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19.02 / 06:43

markets economy Food trends country Updates International Data tools mustn’t get rusty: India must institutionalize regular statistical revisions

The first estimates of inflation based on the revised series of India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) were released last week. The new CPI series uses 2024 as the base year. Accordingly, inflation in January was 2.75% (the price index’s increase, i.e., over the same month of 2025), with rural inflation at 2.73% and urban at 2.77%.

18.02 / 10:13

UPS Fighting security War country testing Chaotic closure of a huge ISIS detention camp is testing Syria’s regime

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Syrian government is moving to close a detention camp that held tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected Islamic State fighters, after unrest threatened its grip on the facility just weeks after taking it over. Responsibility for the al-Hol detention camp changed hands in January, when the Syrian government launched an offensive that routed the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led militia that had controlled it along with much of northeastern Syria.

18.02 / 10:13

markets Manufacturing security economy Food Healthcare country The world needs jobs for a billion-plus people set to enter the workforce: Can we meet the challenge?

The world moves on different wavelengths. Some are high-frequency shocks—wars, emerging technologies, market panics—that spike quickly and dominate our attention. Others are low-frequency forces that move slowly but relentlessly: demographics, globalization, water and food scarcity.

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 / 08:41

UPS security economy War country Why the Gulf’s most powerful countries are at odds

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The language of diplomats is polite. That is especially true for those who speak Arabic, a tongue inclined towards courtesies and honorifics.

18.02 / 08:41

markets Provident Target Manufacturing Sustainability performer country Three micro-cap stocks with strong growth plans.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Microcaps are volatile. That’s a part of investing.

18.02 / 06:01

FIVE security Strategy Parke Cycling country rights Are Reits the right way to own top commercial real estate?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Real estate has long been a favoured asset for Indian investors, but owning commercial property comes with high entry barriers. Large upfront capital, long-tenure loans, tenant management, maintenance hassles and illiquidity make direct ownership cumbersome.

18.02 / 05:07

markets UPS Apple Trade country shock Trade liberalization to boost India’s farm exports, says Niti Aayog’s Ramesh Chand

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The trade deal being negotiated with the US is set to benefit India’s agriculture exports, the same way trade liberalization in the last 25 years has helped Indian farm exports grow faster than global agricultural trade, Ramesh Chand, member, Niti Aayog has said in an interview. Chand told Mint that the India-US deal is set to help meet rising domestic demand for items like edible oils and nuts that cannot be met entirely locally, while also opening up market for India’s surplus farm produce including rice.

18.02 / 02:25

markets Manufacturing security economy Trade show country India’s trade deal blitz: Why it's a strategic necessity despite uncertain gains

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Economics 101 tells us that free trade makes the world better off. Countries specialise in what they produce most efficiently and trade for the rest.

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 / 08:03

UPS Progressive security Mobile Align country innovations India’s climate progress may end up too haphazard without a coherent institutional framework

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s climate policy has entered a decisive phase. The country must sustain rapid economic growth while managing mounting climate risks that threaten infrastructure, agriculture, energy security and urban resilience.

17.02 / 05:57

markets FIVE economy NVIDIA Cycling country patient Next trillion dollars of India’s mcap could create more wealth than the last: Raamdeo Agrawal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Raamdeo Agrawal, co-founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, says the next trillion dollars of India’s market capitalization could create more wealth than the last. Drawing on decades of market cycles, the ace investor, speaking at the Mint Money Festival on 14 February in Mumbai, argued that compounding on a larger base, deeper participation and improving corporate profitability could make the coming decades disproportionately rewarding for patient investors.

17.02 / 02:35

UPS Digital economy wellness Healthcare country inclusion New Delhi’s AI Impact Summit should get more ambitious: Aim for substance beyond the spectacle

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Governments love global summits. They signal ambition, draw CEOs and leaders, and create the impression of shaping the future rather than chasing it.

17.02 / 00:57

UPS Digital Platform security country social Amazon lauds new labour codes, says to scale up India e-commerce exports

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Welcoming India’s new labour codes that have brought gig and platform workers under a formal social security framework, Amazon.com Inc. chief global affairs and legal officer David A.

16.02 / 08:39

markets UPS Action Enterprise Gartner country International Market for apps, funding pitches to precede policy declaration at AI summit

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s AI Impact Summit, which opened on Monday with a series of high-level industry dialogues, is expected to boost funding and global collaboration opportunities for the country’s private enterprises, shifting focus away from a potential policy consensus among participating nations.

16.02 / 06:03

Election country Mint Explainer | Bangladesh’s political transition and what it means for India

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bangladesh will have a new prime minister on Tuesday, with Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) set to take the oath in Dhaka. Senior foreign representatives will attend the ceremony, including Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from India.

16.02 / 02:05

UPS economy Food track country Updates India’s revised inflation gauge: Why we can look forward to superior policy outcomes

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s new consumer price index (CPI) series, released last week by the statistics ministry as part of a huge two-year long exercise to revise key macroeconomic variables, is a marked improvement over the one it has replaced. The CPI’s base year, methodology and coverage have been updated to better reflect what Indian households consume.

16.02 / 02:05

security President country Interviews Relationships peace US and Europe, no longer kindred souls, enter a marriage of convenience

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUNICH—Ask a European official who attended this weekend’s Munich Security Conference about the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship, and you’re likely to hear metaphors about dealing with a troubled, possibly abusive, spouse. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a less pugnacious message when compared with last year’s Munich conference.

16.02 / 01:11

Landmark economy Remark Trade country International Manmohan Singh’s calm amid din in Parliament

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last Thursday, when Rahul Gandhi was railing against the government, I was reminded of Manmohan Singh. Though the Lok Sabha chair scuttled Rahul’s allegations, let me elaborate on this scenario by illustrating incidents related to Singh.

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.

15.02 / 10:15

markets UPS Target Sustainability country rights International Silver’s price upshoot confirms a sustained solar panel boom even as the metal heads for oversupply

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Did we just pass peak solar? That’s the claim now circulating among many analysts. Hitting net zero will require 630GW of panels to be installed every year between 2030 and 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates.

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