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AI diffusion across India’s farms will hinge on earning the trust of farmers as much as infrastructure
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, Amul launched Sarlaben, an AI-powered digital assistant for dairy farmers in Gujarat. It will benefit over 3.6 million milk producers, most of them women, across more than 18,500 villages.
16.02 / 08:41
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Decline of the American empire? Why educational self-injury may turn out to be worse than financial
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as US President Donald Trump imposes his will at home and abroad, there is talk about various stages of imperial decline and how the American Empire is now at one of its last few—fifth out of seven by one estimate. Empires as commonly understood were based on force and political control.
15.02 / 08:39
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Manu Joseph: Blinkit and Zepto make speedy deliveries. So why are corner stores still around?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The guy who runs the kirana store in my colony has a wounded look about him because I don’t go there anymore. Things were not good between us even without that.
15.02 / 05:29
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Why passive funds are hiring more to mimic benchmark indices better
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As passive funds slowly yet surely get more traction in India, their asset mangers are expanding teams, typically very small, to run operations more efficiently and reduce gaps between their performance versus a market index. The bigger teams, small even after expansion compared to active funds, are helping passive fund managements create separate verticals, launch more products, and mirror better the indices they want to track.
14.02 / 01:59
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The week in charts: FPIs are back, net zero investment gap, rewiring crude purchases
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From foreign portfolio investments (FPI) making a come back to India in February after the trade deal framework with the US, to India already diversifying its crude oil import sources, Niti Aayog flagging the projected gap in investments to achieve the net-zero carbon emission target by 2070, and easing unemployment in India—here’s a compilation of this week’s news in numbers.Inflows return February is turning out to be a positive month for foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) in Indian equities as the country saw ₹18,771 crore worth of inflows until 12 February. This follows a sombre period of consistent outflows, with FPIs pulling out ₹62,000 crore in the previous three months.
13.02 / 01:17
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Stocks to buy: Raja Venkatraman's recommends three stocks for 13 February
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Indian equity markets closed lower on Thursday, snapping a four-day winning streak as persistent weakness in IT stocks weighed on sentiment. The Sensex ended 558.72 points lower at 83,674.92, while the Nifty slipped 146.65 points to settle at 25,807.20, briefly breaching the 25,750 mark during the session.
12.02 / 06:51
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As EU wines get cheaper, Fratelli braces for a tougher fight on Indian shelves
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As India prepares to cut steep import duties on European wines under the trade deal signed with the European Union (EU) last month, Indian wine brands say they are bracing for tougher competition from imported labels that could soon be priced closer to Indian bottles. India currently levies a steep 150% duty on imported wines.
12.02 / 01:49
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What drives the wage gap between men and women?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “The Left Hand of Darkness", a classic science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, imagines a faraway planet called Winter on which all people are “ambisexual".
12.02 / 00:35
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Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum targets more fintech investments as ecosystem matures
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s venture firm Fundamentum is preparing to sharpen its fintech bets in its upcoming third fund, banking on India’s digital public infrastructure and a widening financial inclusion gap to drive the next wave of growth, according to a top executive at the firm.
10.02 / 08:29
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Trai weighs tougher spam rules as operators flag nearly 400 million calls daily
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With telecom operators now blocking or flagging nearly 400 million suspected spam calls and messages every day, India’s telecom regulator is looking to widen its current enforcement framework alongside a willingness to tighten the rules if gaps persist, while moving toward a full rollout of a digital consent system for commercial communications. In an interview with Mint, Anil Kumar Lahoti, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), said the regulator is reviewing the existing framework governing telemarketers to identify areas where responsibilities are not being met and is open to strengthening the rules if required.
07.02 / 06:27
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AI Tool of the Week: Whiteboard your 30-page strategy with Gemini's nanobanana
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The AI hack we unlocked today is based onGoogle Gemini's nanobanana. Executives receive 30-page market analyses that sit unread on their desks.
06.02 / 12:41
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Centre moves to tighten ammonium nitrate transport rules after Delhi blast
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to tighten the regulatory framework governing the transport of ammonium nitrate by extending legal responsibility from only consignors to also consignees, depending on who provides the transport vehicle.
06.02 / 01:31
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The age of a treacherous, falling dollar
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Over the past year President Donald Trump has bullied America’s allies with tariffs, bludgeoned the Federal Reserve and treated the budget deficit as if it were just a distraction. Yet most asset markets blithely carry on as if nothing were wrong.
06.02 / 00:05
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India's container sops draw interest from global shipping behemoths: Sonowal
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in talks with global shipping giants and domestic companies to set up container manufacturing facilities, according to Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, as the ₹10,000 crore budget push seeks to cut reliance on China and boost local production. Several companies have expressed interest in manufacturing and demand aggregation for containers made in India, Sonowal, ports, shipping and waterways minister, said, citing names including the world's largest container shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC); second-placed and Danish giant A.P.
05.02 / 17:37
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Shrinking income gap with the rich world, by creating more jobs here: Sitharaman
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said multiple proposals in the Union Budget for 2026-27 reflect the goal of job creation, key to closing the per-capita income gap with advanced economies. In an interview with Mint, Sitharaman also touched upon continuing customs reforms, defence sector, state capex, and the revamp of India's rural job guarantee programme.
05.02 / 09:53
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Pidilite’s upbeat growth prospects come with expensive valuations
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stock of Fevicol-maker Pidilite Industries Ltd is 7% away from its 52-week high of ₹1,574.95 seen in September. Pidilite's decent December quarter (Q3FY26) result and upbeat management commentary bridged the gap to some extent, with the stock up around 3% in the last two trading sessions.
05.02 / 02:15
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High-level committee on banking: What it should focus on to strengthen India’s financial system
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the formation of a “high-level committee" on banking in her budget speech for 2026-27. While she offered no details, the FM did say that this panel would be tasked with reviewing the banking sector and aligning it with India’s next phase of growth.
05.02 / 02:15
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Mint Quick Edit | India-China trade swelled in 2025: Will this remain a largely one-way story?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For all the talk about either restraining or rebalancing trade with China, India’s dealings with it are rising. In 2025, trade reached a record $155.6 billion, up 12%, according to Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong.
04.02 / 10:59
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Why India needs smarter finance: It’s not just about enlarging the country’s financial sector
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s budget for 2026-27 signals a growing recognition that its financial challenge is no longer one of scale alone, but of structure and effectiveness. Measures such as the introduction of a market-making framework for corporate bonds, the development of total return swaps and bond-index derivatives, incentives for large municipal bond issuances and the creation of mechanisms such as the Infrastructure Risk Guarantee Fund and real estate investment trusts (REITs) linked to central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) point to an attempt to deepen long-term, market-based finance and improve risk distribution beyond banks.
04.02 / 03:35
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16th Finance Commission: What states asked for, and what they got, explained in 6 charts
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A key subtext of Budget 2026 is the evolving fiscal compact between the Centre and the states—an arrangement recalibrated every five years by the Finance Commission. FY27 marks the first year of the five-year award period of the 16th Finance Commission (FC), which, like its predecessors, had to reconcile competing demands from a diverse set of stakeholders.
04.02 / 01:21
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Promoters’ ownership of India Inc slips below 50% for the first time since 2020. What does it mean?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The ownership of India’s listed firms is undergoing a fundamental shift. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, aggregate promoter holdings have slipped below the key 50% threshold.
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