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19.02 / 08:15

COST Provident Merit security Sustainability Enterprise Torrent Power valuation is pricey, but Nabha deal to fuel growth

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Torrent Power Ltd continues to scale its coal-based portfolio. The recent acquisition of Nabha Power Ltd, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd, comes at a time when other power producers are also increasing their coal-based capacities to meet rising electricity demand.

19.02 / 06:43

markets economy Food trends country Updates International Data tools mustn’t get rusty: India must institutionalize regular statistical revisions

The first estimates of inflation based on the revised series of India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) were released last week. The new CPI series uses 2024 as the base year. Accordingly, inflation in January was 2.75% (the price index’s increase, i.e., over the same month of 2025), with rural inflation at 2.73% and urban at 2.77%.

18.02 / 12:43

markets UPS Manufacturing Strategy Mobile ICE International Steel, paint, power and cars: Inside JSW’s ‘Chaebol-style’ strategy to disrupt the auto market

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi/Mumbai: In December 2024, industrialist Sajjan Jindal declared that steelmaker JSW would soon have its own automobile brand. “Our idea is not to be an outpost of a Chinese company to sell products in India," Jindal told the Financial Times.

18.02 / 12:27

Citi Provident Digital Manufacturing Parke ICE Intercontinental Exchange arm leases Pune GCC space for ₹1.73 crore a month

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: ICE MT India Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of US financial services firm Intercontinental Exchange Inc., has opened a 193,053 sq.

18.02 / 10:13

markets COST Target security Research Cycling reports RBI rate cuts have failed to ease bond yields. Liquidity tools may be next

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India may have delivered a cumulative 125-basis-point cut in the repo rate since February 2025, but financial conditions have failed to ease in ways typically associated with monetary loosening. With the rate-cut cycle now widely expected to pause, the central bank is likely to rely increasingly on liquidity measures to ease conditions instead, economists said.

18.02 / 08:41

Digital Manufacturing Platform Enterprise Research reports AI in Indian companies: Your next boss might be a chief AI officer.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Across Indian organizations, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from pilot projects to the corner office.

18.02 / 08:41

COST Extreme economy Sustainability Research community country As 2°C warming stares at us, India must invest in climate adaptation to shield its economy

Human societies have long found ingenious ways to cope with extreme weather; and India is no exception. The ancient Kallanai dam in southern India, for example, built to divert the Kaveri River for irrigation, sustained fertile delta farming for centuries.

18.02 / 08:41

markets Provident Target Manufacturing Sustainability performer country Three micro-cap stocks with strong growth plans.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Microcaps are volatile. That’s a part of investing.

18.02 / 07:31

markets UPS Racing Research beautiful reports Indian men’s luxury fragrances race ahead of mass brands

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : The business of smelling good is now booming in India, thanks to men. Sales of premium and luxury perfumes are rising steadily, with men emerging as the biggest growth drivers in the category, according to industry executives and data shared with Mint.

18.02 / 07:31

markets Digital economy Puzzle show Monetary puzzle: Why cash in circulation has risen in India even as UPI transactions set new records

After the rationalization of GST rates and amid festive-season demand, India’s currency in circulation (CiC) climbed to record-high levels in late 2025 and early 2026. In January, it touched ₹40 trillion. So far in 2025-26, CiC has increased by ₹2.76 trillion, 3.1 times the rise seen in the same period the previous year.Intriguingly, even as CiC has jumped, India continues to log record levels of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions.

18.02 / 07:31

markets Citi Digital Mobile Dreams rights Owning India’s real estate one square foot at a time with ease: Alt DRX's Avinash Rao

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Imagine owning a piece of a luxury apartment in Mumbai or a high-yield property in Pune with the same ease as buying a sachet of shampoo or a plate of dosa. This vision of "miniaturizing" wealth was in the spotlight at the Mint Money Festival 2026, held on 14 February in Mumbai.

18.02 / 07:31

COST Platform Sustainability awards Highways trends Traffic Mint Explainer | Why fund houses and private equity firms are eyeing greenfield BOT highway projects again

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Reworked concession terms, stronger traffic growth and falling yields on operational assets are nudging long-term capital back toward construction-linked road bets. After staying away from construction-risk projects for almost a decade, fund houses and private equity firms are re-evaluating greenfield build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects in India.

