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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving old sound tracks a new lease of life, and opening up fresh money-making avenues for music labels. Music labels such as Saregama and Times Music are increasingly turning to AI to create new content and bolster their vast collection of songs, while adding moving images to old catalogues, particularly devotional categories, that lacked videos, resurrecting their appeal.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WHEN DEEPSEEK, a hotshot Chinese firm, released its cheap large language model late last year it overturned long-standing assumptions about what it will take to build the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI). This will matter to whoever comes out on top in the epic global battle for AI supremacy.

India is at the threshold of one of the most promising economic decades in its modern history, yet the hard arithmetic underlying growth reflects a more fragile situation than our headline GDP figures suggest. Economists apply the Sala-i-Martin framework to break growth down into its core components and ask a simple-yet-powerful question: How much of the rise in output per worker can be attributed to the use of more capital (a single factor of production), and how much can be attributed to India becoming more productive on the whole? The results from India’s growth decomposition between 1990 and 2023 reflect the emergence of a two-pronged challenge: capital deepening is now uneven and no longer accelerating, while total factor productivity (TFP) has remained stubbornly stagnant.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) have long looked to India’s mutual funds for wealth creation — but taxation on capital gains remained a grey area. Recent rulings by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) have now brought meaningful clarity: NRIs in countries with favourable Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs) may be taxed only in their country of residence, not in India.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The share of information technology (IT) services stocks in the BSE 30 Sensex in 2025 has fallen to a 18-year low of 11.3%, just better than the 8.8% in 2007, as rise of artificial intelligence tools and prospects of uncertain growth make investors jittery. This coincides with OpenAI’s launch in November 2022, which marked an inflection point in the country’s $283 billion sector as it upended the way businesses were run.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as India’s rural land-mapping has progressed substantially, most urban areas lack reliable, up-to-date maps and clear ownership data. This gap leads to land disputes, inefficient property transactions, poor municipal tax collection and delays in infrastructure planning.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s been nearly 10 years since the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) arrived in the Indian market and revolutionized how Indians make everyday payments. More than 636 million UPI payments worth nearly ₹82,000 crore were made on an average day in November.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The department of telecommunications (DoT), on 28 November, issued notifications to mobile phone brands, asking them to pre-install the Centre’s cybersecurity app, Sanchar Saathi, on devices, without an option to disable it.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cement makers such as Nuvoco Vistas Corp., Birla Corporation and JK Lakshmi Cement are increasing their focus on premium products to lift margins as an alternative to price hikes in a push that analysts said would work for now but not in the long term as competition creeps into the premium segment. After the goods and services tax, or GST, rate on cement was rationalized in September, cement companies have refrained from raising prices to pass on the benefit of lower taxes to consumers, analysts said.

This week’s visit to India of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has drawn New Delhi’s long relationship with Moscow into the spotlight. The India-Russia bond has been strong and steady, as evident in the fact that it has outlasted many shifts in global geopolitics. Looking at the cooperation between the two, whether it is on defence materiel or navigating past twists and turns in the global order, India and Russia have understood each other’s requirements and managed to support each other in their time of need.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: Property developer Address Maker has struck a ₹200 crore private credit deal with AI Growth Pvt. Ltd (AIGPL) to help with its projects, purchase of land and plans to enter new markets, top executives of both companies said.

Mint report, instead of using mergers and acquisitions to enter new geographies or acquire technology, the current playbook often involves buying other companies simply to scale faster.The report cited logistics services provider Delhivery’s acquisition of SpotOn Logistics, CarTrade’s purchase of Shriram Automall, Zomato’s takeover of Uber Eats India, and online travel portal Ixigo’s buys of Abhibus and Confirmtkt, all helping them “expand market share, build scale, and enter adjacent or complementary segments.”The idea, of course, isn't entirely new, although such activity slowed sharply during the long funding winter after Covid. In fact, many startups are following the path charted by ed-tech company Byju’s, once India’s most valuable unicorn.

Soon after its order on keeping chat apps linked to phone SIM cards even for web access to such messaging platforms, India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a fresh directive aimed at tightening network security further. This one is likely to ruffle even more feathers.DoT has asked smartphone makers to pre-install a government-run cybersecurity app called Sanchar Saathi on all new devices. This app must be placed prominently to catch attention the first time a phone is used.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The board of India's stock market regulator will take up the most sweeping revision of regulations in decades spanning mutual funds, stock brokers and its own officials later this month, two people aware of the meeting's agenda said. The board will discuss bringing in new rules, updating outdated rules, and removing overlapping ones.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Problems in renewal of visas for Chinese technicians have slowed the pace of buildout of India’s lithium-ion battery manufacturing factories for electric vehicles and energy storage, according to two people aware of the matter. The issues are happening despite bilateral relations between India and China having eased in the past few months.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Corporate fundraising activity saw a significant revival in the September 2025 quarter. After a sluggish June quarter, which saw an 8.4% year-on-year decline, non-financial enterprises ramped up fundraising between July and September.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Startups are offering higher salaries, bigger bonuses and more employee stock options (Esops) at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year, but despite securing first-day slots too, they are struggling to attract top talent as campus hiring shifts from mass hiring to picking a few high-quality candidates amid an AI-led productivity boost.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The perception of safety in stock markets varies widely depending on the investor's risk tolerance, investment horizon, and market conditions. Safe investing often means managing risk through diversification, proper entry points, and a margin of safety rather than an absolute guarantee of no loss.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s state-owned banks have raised concerns with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) about the weaker transmission of rate cuts to deposits, with lending rates falling significantly faster and straining their balance sheets, according to three people familiar with the discussions. In a meeting with RBI officials about 10 days ago, ahead of the monetary policy outcome on 5 December, multiple state-owned bank chiefs raised concerns that the dominance of external benchmark-linked loans has ensured instant repricing of assets whenever the repo rate moves, said the three people cited earlier.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian benchmark indices ended the day on a negative note, paring gains from the previous session's record highs as profit-booking in heavyweight Financials and Energy stocks weighed down the market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A sharp post-open shock quickly drained enthusiasm, sending the market lower in swift fashion. Disappointing macro data is likely to assert itself in the sessions ahead, tempering risk appetite.