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As January approaches, Ashok Vaswani will begin his third year as managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. Soon after Vaswani joined the bank, it had to start untangling itself for regulatory crosshairs. Since then, the RBI-imposed embargo on enlisting more digital customers has been lifted, it has made a couple of acquisitions, and is now in the race to acquire a big one, but Vaswani unsurprisingly sidesteps talk of IDBI Bank.

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, Last week, I wrote that bulls would have to do some significant work to push markets higher.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, which has interests spanning real estate, renewable energy and electric vehicles, is planning rapid international expansion via India, buoyed by its strong automotive performance even as its US push struggles amid Trump-era policies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai/Kochi: The divergence is stark. Both Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries were established the same year—1972.

Russian energy, has also agreed to meet some of its demand from the US. Yet Russia remains relevant, having worked around the trading system through bilateral deals and its shadow fleet.On the other hand, Washington's attempts to derail China’s economy have largely fallen flat.

Reuters report.The massive, factory-sized system has reportedly been dubbed China’s “Manhattan Project”, a reference to the top-secret US effort during World War II to develop the atomic bomb ahead of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s.The development has profound implications for the global balance of technological and strategic power. At its core, it can dismantle the West’s near-monopoly over the production of the world’s most advanced chips—those that power AI systems, smartphones, and modern military platforms.A 2024 study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute pointed to a “stunning shift in research leadership over the past two decades towards large economies in the Indo-Pacific, led by China’s exceptional gains.“The US led in 60 of 64 technologies in the five years from 2003 to 2007.

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India’s merchandise exports rose to $38 billion in November, posting year-on-year growth of 19.36%—the strongest since June 2022. Notably, the US shifted from being a drag in recent months to a key contributor, with shipments rebounding after two consecutive months of decline despite higher tariffs remaining in place. Exports to the US grew 22.6% during the month.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's only agri derivatives exchange National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) is evaluating technical proposals from reputed global vendors—including its existing vendor LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), US-based Nasdaq, London-headquartered Aquis and India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)—for its equity and equity derivatives platform slated for launch in the next fiscal year, according to a person aware of the development.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of Zydus Wellness Ltd were trading near ₹403 when the company announced the acquisition of UK-based Comfort Click Ltd for about ₹2,380 crore on 29 August. The market initially welcomed the deal, pushing the stock to an all-time high of ₹530.90 on 19 September.

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India is a nation on a trajectory of rapid economic growth and today stands at the threshold of a defining era.This growth is being channelled through ambitious national goals that explicitly link innovation with sustainability, notably India’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2070 and its push to strengthen advanced manufacturing and global technology capabilities through initiatives such as Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes.This approach to combining scale with responsibility positions India as an increasingly attractive partner for countries across the world.Finland, a country renowned for innovation, clean technologies, and robust public and industrial systems, shares this forward-looking vision.Finland’s national goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, a significantly more ambitious timeline than the European Union’s overall target of 2050.The current annual bilateral trade value between India and Finland, at approximately €3 billion, remains modest relative to the potential of two innovation-driven economies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American capital flows into businesses that bolster Beijing’s military and surveillance state.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The artificial intelligence boom has propelled US technology stocks to historic highs, while India’s IT services sector is struggling to keep pace, slipping into one of its weakest relative phases since 2023. On a rolling three-year basis, the Nifty IT index is now underperforming its US technology peers in the Nasdaq by over 40%.

By adopting the Sustainable Harnessing of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (Shanti) Act of 2025, which subsumes and replaces both the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010, India is set to align its legal framework for nuclear power generation with standard global practices. Since this move could give atomic reactors a role in our transition to clean energy, it is welcome.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Indian stock market benchmarks–the Sensex and the Nifty 50–ended flat with negative biases on Thursday, 18 December 18, due to a lack of fresh triggers. The Sensex closed 78 points, or 0.09%, lower at 84,481.81, while the Nifty 50 settled at 25,815.55, down 3 points, or 0.01%.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday night, extolling his economic record to date and promising a bright economic future for the U.S. in the year ahead.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Venezuela has long used the same playbook as Russia and Iran to get around crippling American sanctions on its oil industry, tapping a shadowy fleet of aging vessels to carry crude to customers. President Trump’s partial oil blockade threatens to devastate this black market, which U.S.