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₹50,000-55,000 per ft, implying a gross development value (GDV) or revenue potential of ₹9,000-10,000 crore, estimates JM Financial Institutional Securities.Last month, Oberoi emerged as the highest bidder for Railway Land Development Authority’s over 11.21-acre prime land parcel in Mumbai’s Bandra with a ₹5,400 crore bid. In Q3FY26, it inked an agreement to redevelop land at Nepean Sea Road with a potential free sale component of 1.18 lakh square feet carpet area.

India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision requires a massive expansion of infrastructure and manufacturing, highlighted by the $1.3 trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline. However, achieving this alongside India’s net-zero 2070 target poses a financing challenge: investment must jump from $14.7 trillion to $22.7 trillion for a full green transition. To remain globally competitive amid tightening carbon border rules, key sectors such as steel and cement must decarbonize rapidly.

AI tokens) going to be part of our commercial model. We're going to factor in the price of the tokens into our model itself, on top of it,” said Balazs Fejes, chief executive officer (CEO) of EPAM, during the company’s analyst day.AI tokens are small units of texts that an AI tool can read.

The Supreme Court on 14 March notified a nine-judge Constitution Bench to revisit a longstanding question in Indian labour law: What legally counts as an “industry?”The interpretation of this single word matters because it determines which organizations fall under labour laws and which workers can access labour dispute mechanisms in India.A nine-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant will begin hearing the matter on 17 March and conclude arguments on 18 March. The bench includes Justices B.V.

In normal times, being Porsche’s boss would rank as one of the world’ s most desirable jobs. But I do not envy new Chief Executive Officer Michael Leiters one bit.Barely two months after taking the helm, he made a decent fist on Wednesday of outlining what ails the German sportscar manufacturer and providing the first hints of how he plans to put things right. He’s committed to restoring the company’s “former glory” and insists Porsche “represents a compelling recovery story.” But investors hoping his arrival marks an immediate start of better times for the storied brand could be disappointed.

offshore crypto holdings and transactions will increasingly become visible to tax authorities through automatic cross-border data sharing.The development comes against the backdrop of India’s crypto tax regime introduced in the Union budget 2022 that imposed a 30% tax on gains from virtual digital assets and a 1% tax deducted at source (TDS) on transactions. The high tax and compliance burden is nudging many traders to shift activity offshore, making cross-border reporting frameworks increasingly important.Before these regulations, the reporting structure for crypto was fragmented and voluntary.

The court waived the mandatory 30-day "reconsideration period," usually required by the 2023 guidelines, noting that the patient's family, medical boards, and the state were in unanimous agreement. Active euthanasia involves a deliberate act to end a patient's life, such as administering a lethal injection.

₹520.05 on Thursday, having lost 23% of its value in the past year.This performance contrasts sharply with the Nifty PSE index, of which IRCTC is a part, which has gained 19% during the same period.

trading. In this case, the individual will be the broker.Providing funding to clients using prop books is a way of earning money for some brokers who were not able to capture retail clients, added the second person.

Three of theworld’s largest IT services companies, Capgemini SE, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and EPAM Systems Inc., have found a seemingly contrarian hack to both grow and maintain operating margins: increase India headcount.Analysts see this as the beginning of a new trend as artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies increasingly become part of IT services workflows and give rise to demand for tech workers to monitor their deployment. India's talent pool seems to offer a competitive staffing solution for this need.This comes at a time when some among their biggest Indian peers are trimming workforce.In calendar year 2025, Capgemini, Cognizant and EPAM ended with 230,000, 256,900, and 12,200 employees in India, making between a fifth and three-fourths of their total employees, respectively.The three companies increased their India headcount compared with the year-ago period, both in absolute terms, and also as a percentage of total headcount.

₹100.A PMS requires a minimum of ₹50 lakh.An AIF demands ₹1 crore.An SIF sits between these options, with a minimum investment of ₹10 lakh per asset management company (AMC) at the PAN level.The intended audience is therefore clear: experienced retail investors and emerging high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) who understand risk and can absorb volatility without panic.Structurally, SIFs operate within the mutual fund regulatory framework. They maintain transparency and reporting standards similar to mutual funds, and liquidity can be daily or periodic depending on the scheme.If equity exposure exceeds 65%, taxation applicable is similar to an equity mutual fund.However, within this framework SIFs enjoy far greater strategic flexibility—including up to 25% unhedged short exposure via derivatives.SIFs are permitted to run strategies that would be impractical or impossible within a traditional mutual fund framework.Managers can take long positions in stocks expected to rise while simultaneously shorting stocks expected to fall through derivatives.

Mumbai: Private credit is stepping in ahead of public listings to help founders and promoters consolidate stakes or shore up capital as investors seek partial or full exits amid equity market uncertainty.Over the past 12-14 months, founders or promoters of companies including Leap India, Symbiotec Pharma, Vivriti Group, Zepto, InMobi, Lenskart and Zetwerk have engaged in such transactions ahead of their initial public offerings (IPOs), multiple people familiar with the matter told Mint. “Credit is increasingly being used as a flexible pool of capital to capture these opportunities and, in some cases, to provide exits to their investors, especially when public/IPO markets are facing headwinds,” said Aakash Desai, chief investment officer (CIO) & head of private credit at 360 ONE Asset, which closed its fifth private credit fund with a $400 million corpus earlier this week.

