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IT services companies which are trying to adapt. Established network agency companies are struggling to stay relevant as advertisers turn to AI to not just generate creatives, but also conduct market research and run campaigns end-to-end.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The fast fashion boom is decisively back on India’s startup map. The segment is projected to account for more than a quarter of India’s retail apparel market by FY31, according to Redseer last year.

₹1,800 billion in FY20 to ₹2,400 billion in FY25. Within this, branded ethnic wear grew faster, at an 18–20% CAGR, lifting the organized segment’s share from about 11% to nearly 19% between FY19 and FY22.Even so, the unorganized segment still accounts for roughly 70-75% of the market, leaving significant room for organized players to expand while intensifying competition.Manyavar commanded roughly 38% share of India’s branded men’s ethnic wear market as of FY22, the latest available data, underscoring its dominance within the organized segment.

While the transatlantic relationship made the headlines at this month’s Munich Security Conference, many of the European analysts I hung out with were more concerned about whether, how and how quickly Europe could build adequate military capacity to achieve meaningful strategic autonomy. The twin fears of a potential Russian invasion and an American divorce have compelled Europe’s leaders to invest in military capacity, but it presents the EU and its member states with unprecedented structural challenges.Europe sees a threat to the Union itself, but has to rely on the military establishments of its member-states to respond to it. Like the Pope, Brussels has practically no divisions under its command.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence (AI) has come for the software industry. Since early January, software stocks across the world have tumbled sharply on investor fears that much of the business that software companies do will be taken over by AI, and by new AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, among others.

dividend-yield funds returned an average of 19.22% and around 18%, and 16.5% annually over the past three, five and 10 years (as of 18 February), while flexi-cap funds returned 16.85% and 14%, and 14.75% on average over the same periods. A recent rally in stocks has narrowed the average one-year returns to about 14% for both categories.Financial advisers said a run-up in dividend-yielding stocks in 2025 has helped lift the overall returns of the category for the 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The US Supreme Court’s ruling blocking the use of emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs has significantly narrowed the executive branch’s trade toolkit. While the administration can still pursue tariffs under other statutes, those routes are more constrained, procedurally demanding and legally vulnerable.

rejected arguments that tariffs had helped him achieve foreign policy goals, curbing his ability to impose levies at will to address geopolitical conflicts, including threats to penalize countries that do business with Iran or to gain leverage in his bid to acquire Greenland."Deeply disappointed", Trump signed off on a global 10% tariff "on all countries", hours after the Supreme Court order. "It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately," he wrote on his Truth Social platform.He also insisted tariffs previously imposed under Section 232 (National Security) and existing Section 301 (Unfair Trade) remain “in full force and effect”.But these levies can remain in place for 150 days, unless Congress extends them.What does this mean for India and the 18% tariffs on it?According to Trump: “Nothing changes”.“They'll (India) be paying tariffs, and we will not be paying tariffs.

UPL Ltd plans to spin off and list its crop protection business as an independent entity, as part of a strategy to create the world's second-largest agrochemical firm. The Mumbai-headquartered company announced on Friday a three-step restructuring plan to consolidate its domestic and international pesticide units into a single global entity.This restructuring was undertaken in 2022 when the country’s largest agro-chemicals firm brought in private equity giants into three of its businesses.Under the three-step process, UPL Ltd will first merge its India crop protection subsidiary, UPL Sustainable Agri Solutions, with its parent.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In what could prove to be a major relief for nearly every country in the world, the US Supreme Court has struck down a significant portion of US President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, opening the door for companies to seek refunds for over $100 billion in additional duties paid since the announcement of reciprocal tariffs on 2 April 2025.For India, this could mean that nearly 60% of the export basket, which was set to face 18% tariffs upon the conclusion of the interim trade deal with the US, reverts to the pre-Liberation Day rate of around 2.5%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the India AI Summit, a less discussed but foundational piece of the AI stack broke into the headlines. Mumbai-based AI infrastructure startup Neysa announced a $1.2 billion capital raise led by alternative asset manager Blackstone, among the largest funding rounds in the country’s AI infrastructure sector.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s benchmark indices ended a turbulent week with modest gains on Friday, but sharp swings driven by global cues and a spike in crude oil prices kept investors on the edge. The Nifty 50 closed at 25,571.25, while the BSE Sensex settled at 82,814.70, both rising around 0.4% on Friday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From India’s uneven export growth despite a sharp rise in shipments to several countries to the country hosting the first artificial intelligence (AI) summit, new Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket resetting the inflation measurement, merchants reporting higher sales due to the digital payment system, and a gauge of national pride sentiment—here’s a compilation of this week’s news in numbers. India’s exports rose 0.6% year-on-year to $36.6 billion in January 2026, the latest trade figures released on Monday showed.

