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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chair man, of the bored You fall off a chair and your life falls apart. This is, more or less, the premise of The Chair Company, streaming in India on JioHotstar, but that sounds simple, and nothing about this deranged, precision-engineered panic attack of a series is simple.

The feeble outcomes of this year’s UN climate summit, CoP-30, held at Belém in Brazil were a reflection of today’s geopolitical realities. The US does not recognize the threat of global warming, while several other large economies like Russia, China and India are in no mood to embark on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Retail investors who dominate active mutual funds take a backseat when it comes to passive funds despite a relatively quicker investment pace, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds of India (Amfi). While passive mutual funds more than doubled their assets in the last three years, retail still accounts for a small portion of these funds' assets, data showed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which runs IndiGo, are unlikely to stage a major recovery once the stock joins the Sensex on 22 December as investors await clarity on regulatory overhang, but its inclusion in the benchmark index could provide downside protection, several analysts told Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian Railways is exploring three new freight corridors to extend the high-speed cargo network deeper into southern, eastern, and central India, building on the success of two operational lines to create a continuous nationwide logistics loop, two people aware of the development said. Detailed project reports for the three new lines have been completed and are under examination, said one of the three people quoted earlier.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a two-year hiatus in India, the world's biggest technology investor is on the move again. Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank is now examining Indian startups pursuing artificial intelligence (AI), the technology world's sunrise sector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equities snapped a three-day losing streak to close significantly higher, driven primarily by positive global sentiment following the US Federal Reserve's 25-basis-point rate cut, which signalled a shift in monetary policy. The Nifty 50 rallied more than 140 points, or 0.55%, settling near 25,900, while Sensex advanced 427 points, or 0.51%, to close at 84,818.13.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: A new evaluation of the Centre’s onion buffer programme has found that the Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) has been able to significantly reduce retail price volatility of the vegetable and improve farmer incomes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A wave of warnings over Kaynes Technology’s finances has rattled India’s electronics manufacturing sector (EMS), sharpening focus on the industry’s ability to fund the heavy investments required to tap upcoming government incentives. Brokerage firm Kotak Securities’ notes on the company this month has had a cascade effect on the wider sector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s drug regulator has raised an urgent red flag over a threat to the country’s most effective malaria medicines, directing all state drug controllers to immediately trace and stop the manufacturing and sale of oral single-drug artemisinin formulations, the active ingredient used in the country's most potent malaria drugs, two officials said, citing an 8 December order seen by Mint.

UPI, handles roughly 3% of UPI’s daily volume; Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), designed for large-value transfers between banks and businesses, processes in a full day what UPI clears within minutes; and for every credit card transaction in the country, there are nearly 40 UPI payments.Each system serves a different purpose, but the comparison underscores how dramatically the centre of gravity in India’s payment landscape has shifted.This pattern demonstrates that UPI’s rise is not merely a technological upgrade; it reflects a deeper behavioural shift in how routine payment activity is conducted across the country.That success story is real, but it is also incomplete. When a single system becomes this dominant, national aggregates start to tell us less and less about what is actually happening on the ground.

Mint breaks down how Beijing managed this feat and what it means for India and the world economy.China’s outbound shipments have proved remarkably resilient. In the first 11 months of 2025, exports grew 5.7% even with average US tariffs at 47.5%. Sales to the US slumped 18%, but Chinese manufacturers more than made up for it elsewhere: exports to Europe climbed 9%, while shipments to Southeast Asia and Africa surged 15% and 27%, respectively.Largely, yes.

Under India’s new economic order, consumption has become a dependency, mediated—beyond choice—by ownership of infrastructure. Last week, at Mumbai airport, I saw IndiGo’s embattled yet intact front-line. Yet, real authority was up in some cloud that no individual seemed able to override.A generation ago, you were courted by multiple companies vying for your money.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of India’s state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) have declined 6-9% over the past month, hit by recent volatility in marketing margins. The margin on diesel fell to an 18-month low of negative ₹0.3 per litre in the third week of November amid US sanctions on Russian firms that have disrupted diesel exports.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amazon.com Inc.’s plan to invest an additional $35 billion in India by 2030 is expected to intensify competition in the online commerce and prompt rivals to increase their spending on infrastructure, supply chains, and consumer acquisition.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Axis Asset Management Company (AMC) is set to launch its third private credit alternative investment fund (AIF) next week, aiming to raise up to ₹2,000 crore, a senior executive told Mint. The move comes as the fund house looks to scale sharply in a private-credit market that is drawing record interest even as traditional lenders pull back.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When he was around 10 years of age, Thoudam Victor would play football for hours with his friends in Imphal. A break between games meant running to the river, which flowed next to the playground, with his friends, drinking the sweet water and splashing some of it on his face.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian automotive sector is gearing up to end the calendar year on an exceptionally strong note, fuelled by a combination of record-breaking festive sales, favourable tax reforms and the onset of the traditional year-end stock-clearance period. This cocktail of conditions has created one of the most consumer-friendly buying windows in recent years—an opportunity amplified by the lasting impact of the recent goods and services tax rate cuts.

India’s government finally announced the implementation of the four labour codes passed by Parliament about five years ago, starting 21 November 2025. These four, namely the Code on Wages of 2019, Industrial Relations Code of 2020, Code on Social Security of 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code of 2020, were meant to rationalize 29 old labour laws by replacing them with new codes, as recommended in a 2002 report by the second National Commission of Labour set up in 1999.The objective was to simplify labour laws and make them effective—for the benefit of workers as well as employers.Reforming these laws has been part of the governance agenda of every successive government since 1991, when India’s economy underwent broad reforms in various other domains.Given the multiplicity of labour laws enacted since independence, the idea of revising them was also to make them enforceable (or justiciable) and reflect the contemporary reality of changing labour relations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As India’s capital markets expand and household savings accelerate their shift toward financial products, asset management companies are entering a new phase of growth, powered by rising retail participation and record flows into systematic investment plans (SIPs). Against this backdrop, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The Centre has opened discussions on whether India should move to higher ethanol blends in petrol from the current E20 (20% ethanol, 80% petrol), two people aware of the matter said, amid continuing consumer unease over the current E20 blend.