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24.01 / 02:45

markets COST performer country reports International The week in charts: GDP projections, core industry slowdown, India-UAE energy partnership

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raising India’s FY26 GDP growth projection to 7.3%, to weak core-sector output compared with pre-covid levels, India’s new deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), rising US–EU tensions over Greenland, and the push for small-ticket UPI loans amid rising household debt, here's this week’s news in numbers. The IMF has lifted its projection for India’s GDP growth in FY26 to 7.3% from its October estimate of 6.6%.

24.01 / 02:45

markets UPS Trade President reports rights Editorial When will the stock market stop falling?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The positivity that investors felt at the start of 2026 has been replaced by negativity. The fact that the Nifty started the year at an all-time high has been forgotten.

24.01 / 00:05

COST Provident FIVE Align tenor Budget may allocate ₹9,800 crore as Centre's contribution for Maritime Development Fund

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government is set to operationalise the ₹25,000 crore Maritime Development Fund (MDF) by allocating ₹9,800 crore to it in the upcoming budget. The fund aims to lower capital costs and attract long-term, low-cost investment into shipyards, coastal infrastructure, and inland waterways.

23.01 / 16:41

markets UPS Strategy country reports State-run BPCL to sign $780 mn crude sourcing deal with Brazil's Petrobras

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) will sign a contract with Brazil's Petrobras next week to supply 12 million barrels of crude oil a petroleum ministry statement said, as India continues to diversify its sourcing beyond Russia and West Asia.

23.01 / 15:19

markets UPS Provident security reports RBI announces third tranche of stimulus ahead of MPC as rupee hits new low

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Amid persistent tightness in liquidity conditions, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced its third tranche of open market operations (OMOs) for the purchase of government securities worth ₹1 trillion and dollar-rupee buy/sell swaps of $10 billion, to be conducted in February. The central bank will purchase government securities worth ₹50,000 crore each on 5 February and 12 February, whereas it will auction dollar/rupee swaps of three years on 4 February, it said in a release.

23.01 / 15:19

markets Analysis Sustainability Trade Experts show performer Pulse of the Street: FPI exits, weak earnings leave India the worst global performer

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equities ended the week battered and bruised, as sustained foreign portfolio investor (FPI) outflows, weakening earnings momentum and pre-budget jitters combined to drag benchmark indices sharply lower. With the Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex ending down about 2.5% over the week, India stood out as the worst-performing major market in this period.

23.01 / 12:35

UPS Platform students track cover Schools Beyond the chatbot: The tech duo building an anti-ChatGPT for classrooms

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Peeyush Ranjan, a former senior executive at Google and Airbnb and ex-chief technology officer of Flipkart, has teamed up with former Cure.fit co-founder Mukesh Bansal to bet that the next wave of AI use in edtech will be built not as an “answer machine" like ChatGPT, but as a coach that pushes students to solve problems on their own.

23.01 / 05:09

markets UPS Healthcare Linux reports Pharmaceuticals Tata Capital Healthcare-backed Linux Laboratories hires Avendus as banker to raise up to $70 million

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Tata Capital Healthcare Fund-backed Linux Laboratories, which is focused on central nervous system (CNS)-based domestic formulations, has appointed Avendus as an adviser to facilitate a capital raise, two people familiar with the matter said. The Chennai-based company aims to raise $50-70 million to fund its expansion plans through organic and inorganic growth, double down on its existing categories and widen its footprint beyond India, the people said on the condition of anonymity.

23.01 / 03:45

UPS Provident Gap security Research reports A tale of two spirits: Radico on a high, United Spirits stays sober for now

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A clear divergence has emerged in India’s listed liquor space. While United Spirits has slipped about 8.2% over the past year, Radico Khaitan has surged 35%.

23.01 / 03:45

markets COST FIVE Digital Manufacturing economy reports The next market leaders? Six growth stocks to watch in 2026

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Markets rarely announce their next market leaders in advance. They emerge slowly, through numbers that improve quietly, through balance sheets that strengthen year after year, and through businesses that begin to matter a little more to the economy than they once did.

23.01 / 01:09

UPS Target economy Sustainability pandemic Trade electronic Budget to maintain fiscal rectitude in the face of global storm

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The upcoming Union Budget for fiscal 2027 is being formulated against the backdrop of some positive surprises, despite a highly volatile and uncertain global environment. India’s growth-inflation mix has proved way more favourable than anticipated, as has global growth.