18.02 / 06:01

FIVE security Strategy Parke Cycling country rights Are Reits the right way to own top commercial real estate?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Real estate has long been a favoured asset for Indian investors, but owning commercial property comes with high entry barriers. Large upfront capital, long-tenure loans, tenant management, maintenance hassles and illiquidity make direct ownership cumbersome.

18.02 / 05:07

markets UPS Apple Trade country shock Trade liberalization to boost India’s farm exports, says Niti Aayog’s Ramesh Chand

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The trade deal being negotiated with the US is set to benefit India’s agriculture exports, the same way trade liberalization in the last 25 years has helped Indian farm exports grow faster than global agricultural trade, Ramesh Chand, member, Niti Aayog has said in an interview. Chand told Mint that the India-US deal is set to help meet rising domestic demand for items like edible oils and nuts that cannot be met entirely locally, while also opening up market for India’s surplus farm produce including rice.

18.02 / 02:25

markets UPS Progressive Action Racing reports Updates With China and America in an AI-catapulted space race, the world needs a global treaty on AI warfare

India opened its space sector to private players at a time of covid paralysis. Since then, some progress has indeed been made. Poised for a breathtaking leap into space, however, might be China.In the last week of December, Beijing notified the UN’s International Telecom Union of its plan to put over 200,000 satellites in orbit within a decade.

18.02 / 02:25

markets UPS President War reports Updates Mint Quick Edit | Why India’s Rafale deal with France has been called the ‘deal of the century’

The agenda for French President Emmanuel Macron’s India visit this week is expansive, with everything from the shape of global AI rules to the Russia-Ukraine war up for talks. What takes the spotlight, though, is the reported deal for 114 Rafale fighter jets (plus munitions) that India wants to buy from France for $40 billion.

18.02 / 02:25

markets Manufacturing security economy Trade show country India’s trade deal blitz: Why it's a strategic necessity despite uncertain gains

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Economics 101 tells us that free trade makes the world better off. Countries specialise in what they produce most efficiently and trade for the rest.

18.02 / 00:53

Provident FIVE SUN Gap Software Remark Vinod Khosla predicts AI will kill Indian IT sector in five years

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India’s technology outsourcing services are likely to “die out" over the next five years, as artificial intelligence automates most software programming and quality engineering tasks, according to Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and early-stage investor in OpenAI—the world’s most valuable AI startup.

18.02 / 00:53

markets Citi Target Booking Platform Align Sustainability Stable Money raises $25 million led by Peak XV, targets tier-2 expansion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Stable Money, an Indian platform allowing users to book fixed-income assets, has raised $25 million in a pre-Series C funding round, valuing the Bengaluru-based fintech startup at $175 million, at a time when Indian fintechs are under pressure to build more sustainable business models Peak XV Partners led the all-equity round with a $20 million investment, Saurabh Jain, co-founder of Stable Money, told Mint. Existing backers Z47, RTP Global, and the Fundamentum Partnership, co-founded by Infosys Ltd chairman Nandan Nilekani, also participated.

18.02 / 00:53

markets UPS Target trends Trade show recommendations Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman's recommends three stocks for 18 February

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Benchmark equity indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, extended their gains for the second consecutive session on Tuesday, 17 February, led by gains in select heavyweights, including ITC, BEL, and Infosys. The Sensex ended at 83,450.96, rising 174 points, or 0.21%, while the Nifty 50 settled 43 points, or 0.17%, higher at 25,725.40.

18.02 / 00:53

COST CEO Platform Action wellness film Actor Algorithm action: AI platforms disrupt silver screen at India AI Film Festival

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The traditional red carpet at the India AI Film Festival and the AI Impact Summit this week had a distinctively digital sheen. Amidst the usual chatter of cinematography and casting, a new breed of exhibitors, AI platform developers, are spending the week pitching a radical proposition to India’s creative core: the end of the ‘producer hunt’.

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