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11.12 / 00:55

UPS Provident Booking Platform Airlines reports travelers From Airbus to bus: Private operators hope to retain travellers as demand rises amid ongoing IndiGo fiasco

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Private bus operators and online ticketing platforms are hoping to retain more users as travellers stranded by the IndiGo flight cancellation fiasco seek out last-minute travel alternatives. From local travel companies to electric-bus startups, everyone is vying for a share of a market that has lit up like a Christmas tree.

11.12 / 00:55

COST UPS Aviat Airlines Research reports Courts Analysts now expect IndiGo's financials to be hit worse than they thought

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A ten-day turmoil and a compulsory flight reduction will slam the financials of IndiGo, three equity analysts said, even as the regulator stepped up scrutiny of India's largest airline. IndiGo, they said, may witness a 10% decline in full-year revenue and a 17-30% lower profitability in FY26, as it makes a halting recovery from its biggest disruption.

11.12 / 00:55

markets Williams Action Sustainability Trade track recommendations Stock recommendations for 11 December from MarketSmith India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: The Indian stock market ended lower for the third consecutive session on Wednesday, 10 December, amid mixed global cues ahead of the US Federal Reserve policy outcome later today. Market benchmark Sensex rose as much as 354 points to hit an intraday high of 85,020.34 during the session, but failed to hold gains and dropped 629 points from the day's high.

10.12 / 13:11

markets UPS Manufacturing Strategy country Pharmaceuticals French drugmaker Servier firms up India focus with manufacturing tie-ups, trial plans

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. French pharmaceutical group Servier is sharpening its India strategy with a string of new oncology launches focused on rare cancers, plans for local manufacturing of active ingredients, and a move to bring global clinical trials to the country for the first time. The shift marks a significant elevation of India in Servier’s global priorities, aligning it almost in step with launches in the western markets.

10.12 / 10:47

COST Progressive Sustainability Food Research show International Here’s how India’s food supply chain could respond to climate change in a way everyone will gain from

India’s food sector employs millions and is a major contributor to its economy. Food processing alone is valued at over $300 billion, reaching hundreds of millions of households daily. Globally, food and agriculture form a multi-trillion-dollar system, spanning farmland, fertilizers, cold chains and retail outlets.

10.12 / 10:47

Citi security economy Align Experts country reports Care Ratings scores early win in sovereign push as global peers vindicate its stance

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When global rating agencies revised their sovereign debt ratings for France and Portugal earlier this year, aligning them with those of Care Ratings, they “vindicated" the stance of the Indian rating agency that launched its fledgling sovereign rating business just over a year ago, a top official at Care Ratings said.

10.12 / 10:47

UPS Booking security awards Cycling stage Suzlon’s growth runway needs support from solid execution

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Suzlon Energy Ltd’s stock is down about 20% over the past six months, weighed down by the fear that India’s wind cycle is losing momentum. Still, it’s worth noting that Suzlon has assembled a robust medium-term orderbook pipeline.

10.12 / 10:47

markets COST UPS Digital Food country innovations Manish Tiwary wants to make Nestlé India faster, flexible and focused with the use of technology

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: “Faster, more flexible and more focused." That’s what Nestlé India chairman and managing director (MD) Manish Tiwary wants the packaged foods company to become. Less than a year at the company, the former Amazon India country manager and Unilever executive plans to achieve these goals by making the company more tech-ready across operations, improving its reach in the urban and rural markets, and using micro-markets to step up innovation and premium launches.

10.12 / 09:31

markets COST UPS Ripple Strategy show RBI rate cut: Time to rethink your home loan strategy?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The Reserve Bank of India’s latest 25‑basis-point (bps) repo‑rate cut—the fourth in 2025, bringing the total reduction to 125bps—has brought cheer to home‑loan borrowers. The rate cuts will particularly benefit borrowers who took home loans in 2020-2022 at rates of 6-6.5%, but saw the rates rise to 9-9.5% within a year following the central bank’s cumulative repo-rate hike of 225bps between May 2022 and March 2023.

10.12 / 09:31

markets COST Aviat Airlines prevention strain IndiGo stock dips 15%: Is it time for investors to board the flight?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, promoter of IndiGo airlines, have dropped about 15% since 1 December, as flight cancellations jumped from roughly 200 at the start of the crisis to over 1,000 by 5 December. IndiGo cited a multitude of “unforeseen operational challenges", primarily crew shortages triggered by the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules that took effect for all airlines in November.

