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21.01 / 09:39

COST Citi FIVE Metro country Traffic Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. FOR SEVEN decades Tokyo was considered the world’s most populous city. That was 15 years too long, according to data released last month by the UN.

20.01 / 09:39

markets UPS FIVE CEO Trade reports CEO rallies evaporate in a flash as investors punish Wipro and LTIMindtree amid IT slump

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In less than two trading sessions, investors of Wipro Ltd have wiped out almost 90% of the stock’s gains since its new chief executive Srinivas Pallia took over in April 2024. Over the same period, shares of LTIMindtree have lost over 25% of their gains since CEO Venu Lambu took over at the end of May 2025.

20.01 / 05:51

markets COST FIVE CEO PepsiCo 2020 strain Tailoring a turnaround: Satyaki Ghosh takes the helm at a struggling Raymond

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Raymond Lifestyle is turning to fresh leadership to navigate a darkening retail landscape, appointing Satyaki Ghosh as CEO—the fourth executive to hold the mantle in just five years. Ghosh, who most recently led Grasim Industries’ Cellulosic Fashion Yarn division, takes over the branded apparel company with immediate effect, bringing a resume that includes stints at L’Oreal, Spencer’s Retail, and PepsiCo.

20.01 / 02:33

markets FIVE Software Enterprise trends reports International After Q3 beats, is Indian IT turning the corner?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: India’s IT bellwethers may have beaten Street expectations in the December quarter (Q3FY26), but the relief looks fleeting. Even as earnings surprises lifted sentiment in the October-December period, four of India’s five largest IT services companies are now heading into the final quarter of FY26 (January-March) with weaker full-year trajectories than last year, underscoring how weak demand visibility remains for the country’s biggest software exporters.

20.01 / 00:37

markets IPO FIVE Research performer electronic inclusion ‘Nifty 50 set to stay unchanged but newbies to drive churn across broader indices’

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.

20.01 / 00:37

Provident FIVE Manufacturing security Sustainability Enterprise reports Centre weighs scaling up MSME Champions Scheme outlay ninefold to ₹10,000 crore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Centre is planning a steep increase in the financial outlay of its MSME Champions Scheme to around ₹10,000 crore for the next five years, according to two officials aware of the development, amid efforts to push cleaner manufacturing, exports, and global competitiveness among small businesses.

20.01 / 00:37

Provident FIVE Platform Sustainability Bill electronic reports Far from crash, talk on AI ‘just getting started’ in India: Netweb CMD

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.

19.01 / 09:59

markets FIVE Apple Tesla NVIDIA Trade band Meta Platforms The magnificent seven drove markets. Now they’re pulling in different directions

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Magnificent Seven is now the Mag Five. Or is it the Fab Four? Investors are no longer grouping the market’s big tech stocks together in quite the same way.

19.01 / 00:31

markets UPS Provident FIVE Digital security performer How HCLTech defied the gravity of India's four-year IT slump

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HCL Technologies Ltd has emerged as the sole bright spark in a four-year sombre stretch for India’s information technology (IT) investors, leveraging a stable leadership and an early pivot toward artificial intelligence (AI) to outpace its Big Five peers. While the broader IT sector grappled with a post-pandemic hangover and the growing threat of automation, Noida-based HCLTech has delivered a 29% return since early 2022.

18.01 / 08:59

markets FIVE Manufacturing Healthcare Ozon reports testing Xponentia-backed Medsource Ozone hires EY to explore funding options

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Faridabad-based Medsource Ozone Biomedicals, an in-vitro diagnostics instruments and reagents manufacturer, has hired the Big 4 audit firm Ernst & Young as an advisor to explore capital-raising options to fund its expansion, said two people familiar with the matter. “The company may look to raise about ₹300-400 crore, and the promoters may liquidate some stake for the incoming investor," one of the people cited above said.

18.01 / 07:47

markets FIVE Mobile Remark Hyundai Experts Features Hyundai, Vinfast lead the charge as cabs become the new battleground for carmakers; Maruti sits pretty at top

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: A near-three-fold growth in passenger vehicle registrations as taxis in four years is set to intensify competition among India's carmakers in the fast growing segment. According to the government's Vahan portal data, vehicles registered for the taxi segment stood at around 312,665 in calendar year 2025, a growth of 9% from the year-ago period.

