak global market cues.

17.12 / 00:37

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RailTel Corp., a state-owned telecom infrastructure and connectivity provider, is in talks with Elon Musk’s Starlink to offer retail broadband services to its users in remote areas using satellite internet, according to two officials aware of the matter.“The discussions have picked up pace with Starlink, but commercials are yet to be finalized. Starlink team has also met RailTel’s officials in New Delhi,” the first of the two government officials said, requesting anonymity as talks are private.

17.12 / 00:37

markets Target Analysis Sustainability trends Trade recommendations Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman's top picks for 17 December

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Selling pressure on the rally continues to keep a check on market conditions, as the lack of clarity continues to push the market lower with every rally. With trends continuing to fluctuate, we now need to determine that the market demands a hybrid approach.

17.12 / 00:37

markets COST Platform security Strategy Trade Cycling India’s bond market is tilting back to listed debt—and it may last

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Listed bonds in India are poised to claw back market share from unlisted issuances as participation from domestic mutual funds and global investors pushes companies towards more transparent mechanisms of fund raising. Market participants expect more bonds to be listed on Indian exchanges in 2026 and beyond.

17.12 / 00:37

markets UPS Provident Strategy Citigroup track Company Outsider | From buybacks to buyouts: TCS learns the Accenture playbook as outsourcing slows

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Company Outsider is a weekly newsletter by Sundeep Khanna. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. For two decades, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was synonymous with building.

17.12 / 00:37

markets UPS FIVE Strategy Research Healthcare reports $1 bn Telefónica UK win ends mega-deal dry spell for TCS but it's not out of the woods yet

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India's largest software services company, has won a mega deal valued at more than $1 billion revenues over 10 years from Telefónica UK, the British arm of Spanish telecom giant Telefónica, ending a nearly two-year drought in bagging such large deals.Telefónica UK runs the O2 brand of mobile phone services in the UK.Mumbai-based TCS will offer application and infrastructure work as part of this contract, much of which is new work for the company, said two executives privy to the development requesting that they remain unidentified in this story. A formal announcement is expected in the coming weeks.This is the fourth $1-billion deal, all in the UK, under managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) K.

17.12 / 00:37

COST Provident NIC Sustainability wellness reports orienteering Govt weighs ₹5,000 crore capital infusion for three PSU insurers as losses return

₹5,000 crore into three loss-making and financially weak public sector general insurers—United India Insurance Co. (UIIC), National Insurance Co.

17.12 / 00:37

Google Analysis Gemini Research Healthcare performer Google brings Indic AI to agriculture and healthcare

As Big Tech companies look to expand beyond English-speaking users, developing artificial intelligence (AI) expertise across a wider range of languages is emerging as the next major hurdle.Google’s latest effort has seen the company embed 29 Indic languages and dialects into Gemini, its foundational AI model, as it looks to scale AI adoption across India’s hinterlands, three years after it began work in the area. A foundational model is one that can accept user queries and respond in human-understandable languages.According to Manish Gupta, senior director at the company’s research arm, Google DeepMind, and its spearhead in AI language research efforts in India, proficiency in Indic languages is critical for last-mile applications such as agriculture and healthcare, where AI must interpret region-specific context to function properly,“For instance, Google’s Gemini powers an agricultural analysis model that is currently being deployed at the last mile, where it is imperative for our AI models to have contextual understanding of local tongues in order to perform with high efficiency,” he added.Google’s agriculture app processes information in local languages to offer soil analysis, crop prediction and more to farmers at subsidized costs through government and private sector companies.To be sure, by “embedding 29 languages”, Google means it is training, fine-tuning and benchmarking Gemini’s performance across these languages.

17.12 / 00:37

markets COST UPS Trade country Updates After US and Mexico, trade uncertainty emerges from EU

India has approached the World Trade Organization (WTO) for consultations with the European Union (EU) as the bloc’s proposed tariffs and quotas on ferro-alloy imports deepen worries about global trade uncertainty when the two parties are negotiating a free-trade pact.India has a substantial trade interest in the products concerned and has invoked provisions of the Agreement on Safeguards to seek consultations with the EU, according to the WTO document reviewed by Mint.The EU issued a notification last month, proposing a safeguard duty after claiming serious injury or threat to its domestic ferro-alloy industry due to rising imports.The EU imported iron and steel products worth about $4.25 billion from India in 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database. Ferro-alloys such as silico-manganese, ferro-manganese and ferro-silicon, which are essential inputs for steelmaking in Europe, accounted for about $381 million.While total Indian exports to the EU in the category may be small, the EU’s move increases uncertainty even as the two sides are engaged in talks for a free-trade pact.

17.12 / 00:37

Provident Research Bill Universities innovations Colleges International Mint Explainer: What Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill means for India's higher education

education. Operational powers will be split across three independent councils, each dealing separately with regulation, accreditation, and academic standards.

17.12 / 00:37

markets COST Deloitte Cycling Aon Pharmaceuticals Why your next appraisal won't be better than the previous one

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India Inc. is expected to roll out an average increment of 8.5-9.5% in the upcoming appraisal cycle, as companies calculate the impact of the new labour code and almost-stagnant inflation.

17.12 / 00:37

UPS Target Analysis PwC Experts reports Mint Explainer: Why is India’s natural gas consumption falling despite the government’s push?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite the government’s stated policy goal of increasing the share of natural gas in India’s energy basket, consumption of the environmentally friendly fuel fell 8.6% annually in the April-October period of FY26, according to data from the petroleum planning and analysis cell (PPAC). In absolute terms, consumption declined to 40,068 million metric standard cubic metres (mmscm) during the first seven months of FY26, compared to 43,583 mmscm over the same period in FY25.

16.12 / 16:07

Hollywood Entertainment economy Netflix film shooting Warner Bros show This Hollywood property mogul stands to lose no matter who wins Warner

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A drastic slowdown in the streaming business has delivered a major blow to Hackman Capital Partners, the largest independent owner and operator of soundstages. Now, whatever the outcome of Netflix’s and Paramount’s battle for Warner Bros.