10.12 / 09:31

markets Manufacturing Assurant country medicines Vaccines Pharmaceuticals WHO audit, India hopes, will restore shine to its ‘pharmacy of the world’ image

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India plans to get its drug regulatory system audited and rated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to detect specific strengths and weaknesses that will help to make it fool proof, according to four officials and a document reviewed by Mint. The move comes after multiple instances of drug safety related incidents in the country as well as export markets raised serious questions on the quality of medicines made in India, often referred to as ‘pharmacy of the world’.

10.12 / 08:33

markets Target Digital Platform Mobile Sustainability Metro Amitabh Kant: Why REITs and InvITs may hold the key to India’s infrastructure leap over the decades ahead

Our ambition is clear. By 2047, when India marks 100 years of independence, it must be a developed nation: A Viksit Bharat. This means moving from a $4 trillion economy to $30 trillion.

10.12 / 08:33

COST UPS Highways guidelines Traffic Mint Explainer | Why new norms for service roads are set to push up India’s highway project costs

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s highway projects are set to become more expensive after the government mandated that service roads and slip roads must be built to the same standards as the main carriageways. The new guidelines—notified by the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH)—require developers to repair, strengthen or fully construct service roads before work begins on the main highways.

10.12 / 08:33

markets Target Career Gap security trends Experts What defined Sanjay Malhotra's first year at the RBI, explained in charts

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Sanjay Malhotra became the 26th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a year ago, he didn’t inherit a crisis—in fact, the period of high inflation was drawing to a close. He did, however, assume office at a time when the entire world was gripped by uncertainty.

10.12 / 07:35

UPS Target FIVE Food show Retail inflation likely inched up to 0.8% in November: Mint poll

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s retail inflation likely inched up to 0.8% in November from a record low of 0.25% in October, largely driven by fading base effects, a Mint poll of 20 economists showed. While inflation is expected to have bottomed-out in October, prices pressures are expected to remain weak both in foods (due to a good monsoon and harvest) and non-foods (due to GST cuts and possibly weak demand).

10.12 / 07:35

markets Provident Aviat Airlines Enterprise travelers Updates Former CCI chair: IndiGo’s grip must be loosened to keep Indian skies open and fair

In the bustling skies of India, where air travel has become the lifeblood of a rapidly growing economy, a single airline’s dominance can destabilize the entire nation. December 2025 will long be remembered as the month when IndiGo, India’s undisputed aviation giant, triggered the country’s worst ever flight crisis with its disregard for regulation.In the past few days, this air carrier, boasting a fleet of over 350 aircraft and a domestic market share of around 64%, descended into chaos amid the cancellation of thousands of its flights that left tens of thousands of Indian passengers stranded.

10.12 / 07:35

markets Food Trade President country Courts India-US trade deal: Relief today shouldn't come at the cost of autonomy tomorrow

A US trade delegation reached India this week with the aim of concluding a long-anticipated trade agreement. Coming close on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi that resulted in a five-year India-Russia economic programme to diversify trade and strengthen an energy partnership, an obvious question arises: How would ties with Moscow impact India’s US engagement?At last week’s HT Leadership Summit, foreign minister S.

10.12 / 02:11

markets UPS economy Trade President Updates Malhotra’s first year as RBI governor saw India’s economy break into a Goldilocks run but we can’t take it for granted

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,” wrote Shakespeare in his play Henry IV. The English playwright was talking about a king by that name, not of any central bank governor.

10.12 / 01:43

markets UPS Trade President country Updates Mint Quick Edit | A US anti-dumping duty on Indian rice won’t hurt much but would send the wrong signal

Just hours before a US delegation arrived in New Delhi to wrap up a long-pending trade deal, Donald Trump hinted at a fresh tariff to be levied on India. Speaking at the White House, the US President expressed his displeasure over Indian rice shipments to the US after complaints from a local farmer lobby over cheap imports.

10.12 / 01:43

markets UPS Waters Manufacturing Parke Trade Four fundamentally strong small-cap stocks trading up to 60% below their 52-week highs

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After a strong rally from FY20 to FY24, Indian small-cap stocks have largely traded sideways over the past year. The consolidation comes on the back of stretched valuations, tighter liquidity, macro pressures such as higher interest rates and a weaker rupee, softer earnings trends, and an unusually heavy pipeline of new IPOs absorbing investor flows.

10.12 / 01:21

markets UPS Provident security Experts rights International Open door, open mind: How Sanjay Malhotra quietly liberalised RBI in his first year

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Sanjay Malhotra walked into Mint Street a year ago, few expected him to move as quickly and as boldly as he did to reform one of the country’s most tightly controlled sectors. Twelve months on, bankers believe the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suddenly feels more open and accessible, and far more willing to rethink old rules.

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