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03.02 / 05:01

COST UPS Booking Gap trends show Profiles India’s high credit-deposit ratio: Is the banking system overstretched or just efficient?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The credit-deposit (CD) ratio of scheduled commercial banks reached 81.75%—the highest level recorded since 2000-01—on 31 December 2025. Usually, a high CD ratio is a positive indicator as it means that banks are deploying funds efficiently in loans.

02.02 / 09:27

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Budget 2026 increased transaction costs in the derivatives market by hiking the securities transaction tax (STT) on futures and options trades. While the increase is small in absolute terms, it has material implications for arbitrage funds, which depend on cash-futures spreads.

30.01 / 03:01

COST UPS Gap Analysis economy Trade Economic Survey: The shift India’s economy must make for resilience against forces it can’t control

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This year’s Economic Survey has been published under the shadow of a geo-economic upheaval. Although it strikes an optimistic note on India’s economy, it offers a realistic assessment of the global risks we face.

30.01 / 00:35

FIVE Gap Remark Food Research wellness trends What Bharat wants from the budget on 1 February

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian agriculture has shown remarkable resilience in the face of growing climate risks. The sector, which employs about 46% of the workforce, has seen overall production rise but also a sharp slide in crop prices.

29.01 / 14:19

COST Cooper Gap Analysis Enterprise show information Small businesses still turn to friends, moneylenders for loans, says Economic Survey

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Small enterprises continue to rely heavily on informal sources such as friends and moneylenders for small-ticket loans, primarily borrowings below ₹50,000, highlighting persistent gaps in access to formal credit, the Economic Survey tabled in Parliament on Thursday showed. The survey, citing analysis of data from the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) 2023-24, points to a sharp divergence in financing patterns by loan size for micro and unincorporated enterprises.

29.01 / 11:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India has shown strong resilience and absorptive capacity in the face of repeated global shocks, noted the Economic Survey 2025-26, presented in Parliament on Thursday.

29.01 / 04:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Financial wealth accounts for just 25% of total assets in India, versus nearly 70% in the US. India’s wealth-to-GDP ratio stands at 4.5x, compared with 6.5x in the US, and only 15% of Indian wealth is professionally managed, against 75% in the US.

29.01 / 01:37

markets Gap security inclusion rights Mint Quick Edit | RBI’s bond-buying aims to soften yields as debt investors await India’s budget for cues

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s not typical of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to abruptly change its schedule of open market operations. So when it did so this week, it raised eyebrows.

28.01 / 14:53

Citi Gap economy Election pandemic Interviews Mamdani presses for tax hike on New York’s wealthiest as budget deficit looms

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mayor Zohran Mamdani says New York City is facing an unexpected $10 billion projected budget deficit in the coming year and plans to push state lawmakers to increase taxes on high-income New Yorkers and corporations to close the hole. “We must raise taxes on the wealthiest few in New York City so that we can invest in the many," the newly elected Democratic socialist mayor of the country’s largest city said in an interview Tuesday.

28.01 / 06:45

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On the surface, India appears to have the ultimate Goldilocks economy: one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world with historically low inflation—exactly what any government would want. In theory, this should give the government tremendous flexibility and room in the upcoming budget.

28.01 / 03:13

Gap Healthcare stage social consequences information recommendations Demographic gaps: Why different states need different budget allocations as they age

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For anyone interested in fiscal federalism, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual study of state finances is a treasure trove of information. This year’s study, analysing state budgets of 2025-26, is no exception.

27.01 / 11:11

COST Waters Gap Sustainability show shock India must invest big money in climate mitigation and resilience: Did budget makers miss the memo?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Climate change has moved gradually onto India’s economic agenda. Economic Surveys now devote full chapters to climate risk, budget speeches frame growth as green and India has formally estimated its climate finance needs at about $2.5 trillion by 2030.

27.01 / 01:49

markets Target Gap economy President show Mint Quick Edit | The US Fed’s rate call this week: White House whim is unlikely to play a role

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. US President Donald Trump’s open attempts at glaring the Federal Reserve down into rate cuts notwithstanding, it looks unlikely that America’s central bank will oblige as its two-day monetary policy review begins on Tuesday. Inflation is still above the Fed’s 2% target and could rise more as the economy gains momentum on the back of past cuts.

27.01 / 01:13

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Rebalancing its oil import basket of the last three-four years, India is slowly yet surely moving away from the Russia Federation and turning back to its traditional crude oil suppliers in West Asia. In doing so, Iraq, the no.

25.01 / 13:27

UPS Platform Gap Highways track country These Indian highways have seen the fastest rise in EV charging stations

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai: The availability of fast-chargers along India’s major highways surged last year as the government and companies ramped up charging infrastructure amid growing electric vehicle (EV) penetration in the country. The number of public chargers along key routes soared 40-90% in 2025, according to data analytics platform ExpWithEVs shared with Mint.

23.01 / 07:37

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Can AI prepare a financial plan for you? Technically, yes. Feed your financial details into a tool like ChatGPT and the algorithm can generate a seemingly neat, actionable plan in seconds.

23.01 / 03:45

UPS Provident Gap security Research reports A tale of two spirits: Radico on a high, United Spirits stays sober for now

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A clear divergence has emerged in India’s listed liquor space. While United Spirits has slipped about 8.2% over the past year, Radico Khaitan has surged 35%.

22.01 / 08:03

Provident Gap Interface Universities stage rights AI accessibility: Use India’s AI Summit to define it clearly and set a mandate for the world to adopt

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the world approaches the India AI Summit 2026 , the conversation on AI has evolved beyond algorithmic efficiency to encompass the more significant issues of digital sovereignty and ethics. A critical legal and ethical gap needs to be plugged: the definition of ‘AI accessibility.’ In India, the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act of 2016 provides a robust legal framework for persons with disabilities (PwDs).

22.01 / 01:45

COST UPS Progressive Gap Sustainability Bill recommendations Your power bills may rise annually after Centre proposes index-linked pricing

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Electricity bills for consumers across India could begin rising automatically every year starting next fiscal, regardless of political reluctance at the state level. The Union power ministry has proposed index-linked tariff revisions in its draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) released on Wednesday, to force cost-reflective pricing if state electricity regulatory commissions (SERCs) fail to act.

21.01 / 12:11

Aware Manufacturing Gap Mobile Harmonic inclusion Updates New lift standards for PwDs to force redesigns for India’s property, infrastructure developers

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India is set to notify revised and stricter national standards for elevators used by people with disabilities, designed to make buildings safer for them, more accessible and easier to navigate independently. The move to enforce stricter technical and functional requirements is seen as a fresh push to the Accessible India campaign launched in 2015 to improve mobility and access for divyangjans across buildings, workplaces, public transport and daily infrastructure, two people aware of the matter said.

21.01 / 00:25

COST Provident Target Gap wellness Experts exclusive Govt eyes dual allocations for MGNREGA, new rural jobs scheme in transition year

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Even as a two-decade-old welfare employment scheme is set to be replaced by a new one, the upcoming Union budget may carve out separate allocations for both schemes to ensure there are no gaps in jobs during the transition period, according to the minister in charge of rural development. The new Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G) scheme, to be notified by the Centre, will give states six months’ transition time.

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