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Stranger Things Season 5 spoilers are out and fans of the Netflix's hugely popular show want to know them eagerly. There are reports that four characters are likely to make comeback in Stranger Things Season 5, as per a report. Four pivotal characters of Stranger Things — Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas — are likely to be back in the fifth season, as per a report on Dexerto. Fans of 'Stranger Things' were thrilled when makers dropped a sneak peek of the upcoming Season 5.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.There was a telling moment on the second day of Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. America’s president was strolling with Xi Jinping through the gardens of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, on May 15th.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.India’s top companies are estimated to have spent anywhere between ₹69,000 crore and ₹72,000 crore on legal matters in the fiscal year ended March. The spending has risen from ₹60,000 crore in FY25 due to shifting regulations, geopolitical risks and rising compliance demands.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Mumbai: Life is coming full circle for Suzlon Energy Ltd as the company looks to resume selling wind turbines in Europe, a market where it stopped sales nearly two decades ago as it worked its way out of a debt crisis.The Pune-based company on Tuesday launched two new turbine designs for the European market with capacities of 5 MW and 6.3 MW, based on its new Blue Sky product platform. These add to its portfolio of 2.1 MW and 3 MW machines.The new platform will debut in Europe and the company will take a call later this year on the specifications in which it can be brought to India, Girish Tanti, the executive vice-chairman of Suzlon, told Mint over a call from Madrid.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.A downward revision in nominal gross domestic product (GDP) following the base-year revision and a sharp depreciation of the rupee have proved to be a setback for India's position in global ranking.The country has slipped to the sixth rank in 2025 (FY26) and 2026 (FY27), falling behind the UK after claiming the fifth position for three straight years, showed the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest data.At current prices, India’s GDP is estimated to be $3.92 trillion in 2025 (FY26) and $4.15 trillion in 2026 (FY27). The UK’s GDP is expected to be $4 trillion in 2025 and $4.26 trillion in 2026, respectively.

Can the U.S. pivot from a military deterrent to a more integrated strategy? Write to me at [email protected]. Include your full name and location, and I might publish your response in a coming issue (if you’re reading this in your inbox, you can just hit reply).This is an edition of the WSJ China newsletter, a weekly dispatch of exclusive insights on the contest between the U.S.

IPO-bound Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI), the mining consultancy arm of Coal India Ltd, is betting on the state-run miner’s ambitious production expansion to drive its own growth in the coming years, even as it looks to diversify into critical minerals and overseas projects.The organization’s relationship with Coal India should not be seen as a dependency but rather a “symbiotic” partnership that has evolved over the last five decades, said Chaudhari Shivraj Singh, chairman and managing director at CMPDI, told Mint.“CMPDI has been with Coal India for nearly 50 years and has played a big role in bringing the company to its current scale. All exploration, mine planning and prioritisation of mining activities have been carried out by CMPDI,” Singh said.Coal India continues to dominate India’s coal output, accounting for about 67% of the country’s production last year, while the remaining 33% came from government, public sector and private companies.

lactose intolerant, the regulator may allow complex carbohydrates such as polysaccharides and oligosaccharides instead of refined sugars.India records roughly 25 million births annually, making infant nutrition standards a significant public health lever. Data from a National Family Health survey show the share of overweight children has increased to 3.4% from 2.1% five years earlier.The Economic Survey 2025-26 warned that the number of obese children in India could rise to 83 million by 2035 from 33 million in 2020.

If proof were needed that even after decades of globalization, the world isn’t flat, Iran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz is providing plenty. The opposing view might be summarized in four words, ‘The Revenge of Geography,’ the title of geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan’s prescient book more than a decade ago.

Mint’s Emerging Markets Tracker more consistently. As India grapples with these weaknesses, Vietnam—newly added to the tracker—has emerged as a formidable challenger.Vietnam has claimed the top spot in three of the past four months, marking a strong debut on the tracker.

Two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, a chemical manufacturer, and an auto giant have established internal artificial intelligence (AI) teams and opened centres to increase automation across their businesses, as the technology’s rapid pace continues to upend business operations worldwide.Over the last 18 months, Swiss life sciences major Novartis International AG and Texas-based chemical manufacturer Celanese Corporation started AI councils to identify segments that can be automated. Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Co.

If you thought 2025 was a tough transition, 2026 now seems to have plenty more surprises in store. India, in particular, has to trek through two tricky minefields over the next 10 months: energy security and technological flux. These two prickly issues will have to fight for the political leadership’s mind-space, cluttered as it is with tricky geopolitics, rising unemployment, sticky economic growth and an always-on electoral cycle.

Jai Ho! The resounding A.R. Rahman composition from the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire played as Narayan Manepally, CEO of Geist Brewing Co. and Vidya Kubher, the brand’s head brewmaster, collected the Gold Award at the European Beer Star 2025 competition in Nuremberg, Germany, in September.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HONG KONG—In his two decades at Silicon Valley venture-capital titan Sequoia, Neil Shen made billions by identifying and investing in every major tech company to emerge in China. Now, the Chinese billionaire is betting big on artificial intelligence, using American capital to fund Chinese firms competing in the global AI race.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Kannan Hari walked onto the Startup Singam set carrying karupatti—palm jaggery—made from the palmyra, the state tree of Tamil Nadu. He runs Palm Era, a palm jaggery and natural sweeteners brand.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amazon.com is in talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a giant bet on the hot AI startup. The ChatGPT maker is seeking up to $100 billion in new capital from investors, a round that could value it at as much as $830 billion, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Insurers may not readily offer tax liability insurance for merger and acquisition (M&A) deals and will subject them to stricter scrutiny given the risks of retrospective taxes, consulting and law firms cautioned, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Tiger Global must pay capital gains tax on its Flipkart share sale years ago.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Union Budget is to be placed before Parliament once again, with every sector seeking greater funding. When I took over as secretary of school education, Government of India, in 2016, I was aghast to discover that even the nominal allocation to school education had been consistently declining since 2014.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In late 2018, President Trump asked his national security adviser, John Bolton, to weigh in on an idea floated by a prominent businessman: Should the U.S. buy Greenland? Bolton said he would look into it.

food sector, aggressive local pricing, and evolving consumer preferences appear to be weighing on footfalls across the category.While the merger does little to directly revive demand, it meaningfully improves operational efficiency. Post-transaction, Devyani will become the sole operator of KFC and Pizza Hut in India, in addition to acquiring Sapphire’s Sri Lanka operations.

entry into politics was not anticipated by the Dravidian establishment or the local media, but neither was it a big surprise. Not just actors, some of the state’s tallest leaders, such as C.N. Annadurai, founder of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and his successor, M.