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₹1.71 trillion as fertilizer subsidy for FY27. The support goes to plant nutrients such as urea, phosphorous and potash, with the subsidy system designed to partially absorb price spikes faced by farmers arising from international commodity shocks.At the same time, policymakers have begun encouraging alternatives.

Dhurandhar, industry experts say Bollywood has, in several cases, acted as a cultural accelerator for international acts in India.The phenomenon is not new.Akon’s association with Ra.One is often cited as a strong example—while he already had global recognition, the film placement pushed him into deeper mainstream recall across India. Similarly, Kylie Minogue (Blue) and Snoop Dogg (Singh Is Kinng) saw their familiarity widen through Bollywood integrations.The unparalleled reach of Hindi cinema—across theatres, television and streaming—creates a fast track for international artists to penetrate the Indian market.

Technological innovation in all quarters is critical for accelerated economic growth. However, India’s research and development (R&D) debate often focuses on public spending: how much the government allocates, which missions are launched and what headline targets are announced. The data, however, suggests that India’s innovation shortfall is fundamentally an industry story.

former professor of international trade stood before Parliament and borrowed from Victor Hugo: "No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. India is now wide awake."The life that produced that moment was itself a story of improbable journeys. Born in Gah, a village in Punjab now across the border in Pakistan, into a family of dried fruit traders, Singh lost his mother young and was raised by his paternal grandmother.

order book can often speak louder than short-term price movements.It represents confirmed projects, assured revenue pipelines, and management’s ability to win and execute large contracts. When this order book outweighs the company’s own market capitalization, it signals a rare combination of strong demand and underappreciated scale.In this article, we spotlight the top four companies whose order books are larger than their market capitalization.The criteria: Return on equity (RoE) and return on capital employed (RoCE) above 12%, along with a debt-to-equity ratio below 1x.NBCC (India) Ltd is a Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprise under the aegis of the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA).The company provides value-added services in project management consultancy (PMC), engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and real estate development.

India’s economy is now officially smaller than previously thought. New GDP estimates released on Friday based on an updated methodology and base year have reduced the country’s nominal output by over ₹11 trillion ($133 billion), validating earlier concerns about the size of the economyThe downward revision may complicate the government’s fiscal arithmetic for FY26 and FY27, and may also delay India’s chances of becoming a $4-trillion economy, and the fourth largest economy leaving Japan behind.Over the past decade, questions were raised by researchers, economists and policymakers, including former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian, over the methodology used in the 2011-12 series and the size of India’s GDP.GDP data released on Friday by the statistics ministry based on the updated 2022-23 base year, showed India’s nominal GDP in 2025-26 at ₹345.47 trillion ($3.93 trillion), 3.26% smaller than the ₹357.14 trillion figure given in January based on the 2011-12 series.This downward trend (2.9-3.8%) is visible across all four years for which data based on the 2022-23 series has been released.“This has happened because 2011-12 data was likely overestimating figures as organized sector data was largely used to extrapolate figures for other sectors,” an official involved in the GDP calculation process explained, requesting anonymity.The revised GDP takes into account several steps to capture the economy better such as the integration of goods and services tax (GST), expanding the use of double deflation and using improved deflation techniques in case of single deflation, and using survey results to capture the informal economy instead of relying on proxies.P.C.

Mint, referring to India's growth trajectory.However, the task now is to integrate the deep domestic liquidity in Mumbai with international participation at GIFT IFSC, he added.“In GIFT City today, participation is currently limited to a handful of players. The real opportunity lies in bringing these two pools of liquidity together.

₹50 crore employee stock ownership plan (Esop) buyback, offering liquidity to employees at a time when the company’s valuation has fallen significantly below its 2021 peak.“Grateful to the Board for carving out a cash pool for the employees even though the valuation is significantly less than our last fundraise,” co-founder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal said in a post on X on Thursday.The buyback signals an attempt by the company to reward and retain talent after two years of turmoil owing to the founders’ plans to exit the firm.According to Munjal, eight employees will receive over ₹1 crore each under the programme, 17 will receive more than ₹50 lakh, and 38 more than ₹10 lakh.The company will reach out to employees over the coming weeks to facilitate participation, he added.Unacademy had earlier revised its Esop policy to require former employees to exercise vested stock options within 30 days of departure drawing criticism. The company subsequently reinstated its earlier policy, allowing former employees to exercise options for up to 10 years.The Temasek-backed firm has faced a difficult internal environment over the past two years.

NEW DELHI: The timelines for peak fossil fuel consumption—including oil and coal in both India and globally—may be delayed further amid geopolitical tensions that are pivoting the focus towards energy security and countries deviating from their climate commitments, Shell plc's chief economist Mallika Ishwaran said.While decarbonization in road transport is under way, there is little progress in aviation, marine and steel, which would delay the energy transition journey and eventually, peak oil timelines, Ishwaran said in an interview."We are seeing oil persisting. Electrification of road transport happens anyway, and that displaces anywhere between 40% to 60% of oil demand in road transport, so that's the significant displacement.