17.01 / 13:45

FIVE BLOCK FLEX Xi’s enforcers punished nearly a million in 2025—and China’s leader wants more

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has directed relentless purges to assert a degree of autocratic control unseen in China in decades, with Communist Party enforcers punishing nearly a million people last year.

17.01 / 01:45

UPS Target FIVE Food reports Department The week in charts: Mixed IT earnings, rising inflation, climate crisis

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From India’s IT majors reporting mixed quarterly results to retail inflation climbing back after narrowing food deflation, the US tariff threats casting uncertainty over India’s Chabahar Port investments, and 2025 ranking among the three warmest years on record—here's a compilation of this week's news in numbers. India’s top IT services companies delivered mixed performance in the third quarter of FY26, with revenue growth outpacing net profits as the sector grappled with the impact of new labour codes.

17.01 / 01:45

COST Provident FIVE Software information Indian IT’s Big Five face $500 million labour code hit to profitability

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s new labour codes eroded the profits of India’s five largest information technology (IT) services companies in the December quarter as they recorded ₹4,645 crore ($500 million) in upfront costs as higher contributions to employees' retirement benefits. The country’s largest software services provider Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) incurred incremental costs of $238 million, while second-placed Infosys Ltd disclosed a $143 million impact, according to their quarterly earnings disclosures.

17.01 / 01:45

FIVE Google Gemini Enterprise Bill information Features AI Tool of the Week: Gmail's new tool ends email overload

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Email overload has always slowed down workplace, personal productivity. Consider these examples: You're hunting for the plumber's quote from last year, buried in hundreds of emails.

16.01 / 16:43

markets UPS Provident FIVE CEO performer reports Wipro, Tech Mahindra outshine TCS, Infosys in weak Q3 for IT

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Wipro and Tech Mahindra, which have trailed both larger and smaller peers in recent years, outperformed India's two largest information technology (IT) services firms Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys in both revenue growth and profitability during a seasonally-weak third quarter. Wipro ended the October-December 2025 period with $2.64 billion in revenue, up 1.19% sequentially and 0.24% from a year ago.

16.01 / 08:05

COST UPS FIVE performer reports Commentary HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank to report steady Q3 on firm loan growth, recovery in margins

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: India’s two largest private-sector lenders, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, are expected to post a steady performance for the December quarter, supported by firm loan growth, improving margins and controlled operating costs, five brokerages said ahead of results on Saturday. However, seasonal marginal pressures on asset quality, particularly agriculture-linked products, may lead to a moderate rise in slippages.

15.01 / 07:27

markets IPO Provident FIVE security Experts stars Anil Agarwal named promoter, but holds no stake: Sebi asks IPO-bound Sterlite Electric to explain

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's market regulator has asked minerals-to-energy Vedanta conglomerate's latest market-bound firm for more details on ownership structure and how it ultimately benefits the group's billionaire founder Anil Agarwal, three people aware of the matter told Mint. On paper, Anil Agarwal has zero direct holdings in the Sterlite Electric Ltd, which last year filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) for an initial public offer.

15.01 / 07:27

markets IPO Provident FIVE Waters Manufacturing trends Four stocks where promoters see value despite market volatility

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you’ve been tracking promoter activity over the past few years, you would have noticed that 2025 took the trend to a new extreme. Promoter selling crossed ₹1.5 trillion last year, setting a fresh all-time high and extending a three-year streak of over ₹1 trillion in annual sell-downs.

15.01 / 05:05

UPS Target FIVE CEO economy Research rights Military surveillance–the new lucrative front for India’s space startups

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s bet to open spacetech to private companies five years ago has spawned startups that are already earning millions of dollars by sharing agriculture and climate data collected by the satellites they launched. These ventures are pivoting towards a new lucrative business: defence surveillance.

15.01 / 01:45

markets UPS Provident FIVE Aware security Sebi steps up checks on portfolio overlap in mutual fund schemes

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : India’s market regulator is closely scrutinizing new fund offers (NFOs) for portfolio overlap with existing schemes, even though its draft proposals on overlapping stocks in mutual fund schemes are yet to be notified.

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