The Nifty 50 is facing its most significant period of volatility in over a year. As of 9 March, the index has entered correction territory, down more than 10% from its January peak of 26,373.Whether the Nifty 50 recovers from here or drops further to 22,000 depends heavily on the duration of the current geopolitical crisis and the resulting oil shock.Here is a breakdown of the current investing landscape.The main driver of the market’s fall is the escalating conflict in the Middle East.Yes, if the war drags on and crude oil remains at elevated levels.

DGCA), and uploaded on its website, has proposed that foreign carriers register on the civil aviation ministry’s e-governance portal and submit applications online to obtain operating authorization before launching flights to India.Such approvals are currently largely handled through correspondence-based submissions to the regulator, with documentation requirements determined on a case-by-case basis. The new system aims to replace that with a uniform portal-based process."An airline shall register itself on E-Governance of Civil Aviation portal… by creating unique login ID and password (Login Credentials) and providing ....

Senior citizens increasingly find themselves in court, fighting to reclaim homes they once “gifted” to their children or daughters-in-law, while heirs insist that “a gift is forever”.Under the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, a gift is generally irrevocable unless it carries a valid, agreed contingency for revocation under Section 126. Recent Supreme Court rulings confirm that if a gift deed is absolute and doesn’t include a revocation clause, the donor (the person gifting) cannot cancel it on their own.

India plans to validate its indigenous artificial intelligence (AI) weather forecasting model after the monsoon season to assess its accuracy and reliability.The evaluation will compare AI-based predictions with actual rainfall and climate data, India Meteorological Department (IMD) director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra told Mint. If successful, the model could improve early warnings, disaster preparedness, and agricultural planning nationwide, he said, adding that AI systems would analyze large historical weather datasets and real-time observations to detect patterns.The initiative will complement India’s Bharat Forecasting System (BharatFS)—a high-resolution weather prediction system launched in May 2025, operating on a 6-km grid, designed to improve forecasts for monsoon, cyclones and extreme weather events.

These appointments come even as VinFast's global headquarters remains closely involved in the operations of its India unit, with the three-member VinFast board of directors led by Pham Sanh Chau, managing director and chief executive VinGroup Asia. Chau was present at several recent company announcements on financing partnerships and the achievement of five-star safety ratings in India over the past few months.“This appears to be a conscious strategy.

Escalating tensions in the Middle East have pushed crude prices into the spotlight, making it the single biggest trigger for the recent sell-off in Indian equities.Brent crude prices experienced a sharp spike and a violent reversal on Monday, skyrocketing to nearly $120 per barrel before settling under $100 amid rising tensions in West Asia, supply constraints, and fears of a prolonged conflict.A blockade at the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point that carries about a fifth of global oil, has reignited supply shock fears, lifting crude prices and heightening risks for import-dependent economies such as India’s. Oil and related energy stocks in India have therefore come into sharp focus.Today, we take a closer look at small cap companies in India’s oil industry.

Last week, I wrote about how frontier artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to improve exponentially—to the point where it is not just introducing linear improvements in functionality, but literally augmenting capabilities. Personally, this became evident when I realized I could code anything I could imagine, allowing me to create various applications and programs to eliminate micro-frustrations in my workflow. I am sure that those in other domains are experiencing similar capability uplifts.

India’s courts are keeping up with the times in their efforts to curb online piracy of films and television shows by issuing dynamic plus injunctions that are effective even for content that hasn’t been released yet.“We are witnessing a pivotal transition toward the dynamic plus injunction, where the Indian judiciary is providing ex-ante protection for content that hasn't even been expressed yet,” said Yash Vardhan Singh, counsel at Sarvaank Associates. “By moving away from static, URL-based orders, the courts are addressing the intractable reality of digital piracy, ensuring marquee properties like Stranger Things and Friends are protected from the moment of creation.”Experts said recent anti-piracy orders, particularly the dynamic plus injunction, expand the scope of dealing with emerging cyberspace issues.

weaker rupee and persistent geopolitical concerns.Here are three stocks to buy or sell as recommended by Raja Venkatraman of NeoTrader for Tuesday 10 Mar.Best stocks to buy today (All Buy trades are rates of Equity & Sell rates are based on F&O)DATAPATTNS: Buy above ₹3500, stop ₹3390 target ₹3850 (Multiday)AUROPHARMA: Buy above ₹1250, stop ₹1199 target ₹1350 (Multiday)VEDL: Buy above ₹711, stop ₹699 target ₹760 (Multiday)The benchmark Nifty settled at 17,642.35, down 158.20 points or 0.89 percent, after slipping to an intraday low of 17,580.10. The Sensex also ended in the red at 78,210.45, losing 708.45 points or 0.90 percent.Broader indices underperformed, with the Nifty Midcap falling 1.5 percent and the Smallcap index shedding 1.8 percent, reflecting risk aversion among investors.