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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With India’s second-largest mutual fund distributor as its parent, NJ Mutual Fund had a readymade launchpad that most entrants only dream of. Yet, more than four years after its debut, the fund house has managed to collect assets of just ₹7,119 crore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fundamentum Partnership has led a $15 million Series A funding round in Whizzo, a Bengaluru-headquartered materials science startup that develops and makes specialised fabrics for industries such as packaging, agriculture, infrastructure and protective workwear.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Netweb Technologies, the youngest of India’s technology companies to have gone public, is banking on sustained demand for homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) tools, platforms and applications to sustain strong growth over the next three to five years, a top company executive told Mint on Monday. In an interview, Sanjay Lodha, chairman and managing director of Netweb, said demand for AI “is far from facing a crash—in fact, in India, the conversations are just getting started." “We are seeing a lot of clients talk about AI spending, and it is only in the past few months that India has begun seriously spending on AI infrastructure and services," Lodha told Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: The Indian stock market witnessed an across-segment selloff on Monday, 19 January, on profit booking amid weak global cues. Benchmarks, the Sensex and the Nifty 50 fell almost half a per cent each, with heavyweights, including Reliance Industries Ltd, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank, among the top drags after their Q3 results.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KOCHI : A quiet policy shift in Beijing is threatening to push up electric vehicle (EV) prices in India, just as the EV industry's tax edge over combustion engines begins to fade. China has decided to slash an export tax rebate on lithium-ion batteries from 9% to 6% from 1 April and phase it out in a year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s national highway toll collections are projected to breach the landmark ₹1 trillion mark in FY27, a surge fuelled by an aggressive expansion of high-speed corridors and a fundamental shift in how the country charges for road use. Internal government projections seen by Mint suggest a 25% jump in revenue to ₹75,000 crore in FY26, up from ₹61,408 crore in FY25.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Even as silver surged to a record high of $93.22, or ₹9,412, an ounce (31.10 grams) in overseas markets, the Indian physical market saw the white metal trading at a discount of ₹10,000 per kg to the landed cost, as demand slowed at historic price levels, trade participants said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s financial ecosystem quietly crossed an important threshold in May 2025 with the launch and public listing of India’s first Mortgage-backed Pass-Through Certificates (PTCs), issued by LIC Housing Finance and structured by RMBS Development Company Ltd, on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The transaction was modest in size but significant in meaning.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Micro-drama platforms, despite being relatively young in India, are moving away from surveillance-like targeting in favour of consent-driven, contextual advertising to comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When a series of commercial vessels were recently impounded under newly tightened sanction enforcement, the ripple effects were felt far beyond the intended target. Ships that had been quietly moving sanctioned cargo or operating in regulatory grey zones were abruptly removed from circulation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India has a habit of approaching big technological questions in refreshingly practical ways. We adopt new ideas when they solve real problems, fit our context and prove themselves through evidence—not because the rest of the world is excited about them.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equity markets have been among the world’s best performers for several years, and investors have benefited from this sustained bull run. However, those who stuck to a disciplined asset-allocation strategy and rebalanced their portfolios periodically have generated superior long-term returns compared with investors who relied mainly on stock selection or market timing.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In just one year, US President Donald Trump has upended the global order, using his historic return as arguably the world’s most powerful leader to treat friends, foes and allies alike to achieve desirable results. His most potent tool is tariffs, though he hasn’t shied away from political and military interventions either.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One characteristic of this era of social media, globally, has been an erosion in the credibility of expertise. Niti Aayog’s Export Preparedness Index 2024, a laborious attempt to measure how ready India’s different states are to generate exports, is not designed to counter that trend.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week’s Supreme Court judgement holding Tiger Global liable for paying tax on capital gains made on its 2018 sale to Walmart of its stake in Flipkart held through entities in Mauritius might have opened a Pandora’s box. It denies Tiger Global exemption on shares acquired before a 2017 cut-off date under a double taxation avoidance treaty between Mauritius and India on the ground that the deal involved shell firms and the underlying value-generating assets were located in India.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For the past few years, social commerce has been pitched in Indian boardrooms as the next China-sized gold rush. Yet, despite the hype, India remains more a spectator than a participant, and social commerce has yet to realise its full potential in the country.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. 2026 is a very significant year for India’s economy. The Union Budget will matter, of course, but the Eighth Pay Commission and the Sixteenth Finance Commission are the most consequential milestones to watch.