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19.01 / 00:45

markets Target trends Trade show recommendations Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman recommends top picks for 19 January

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On Friday the Indian stock market struggled to maintain its early gains, ending the session with only marginal growth. While indices like theSensex (up 0.23%) andNifty 50 (up 0.11%) closed in the green, they retreated sharply from their intraday highs as investors turned cautious.

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markets COST Platform Reddit Instagram travelers International Being an authority as a travel partner key to trust for visa: Atlys’ Santosh Hegde

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Once an elusive mark of wealth, the annual foreign vacation is now getting increasingly common among affluent Indians in metros and smaller cities alike. So much so that a16z-backed visa services firm Atlys ran a unique sale in August last year, offering visas for just ₹1.

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UPS Target Aware Platform awards Highways Traffic Build-operate-transfer model returns: India to bid out half its highways, worth Rs75,000cr, next fiscal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian government plans to bid out half of the national highway projects planned for fiscal 2027–a spending of Rs75,000 crore on 5,000 km–under a build-operate-transfer (BoT) toll model involving private road developers after a long break since 2014, said three government officials aware of the new plan.

19.01 / 00:45

markets Platform Entertainment film stage rights Beyond the soundtrack — music labels look at full-stack entertainment

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Weak streaming monetization is pushing music labels closer to the source of value—film and series creation.

19.01 / 00:31

COST Target Aware Manufacturing security country India’s solar power developers are saddled with unsold capacity. Now they face another risk

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : A spike in prices of solar modules is expected to raise costs and tariffs for projects under construction, even as multiple solar projects languish for want of power purchase contracts. Solar module prices have surged by roughly a third since late December, thanks to soaring prices of silver and aluminium, a weaker rupee, and a global scramble for components after China tightened wafer quotas and signalled a rollback of a 9% value-added tax refund.

19.01 / 00:31

markets UPS wellness trends performer information Top three stocks to buy today—recommended by Ankush Bajaj for 19 January

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian equity market ended on a mildly positive note on Friday, with the Nifty 50 closing at 25,694.35, up 28.75 points or 0.11%. The Sensex also inched higher, adding around 0.23% to finish near 83,570.

19.01 / 00:31

security Election Cycling country Discrimination rights Of friends & foes: The perpetual poll mode malady

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Our intellectual horizon reflects the contagion of election cycles. In a world where nations are indulging in nuclear sabre-rattling, what are our leaders doing? Instead of binding the nation, they are sowing the seeds of dissension.

19.01 / 00:31

UPS Aviat CEO Airlines security show rowing A penalty and a warning later, haze persists over IndiGo pilot hirings

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI/MUMBAI : The Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) decision to impose a financial penalty and issue a warning to IndiGo chief executive officer (CEO) Pieter Elbers and chief operating officer (COO) Isidre Porqueras over the weekend has ended more than a month-long regulatory row with the country’s largest airline that was triggered by widespread flight cancellations early December. While the move lifts the immediate regulatory overhang, questions remain over whether IndiGo can realistically induct enough pilots to meet India’s staffing and flight duty norms, according to four consultants and pilots.

19.01 / 00:31

markets COST Citi Digital Google Platform Gap RJio confident of organic Arpu growth, sees no immediate need for tariff hike

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As India’s telecom firms weigh the timing and need for tariff hikes, Reliance Jio Infocomm, India’s largest operator by market share, has ruled out any immediate increase, signalling confidence in organic growth in its average revenue per user (Arpu), driven by rising 5G usage. This contrasts with the stance of rival operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea that have repeatedly flagged the need for tariff correction to improve their returns on capital deployed.

19.01 / 00:31

markets COST UPS security Trade Harmonic Will brokers' push for market-making pump up commodity trade liquidity?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Top brokers have urged the capital markets regulator to harmonize market-making rules across equity and commodity derivatives, a proposal that holds the potential to challenge the near-monopoly of the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) in India's commodity derivatives market if implemented.

19.01 / 00:31

COST UPS trends Cycling reports Commentary Despite RBI’s latest repo cut, private banks see margins holding up in Q4

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Private sector banks are signalling that net interest margins (NIMs) are likely to remain resilient in the March quarter, even as the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) 25 basis point (bps) repo rate cut last month begins to transmit more fully into lending rates.

19.01 / 00:31

markets COST Manufacturing economy Sustainability Trade rock Budget to unveil quality and cost blueprint to gain export muscle

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One of the key themes of India’s upcoming Union budget, the first after US tariffs rocked global trade last year, will be to de-risk the economy from prolonged headwinds by announcing reforms and incentives for manufacturers, small businesses and exporters, according to two persons familiar with discussions.

