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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The official visit of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to India on 12-13 January, his first to the Indo-Pacific since taking office, coincided with the 75th anniversary year of diplomatic ties, providing renewed momentum to the India-Germany Strategic Partnership.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nearly two decades ago, India promised itself—and the US—that nuclear power would be its next big bet. The two countries signed a landmark deal on civilian nuclear energy in 2008, amid protests from politicians and activists alike.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Temasek-backed Unacademy is planning to shut down its centre business and convert it into a franchise model, founder Gaurav Munjal told employees. “Over the coming months, we will exit our company-operated centre business by converting them into franchise partnerships," Munjal said in an email to employees on 14 January.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Dharana Capital, which has backed startups such as Urban Company, Zomato, LAT Aerospace and Pet Pooja, has raised its second growth fund with a corpus of $250 million to continue investing in tech and consumer businesses in India. The investment firm will continue to back founders building large and standalone listed businesses, its founder and managing partner said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is proposing a major overhaul of trading rules that could reshape how Indian markets are regulated. The focus is on simplifying long-standing regulations and shifting more day-to-day supervision to stock exchanges.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A momentous shift in fiscal strategy will take place in the upcoming fiscal year. From 2026-27, the government will track government debt instead of fiscal deficit as its primary fiscal target.

Mumbai: Public markets-bound Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), the largest producer of coking coal in India, is pinning its growth story on rising demand from the steel sector, for which the commodity is a key input, the company's management said on Monday.Coking coal is used to make coke, a key input for steel production. This coal sells at a premium to thermal coal, which is burned for heat in power plants and other industries."The real value of coking coal is not getting reflected properly in the Coal India valuation.

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Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] Centre is shaping a wider and more deliberate standards strategy for 2026, moving to realign Quality Control Orders (QCOs) with actual testing and laboratory capacity while easing friction with key trading partners.

Forecasts aren’t prophecy—they offer a glimpse into market sentiment. Our New Year special asks experts not for perfect numbers, but how they interpret the economy and the world around them—and how that shapes their money moves. The message is clear: discipline beats prediction. Stay invested. Stay diversified. Here’s how that thinking is shaping their approach to 2026, and what’s likely to keep their sectors busy.My plan stays boring yet effective: keep SIPs going in diversified equity/hybrids, maintain a proper cash buffer in liquid/ultra-short debt, and rebalance instead of reacting.

quality control orders (QCOs) between mid-November and early December, even as it launched over 15 new standards in the same period. The number of new standards notified has risen to close to 50 after Saturday's update.The standards create a pipeline for future regulation as the standards can be converted into mandatory QCOs in future.Experts say the latest standards are designed to be flexibile.

World Bank report in September on container port performance. "The port’s CPPI values were 66 (2020), 62 (2021), 35 (2022), 48 (2023), and 100 (2024).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative. – Benjamin Graham, economist and financial investor Value investing is one of the best ways to build long-term wealth in the stock market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Millions of CNG and domestic PNG users across India could pay less for gas as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) simplifies transportation tariffs under its “One Nation, One Grid, One Tariff" vision. The regulator has reduced the number of tariff zones from three to two—up to 300 km and beyond 300 km—aiming to lower regional disparities and align natural gas pricing with competitive fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), or cooking gas, and petrol.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] the past decade, a silent crisis has been unfolding in India's middle class.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Defence and aerospace companies are competing with high-frequency trading companies and tech giants in the clamour for engineers from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), buoyed by their expansion plans and the entry of private firms in the space and defence sectors.These engineers are set to take on advanced manufacturing and product design projects in private companies based in India and seeking billion-dollar business avenues.“With the rise of space-tech startups—not just rocket makers like Skyroot, but also many promising satellite makers and space-intelligence-based startups in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and elsewhere—for the first time, India's top-tier candidates have a reliable and promising career opportunity to partake in truly world-class engineering right from India,” Temasek-backed Skyroot Aerospace said in an email response to Mint.Founded in Hyderabad by Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, who were once colleagues at the Indian Space Research Organisation, Skyroot Aerospace is India’s highest-funded space startup with $95 million in venture capital funding to date. It is set to make its first commercial rocket launch from Indian soil by March 2026.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The AI hack we unlock today is based on a tool—Google Mixboard. Product marketers constantly battle the “vague-to-visual" gap.

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. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 16 December, represents the most significant reform of India’s insurance sector in decades. The bill seeks to amends three core laws—the Insurance Act, 1938; the LIC Act, 1956; and the IRDAI Act, 1999—to liberalise foreign investment, strengthen regulation, introduce new intermediaries, and accelerate insurance penetration in line with the government’s goal of ‘insurance for all by 2047’.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Walmart-controlled Flipkart received a key approval to shift its domicile back to India, a prerequisite for a local listing, in a move that reflects a shift in India-US economic ties amid prolonged bilateral trade negotiations. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the re-domiciling scheme on Friday, according to an order reviewed by Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian companies are rethinking the benefits they offer their staff, such as healthcare, retiral plans, wellbeing perks, and leave, as they seek to control budgets while retaining top talent without compromising on employee experience.