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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is shaping up to be another difficult year for India’s tourism industry. Foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) have struggled in the first nine months of the year and may once again fall short of pre-pandemic levels.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equity benchmarks extended their decline for a second straight session on Tuesday, driven by persistent selling pressure from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and weak global market cues.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Listed bonds in India are poised to claw back market share from unlisted issuances as participation from domestic mutual funds and global investors pushes companies towards more transparent mechanisms of fund raising. Market participants expect more bonds to be listed on Indian exchanges in 2026 and beyond.

India has approached the World Trade Organization (WTO) for consultations with the European Union (EU) as the bloc’s proposed tariffs and quotas on ferro-alloy imports deepen worries about global trade uncertainty when the two parties are negotiating a free-trade pact.India has a substantial trade interest in the products concerned and has invoked provisions of the Agreement on Safeguards to seek consultations with the EU, according to the WTO document reviewed by Mint.The EU issued a notification last month, proposing a safeguard duty after claiming serious injury or threat to its domestic ferro-alloy industry due to rising imports.The EU imported iron and steel products worth about $4.25 billion from India in 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database. Ferro-alloys such as silico-manganese, ferro-manganese and ferro-silicon, which are essential inputs for steelmaking in Europe, accounted for about $381 million.While total Indian exports to the EU in the category may be small, the EU’s move increases uncertainty even as the two sides are engaged in talks for a free-trade pact.

₹5,000 crore into three loss-making and financially weak public sector general insurers—United India Insurance Co. (UIIC), National Insurance Co.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India Inc. is expected to roll out an average increment of 8.5-9.5% in the upcoming appraisal cycle, as companies calculate the impact of the new labour code and almost-stagnant inflation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial intelligence might turn the world’s most valuable private company into one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies in 2026. This, of course, is about Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, which he believes can become an AI player after essentially inventing the modern space business and creating the first killer space application, satellite broadband, enabled by lower launch costs.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai: It isn’t every day that you come across companies declaring with some ferocity that they are second best. That kind of intensity is usually reserved in the battle for the top spot.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India’s leading auto component manufacturers will look to hitch a ride with Chinese carmakers amid Western auto giants’ faltering electric-vehicle (EV) bets. The Ford Motor Co.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are selling their produce to mills in neighbouring Haryana, attracted by the latter’s higher state advised price (SAP).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: A few months ago, Rupali Singh, a sales professional in Gurugram, placed a routine order for some staples on e-commerce platform CityMall. She was aware that the deliveries were sometimes late, but that was tolerable as long as the prices were good.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The rupee slipping past the ₹90 mark against the US dollar may sound like a problem mainly for travellers heading to the United States. But the reality is broader—and more expensive.

It was a far better thing that Google did than it had ever done. So might future historians write of the moment this tech behemoth, long criticized for a lack of singular focus, quietly ignited two existential contests to reshape the tech landscape in 2026 and beyond.These are the Two Races of 2026, officially declared not by proclamation, but by two ‘firebombs’ thrown by Google. They target two tech giants that appeared almost unassailable till recently: the king of frontier AI models and the monarch of AI hardware.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, India’s telecom regulator proposed cutting the charges operators pay to use a set of airwaves known as microwave spectrum. These airwaves are not used by consumers directly.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A list of reasons to be bullish laid out succinctly in a weekly Bank of America report suggests stocks are likely to extend their record run well into the coming year. The president’s economic plans have a lot to do with it.

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 a weakening rupee was casting a shadow on bullish sentiments.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Ltd (AMNS India) has set an ambitious expansion roadmap for the rest of the decade, targeting 25-26 million tonnes of steelmaking capacity by 2030, its chief executive Dilip Oommen said in an interview. “By 2030, we will have at least 25-26 million tonnes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON : President Trump conveyed uncertainty about whether Republicans would maintain control of the House in next year’s midterm elections because some of his economic policies have yet to take full effect. During an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday in the Oval Office, the president touted his efforts to secure multibillion-dollar investments in the U.S., arguing that the money will help transform the American economy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s tough to go back to school in your 40s. But with layoffs, stagnant pay and inroads by artificial intelligence, many of those nearing midlife are heading back to classrooms and trade schools.

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.

The feeble outcomes of this year’s UN climate summit, CoP-30, held at Belém in Brazil were a reflection of today’s geopolitical realities. The US does not recognize the threat of global warming, while several other large economies like Russia, China and India are in no mood to embark on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.