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06.02 / 02:57

markets COST Extreme Platform Software Trade testing The Agentic AI invasion: It’s here—but does the software industry face an existential threat?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was swift and brutal, the global sell-off in tech stocks this week after Anthropic’s launch of Agentic AI tools with startling skills. From America to India, software stocks lost $285 billion in market value globally within the span of a single trading session.

06.02 / 01:37

markets COST Digital Progressive rights Mint Quick Edit | Should digital currencies redesign banking and AI agents take over human jobs?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Any radical change enabled by technology demands careful deliberation, but two potential shifts especially so.

06.02 / 01:37

markets UPS Provident Booking Manufacturing Cycling Department AI power play: How MTAR Technologies is fuelling the data center boom

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led data center expansion is emerging as a structural demand driver across several industrial sectors, including power, clean energy and high-precision manufacturing. While the opportunity in India remains relatively small, the global market is already large and growing quickly, led by the US.

06.02 / 00:41

markets COST UPS Platform Enterprise innovations reports AI startups positioned to transform India's IT services, despite SaaS setbacks

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as several software-as-a-service startups head to the public markets this year, India hasn't capitalized on the boom of the 2010s, according to a top executive at global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. “Over the last 15 years, SaaS has come in under expectations as a category, in terms of how many $5 billion-plus companies we expected to emerge from India," said Dev Khare, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, in an interview with Mint.

06.02 / 00:41

markets Target Booking Action trends Trade recommendations Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman's recommends three stocks for 6 February

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: The Indian stock market suffered heavy losses in intraday trade on Thursday, 5 February, as investors booked profits across segments amid weak global cues. The Sensex hit an intraday low of 83,151.62, while the Nifty 50 fell below 25,650.

06.02 / 00:41

markets ETF Aware Trade Experts stage Mutual funds want commodity ETFs other than gold and silver. But is this feasible?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mutual funds and commodity exchanges are exploring whether exchange traded funds (ETFs) can be expanded beyond gold and silver. Current regulations limit ETFs to these two precious metals, but discussions are now underway between the two sides regarding other commodities, especially copper, according to three people aware of the matter.

06.02 / 00:41

markets UPS Provident Software Enterprise reports testing Agents are coming, and India's IT is rushing to meet them

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Top information technology (IT) services companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence agents from specialist firms across their domains, at a time when the debut of advanced AI tools threatens to eat their lunch.

06.02 / 00:41

markets COST UPS Citi Target Strategy exclusive Motilal Oswal Group targets 10 owned office towers across major cities by 2028

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Having built a distinct mark as one of India's prominent diversified financial services groups, Motilal Oswal Group is now stepping up its focus on physical infrastructure. At a time when co-working spaces are booming and companies are pursuing asset-light, flexible office models, the group is investing heavily in owned office towers.

06.02 / 00:41

UPS Aware Manufacturing Trade President country India to ramp up coking coal imports from US under bilateral trade deal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India is likely to increase imports of coking coal—used mainly in steel and cement production—from the US in a bid to enhance energy partnership, as part of a trade deal between the two countries, said two people aware of the development. India is the largest buyer of US coal globally.

06.02 / 00:41

markets COST UPS IPO Booking band testing Aye Finance to test IPO market even as non-bank peers prefer to wait

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Aye Finance Ltd is headed for a public market debut at a valuation below its last funding round, becoming the first non-bank lender to test the appetite after months of sector-wide delays. The venture capital-backed microlender has set a price band of ₹122-129 per share for its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the company at approximately ₹3,200 crore at the upper end.

06.02 / 00:41

markets Action Sustainability Trade Cycling performer recommendations Stock recommendations for 6 February from MarketSmith India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On Thursday, 5 February 2026, the Indian equity benchmarks snapped a three-day winning streak, with the Nifty 50 closing at 25,640.70, down 135.30 points (0.52%), while the Sensex slumped 506.31 points (0.60%) to settle at 83,311.38.

06.02 / 00:41

UPS Platform security Interface Bill Trade country We will have to continuously monitor outcomes, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a record ninth budget at a time of global uncertainty. In an interview, she spoke about the government’s efforts at creating more jobs, building industry’s competitiveness, facilitating easier cross-border trade and the investor interest in India’s defence production sector.

