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16.02 / 02:05

COST BLOCK TikTok Instagram Photos travelers Influencers make money posting about their lives. The taxes can get messy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nadya Okamoto is getting married this summer and wasn’t sure if she could write off the cost of a professional photographer. The 28-year-old earns most of her income posting about her life on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, and plans to post photos of the ceremony online.

16.02 / 01:11

markets COST UPS Digital security Research country Mint Primer | Why is there the hype around AI summit in India?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s big-ticket push for global prominence in artificial intelligence begins on 16 February. The AI Impact Summit has driven hotel prices higher across New Delhi, and attendance rates for global heads of state match those seen when India hosted the G20 summit in 2023.

16.02 / 01:11

COST Digital Aware CEO film Experts social Is budget push to develop animation, VFX, gaming talent in AI era pragmatic?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the government allocated funds to develop talent in the animation, visual effects, gaming, and comics (AVGC) ecosystem in the country, experts say the sector faces serious disruption from artificial intelligence, which may shrink job opportunities in some of these categories. In the organized sector, including feature films and OTT series, the impact will be incremental but irreversible as AI will increasingly be embedded into pipelines to reduce turnaround time, manage costs, and optimize post-production, particularly in VFX-heavy projects, according to experts.

16.02 / 01:11

COST Provident Analysis trends Trade show Updates In a shift, lenders begin to dominate initiation of bankruptcy cases

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Financial creditors are now leading the charge at bankruptcy tribunals, overtaking the vendors and service providers who once dominated filings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The shift marks a turning point in how the law is being used: less as a pressure tactic for recovering trade dues and more as a lender-driven restructuring framework.

15.02 / 13:17

COST UPS Citi SpaceX War blues Bezos vs. Musk: The new billionaire battle for the Moon

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The contest between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is only going to get more heated now that the two are directly competing for the moon. After years of charting a path to Mars, Musk surprisingly announced this past week that SpaceX is pivoting to the moon, where he wants to build a “self-growing city." That puts him in the same space camp as rival Bezos, who has bet that focusing on the moon would give his rocket company, Blue Origin, an advantage.

15.02 / 10:15

COST Progressive Aware Enterprise wellness Experts innovations No DeepSeek-like splash: India will showcase small AI, early startups at Summit starting tomorrow

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Despite global attention, India’s artificial intelligence (AI) startups and policymakers do not expect a “DeepSeek moment" to emerge from New Delhi’s weeklong AI gala beginning tomorrow.

15.02 / 10:15

markets COST UPS economy President show reports The economy may have stuck the soft landing. Nobody wants to jinx it.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The vital signs of the American economy are pointing in the same, favorable direction more convincingly than at any point since before the pandemic. Inflation is falling.

14.02 / 05:53

markets COST UPS FIVE Manufacturing CEO wellness America fell out of love with the sedan. Detroit wants to bring it back.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From tail-finned land yachts of the 1960s to hulking family haulers in the 1980s and then the 1990s bestseller Ford Taurus, driving for Americans meant driving a sedan. Then SUVs and trucks won over drivers’ hearts and garages.

14.02 / 01:59

COST Manufacturing Election Trade President reports Trump’s team considers overhaul to steel and aluminum tariffs

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Trump administration is considering an overhaul of steel and aluminum tariffs that is in part likely to reduce levies on many consumer goods, according to people familiar with the administration’s plans. The U.S.

14.02 / 01:59

COST UPS Trade track country Saudi Arabia India’s top oil supplier in Feb as Russian flows recede after US trade deal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Saudi Arabia has surpassed Russia as India’s top oil supplier so far this month after a price cut, signalling New Delhi’s effort to reduce imports from Moscow after its trade pact with the US. Saudi Arabia shipped 1.13 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first 10 days of February compared to 1.09 million bpd by Russia, according to data from global ship tracking firm Kpler.

14.02 / 01:59

COST UPS Target security Discover track country Railways on a green track—eyes 3GW renewable energy for ₹18k crore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: In what will rank among the largest green energy tenders in the country, the Indian Railways plans to invite bids for 3 gigawatt (GW) renewable energy projects worth ₹18,000 crore in the next fiscal, according to two government officials aware of the development. The move is a part of the behemoth's playbook to become a net zero carbon emitter by 2030 while also significantly slashing its fuel costs.

