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08.02 / 06:55

markets Strategy economy Trade country inclusion Surjit Bhalla: Viksit Bharat may hinge on deeper economic ties with the world’s most vibrant free market

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There are two basic elements to any successful development strategy: growth and redistribution. Over the last decade, the Narendra Modi government has been very successful with policies of redistribution.

08.02 / 02:21

markets COST UPS Citi wellness Universities China is going all-in to beat the US on humanoid robots

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SUZHOU, China—Elon Musk has been telling investors for months that Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot will revolutionize the world and create a new mega-industry. But most of it could belong to China, he has warned.

08.02 / 02:21

markets COST UPS Target economy MSCI Trade Global news wrap: Monetary policies, emerging market shares, China’s GDP

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Every month, Mint’s Plain Facts section brings out an update on key global data to thread together the biggest developments in the world that are worth paying attention to.

07.02 / 03:13

markets DOW Bitcoin blues bowling A tech bust gave way to a broader rally. What comes next could be ugly.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Buy the dip? For most of the past week, that referred almost entirely to the salsa, guacamole, and blue cheese dressing for Super Bowl snacks. For stocks, cryptocurrencies, precious metals, and other risky assets, investors were more inclined to sell first and ask questions later.

06.02 / 01:31

security Trade President country Equality Cuba says it is ready to engage with Trump as fuel shortages worsen

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his government is willing to engage with the Trump administration as the Communist island braces for severe fuel shortages after the U.S. threatened to impose trade sanctions to countries shipping oil to the Communist island.

06.02 / 00:05

UPS Provident Target Manufacturing Gap Trade country India's container sops draw interest from global shipping behemoths: Sonowal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in talks with global shipping giants and domestic companies to set up container manufacturing facilities, according to Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, as the ₹10,000 crore budget push seeks to cut reliance on China and boost local production. Several companies have expressed interest in manufacturing and demand aggregation for containers made in India, Sonowal, ports, shipping and waterways minister, said, citing names including the world's largest container shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC); second-placed and Danish giant A.P.

05.02 / 08:35

Blockchain UPS Provident Digital Trade Bitcoin Inside The great crypto reckoning: Wake up and get real about this class of pseudo assets

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A year ago, the most pro-crypto president in US history had just returned to power after pandering to clueless retail crypto investors and receiving massive financial backing from semi-corrupt crypto insiders. Donald Trump’s second coming was supposed to be a new dawn for crypto, leading various self-dealing evangelists to predict that Bitcoin would become ‘digital gold,’ reaching at least $200,000 by the end of 2025.

05.02 / 02:15

COST UPS Gap Trade show Mint Quick Edit | India-China trade swelled in 2025: Will this remain a largely one-way story?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For all the talk about either restraining or rebalancing trade with China, India’s dealings with it are rising. In 2025, trade reached a record $155.6 billion, up 12%, according to Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong.

04.02 / 10:59

markets Provident Gap economy Enterprise Why India needs smarter finance: It’s not just about enlarging the country’s financial sector

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s budget for 2026-27 signals a growing recognition that its financial challenge is no longer one of scale alone, but of structure and effectiveness. Measures such as the introduction of a market-making framework for corporate bonds, the development of total return swaps and bond-index derivatives, incentives for large municipal bond issuances and the creation of mechanisms such as the Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund and real estate investment trusts (REITs) linked to central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) point to an attempt to deepen long-term, market-based finance and improve risk distribution beyond banks.

03.02 / 14:37

markets Manufacturing Sustainability Trade medicines Investigations Pharmaceuticals India plans curbs on cheap API imports from China to shield TB drug makers

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India plans to impose anti-dumping duties on ethambutol hydrochloride—a critical input used in tuberculosis (TB) medicines—to curb cheap imports from China and Thailand, according to a government order reviewed by Mint.

