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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) law, notified on Tuesday, may set Big Tech scrambling to put in place adequate content moderation teams after New Delhi drastically shortened timelines for taking down deepfake posts with nudity, defamatory and other illicit content. The Centre has maintained that most technology firms are well-equipped to automate scanning and curb harmful content online.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The conclusion of negotiations over the India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) shows that agriculture is no longer a deal-breaker. Both sides carefully manoeuvred around each other’s domestic sensitivities while offering tariff reductions to enhance market access.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : India’s scale and growth, combined with increasingly sophisticated capital markets, have helped Warburg Pincus’s India franchise to become the firm’s largest investment destination outside US, senior executives said at a media roundtable in Mumbai on Wednesday. “India is the largest private equity destination for us outside the US.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Going into the Union Budget 2026-27, expectations from the automobile sector were decidedly high. While the budget was not hostile towards the sector, it was not ambitious either.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : The free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) promises preferential treatment for Indian industries under the bloc’s carbon tax mechanism, potentially opening up export opportunities for domestic steelmakers, which remain largely focused on the local market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As ‘thank God it’s Friday’s resounds across offices, Stephen Fernandes is packing away his laptop after a long day. His day as a DevOps engineer may be done, but his day as a sound engineer is only getting started as he heads into sound check and rehearsals for a local band in Mumbai.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Union Budget may promote adventure tourism as a new source of revenue for states, aiming to formalize the segment. Also, the budget is likely to announce schemes worth ₹500 crore to promote tourism, according to two government officials aware of the development.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India needs long-term, step-by-step ecosystem-building, alongside sustained investment in research and development (R&D), to achieve semiconductor capabilities, essential for a major global economy given silicon chips’ role in the information age, according to economist and NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tariff-induced uncertainty notwithstanding, global CEOs seem to be taking a more upbeat view of India’s economy. This is apparent from PwC’s Annual Global CEO Survey.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Global mining is entering a phase where growth is no longer just about volume, but about access, reliability, and control. However, geopolitical tensions, tariff wars, and shifting trade policies are reshaping global supply chains, underscoring the need for resource security.

planning to soften its stance on e-commerce rules for exports, as it considers allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in inventory-based e-commerce models, but only for export purposes. India has about 165,000 post offices, including over 149,000 in rural areas and around 15,000 in urban centres.Currently, India’s FDI rules do not allow foreign-funded e-commerce companies to operate an inventory-based model, under which they own the goods sold on their platforms.

The Asian Drama, Gunnar Myrdal introduced the concept of the ‘soft state.’ He was really writing about South Asia, especially India, with barely any mention of the ‘miracle economies’ of East Asia.He characterized the Indian state as a ‘soft state,’ implying a government with limited capacity, unable to unwind a gridlock of competing interests that sucked up and dissipated scarce resources. This pre-empted the high growth necessary for reducing widespread poverty.India is now a fast-growing economy and poverty is much reduced, but regulatory failure to clean up the air in Delhi under successive governments suggests that the ‘soft state’ still prevails.Of late, the soft state has also been very visible in the awful tragedy in Arpora, Goa, where a fire at an unauthorized night club, Birch by Romeo Lane, killed 21 persons.

Japanese businesses are pivoting towards India as an investment destination promising robust returns—but also, how Tokyo, after over three decades of diplomatic efforts, is ready to walk the talk on deepening strategic relationships with New Delhi as both countries want to develop a meaningful counter to China’s might.For India’s financial sector, the deals in 2025 mark a moment worth noting. Foreign investors are returning with conviction, and Japan—long a steady but cautious partner—appears increasingly willing to deploy serious capital.It is a striking contrast to the dismissive description of India as a “dead economy” offered earlier this year by US President Donald Trump.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As a hectic year of deal-making in banking and financial services rolls to a close, experts are predicting that the mergers and acquisitions in 2026 will see mid-sized lenders and foreign capital taking centre-stage. Friday saw the biggest deal of the year – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pouring nearly ₹40,000 crore into Shriram Finance, India's second largest non-banking finance company, for a 20% stake – in the sector highlighting how India has emerged as a magnet for global capital chasing lenders.

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.