23.01 / 01:09

markets UPS Target Hyundai Highways Research Carmakers on edge over delays in notification of tougher emission norms

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Carmakers are staring at a compliance window of less than 15 months to start getting close to stringent upcoming emission targets that are expected to come into effect from April 2027. With the Centre not yet notifying the third iteration of the corporate average fuel efficiency or CAFE-III norms—CAFE-I and CAFE-II were notified 24 months in advance—carmakers are feeling the pressure to prepare their fleet and powertrain plans to deliver the largest mandatory emissions cut over any five-year period.

23.01 / 01:09

markets Provident Action Sustainability trends Trade recommendations Stock recommendations for 23 January from MarketSmith India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Indian equity benchmarks staged a robust recovery on Thursday, snapping a three-day losing streak as global risk-on sentiment resurfaced. Nifty 50 advanced 0.53% to settle at 25,289.90, while Sensex climbed nearly 400 points, fueled by a sharp de-escalation in global trade concerns.

23.01 / 01:09

Provident Digital Merit Intuit wellness travelers inequality Budget 2026: What it will take to make India’s new tax law work

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Budget 2026 arrives at a pivotal moment. With the Income Tax Act, 2025, set to take effect from 1 April 2026, this year’s Budget should focus less on headline-grabbing tax rate changes and more on ensuring a smooth transition to the new law.

23.01 / 01:09

markets Manufacturing economy Trade country information Destinations India's chip dream: A step-by-step approach is key, says Arvind Virmani

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India needs long-term, step-by-step ecosystem-building, alongside sustained investment in research and development (R&D), to achieve semiconductor capabilities, essential for a major global economy given silicon chips’ role in the information age, according to economist and NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani.

22.01 / 14:49

markets UPS MET Manufacturing innovations International Pan-India growth, private investments helped us become IPO-ready after 60 years: Duroflex

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: After more than six decades as a privately held, family-run business, mattress maker Duroflex believes it is ready for the public markets, top executives of the company told Mint. The company’s evolution from a regional manufacturer to a national contender was driven by meeting specific internal benchmarks.“When we started the business, we had certain milestones in mind before we went public, including national expansion, revenue growth, and trade touchpoints," Jacob George, chairman and managing director of Duroflex Group, said in an interview.

22.01 / 14:49

Provident Cycling hospital reports rights International Sporting Blackstone, Temasek vie for IPL's crown jewel RCB

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Blackstone Inc. and Temasek Holdings Pte are among the early aspirants for reigning Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), two people familiar with the matter said.

22.01 / 14:49

markets UPS Provident security stage strain Market bats for continued OMOs, currency swaps to RBI as liquidity pinches

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a pre-policy interaction with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), economists and market participants broadly converged on one message: the central bank should focus on easing liquidity in the banking system rather than cutting interest rates, two economists and two treasury officials told Mint. With growth and inflation seen as largely stable, the discussion centred on tools to address liquidity, which have remained under strain due to persistent RBI intervention in the foreign exchange market to curb excessive rupee volatility, strong credit growth, and advance tax outflows.

22.01 / 11:59

markets UPS economy wellness cover reports International Why India’s war chest is under threat from a silent FDI drain

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India had $686 billion of foreign exchange (forex) reserves at the start of 2026. This number is often trotted out as evidence of the Indian economy’s external invulnerability.

22.01 / 10:33

wellness IBM Destiny country social innovations orienteering Is geography history or destiny? How innovation can thrive across cultural differences

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ever wonder why Germans seek perfection, Japanese pursue miniaturization and waste reduction, Americans are fussy about services and Indians settle for improvisation and what’s good enough? Is it something to do with where you reside? With pervasive technologies, affordable means of communication, maturing labour and capital markets and instant information dissemination, one may think that geography has become history, that who you are trumps where you are. But is it that simple? Or is geography destiny? “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from," notes writer Malcolm Gladwell.

22.01 / 09:47

markets UPS FIVE Waters economy country China’s construction slump has spelt a plateau for global cement production—and it’s good for the planet

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What’s the most important commodity for modern civilization? There’s a good argument that it’s not the ones we think about—oil, gas, copper, iron ore, gold—but something that’s ubiquitous and rarely grabs the attention of financial markets: concrete. After water, it’s the substance we use most abundantly, with between 25 billion and 30 billion tonnes poured annually.

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