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₹5.2 crore purchase of a three-bedroom pool holiday villa after a short meeting with the founders of luxury real estate company Isprava.“The idea was clear from the beginning,” said Narayan, 54, who returned to India in 2019 after spending around two decades abroad. “I wanted to stay there when I had time, but the rest of the year I wanted it let out.”Narayan took possession in March 2023 and listed shortly thereafter on Lohono Stays, Isprava’s hospitality arm.

, she was reading a book called “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” about a woman disentangling the family finances after her husband of 20 years abruptly leaves her. While Adhikari had no concerns about her husband running off, the book did get her thinking about how little she knew of their monetary logistics.

order book can often speak louder than short-term price movements.It represents confirmed projects, assured revenue pipelines, and management’s ability to win and execute large contracts. When this order book outweighs the company’s own market capitalization, it signals a rare combination of strong demand and underappreciated scale.In this article, we spotlight the top four companies whose order books are larger than their market capitalization.The criteria: Return on equity (RoE) and return on capital employed (RoCE) above 12%, along with a debt-to-equity ratio below 1x.NBCC (India) Ltd is a Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprise under the aegis of the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA).The company provides value-added services in project management consultancy (PMC), engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and real estate development.

consistent domestic fund flows has transformed into a structural shift in India’s capital markets. Institutional investors now hold the balance of power in IPO pricing: reshaping exit strategies, valuation expectations and the very criteria for going public.That growing clout is prompting companies and private equity backers to recalibrate listing plans— prioritizing visible profitability, stronger unit economics and capital efficiency ahead of market debut, said Prashant Singhal, partner and India Markets leader at EY.

Lynch is also the author of the classic investing book One Up on Wall Street. A value investor at heart, he is credited with developing the GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) strategy and popularising the term “multibagger.”Here are his six rules for spotting multi-bagger stocks, and how they can be applied in India.Lynch was famous as a growth investor, but he never overpaid for growth. A PE of 40 was often too high for him.

India’s traditional brokers are banking on a business they dominate to claw back the ground they ceded to digital rivals over the past decade: lending clients money for leveraged trading.Called the margin trading facility (MTF) in market parlance, it allows investors to buy shares by paying only a part of the total value upfront, with the broker funding the rest at an interest cost.MTF book surged 42.9% in the year through January 2026 to ₹1.20 lakh crore even as the markets turned volatile, according to a February Care Edge report. The top two in the category are bank-backed brokers: ICICI Securities Ltd and Kotak Securities Ltd.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As branded hotel occupancy in India nears decade highs, hotel chains are shifting focus from acquiring new guests to ‘farming’ existing ones through enhanced loyalty programmes. A surge in repeat guests and an expanding travel market are compelling players like IHG, Radisson, Marriott, The Postcard Hotel, and Accor to pivot toward member-driven growth.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. AI startup Serval closed a private deal with venture-capital giant Sequoia in December that valued it at less than $400 million. Days later, Serval announced a new milestone from another funding round.

India is preparing to merge its diverging tax and financial reporting frameworks into a unified system, two people aware of discussions said, in a move aimed at dismantling one of the most cumbersome hurdles for corporate India.The overhaul seeks to harmonize the Indian Accounting Standards (IndAS)—used for shareholder reporting—with the Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS) mandated by tax authorities. If successful, this would represent the most significant structural shift in the nation’s accounting landscape since IndAS was first adopted in 2016.The move is significant because tax accounting standards, called the ICDS, issued by the Income Tax department and the Indian Accounting Standards or IndAS, notified by the ministry of corporate affairs follow different accounting principles.IndAS aims to capture the economic position of a company at a given point in time using fair valuation of assets and liabilities, an approach useful for investors.

A few months ago when the editor of Rahul Pandita’s debut novel asked me for a blurb, I wrote that his book was “addictive”. I thought I had found a way to say something meaningful about a book in a blurb, a form of praise that has become meaningless, filled with tired phrases like “tour de force.” But then I realized that I had not been paying attention to book covers. ‘Addictive’ is the new ‘unputownable.’ Apparently, the world believes addiction is a good thing, as long as it is said of a book.

thalis with dozens of dishes. Every market fall brings out a familiar spread of explanations—geopolitical tensions, FII selling, disappointing earnings, high valuations—each served with the gravitas of someone who has decoded the universe's deepest mysteries.We could treat such expertise as entertainment rather than investment guidance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s benchmark indices ended a turbulent week with modest gains on Friday, but sharp swings driven by global cues and a spike in crude oil prices kept investors on the edge. The Nifty 50 closed at 25,571.25, while the BSE Sensex settled at 82,814.70, both rising around 0.4% on Friday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Brigade Enterprises Ltd, a southern India-focused realty developer, has hit a rough patch. The stock has declined 28% over the past year, far steeper than the Nifty Realty index’s 4% fall.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Stable Money, an Indian platform allowing users to book fixed-income assets, has raised $25 million in a pre-Series C funding round, valuing the Bengaluru-based fintech startup at $175 million, at a time when Indian fintechs are under pressure to build more sustainable business models Peak XV Partners led the all-equity round with a $20 million investment, Saurabh Jain, co-founder of Stable Money, told Mint. Existing backers Z47, RTP Global, and the Fundamentum Partnership, co-founded by Infosys Ltd chairman Nandan Nilekani, also participated.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s market regulator, the government and now the central bank have all tightened the screws on what they see as excessive speculation in the country’s booming derivatives market. The latest amendment by the Reserve Bank of India to bank lending norms hits a critical cog: cheap leverage.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: IIFL Finance Ltd will be conservative in expanding its gold loan book in the next financial year starting 1 April, as founder Nirmal Jain flagged risks to its largest growth driver from evolving regulations after a sharp surge in the prices of the precious metal. “...this risk is real and gold prices can be volatile.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The guy who runs the kirana store in my colony has a wounded look about him because I don’t go there anymore. Things were not good between us even without that.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Supreme Court on Friday dashed banks' hopes of recovering money lent to bankrupt telecom operators such as Reliance Communications (RCom) and Aircel by ruling that airwaves cannot be sold under an insolvency process. Therefore, the future of the two operators and how UV Asset Reconstruction Co Ltd (UVARCL), the asset reconstruction company that had won the bids for them, will monetize them without selling the precious spectrum is now a gnawing question.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: The Indian equity benchmarks snapped their four-day winning streak on Thursday, as a sharp sell-off in the IT sector weighed heavily on sentiment. Nifty 50 declined 146.65 points, or 0.57%, to settle at 25,807.20, while Sensex shed 558.72 points, or 0.66%, to close at 83,674.92.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Alphabet just did something that, on the surface, sounds absolutely insane. The company behind Google sold bonds that won't mature until the year 2126.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The gemstone is a cool turquoise, not a ruby or emerald. The band in which it is set is only nine carats, the lowest concentration that can advertise itself as gold.