03.02 / 01:05

UPS Waters Manufacturing electronic Department International Small budget for a big bottleneck: India’s only rare earth producer gets modest capex hike

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Even as India pushes to localize rare earth supply chains, the Centre has budgeted ₹140 crore in capital expenditure for the country’s only domestic manufacturer of rare earth magnets and rare earth oxides—IREL (India) Ltd—in the next fiscal year, a modest 1.4% increase from FY26. The muted allocation for the state-run producer, outlined in Union budget documents, has sparked questions about whether India is under-investing in its only operational domestic supplier at a moment when shortages are hitting industries from automobiles to electronics.

02.02 / 14:57

Target Experts country electronic innovations Schools International Mint Explainer | AI mentioned 11 times, but budget cut: Decoding India's evolving stance on artificial intelligence

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 29 January, the 2026 Economic Survey flagged the need for India to take a cautious approach in developing artificial intelligence. On Sunday, the outlay proposed for the India AI Mission in the Union Budget was halved.

02.02 / 10:49

markets COST Platform economy show recommendations Updates How AI is rewriting consumer commerce in China

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s consumer recovery has been slower and more uneven than policymakers hoped, but one part of the economy is moving fast anyway: artificial intelligence. As demand growth falters and traditional stimulus offers only limited lift, China’s biggest consumer platforms are leaning into AI not as a moonshot, but as a practical tool to stabilize margins, reshape competition, and extract more value from each transaction.

02.02 / 00:47

markets COST Strategy economy Trade shock How China emerged stronger than ever amid US tariffs—and what India can learn from it

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Few questions are as revealing today as how the world’s two largest economies—the US and China—differ in their economic approaches. In Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (2025), Dan Wang offers a useful lens.

01.02 / 14:23

markets Provident Manufacturing security Enterprise Trade electronic Budget 2026: Manufacturing gets a big push amid global headwinds

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Union Budget 2026-27 continued to push the pedal on localization in the Indian manufacturing sector, announcing a slew of measures across electronic goods, pharma, textiles, capital goods and other sectors to boost India's production and export competitiveness. The focus on self-reliance was reflected in finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech.

31.01 / 06:15

Target country reports Interviews Investigations International High-profile arrests spark exodus of scam workers in Cambodia

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The arrests of two alleged ringleaders of transnational scam networks in Cambodia have led to thousands of workers—many of them trafficked—being let go from compounds across the country, one of the biggest shake-ups to date of the so-called pig-butchering industry. But the government’s actions fall short of what experts say is needed to eradicate an illicit industry that has become deeply rooted in Cambodia and has stolen billions of dollars from Americans in recent years.

31.01 / 06:15

Cooper security Trade President reports Trump tantrums push Europe to look east

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Negotiations for “the mother of all deals", which has been almost 20 years in the making, finally concluded this week. In EU President Ursula von der Leyen’s own words: “We are creating a market of 2 billion people.

31.01 / 06:15

UPS Art War country audience pop Why China cares about being cool all of a sudden

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was America’s day of giving thanks, and China was having a moment. A giant float with fang-baring toy monsters was trundling through Manhattan for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as crowds of onlookers whipped out their phones to capture the looming 16-foot balloons—Chinese soft-power icons starring in one of America’s biggest cultural events.

31.01 / 01:23

COST UPS Manufacturing Action Research Trade recommendations China-plus-one remains relevant; India’s competitiveness will go up as reforms build up: CEA

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Despite Indian exports attracting higher tariffs in the US market than Chinese shipments, the China-plus-one strategy remains relevant for multinational firms, chief economic adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said in an interview.

30.01 / 08:33

markets COST UPS Citi Platform Racing testing Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A Journey in one of Pony.ai’s robotaxis is, in some respects, a familiar experience for anyone who has ridden in a cab in China. For one thing, the horn honks just as often.

30.01 / 08:03

markets Provident Manufacturing Airlines Tesla show Commentary China’s EVs are coming to Canada. Americans should welcome them, too.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. About the author: Clifford Winston is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Market Corrections Not Government Interventions: A Path to Improve the U.S. Economy. In 1977, a swashbuckling British entrepreneur named Freddy Laker launched the Skytrain, a no-frills, low-fare flight between London and New York.

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