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markets UPS Provident FIVE Digital security performer How HCLTech defied the gravity of India's four-year IT slump

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HCL Technologies Ltd has emerged as the sole bright spark in a four-year sombre stretch for India’s information technology (IT) investors, leveraging a stable leadership and an early pivot toward artificial intelligence (AI) to outpace its Big Five peers. While the broader IT sector grappled with a post-pandemic hangover and the growing threat of automation, Noida-based HCLTech has delivered a 29% return since early 2022.

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markets Booking Williams Sustainability trends Trade recommendations Stock recommendations for 19 January from MarketSmith India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On Friday, Indian equity benchmarks snapped a two-session losing streak to end in the green, largely bolstered by a massive rally in the IT sector following Infosys's robust Q3 results. Nifty 50 gained 28.75 points (0.11%) to settle at 25,694.35, while Sensex climbed 187.64 points (0.23%) to close at 83,570.35.

18.01 / 14:33

Pool Healthcare President students testing prevention Colleges Explainer: Why lowering the NEET-PG qualifying cut-off has triggered a storm?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) on 13 January lowered the qualifying cut-off marks for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 in a bid to fill vacant postgraduate medical seats.

18.01 / 12:17

Digital Platform security Celebrity Courts Podcasts Videos Mint Explainer: How AI is a threat to the reputation of top influencers and what can be done about it?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the past month, top influencers Bhuvan Bam, Payal Dhare (aka Payal Gaming), and Slayy Point’s Gautami Kawale and Abhyudaya Mohan have sought legal remedies against their artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images and videos circulating on social media without consent. Some depicted obscene content while others intend commercial misuse of their identity threatening the reputation these creators have built over years.

18.01 / 12:17

markets Provident Manufacturing Sustainability wellness rock Interviews India is not at an absolute rock bottom valuation, but much better than 2024: Tata Mutual Fund's Rahul Singh

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India has reached a point where if emerging markets start getting flows, a possibility due to the uncertain macro environment, India will get its share of foreign institutional flows, said Rahul Singh, chief investment officer - Equities at Tata Mutual Fund. “If emerging markets as an asset class start to get sustainable flows, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) need not have to sell India to buy China," Singh said in an interview with Mint.

18.01 / 08:59

markets FIVE Manufacturing Healthcare Ozon reports testing Xponentia-backed Medsource Ozone hires EY to explore funding options

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Faridabad-based Medsource Ozone Biomedicals, an in-vitro diagnostics instruments and reagents manufacturer, has hired the Big 4 audit firm Ernst & Young as an advisor to explore capital-raising options to fund its expansion, said two people familiar with the matter. “The company may look to raise about ₹300-400 crore, and the promoters may liquidate some stake for the incoming investor," one of the people cited above said.

18.01 / 07:47

markets FIVE Mobile Remark Hyundai Experts Features Hyundai, Vinfast lead the charge as cabs become the new battleground for carmakers; Maruti sits pretty at top

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: A near-three-fold growth in passenger vehicle registrations as taxis in four years is set to intensify competition among India's carmakers in the fast growing segment. According to the government's Vahan portal data, vehicles registered for the taxi segment stood at around 312,665 in calendar year 2025, a growth of 9% from the year-ago period.

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markets COST Provident Booking security performer Steel prices hiked for the second time in two weeks as import curbs take effect

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Domestic steelmakers raised prices twice in January, within weeks of New Delhi imposing a safeguard duty on steel imports, as stronger construction demand, low inventories and improving market sentiment gave mills room to push through hikes. Prices of hot-rolled coil (HRC) and cold-rolled coil (CRC) were increased by 4% to Rs.51,700 per tonne in the second week of January, after a 2-4% hike in early January 2026, according to Big Mint, a commodities market intelligence.

17.01 / 01:45

UPS Target FIVE Food reports Department The week in charts: Mixed IT earnings, rising inflation, climate crisis

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From India’s IT majors reporting mixed quarterly results to retail inflation climbing back after narrowing food deflation, the US tariff threats casting uncertainty over India’s Chabahar Port investments, and 2025 ranking among the three warmest years on record—here's a compilation of this week's news in numbers. India’s top IT services companies delivered mixed performance in the third quarter of FY26, with revenue growth outpacing net profits as the sector grappled with the impact of new labour codes.

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