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20.01 / 10:25
20.01 / 10:25
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Are IPO listings still worth the risk for small investors?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. 2026 could be another big year for initial public offerings (IPOs) with more than 100 companies already receiving approval to raise about ₹1.4 trillion (around $15.5 billion), according to Prime Database. Millions of retail investors typically flock to IPOs in the hope of earning quick profits by ‘flipping’ these shares after listing, but seasoned participants urge restraint, often shaped by hard-earned experience.
20.01 / 10:25
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Sensors, AI at core of India’s plan to modernise MSMEs, cut export rejections
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India is planning a massive digital upgrade of its micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as part of a broader push to align domestic manufacturing with global quality, and sustainability standards, in a move aimed at improving export competitiveness and reducing shipment rejections.
20.01 / 09:39
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CEO rallies evaporate in a flash as investors punish Wipro and LTIMindtree amid IT slump
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In less than two trading sessions, investors of Wipro Ltd have wiped out almost 90% of the stock’s gains since its new chief executive Srinivas Pallia took over in April 2024. Over the same period, shares of LTIMindtree have lost over 25% of their gains since CEO Venu Lambu took over at the end of May 2025.
20.01 / 09:39
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Greenko founders-backed AM Green to invest $25 billion for 1 GW AI data centre in Uttar Pradesh
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: AM Green Group, owned by Greenko founders Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty and Mahesh Kolli, plan to set up a 1 gigawatt data centre in Uttar Pradesh with an investment of about $25 billion, said four people aware of the developments. The company has signed an agreement with the InvestUP, the investment-focussed agency of the government of Uttar Pradesh.
20.01 / 09:07
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Cables and wires save the day for Havells in Q3
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Havells India Ltd’s consolidated revenue for the December quarter (Q3FY26) grew 14% year-on-year to ₹5,588 crore, but net profit growth was slower at 8% to ₹300 crore. An exceptional charge of ₹45 crore related to labour law adjustments hit earnings.
20.01 / 08:39
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It’s time for India to re-imagine governance: Tools of technology exist but mindsets need to catch up
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The coming decade will be unlike anything we have seen before. Multiple technology shifts are maturing in parallel: the intelligence revolution and rise of digital labour; breakthroughs in frontier technologies like biotechnology and advanced materials; compute moving from centralized data centres to the intelligent edge; and quantum applications becoming real in areas such as drug discovery, defence and logistics.
20.01 / 08:39
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Škoda prepares for a multi-fuel future ahead of CAFE-III norms
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KOCHI : Czechia-based Škoda Auto a.s. is working on multiple powertrain technologies, including electric, hybrid, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), and flex-fuel options, as it prepares to meet regulatory requirements ahead of the proposed introduction of new emission norms in India in 2027.
20.01 / 06:41
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GST reform idea: Turn payments quarterly to unburden small businesses of a cash crunch
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s goods and services tax (GST) framework has a structural timing asymmetry that disproportionately burdens micro and small enterprises. While tax liability is triggered at the point of invoicing, cash realization for many entities occurs months later.
20.01 / 05:51
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Tailoring a turnaround: Satyaki Ghosh takes the helm at a struggling Raymond
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Raymond Lifestyle is turning to fresh leadership to navigate a darkening retail landscape, appointing Satyaki Ghosh as CEO—the fourth executive to hold the mantle in just five years. Ghosh, who most recently led Grasim Industries’ Cellulosic Fashion Yarn division, takes over the branded apparel company with immediate effect, bringing a resume that includes stints at L’Oreal, Spencer’s Retail, and PepsiCo.
20.01 / 04:53
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Sanctioned oil trade is booming in the shadows, to India's and China’s benefit
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With the US's recent invasion of Venezuela, and sanction and tariff threats on trade with Iran, the so-called global ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers is in focus again. Used to transport oil by countries under Western sanctions such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela, the size of this fleet has grown manifold and now accounts for an estimated 18.5% of global tanker capacity, according to S&P Global.
20.01 / 04:53
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Mint Explainer: How Sebi is planning to change closing price discovery
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked stock exchanges and clearing corporations to implement a Closing Auction Session (CAS), a change that will alter how closing prices are determined in the equity market. In a consultation paper issued on Friday, the market regulator said that CAS will be implemented in the equity cash markets, bringing India at par with global markets that make use of the framework.
20.01 / 04:53
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Mint Explainer: What RBI’s unified foreign exchange rules mean for India’s service exporters
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s foreign exchange rules governing trade have long evolved through a patchwork of regulations, circulars and banking practices, especially as services exports expanded rapidly alongside goods trade. That structure has now been reset.
20.01 / 03:53
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China seeks WTO panel against India over PLI schemes, flags local content norms in autos and clean tech
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : China has escalated its trade challenge against India at the World Trade Organization (WTO), seeking the establishment of a dispute settlement panel over New Delhi’s production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for automobiles, batteries and electric vehicles, arguing that they discriminate against imported goods by tying incentives to domestic value addition.
20.01 / 02:33
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Mint Quick Edit | Trump’s peace board and India’s Gaza calculus: Think every scenario through
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Should India join the Board of Peace for Gaza being set up by the US? This decision would hinge on what it implies for India’s strategic autonomy.
20.01 / 02:33
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WEF at Davos in a fractured world: Will the spirit of dialogue be exorcized or exercised?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The London-based Economist describes it as the “ultimate networking event"; The Guardian, a British daily, as the “last-chance saloon to save the old world order." The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think-tank founded in 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab, and its annual gathering at Davos, Switzerland, was once billed as the biggest talk-show-cum-photo op in the post-Bretton Woods world.
20.01 / 02:33
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After Q3 beats, is Indian IT turning the corner?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: India’s IT bellwethers may have beaten Street expectations in the December quarter (Q3FY26), but the relief looks fleeting. Even as earnings surprises lifted sentiment in the October-December period, four of India’s five largest IT services companies are now heading into the final quarter of FY26 (January-March) with weaker full-year trajectories than last year, underscoring how weak demand visibility remains for the country’s biggest software exporters.
20.01 / 00:37
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Budget should support growth with fiscal consolidation
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s real and nominal GDP growth rates for 2025-26 are estimated at 7.4% and 8.0%, respectively, according to the National Statistics Office’s first advance estimates. In 2026-27, with prospects of higher Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation, we may expect real and nominal GDP growth rates at close to 6.5% and 9.5%, respectively.
20.01 / 00:37
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A new breed of creators is cultivating fandoms for sports beyond cricket
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A young basketball enthusiast at the time, Dhruv Barman went to Canada in 2013 to study kinesiology, the biomechanical study of human movement with applications in sports and fitness.
20.01 / 00:37
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Decades-long reforms: How India's discoms returned to profits but have ₹7 trn of cumulative debt to deal with
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India's power distribution sector which has been reeling under high debt and operational losses for several years returned to profits in fiscal 2025. In FY25, distribution utility companies, collectively called discoms, reported a net profit of ₹2,701 crore compared to a loss of ₹25,553 crore in the year before, according to data recently released by the power ministry.
20.01 / 00:37
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‘Nifty 50 set to stay unchanged but newbies to drive churn across broader indices’
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s equity benchmarks may be on the verge of a structural transition, even if the headline index remains frozen.
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