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₹5 and ₹10, even as ₹1 candies continue to dominate the market. The shift is part of the company’s effort to balance its portfolio in a candy market still heavily skewed toward ultra-low-value purchases.Nearly 70% of Perfetti’s business in India comes from the ₹1 segment, which dominates small mom-and-pop stores and drives the bulk of category sales. The company plans to increase the share of its ₹5-and-above portfolio from about 30% over the next three to four years; this number stood at just 7% in 2019.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Nifty IT index has risen around 10% over the past two months, driven by rupee depreciation and expectations of a recovery in discretionary technology demand. The December quarter (Q3FY26) is almost over, and collectively, the first three quarters of FY26 have shown no clear signs of easing in the earnings downgrades cycle of Indian IT services providers.

The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Technology for India (Shanti) Act of 2025 is a watershed moment in making nuclear power a part of the country’s decarbonization strategy. It paves the way to achieve a target of 100GW of nuclear power capacity by 2047, while removing structural and legal hurdles that constrained investment, slowed capacity addition and kept the sector technologically insular.The Act heralds three transformative shifts. First, it opens the door for private sector participation in nuclear power generation, equipment manufacturing and fuel-cycle services.

Smartwatches are getting smarter – at least, health-wise.These devices, so far largely considered lifestyle accessories with basic fitness-tracking features mostly shunned by medical practitioners, are increasingly receiving medical certifications from the Centre—making them health devices that alert users against issues such as heart rate fluctuations, sleep disorders and blood pressure anomalies.On 4 December, Apple launched hypertension tracking on its latest Apple Watch Series 11 smartwatch. While the feature does not give a direct blood pressure readout, it monitors a user’s blood oxygen, stress levels and other heart-related parameters to notify them that they may have a potential hypertension issue.The company received government approval to offer this clinical-grade feature in late November, a person aware of the development told Mint, making it only the second consumer-grade smartwatch until now to be approved by New Delhi.Hypertension implies high blood pressure, a condition that potentially damages heart tissues in the long run.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian stock markets are expected to rise on Monday, with foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) turning net buyers in cash over the past couple of days and closing out negative Nifty derivatives bets on Friday, according to exchange data. Market analysts said the optimism stemmed from rising investor hopes of an India-US trade deal and the sharp rebound in the rupee.

India’s exports are heavily dependent on the US, and are currently under threat due to high tariffs. But hidden in numbers is another simple story: the region that could boost Indian exports is not across the Pacific, but across its borders.

India’s economy was under $1 trillion when its rural job-guarantee scheme was launched in 2006. Now it’s four times that size. By turning the Indian state into an employer of last resort, it created a useful safety net.

Last week, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Securities Markets Code Bill of 2025 in Parliament, aimed at building a new legislative scaffolding for India’s securities markets.The Bill, which has been sent to the parliamentary panel on finance for comments and inputs, proposes to merge and replace three laws: the Securities and Contracts (Regulation) Act of 1956 and those related to the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), and depositories. This was necessary to address multiple overlaps among those legacy acts of legislation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s focus on defence has sharpened steadily over the past few years. Operation Sindoor in May brought renewed attention to the country’s defence capabilities and strengthened the outlook for domestic defence manufacturers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shareholders around the world have enjoyed another stellar year. Stockmarkets in America, Europe, India and Japan are set to finish 2025 at or near all-time highs, with some closing in on a third consecutive year of double-digit gains.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India and Oman trade goods worth roughly $10 billion annually. Still, the CEPA signed last week comes at a pivotal moment for India’s trade policy, as it seeks deeper market access, supply-chain security and services expansion.

Since stepping into the role of Flipkart's chief product and technology officer (CTPO) in September, Balaji Thiagarajan has been overseeing OneTech and the internal organization of engineers, product managers and tech specialists who collaborate to solve infrastructure challenges, build features and test them at scale.In an interview with Mint, he explains how this unified stack is modernizing Flipkart’s architecture for an initial public offering (IPO) readiness, quick commerce expansion via Flipkart Minutes, trust features such as fraud detection, warehouse automation, and fintech growth as the Walmart-owned firm shifts domicile to India for a potential listing.The Walmart-owned firm got the National Company Law Tribunal's nod this month to shift domicile from Singapore to India ahead of a potential 2026 listing. It follows Flipkart’s $1 billion funding round in May 2024, led by Google that valued it at $35-36 billion.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Indian stock market witnessed solid buying interest on Friday, 19 December even as the Bank of Japan (BoJ) hiked interest rate and signalled there could be more hikes in the near future. The Sensex jumped nearly 600 points to an intraday high of 85,067, while the Nifty 50 reclaimed 25,993 on the upside.

₹10 crore.In case of ‘genuine errors’ or delayed filings, the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) may first be issued a warning, and penalties could be waived for the first two such instances, said the first person mentioned above.Currently, under Section 47 of the CGST Act, a delay in filing GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, or GSTR-9 attracts a late fee, which increases daily until it reaches a maximum cap. An enterprise is also liable to pay interest at 18% per annum on the outstanding GST amount if the payment is delayed.India’s 73 million MSMEs contribute 30% to the GDP and 45% to the overall exports.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shriram Finance Ltd stock, already trading at a lifetime high, gained another 3.7% on Friday to ₹902 after it announced MUFG Bank Ltd will buy 471 million shares at ₹840 per share in the company through a preferential allotment. The transaction gives MUFG a 20% stake.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite a 125-basis-point rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2025, government bond yields have refused to cool off, leaving a growing disconnect between the bond market and policy actions. Since the beginning of February, RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee has cut the policy repo rate by 125 bps.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian equity markets snapped a four-day losing streak on Friday, 19 December, with Nifty 50 gaining 150.85 points (0.58%) to settle at 25,966.40, and Sensex rising about 447 points (0.53%) to close at 84,929. Market breadth was decisively positive, as reflected in an advance-decline ratio of 2,185 advances to 939 declines, signaling robust, broad-based buying.

Impact investor Aavishkaar Capital is increasingly looking to complement its long-cycle carbon bets with newer, faster-return climate opportunities—areas where capital can turn over quicker, risks are easier to price, and revenues don’t hinge on 20-year biological curves. The shift comes even as the impact investor continues to build out its permanent capital vehicle for carbon sequestration, incorporated in 2024 as Aavishkaar Carbon, the firm’s founder, Vineet Rai and Santosh Singh, managing director at Intellecap, the advisory arm of The Aavishkaar Group, told Mint in a joint interview.Aavishkaar Carbon was set up to invest in growing trees on Indian farms to promote carbon sequestration and monetise it through the carbon trade market.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd sees little value in listing its subsidiaries and selling a stake to “foreigners” at present and would rather focus on building an enduring institution, said chief executive officer Ashok Vaswani, even as peers have taken their units public during India’s record IPO surge.History shows that whenever a private or public sector bank sold a significant stake, they brought buyers from overseas, Vaswani, who will complete two years at the helm of India’s fourth-largest private lender by assets in January, said in an interview with Mint.“We are not here for a day in the sun or a quarter in the sun; we are here to build a lasting, lasting, lasting franchise,” said Vaswani. “The foreigner brought in no talent, the foreigner brought in no brand.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India is laying the groundwork for an ambitious push into autonomous vehicles while also supporting the rising demand for electric vehicles in the country.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian stock markets: Bearish forces have been unrelenting and the trends are unable to stage any recovery despite the best intentions. With the trends remaining challenged the road ahead is fraught with uncertainty.