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. Employees get an AI competency score from one to five—scoring a five if they create systems that improve the workflow of others. He has also created a new award: Whoever comes up with the most effective AI-driven process wins a vacation stipend worth several thousand dollars.He won’t consider hiring candidates without AI fluency.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian stocks with high dividend yields such as Vedanta and Coal India have acted as defensive anchors during the market volatility of 2025-2026. Despite global uncertainty and shifting domestic policies, these companies provided 4-6% yields, using their strong cash flows to protect investor capital from broader market declines.

fintechs to market its mutual fund products.The company's move comes after a muted debut of its first equity scheme, the Jio BlackRock Flexicap Fund.Launched in October 2025, the Jio BlackRock Flexicap Fund's assets under management (AUM) stood at ₹2,613 crore at the end of January, compared with ₹2,808 crore of the Abakkus Flexicap Fund, launched in December 2025."For a name like Jio BlackRock, it should have seen a higher uptick in its flexicap fund. Trying to go purely direct in India, especially for a new AMC, might be difficult," said Srikanth Meenakshi, co-founder of mutual fund research platform Primeinevstor.In a 6 Septemberinterview with Mint, its chief executive, Sid Swaminathan, said people were becoming increasingly comfortable managing their finances digitally on their phones, and its partnership with Jio, which has access to that ecosystem, gave it a clear understanding that this is the direction it wants to pursue.

specialty chemicals and capital discipline.“We are not in that mood right now—just deleveraging,” Shroff said, almost matter-of-factly, when asked about fresh acquisitions.But analysts tracking the company are not sure yet.“Unresolved leverage concerns and post-restructuring dilution,” Nuvama Institutional Equities said in a note dated 22nd February, downgrading the stock to ‘hold’.The brokerage added that the exercise “keeps total debt similar even though redistributed between two entities”, with deleveraging contingent on future cash-flow generation. The backdrop to this reset is the bruising cycle that followed covid.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: A day after tumbling over 1% each, India's headline equity indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, rebounded with healthy gains on Friday, 20 February. The Sensex gained 317 points, or 0.38%, to end at 82,814.71, while the Nifty 50 settled at 25,571.25.

Mumbai: India is increasingly seeing private equity and venture capital backed companies tap public markets at an earlier stage in their lifecycle, driven by factors such as greater predictability in business performance, liquidity needs, and conducive regulatory policies, making IPOs an attractive option.“Over the past few years, public markets have also become more willing to underwrite newer business models. That increases confidence for sponsors to view IPOs (initial public offerings) as a viable, attractive exit option earlier in the company lifecycle,” Gaurav Sood, managing director and head of equity capital markets of Avendus Capital.

₹1,800 billion in FY20 to ₹2,400 billion in FY25. Within this, branded ethnic wear grew faster, at an 18–20% CAGR, lifting the organized segment’s share from about 11% to nearly 19% between FY19 and FY22.Even so, the unorganized segment still accounts for roughly 70-75% of the market, leaving significant room for organized players to expand while intensifying competition.Manyavar commanded roughly 38% share of India’s branded men’s ethnic wear market as of FY22, the latest available data, underscoring its dominance within the organized segment.

dividend-yield funds returned an average of 19.22% and around 18%, and 16.5% annually over the past three, five and 10 years (as of 18 February), while flexi-cap funds returned 16.85% and 14%, and 14.75% on average over the same periods. A recent rally in stocks has narrowed the average one-year returns to about 14% for both categories.Financial advisers said a run-up in dividend-yielding stocks in 2025 has helped lift the overall returns of the category for the 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the India AI Summit, a less discussed but foundational piece of the AI stack broke into the headlines. Mumbai-based AI infrastructure startup Neysa announced a $1.2 billion capital raise led by alternative asset manager Blackstone, among the largest funding rounds in the country’s AI infrastructure sector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s benchmark indices ended a turbulent week with modest gains on Friday, but sharp swings driven by global cues and a spike in crude oil prices kept investors on the edge. The Nifty 50 closed at 25,571.25, while the BSE Sensex settled at 82,814.70, both rising around 0.4% on Friday.

₹150–200 crore in primary funding, as the company looks to accelerate expansion, two people familiar with the matter said.The proposed round comes at a time when non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) face tighter regulatory scrutiny and rising stress in unsecured lending, making fresh capital crucial to strengthen balance sheets and support calibrated growth.“Several mid-market private equity firms or late/growth stage venture capital firms will be tapped as a part of the process. The deal is expected to be launched in the coming weeks,” one of the people cited above said.“The company is looking to double down its presence in its existing areas of operations after it became PAT positive in the current financial year,” a second person said.Both the people spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. GENEVA—In talks about ending the war, Ukraine and Russia have converged on one goal: to avoid angering President Trump by appearing to block peace. They continue to send delegations to talks mediated by U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The cost of deploying and running artificial intelligence (AI) applications is falling at an exponential pace, potentially making AI tools affordable at scale across India sooner than expected, according to Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI, one of the world’s most valuable startups. Altman also dismissed the idea that companies like his would “kill" software and technology services firms, even as AI automates large parts of their core work.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India has put forward a framework for how the country's artificial intelligence startups and the world’s frontier labs should build and deploy inclusive AI.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hindalco Industries Ltd stock is down 7% since the company announced its December-quarter (Q3FY26) results. The oft-cited reason for this is the two fires at subsidiary Novelis’s Oswego plant in September and November 2025, which disrupted operations.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market recap: Domestic equity market benchmarks, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, cracked on Friday, 13 February, with a broad-based selloff hitting metal, IT and commodity stocks amid sluggish global markets. Traders said a weaker-than-expected earnings season, coupled with emerging pressure on technology stocks over AI-led disruption concerns, weighed on sentiment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Global private equity firm Blackstone, along with other investors, has acquired a majority stake in India’s artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform Neysa as the company seeks to raise $1.2 billion in a mix of debt and equity to fund its expansion plans. The company has raised $600 million in equity capital, and Neysa is seeking to secure an additional $600 million in debt financing led by Blackstone.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Can a celebrity use India’s insolvency courts to recover unpaid appearance or endorsement fees? A ruling by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on 6 February ruled 'no' on this question, providing much-needed clarity on how payment disputes in brand contracts should be legally handled. The issue came into focus after Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar Bhatia approached an insolvency court to recover dues from Cue Learn, an edtech company.

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.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Energy stocks have delivered solid returns over the past year, with NTPC among the steady performers. Over the last 12 months, NTPC shares have risen about 17%, climbing from ₹310 on 10 February 2025 to around ₹365.