New Delhi: Global tech giant IBM is sharply focusing on increasing its role in the Indian technology ecosystem, with a targeted three-year plan to offer generative AI-based services and integration especially for public services.In an interview with Mint, Ana Paula Assis, the company’s chairperson for Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa, said IBM views India’s enterprise and public-sector use cases as large business opportunities.“The public sector is one of the biggest opportunities for deployment of AI. There’s no denying that AI is a transformational technology, but enterprises are so far not spending extensively on AI because they are still waiting and watching the technology.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The ministry of commerce and industry has overhauled its merchandise trade indices, shifting the base year to FY2022-23 from FY2012-13. The move aims to revamp the tracking of price and volume trends, providing a more accurate snapshot of an economy driven by high-tech manufacturing and engineering.

₹62,000-76,000 crore, with Peak XV’s initial investment valued at roughly ₹17,300 crore in 2018, clocking a return of around 75x. Similarly, ahead of a planned public listing, Peak XV Partners sold part of its stake in Pine Labs through secondary transactions at a valuation of about $5 billion, clocking returns of up to roughly 39x.The company also has a strong exit pipeline, with firms like Razorpay, Turtlemint and Zetwerk expected to go public this year."Peak XV is a global fund with Indian ethos and it is solving for global opportunities, which is what makes them unique," said Kashyap Chanchani, co-founder and managing director, Rainmaker Group, a homegrown investment bank.On several VC funds being able to raise India-focused funds in the last 24 months, Chanchani said, "With newer themes emerging, the India opportunity is becoming bigger.

XED Executive Development, set to be the first company to list on the GIFT City exchanges after its upcoming IPO, has appointed a market maker for one year to address low liquidity on the exchanges.“We have appointed Evermore as our market maker and 5% of the issue has been set aside for market-making purposes,” Piyush Agarwal, chief executive officer of XED Executive Development, toldMint.XED, which provides leadership and management development programmes to senior professionals in over 25 countries, plans to raise $12 million through a dollar-based offering. It will be listed on the NSE International Exchange and the India International Exchange – in GIFT City – in the first week of March.As the first company to list on these exchanges, XED may initially face liquidity challenges.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Navin Fluorine International Ltd’s stock has delivered almost 60% returns over the last one year. On 10 February, the shares hit an all-time high of ₹6,965 apiece and are now trading around 7% lower.

Judith Wiese, board member and chief people and sustainability officer at Siemens AG, cautioned that Germany will lose 15-20% of its workforce over the next decade due to demographics. And this is why India is “central” to Siemens' strategy of a capability hub.In an exclusive interaction with Mint, Wiese assuaged fears of AI-led layoffs, marked out workplace shifts since the pandemic and spoke on how data centres do guzzle energy, but that challenge needs to be dealt with responsibly.Some things have stayed since covid, particularly hybrid work. In India and China, more employees prefer working from the office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: As India plans to set up 10 gigawatts (GW) of data centre capacity by 2030, demand for electricity is expected to surge. Mint explains how this will impact India’s power sector.