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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : What was meant to be a quick and compliance-friendly boost for small businesses under the September goods and services (GST) recast has turned out to be a damp squib for some early adopters. Starting 1 November, the Centre introduced a special-category GST registration to simplify compliance for small businesses, allowing eligible taxpayers with monthly business-to-business (B2B) output GST below ₹2.5 lakh to opt for a fully electronic process through Rules 9A and 14A.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as we are engaged in protracted negotiations with the US to sew up a trade deal, India has gone ahead with much agility to sign several others. In recent months, New Delhi has concluded deals with Australia and the UAE, apart from a long-awaited pact with the UK, and announced progress on trade agreements with New Zealand and the EU.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s foreign exchange rules governing trade have long evolved through a patchwork of regulations, circulars and banking practices, especially as services exports expanded rapidly alongside goods trade. That structure has now been reset.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s equity benchmarks may be on the verge of a structural transition, even if the headline index remains frozen.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Netweb Technologies, the youngest of India’s technology companies to have gone public, is banking on sustained demand for homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) tools, platforms and applications to sustain strong growth over the next three to five years, a top company executive told Mint on Monday. In an interview, Sanjay Lodha, chairman and managing director of Netweb, said demand for AI “is far from facing a crash—in fact, in India, the conversations are just getting started." “We are seeing a lot of clients talk about AI spending, and it is only in the past few months that India has begun seriously spending on AI infrastructure and services," Lodha told Mint.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you had put all your savings into a few pallets of computer memory chips a year ago, you’d have at least doubled your money by now. And prices are projected to continue their meteoric rise.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you had put all your savings into a few pallets of computer memory chips a year ago, you’d have at least doubled your money by now. And prices are projected to continue their meteoric rise.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A toothbrush is just a toothbrush. At least that's been an indisputable truth since we first got to know toothbrushes centuries ago.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government has extended key export incentives to goods shipped through the postal route to bring them on par with cargo cleared through ports and airports, a move aimed at boosting e-commerce shipments and easing compliance for small exporters amid rising global trade uncertainty.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Foreign direct investment into Uttar Pradesh rose to ₹5,963 crore ($660 million) during the April-September period of FY26 as India’s third-largest state economy aspires to become a $1 trillion economy with key policy incentives for high-growth sectors, a top official said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Quick, tell me which gender has more natural affinity and skill in the following fields? Make-up. Sewing.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The price of copper—crucial for wiring, coils and cables—has surged nearly 60% over the past year, pushing up costs across appliances, electric vehicles and power infrastructure. Domestic copper futures on the Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) were trading at ₹1,281 per kg on 9 January.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government may roll out incentive packages worth up to ₹23,000 crore in the Union Budget 2026 to boost domestic manufacturing of high-value capital goods and reduce dependence on imports, according to an Economic Times report. The schemes are currently under preparation and could be announced in the upcoming budget.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Centre is considering a proposal to require wind and solar farms supplying power to the grid, along with standalone energy storage systems, to install battery storage systems featuring a minimum level of domestic components, three people familiar with the discussions said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) reversed the four-month selling streak in December, turning net buyers of Indian consumer durable stocks with purchases worth $438 million. “This reversal may mark the beginning of a more substantial reallocation of global funds towards Indian domestic themes," said Vipul Bhowar, senior director and head of equities, Waterfield Advisors.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s auto sector entered 2026 with strong momentum, building on a solid 2025. According to industry data, auto retail sales reached 28.16 million units in 2025, a 7.7% year-on-year growth.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It would appear that we are still in the era of extraordinary mobile-phone videos. The latest among them is footage taken by a bystander in Minneapolis as hooded officers of America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has acquired the chilling acronym ICE, raided a locality looking for illegal immigrants.

the DPIIT’s plan, announced on 8 December, for standard AI royalties won’t work because it is difficult to separate commercial AI use from the very early stages, where it might have been a non-profit or research project.Industry body Nasscom, which represented technology companies within DPIIT’s working panel on the AI copyright royalty proposal, published a ‘dissent note’ against the framework on 17 December.“Individual creators, especially small and specialized ones, would no longer decide whether their work is used for training, and would lose the possibility of earning a right to negotiate the terms of any deal,” the note said. “In practice, what creators receive would depend on how the central body and collective management organizations are governed, how registration with them would work, and whether their distribution rules would recognize niche, regional and emerging work,” it added.The government, however, believes that while challenges raised by the technology industry will be taken into account, regulating the usage of copyrighted data in AI models is necessary.“Concerns of plagiarism have existed for a long time, and copyright is recognized as a form of intellectual property in order to encourage creativity.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolled by, Mint's reporters and columnists looked around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] Delhi: India Inc’s push from low-value, high-volume electronics assemblies to designing and selling high-margin electronics components is expected to pick up pace this year.

artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and electronics to solar power equipment, medical devices and defence systems.China’s dominance in the silver market does not stem from mining strength but from its overwhelming control over refining. According to the London Bullion Market Association’s (LBMA) list of accredited refiners for global over-the-counter trading, China hosts 27 silver refineries, followed by Japan with 13.

Grok operates within a global ecosystem. Compliance requires localization for Indian regulations without disrupting global operations.AI-generated content can deliver benefits, such as simulations for factories or product design, but in the wrong hands, it raises serious concerns. Addressing misuse, therefore, requires a combination of technical, organizational, and regulatory guardrails, not a single fix.More powerful AI models are likely to amplify risks.