Mint in an interview. “India may not be a Top 6 market for us by revenue today, but we believe it will be a Top 6 market for us long-term.

food safety monitoring and traceability by improving documentation of production and storage practices, according to the notification, reviewed by Mint.Such daily documentation will help ensure real-time visibility into food-handling practices across the supply chain, a government official said on condition of anonymity. Clearer documentation could also reduce disputes during inspections.The regulator has not specified the implementation date for the new norms and has invited comments until 5 April 2026.The proposal, notified under the WTO’s Technical Barriers to Trade framework, will apply to all licensees under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.Mint's emailed queries to the FSSAI chief executive Rajit Punhani remained unanswered.FSSAI data shows that it has issued licences to over 10 million food business operators (FBOs) with the number of currently active ones at around 4.63 million.An industry representative flagged compliance cost and regulatory friction that will accompany the new norms.“Daily reporting would add another burden on small businesses,” said Vinod Kumar, President, SME Forum that represents micro, small, and medium enterprises in India.

Mumbai: At 3:50 am on a quiet Kolkata morning, 35-year-old numerologist Vivek Baid woke up to a string of notifications that would upend his day. One message became two, then three. By 4 am, he had received eight transaction alerts for his forex card.

₹106.12 crore.According to the deal-related documents accessed via Propstack, a real estate data analytics firm, the agreement to sell (development rights) has been signed by the developer and the seller, Sorabji Kanga Charity Trust, through its trustees.As part of the deal, Lodha will be entitled to develop 5,017 square metres of carpet area (saleable area), along with 150 car parking spaces and a 42.5% share in the trust overseeing the project.The market value of the land is approximately ₹621.71 crore, according to the deal document, and Lodha has paid ₹37.42 crore in stamp duty for the transaction that was executed on 7 January.“Lodha will likely develop a high-end residential project there,” said a person on the condition of anonymity.The total land area of the property is 17,403.20 square metres (roughly 4.3 acres), and it has a chawl, Palacimo Co-operative Housing Society, and six bungalows. Lodha will redevelop the land, except for the housing society, as per the agreement.

Mint at the Air Cargo India 2026 being held in Mumbai.“So, we will have a total of five freighters weekly into India once we add the new freighter frequencies,” he said. When asked about shifting operations as Mumbai airport will close its freighters operations, Abbas said, “Yes, we will adapt as needed”, and will consider moving to the new airport in the state, Navi Mumbai.Currently, Emirates carries around 600 tonnes of pharmaceuticals and 500 tonnes of perishables from India each week, out of a total weekly uplift of 3,000 tonnes.Mint earlier reported that five foreign freighters, including FedEx and a DHL-Lufthansa joint venture, are expected to start operations at Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) from May.

backed by the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme—where the Indian government provides financial incentives based on incremental sales—and a minimum import price, Aurobindo is reversing that arc.In an exclusive interview with Mint, Madan Mohan Reddy, a whole-time director of Aurobindo Pharma, said the decision was far from impulsive. “It wasn’t a tough call to make,” he said.

₹1.53 trillion annually.The push was outlined during a meeting chaired by the secretary of the ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI), according to a government statement on Tuesday, and reflects a broader attempt to modernize the farm economy by shifting value creation away from raw produce toward processed and packaged foods. Policymakers say the approach could stabilize farmer incomes, reduce wastage and strengthen exports through investments in infrastructure, technology adoption, and value addition.As India seeks to modernize its agriculture, expanding processing capacity has emerged as a key policy focus.

When discussing Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and penny stocks, it’s a classic case of ‘big money’ playing a very different game than the average retail investor.While LIC is famous for its blue-chip holdings, it actually maintains a long tail of low-priced stocks. However, low-priced stocks are sometimes not active buys but holdings that have eroded over years.Here are three penny stocks that LIC holds.

In November 2023, a few governments and technologists gathered at Bletchley Park to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to come to terms with the technology they were developing. The mood was sombre and fear was the dominant register.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IDFC First Bank’s investors are shaken, pulling the stock down as much as 20% following reports of a fraud at the fast-growing lender. What began as a disappointing de-empanelment of IDFC and AU Small Finance Bank by the Haryana government—affecting 0.5% of their deposits—quickly evolved into something far more unsettling.

The AI Impact Summit held last week brought many members of the global technology royalty to New Delhi. It also featured the launch of India’s first multi-billion parameter large language model, saw announcements of big investments in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and ended with an international declaration on the need for democratic diffusion of AI. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla set the cat among the pigeons by saying that AI may destroy the software services and business processing outsourcing businesses that are so important to the Indian economy.

The JSW Group, which acquired Akzo Nobel India Ltd last year, plans to plough the money that used to be paid as royalty for the Dulux brand back into its paints business and widen its market share.JSW Paints acquired the decorative paints business of Akzo Nobel India, which includes the popular Dulux brand, for ₹9,000 crore in June 2025. Earlier, 3% of the value of decorative paints sales was paid as royalty to its global parent for use of the brand, but that has now stopped.“In the month of June 2025, we acquired the decorative IP and the Dulux brand is now owned by Akzo Nobel India… So, the royalty ceased to exist, which translates to roughly around 60 crore to 65 crore rupees, depending on the revenue trajectory,” Krishna R, chief financial officer of Akzo Nobel India, said during a post-earnings interaction with analysts.