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20.02 / 00:55

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hybrid cars may roar past their electric cousins in the coming years after trailing them in the green transition so far, mirroring a pattern set in the US, Europe and South Korea. The debut of new fleet-wide emission norms next year could prompt more carmakers to roll out hybrids to stay compliant, an internal Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) document said, signalling a structural shift in energy mix in the world's fastest-growing automobile market.

20.02 / 00:55

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The GIFT City regulator has started asking inactive companies to voluntarily surrender their licences if they do not intend to start a business, according to three people in the know, as India seeks to ensure the international finance hub is not reduced to a paper address. “Entities that remain inactive have been asked about their plans and, where there is no clear intent to operate, they may be persuaded to voluntarily surrender the license," said an official, one of the three people quoted earlier, on the condition of anonymity.

19.02 / 10:01

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dollar is in decline, and investors have to learn to live with it. The past 12 months were tough for the greenback.

19.02 / 06:43

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The first estimates of inflation based on the revised series of India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) were released last week. The new CPI series uses 2024 as the base year. Accordingly, inflation in January was 2.75% (the price index’s increase, i.e., over the same month of 2025), with rural inflation at 2.73% and urban at 2.77%.

18.02 / 12:43

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi/Mumbai: In December 2024, industrialist Sajjan Jindal declared that steelmaker JSW would soon have its own automobile brand. “Our idea is not to be an outpost of a Chinese company to sell products in India," Jindal told the Financial Times.

18.02 / 00:53

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The fight for India’s fast-growing wealth pool has led to a battle for frontline talent. Relationship managers (RMs), as they are popularly called in banking parlance, are among the most sought-after professionals in the financial sector.

18.02 / 00:23

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: The State Bank of India is weighing a plan to take control of its investment-banking joint venture (JV) with Investec India, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move comes as India’s largest lender seeks to strengthen its deal-making and distribution capabilities in the midst of a multi-year boom in the country’s equity capital markets.

17.02 / 08:51

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India’s largest airline, IndiGo, has sought approval to operate at least 275 additional daily flights, about a 15% increase over its current 1,900-odd departures, during the summer schedule from April to October, according to a presentation made to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). If approved, the airline would operate around 2,175 daily flights—about 8% higher than the 2,022 flights it flew last summer.

17.02 / 08:03

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) posted rather muted December quarter (Q3) results, impacted by the continued drop in crude oil prices and stagnant volumes.

17.02 / 00:57

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday proposed sweeping changes to exchange traded funds (ETFs), aimed at eliminating a critical "pricing lag" that currently leaves investors exposed during volatile markets. In a consultation paper that’s open for comments until 6 March, the regulator suggested shifting the base price calculation for ETFs from a two-day-old value to the previous day’s data.

16.02 / 08:39

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s AI Impact Summit, which opened on Monday with a series of high-level industry dialogues, is expected to boost funding and global collaboration opportunities for the country’s private enterprises, shifting focus away from a potential policy consensus among participating nations.

16.02 / 04:51

UPS Manufacturing Strategy Hyundai wellness Interviews International JSW MG Motor bets on a $400 million offensive for new products, capacity

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : JSW MG Motor India Ltd will invest about $400 million over the next four years to nearly triple its manufacturing capacity and accelerate its electric and hybrid vehicle push, managing director and chief executive Anurag Mehrotra told Mint in an interview. The Gurugram-based carmaker—a joint venture between Mumbai-headquartered JSW Group and China’s SAIC Motor—plans to expand capacity at its Halol plant in Gujarat from around 110,000 units annually to over 300,000 units in the next 12 to 18 months.

16.02 / 02:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. American students are increasingly looking to Europe to go to college. Attending university in the U.S.

16.02 / 01:11

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last Thursday, when Rahul Gandhi was railing against the government, I was reminded of Manmohan Singh. Though the Lok Sabha chair scuttled Rahul’s allegations, let me elaborate on this scenario by illustrating incidents related to Singh.

15.02 / 10:15

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Did we just pass peak solar? That’s the claim now circulating among many analysts. Hitting net zero will require 630GW of panels to be installed every year between 2030 and 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates.

15.02 / 01:39

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in the middle of a significant reset of its official data architecture to better reflect current economic realities. An overhaul of the inflation basket has already been completed; the next major step is recalibrating how economic activity is measured.

13.02 / 01:17

COST Target Manufacturing stage recommendations International Stricter emission rules may be delayed for 25–75 hp tractors after industry push

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is in the advanced stages of finalising the next phase of emission norms for tractors and may delay the rollout of the stricter rules for models in the 25–75 horsepower (hp) range, following lobbying by manufacturers who have argued that tighter standards could raise compliance costs and make these machines more expensive for small farmers, two industry executives aware of the matter said. Faridabad-based Escorts Kubota chief financial officer Bharat Madan told Mint that the industry has held meetings with the Union ministry of agriculture, and final recommendations have been submitted to the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH).

12.02 / 09:47

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The December quarter (Q3FY26) result marked the first real performance test for Lenskart Solutions Ltd since its high-profile initial public offering in November 2025. The eyewear company impressed with a 240% year-on-year surge in consolidated net profit to around ₹131 crore.

12.02 / 01:49

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As fourth-quarter Big Tech earnings approached, the usual discussions of sales growth and profits took a back seat to the flood of capital expenditures on artificial-intelligence data centers. In 2025, four companies–Amazon.com, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta Platforms—spent over $400 billion, roughly the gross domestic product of Pakistan, according to the International Monetary Fund.

11.02 / 13:39

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the pharmaceutical world, a CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) is essentially the “powerhouse behind the brand". Instead of a pharma company building its own factories and labs, which costs a lo, they hire a CDMO to handle everything from the initial drug chemistry to mass-producing the final pills or injections.

11.02 / 09:55

markets Digital Trade President show reports International Andy Mukherjee: Is China’s interest-paying e-CNY going to challenge the almighty US dollar?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The highest US tariffs in almost a century have had a muted impact so far on global growth, but Asian policymakers aren’t lulled by the calm. They’re taking their cues from jumpy markets and plotting what appears to be a mutiny against King Dollar.

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