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20.02 / 01:39

markets COST wellness Diversity volunteers sanitizer Updates Mint Quick Edit | New Delhi AI Commitments: The case for eternal vigilance doesn’t diminish

How well we manage depends on what we know. While artificial intelligence (AI) can’t claim omniscience, it could improve governance. Outcomes of the AI Impact Summit include the New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments, under which AI majors have volunteered to serve two public causes.

19.02 / 15:55

markets COST CEO Software performer country AI costs are dropping fast—and India stands to gain: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The cost of deploying and running artificial intelligence (AI) applications is falling at an exponential pace, potentially making AI tools affordable at scale across India sooner than expected, according to Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI, one of the world’s most valuable startups. Altman also dismissed the idea that companies like his would “kill" software and technology services firms, even as AI automates large parts of their core work.

19.02 / 11:45

COST UPS Manufacturing Food Research Nano reports Invisible hunger: How depleted soils are emptying the nutrients in our food

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: A few years back, a fertilizer manufacturer from India carried out an internal survey of farmers in the 40+ age group. A stark finding was that most farmers felt they were not going to bequeath a worthy asset, the plot of land on which they farm, to the next generation.

19.02 / 08:15

COST Provident Merit security Sustainability Enterprise Torrent Power valuation is pricey, but Nabha deal to fuel growth

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Torrent Power Ltd continues to scale its coal-based portfolio. The recent acquisition of Nabha Power Ltd, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd, comes at a time when other power producers are also increasing their coal-based capacities to meet rising electricity demand.

18.02 / 10:13

COST Provident BAY Research Cycling performer Is Hindalco’s Q3 stumble a one-off hit or a sign the aluminium cycle is cooling?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hindalco Industries Ltd stock is down 7% since the company announced its December-quarter (Q3FY26) results. The oft-cited reason for this is the two fires at subsidiary Novelis’s Oswego plant in September and November 2025, which disrupted operations.

18.02 / 10:13

markets COST Target security Research Cycling reports RBI rate cuts have failed to ease bond yields. Liquidity tools may be next

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India may have delivered a cumulative 125-basis-point cut in the repo rate since February 2025, but financial conditions have failed to ease in ways typically associated with monetary loosening. With the rate-cut cycle now widely expected to pause, the central bank is likely to rely increasingly on liquidity measures to ease conditions instead, economists said.

18.02 / 08:41

COST Extreme economy Sustainability Research community country As 2°C warming stares at us, India must invest in climate adaptation to shield its economy

Human societies have long found ingenious ways to cope with extreme weather; and India is no exception. The ancient Kallanai dam in southern India, for example, built to divert the Kaveri River for irrigation, sustained fertile delta farming for centuries.

18.02 / 07:31

COST Platform Sustainability awards Highways trends Traffic Mint Explainer | Why fund houses and private equity firms are eyeing greenfield BOT highway projects again

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Reworked concession terms, stronger traffic growth and falling yields on operational assets are nudging long-term capital back toward construction-linked road bets. After staying away from construction-risk projects for almost a decade, fund houses and private equity firms are re-evaluating greenfield build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects in India.

18.02 / 02:25

COST FIVE Chevron wellness President rock Resilient US oil production is a boon to Trump. How long will it last?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas—Perched in the control room of a Chevron rig, an operator steered a drilling bit thousands of feet under the arid surface of the Permian Basin. As he did so, he received real-time directions from a specialist in Houston, some 477 miles away.

18.02 / 00:53

COST CEO Platform Action wellness film Actor Algorithm action: AI platforms disrupt silver screen at India AI Film Festival

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The traditional red carpet at the India AI Film Festival and the AI Impact Summit this week had a distinctively digital sheen. Amidst the usual chatter of cinematography and casting, a new breed of exhibitors, AI platform developers, are spending the week pitching a radical proposition to India’s creative core: the end of the ‘producer hunt’.

18.02 / 00:53

markets COST Strategy Mobile Research Commentary Bhavish Aggarwal’s flip-flops raise questions about Ola Electric’s future

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Ola Electric Mobility Ltd’s ever-changing commentary on every aspect of the business has left industry observers and analysts questioning the company’s future.

17.02 / 11:47

markets COST UPS security Trade country Prop brokers' index options market share surges in FY26

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Proprietary traders, whose cost of capital is set to rise sharply under the banking regulator's new funding directives on capital market exposure, posted a significant increase in market share in the popular index options space. Their gross market share based on premium turnover jumped by 230 basis points (bps) year-on-year to 49.5% in the nine months through 2025-26, according to data sourced from the country's largest stock exchange, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE).

17.02 / 11:41

COST UPS Sustainability exclusive testing India's bankruptcy process set for major revamp: IBBI wants commercial prudence, more transparency

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The viability of businesses entering bankruptcy proceedings should be tested in the first month before they’re allowed to operate as going concerns, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed in a set of new draft regulations.

17.02 / 08:51

markets COST UPS Gap security Shree Cement’s other troubles outweigh its green flags

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shree Cement Ltd’s share of green power in total electricity consumption at 60% in the December quarter (Q3FY26) was among the highest in the industry. The reading for rivals UltraTech Cement, Ambuja Cements, and ACC was 42.1%, 36.9%, and 31.3%, respectively.

17.02 / 06:53

markets COST UPS Booking security Trade Experts Mint Explainer: Can commercial papers rescue brokers from RBI’s latest leverage squeeze?

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.

17.02 / 01:15

COST UPS Digital electronic Schools The break is over. Companies are jacking up prices again.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Companies from Levi Strauss & Co. to McCormick & Co., among others, say they are raising prices early this year on items from bluejeans and spices to housewares and industrial products.

17.02 / 00:57

COST UPS Target Digital Booking Interviews IIFL Finance won't go all-out on gold loans next fiscal

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.

16.02 / 16:11

markets COST Racing Netflix Netflix’s Warner Bros. deal us under fire. Why the odds are shifting in Paramount’s favor.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Netflix and Paramount Skydance have both sweetened their offers for Warner Discovery Bros. over the past month.

16.02 / 14:39

COST Progressive security wellness electronic reports testing One year, 12 startups: India AI Mission faces its first real test

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s AI Impact Summit 2026 is emerging as an early gauge of whether the country’s state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startups can demonstrate meaningful progress in a rapidly shifting global AI landscape, as companies backed under the government’s India AI Mission prepare to showcase their models this week.

16.02 / 02:05

markets COST Analysis stage cover rights Mint Quick Edit | Artifice of intelligence? The big questions we can’t expect Big AI tools to answer

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The confidence with which artificial intelligence (AI) can eye human jobs has taken a leap, thanks to the rise of AI agents.

16.02 / 02:05

COST students Universities Schools Colleges International Destinations College can break the bank. More Americans are going far away.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. American students are increasingly looking to Europe to go to college. Attending university in the U.S.

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