14.02 / 00:15

markets COST UPS CEO Food country reports Over with GST transition pain, FMCG cos now eye a long-term recovery

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector majors faced a challenging quarter with the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) rate cuts and the country's new labour codes being the key levers controlling the outcomes. GST 2.0 was expected to boost consumption, as consumers waited for price cuts to kick in from September.

13.02 / 13:41

markets COST UPS Manufacturing Platform reports Mint Explainer: Can AI robots fix manufacturing’s toughest automation problems?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 12 February, deeptech robotics company Cyn:Lr launched its Object Intelligence platform, which allows its robots to pick up, manipulate and work with objects without previously being trained on data. The startup said its robotic arms are already being used in places and tasks where traditional automation has proved difficult, requiring manual labour.

13.02 / 13:41

markets COST UPS Provident Aware PSU banks eye infra bond issuances, await softer yields

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : State-run lenders, including Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of Maharashtra and Bank of India, are preparing to tap the debt market through infrastructure bonds in early March, but are holding off the issuances as they wait for borrowing costs to ease, three debt merchant bankers aware of the discussions told Mint.

13.02 / 10:37

COST Entertainment Sustainability Trade performer electronic reports LG Electronics India investors look past weak quarter, bet on recovery

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of LG Electronics India Ltd (LGE India) traded around 3% higher on Friday, recovering losses from the previous session following weak December-quarter (Q3FY26) performance, where both revenue and profit fell short of expectations. Investors appear to be taking a longer-term view, encouraged by management’s relatively upbeat outlook.

13.02 / 09:17

markets COST UPS Food show country fencing America’s cattle crisis: A shrinking herd, soaring beef prices, and little relief in sight

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s late morning in Central Texas Hill Country, and a Black Baldy is prodded into a small auditorium of Western hats and dusty ball caps. Her dark coat and stark white face is typical of this cow breed known for easy calving and attentive mothering.

13.02 / 05:05

markets COST security Research Trade Experts stage Dalal Street rallies on trade relief, but investors still cautious: Mint survey

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Just as nerves were fraying, a breakthrough in US-India trade negotiations offered domestic markets much-needed succour. Against this backdrop, Mint’s sixth quarterly market survey, conducted between 5 and 11 February, captured the precise moment when investor sentiment began to pivot.

13.02 / 04:13

COST Apple DELL Nintendo Xiaomi electronic A memory-chip shortage is squeezing consumer tech—and it's set to get worse

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Facing soaring memory-chip prices, the world’s biggest electronics companies are staring at a list of unpalatable responses: charging consumers more, eating the costs or rejiggering product specs. Such is the supply-chain disruption wrought by the global drive into artificial intelligence, which requires fleets of data centers with servers needing gargantuan amounts of memory.

13.02 / 01:17

COST Target Manufacturing stage recommendations International Stricter emission rules may be delayed for 25–75 hp tractors after industry push

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in the advanced stages of finalising the next phase of emission norms for tractors and may delay the rollout of the stricter rules for models in the 25–75 horsepower (hp) range, following lobbying by manufacturers who have argued that tighter standards could raise compliance costs and make these machines more expensive for small farmers, two industry executives aware of the matter said. Faridabad-based Escorts Kubota chief financial officer Bharat Madan told Mint that the industry has held meetings with the Union ministry of agriculture, and final recommendations have been submitted to the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH).

13.02 / 01:17

COST Provident security Analysis Bill social reports India’s top firms suffer a ₹12,000 crore labour code blow in Q3

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) last month disclosed a ₹2,100 crore-plus profit hit from the new labour codes, that was only the beginning. Of India’s top 30 companies, 25 that have reported the impact of the amended labour regime suffered a nearly ₹12,000-crore blow to their December quarter profits, a Mint analysis showed.

12.02 / 15:09

COST UPS Booking Google security Motorola rights Why does Google need to borrow money for 100 years?

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.

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