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26.01 / 11:33

markets UPS Platform security Software Enterprise Experts Mint Explainer: Is the hype around vibe coding justified?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Vibe coding has triggered a fundraising frenzy in India and the US over the past six months. Startups have been raking in large cheques, some at valuations in the billions.

26.01 / 10:09

Target security Strategy show Investigations International China’s top general accused of giving nuclear secrets to US

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s senior-most general is accused of leaking information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. and accepting bribes for official acts, including the promotion of an officer to defense minister, said people familiar with a high-level briefing on the allegations.

26.01 / 01:35

COST Booking Strategy Metro Interviews IRFC explores some Swiss franc swap to cut dollar risk

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Indian Railway Finance Corp (IRFC) is reworking its foreign-currency borrowing mix, exploring a plan to swap part of its dollar-denominated loans into Swiss francs to limit foreign exchange losses and lower funding costs amid a free fall in the rupee against the greenback. The move reflects how the government's rail financier, which has nearly $8 billion in overseas exposure, is responding to currency volatility even as it reshapes its business beyond funding the Indian Railways.

26.01 / 01:35

Strategy Trade Mint Quick Edit | Republic Day calls for reflection: This year, let’s focus on how we engage the world

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This Republic Day, we should reflect on India’s embrace of the world.

26.01 / 01:35

markets UPS Sustainability MSCI Trade Markets to trade volatile in run-up to budget

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The benchmark Nifty could see wild price swings when stock markets reopen on Tuesday, coinciding with the weekly expiry of index options. This comes amid divergent views on market direction in a truncated week—shortened by the Republic Day holiday on Monday—leading up to the Union budget on 1 February.

26.01 / 01:35

COST Provident Platform Software Enterprise Research reports Indian IT’s mega deals spike on AI push, but there’s not much to celebrate yet

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s top offshoring firms just reported a prolific quarter of billion-dollar contracts, but that also signalled a stark new reality for the $283-billion sector: an intensifying race among the country's largest software services providers to grab each other's share. In October-December, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Infosys reported three mega deals combined, the most in nine quarters, according to their earnings filings.

26.01 / 01:35

markets UPS FIVE Manufacturing wellness Trade Market returns may be 2-3% above nominal GDP growth in 2026: Anthony Heredia

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After two record years of fundraising, investor appetite for new listings could moderate, as abundant supply and external headwinds weigh on secondary markets. While declining to comment on possible budget measures, Anthony Heredia, managing director and chief executive officer of Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund, said that policy measures aimed at boosting foreign capital flows, either directly through tax incentives or indirectly, could help create economic momentum.

25.01 / 13:35

markets UPS Platform Entertainment audience International Media firms look beyond the home screen, eye eyeballs offshore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As revenue pressures mount at home, Indian media firms are finding their next growth opportunity abroad. Media and entertainment companies have been exploring global partnerships and strengthening their presence in several international markets over the past few months in a bid to gain from the higher paying propensity among diasporic Indians abroad.

25.01 / 13:27

security Trade President country innovations medicines Interviews Can Trump and Big Pharma get the world to pay more for drugs?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Americans pay about three times what other wealthy nations do for branded prescription drugs. For years, policymakers have tried to fix this by cutting U.S.

25.01 / 13:27

markets UPS BLOCK Pool SpaceX Inside reports India's super-rich pooling millions for a slice of world's hottest private AI firms

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: India’s artificial intelligence (AI) startups may be drawing growing attention, but some of the country’s richest family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNIs) are placing their biggest bets thousands of miles away—on US-based ‘frontier AI’ and large language model (LLM) building firms that they believe could define the next computing cycle.

25.01 / 11:45

markets COST UPS Trade show Videos Vijay L Bhambwani's Ticker: Bulls appear to be on the ropes

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ticker is a weekly newsletter by Vijay L Bhambwani. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Dear reader, Happy Republic Day! Last week, I wrote that the near-term market outlook would be determined by the banking and financial sector stocks.

25.01 / 10:55

Career Platform wellness trends show 2020 volunteers Retirement needn’t be a sudden career halt: India needs to re-imagine it as a gradual transition

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. We view retirement as an end state, but the reality of it is far more nuanced. There is evidence that retirees would like to work and engage in some activity.

25.01 / 10:27

security pandemic President Experts country Department Mint Explainer | US exits WHO: What it means for global health and America

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The US has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), a year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process.

25.01 / 09:07

COST UPS Target FIVE security reports JSW Steel sharpens expansion roadmap, eyes 56 mtpa capacity by FY31

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: JSW Steel, India’s largest steelmaker by capacity, is accelerating its expansion plans and now expects to reach around 56 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) by FY31, overshooting its earlier guidance of 50 mtpa, according to the company’s top executive. The higher target comes as the company emerges from a period of weak steel prices and margin pressure, even as it steps up efforts to secure raw materials and looks for early signs of a recovery in demand.

25.01 / 08:45

UPS Digital security wellness Trade President peace Donald Trump’s influence trade uses power as a global currency—which poses challenges for India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Humankind has shown broad acceptance of three different kinds of currencies: widely-acceptable fiat currency (like the dollar or Indian rupee), extinct commodity-based currency (gold and silver coins, or even wheat bushels) and an emerging class of digital currency (such as stablecoins or central bank digital currencies or CBDCs). A fourth class of currency is being minted and popularized by US President Donald Trump: influence.

25.01 / 02:45

markets UPS Trade President show rights International The first three weeks of the year will reshape the world

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." The quote, often attributed to Lenin, aptly describes the first weeks of 2026. Over the last generation, several assumptions undergirded international relations and commerce.

25.01 / 01:53

markets Provident Progressive Trade country reports International WTO cotton clash: India seeks standalone deal, while US and EU push for broader reform

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India has backed calls for a balanced outcome on cotton at the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying issues such as domestic support, market access and development assistance need to be addressed together.

25.01 / 01:53

Citi Digital Mobile Food country Features Videos India warms up to AI virtual pets as companionship goes digital

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : In 2024, Indrani Sen, a Mumbai-based food blogger, was distressed by the growing distance with her then 16-year-old daughter. The digital-savvy 47-year-old found the solution in Pengu—a mobile app she installed on both their phones that let them raise an artificial intelligence (AI) pet penguin together.

24.01 / 13:23

markets Provident security President performer country International After a week of global turmoil and talk, nothing was solved

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the year commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is supremely ironic that 2026 could also mark a similar declaration by America’s historically staunchest allies. “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition," Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, starkly told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this past week.

24.01 / 12:53

UPS Strategy Chevron Research ConocoPhillips President rights China built a vast oil stake in Venezuela. Now it risks getting muscled out.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Venezuela booted out American oil companies in a nationalization campaign nearly two decades ago, China stepped in. Now, Beijing’s foothold there is in doubt as the U.S.

24.01 / 09:07

Action security economy President country peace International Davos, Trump, and the fragile future of multilateralism

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The air in Davos this year was thick with trepidation. It wasn’t just anxiety about the global economy that weighed on those gathered at the World Economic Forum.

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