06.02 / 00:41

markets UPS security Trade show track Headlines Anand Rathi Wealth’s Feroze Azeez on what US tariff rollback means for Indian markets

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The announcement of an US-India trade deal, under which Washington would roll back the steep reciprocal tariffs, has eased months of trade-related uncertainty, with equity markets and the rupee both showing signs of renewed confidence. To decode what this shift means for investors, Feroz Azeez, joint chief executive of Anand Rathi Wealth, speaks with Mint to cut through the macro noise and explain how the development could shape portfolios.

06.02 / 00:05

UPS Provident Target Manufacturing Gap Trade country India's container sops draw interest from global shipping behemoths: Sonowal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in talks with global shipping giants and domestic companies to set up container manufacturing facilities, according to Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, as the ₹10,000 crore budget push seeks to cut reliance on China and boost local production. Several companies have expressed interest in manufacturing and demand aggregation for containers made in India, Sonowal, ports, shipping and waterways minister, said, citing names including the world's largest container shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC); second-placed and Danish giant A.P.

05.02 / 17:37

UPS Manufacturing Sustainability trends reports Hero MotoCorp posts highest-ever quarterly revenue as GST cuts spur demand

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Hero MotoCorp Ltd recorded its highest-ever quarterly revenue during the October-December quarter, joining TVS Motor Company Ltd and Bajaj Auto Ltd in achieving this milestone, buoyed by the festive rush and goods and services tax (GST) cuts.

05.02 / 17:37

UPS Citi Gap economy wellness Interviews Shrinking income gap with the rich world, by creating more jobs here: Sitharaman

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said multiple proposals in the Union Budget for 2026-27 reflect the goal of job creation, key to closing the per-capita income gap with advanced economies. In an interview with Mint, Sitharaman also touched upon continuing customs reforms, defence sector, state capex, and the revamp of India's rural job guarantee programme.

05.02 / 15:15

markets Target Booking wellness performer track country Godrej Properties will outperform real estate sector growth, says Pirojsha Godrej

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU : India's top developers, such as Godrej Properties Ltd (GPL), will outpace the pace of the real estate sector's growth, according to a senior company executive. Mumbai-based Godrej Properties, the country's highest-selling residential developer, has already clocked sales bookings of ₹24,008 crore in the first nine months of 2025-26, about 74% of its full-year target of ₹32,500 crore.

05.02 / 11:13

markets UPS Citizens Election wellness country MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G: The overhaul of India’s rural job guarantee needs field trials before its full rollout

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The recent budget marks a shift in India’s approach to short-term state-backed employment support. It has reduced funds for the scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which is expected to be phased out, to ₹30,000 crore from last year’s spending of ₹88,000 crore and allocated over ₹95,000 crore to the new Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VB-G RAM G) scheme that will replace it.

05.02 / 08:01

UPS Southern Boxing wellness film audience stars Has southern cinema fallen prey to Bollywood’s high ticket pricing?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Unreasonably high ticket pricing, long seen as a tactic used largely by Bollywood film-makers to bolster openings, has now crept into southern cinema, with disappointing results. According to media consulting firm Ormax, footfall in Telugu cinema declined to 181 million in 2025, from 213 million in 2024 and 242 million in 2023.

05.02 / 08:01

COST Digital Citizens Manufacturing wellness rights Why RBI should permit a kill-switch for phones bought on loans: It will aid credit expansion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After saying that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is evaluating whether to bring back the policy of allowing loan-financed phones on which repayments are interrupted to be locked as a method of enforcing credit discipline, the central bank has not moved on the subject.

05.02 / 08:01

Digital hiv testing patient infection donates malaria India launches nationwide audit of blood banks after children test HIV-positive post-transfusion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered a nationwide audit of all 4,153 licensed blood banks and centres after children in some states tested HIV-positive following allegedly contaminated transfusions, according to two government officials and a document that Mint reviewed. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has started risk-based inspections of all blood centres and any facility not compliant with the standards will be closed down, the officials said.

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