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Owning property is a big step toward financial independence for women. It provides status in society and an economic foundation.“It is security for life, and it's their right,” said Gautam Khurana, managing partner & founder, India Law Offices LLP in Delhi.However, land ownership by women in India remains abysmal. Only 18.7% of women between the ages 15 and 49 own a house by themselves, while 13.7% own it jointly with someone else, according to World Bank data.Historically, daughters are often excluded from property distribution after a father’s death.

New Delhi: Industry stakeholders and policy experts have reacted with scepticism over Karnataka’s proposal to ban social media use for youngsters under 16 years of age, questioning both the legality and the practicality of enforcing such a restriction in one state of India.Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah unveiled the proposal along with the state’s budget for FY27 on Friday, but did not share details.Lawyers and policymakers Mint spoke with said such a state-level demographic-specific ban could require intrusive age-verification systems and may be impractical, since many children access social media through adults’ devices and accounts.Further, such a ban may also clash with the Centre’s data-privacy framework, and go against the principles of minimal data sharing put forth in the Digital Personal Data Privacy (DPDP) Act that was notified last year.“Governments considering bans should be careful not to push teens toward less safe, unregulated sites, or logged-out experiences that bypass important protections—like the default safeguards we offer in Instagram’s ‘teen accounts’,” a spokesperson for Meta Platforms Inc said in response to Mint’s queries.“We’ll comply with social media bans where they are enforced, but with teens using nearly 40 apps every week, targeting a handful of companies won’t keep them safe.

private equity—rush in to participate.The outcome is predictable. New supply emerges. Competition intensifies.

Sebi eight years, but it got there.The portfolio overlap restriction on sectoral and thematic funds is equally welcome. No sectoral or thematic fund can now have more than 50% overlap with other equity schemes, computed quarterly from daily values. Existing schemes get three years to comply or merge.This addresses a growing problem: thematic funds barely distinguishable from diversified ones.

Sun Pharma, said that the industry has been taking tentative steps towards innovation. “People are making investments to create capacity within their organization to manage innovation, so that at a certain point of time, we can become an equally important player globally in terms of innovative products,” he said.“But I still don't see innovation at scale…We are very tentative in terms of that investment,” he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. JSW Infrastructure Ltd’s management has approved equity fund raising of up to 250 million shares on Friday, which is almost equal to its initial public offering (IPO) size in terms of number of shares. A qualified institutional placement (QIP) is likely to be the preferred mode for raising funds.

Three recent orders of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) mark an inflection point in Indian securities law. Individually, they address disclosure lapses, alleged accounting manipulation, fraud under Sebi’s Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market (PFUTP) Regulations, initial public offering (IPO) fund utilization and interim relief. Collectively, they pose a larger question: What model of corporate governance enforcement is India converging towards—the letter of the law, substantive transparency or calibrated market pragmatism?The first ruling, in the Varun Beverages case, sharpens the meaning of disclosure.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The venue was the National Stock Exchange. The agenda: investments, markets and wealth creation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As developments in artificial intelligence (AI) unsettle shares of traditional technology firms, investors await clarity on the final contours of the India-US trade deal and the risk of a US-Iran conflict rises, options sellers have initiated trades that point to continued market volatility this week, market experts said. In the last trading session on Friday, their strategy consisted of selling more Nifty call options expiring on Tuesday, in anticipation of corrective to flat markets, which would enable them to retain the premia paid by the call buyers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s business-as-usual budget for 2026-27, presented on 1 February, was followed less than a week later by an equally pragmatic monetary policy decision, Friday last. In one of the shortest monetary policy announcements to date (just 27 minutes), Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) governor Sanjay Malhotra announced the unanimous decision of its rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to keep the repo rate unchanged and maintain status quo on the stance as well (albeit by a 5:1 majority).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the market digests another AI scare, we would suggest staying out of the fight. Other sectors and companies are proving resilient while tech sells off; stick with stocks toughing it out until the tech dust settles.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his government is willing to engage with the Trump administration as the Communist island braces for severe fuel shortages after the U.S. threatened to impose trade sanctions to countries shipping oil to the Communist island.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is planning to make it easier to discipline—and potentially fire—career officials in senior positions across the government, a move that would affect roughly 50,000 federal workers. The U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The U.S. formally ended its membership in the World Health Organization last month, a move President Trump set in motion immediately on taking office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve, and on Fed Chair Jerome Powell in particular, will likely lead to higher inflation. That’s the implication of a new study into the impact of presidential pressure on the Fed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A few weeks ago, a conversation with an investor left me both amused and slightly alarmed. He had a couple of crores from a property sale sitting idle in a savings account.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd’s shares fell on Wednesday, despite the sharp acceleration in its gross domestic premium income (GDPI) growth rate to 13.3% in the December quarter (Q3FY26).

Mint.The lender, which had 454,608 prepaid cards as of November, plans to add 100,000 prepaid cards—both domestic and foreign—every year, said the document inviting external agencies to submit their bids.The state-run lender also had an active card rate of 25%, or 112,801 cards, higher than the banking industry average of 18%, as of November, according to data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). An active card is defined as one that has been used for at least one financial transaction in the past year.The bank also has 1.1 million, including 994,062 active, wallets.“The purpose of the RFP (request for proposal) is to seek a detailed technical and commercial proposal for (an) end-to-end prepaid card management module…” the bank said in the document.The project includes issuing rupee prepaid cards, foreign currency prepaid cards (single or multi-currency with a minimum of 12 currency wallets), and national common mobility cards.

Mumbai: Top investment bankers are likely licking their chops at the prospect of lucrative bonuses, after 2025 delivered record fees on the back of buoyant equity capital markets (ECM) and hectic private-market dealmaking.Data from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) shows that investment banking fees for 2025 totalled $1.5 billion, of which $651.8 million came from equity deals, $391.3 million from M&A deals, $232.5 million from bond deals, and $227 million from loan syndications.Comparatively, investment banking fees in the previous two years were $1.36 billion (in 2024) and $1.33 billion (2023). In 2024, bonus payouts to investment bankers were an estimated ₹1,000 crore, according to industry experts and headhunters.The bonuses for 2025 deals are expected to be higher.

My father’s father, my Dada, was born in Sarangarh and lived out his life there. Sarangarh was one of the least consequential of over 550 ‘princely states’ when the British left in 1947, and yet it was one of those that wanted to be independent. To negotiate with Sardar Patel the terms of equal coexistence with India, a three-member delegation was sent by the King of Sarangarh to Delhi that year.

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