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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The benchmark NSE Nifty 50 index has experienced a significant correction of nearly 15% from its peak in September 2024, making investors anxious. But the stock market is a place where volatility and opportunity go hand-in-hand.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has cemented its position as the industry’s most resilient player, outpacing rivals in subscriber additions, revenue growth, and profitability. But with its core wireless business maturing, the company is now eyeing a new growth frontier: home services.

consulting sector emerged the top recruiter with 201 offers — 37.3% of total offers – at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, as the business school announced the completion of its final placements for its flagship MBA programme’s Class of 2025. Overall, 456 students participated in the final placement process, securing 538 offers rolled out by 196 companies despite challenging market conditions, the institute said. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) emerged as the top recruiter in the management consulting cohort while Accenture Strategy led in the strategy consulting cohort. Other consulting firms that participated were McKinsey, Kearney, Alvarez & Marsal, Arthur D Little, Auctus Advisors, EY-Parthenon, Monitor Deloitte, TCS, KPMG, PwC, and Vector Consulting, amongst others.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." This quote holds significance, especially in building a balanced portfolio that provides growth prospects along with stability in the long run. One way to achieve this is to utilise core satellite investing.

Rahul Gandhi asserted on Sunday that the party's leaders from Kerala «stand as one» and are «united» by the light of purpose ahead. His assertion came after the Congress top brass met leaders from Kerala at the Indira Bhawan here for a brainstorming session on Friday to discuss the strategy and way forward ahead of next year's Assembly polls. Posting a picture from the Kerala leaders' interaction with the media after the meeting, Gandhi said on Facebook: «They stand as one, united by the light of purpose ahead.» His post was accompanied by the hashtag, «Team Kerala». The nearly-three-hour meeting at the Congress's Indira Bhawan headquarters here on Friday had discipline, unity and the strengthening of the state organisation as its running theme.

«This Bombay hotel provides bathroom slippers. But to ensure people don't flick them, they provide mismatched pairs,» the user named Thejaswi Udupa said, dropping a snapshot of a pair of slippers on top of a hotel towel. The slippers featured in the image he posted were noticeably mismatched, with each foot sporting a different color. According to the user, this was a deliberate strategy employed by the hotel to ensure that guests would only find the slippers convenient to wear within their rooms, discouraging them from taking them for personal use outside the premises.

ACME Solar on Sunday said it has planned an investment of Rs 17,000 crore on capital expenditure in FY26 with a focus on hybrid and round-the-clock renewable capacities. The company is also evaluating entry in nuclear energy segment, though these plans are at a drawing board level, ACME Solar said in a statement. ACME Solar Holdings plans to invest Rs 17,000 crore to boost renewable energy capacity to 5 GigaWatts by 2027. As a broader strategy, ACME Solar aims to treble its current renewable capacity to reach 7 GW by 2028, according to the statement. «We intend to focus our new capacities on the revenue and margin accretive hybrid and FDRE (Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy) projects as a critical pivot in our business strategy,» CEO Nikhil Dhingra said.

Venus Wang, divorce wasn’t just an emotional rupture—it was a financial and personal reckoning. “I remember the personal identity shift was a very big thing for me—to transform from someone else’s wife to a single mom,” she told CNBC Make It. At 37, she was unemployed, caring for her daughter full-time, and staring at a bank balance of just $10,000. Before her divorce, Wang had built a steady six-figure career in procurement at a major tech firm. But with no job and a child to raise, she realised she needed a plan—and fast.

U.S.-Ukraine relations, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and America’s role in international diplomacy.

science of well-being, happiness expert and author Stephanie Harrison has developed a new philosophy on happiness. In an interview with CNBC Make It, Harrison shared five practical and science-backed strategies to help individuals lead more fulfilling lives.

In a stock exchange notice today (28 February), the board said it aims to adopt a systematic active equity strategy at its next general meeting, scheduled for 16 April. On the same day, shareholders will be asked to vote on the continuation of the trust as well. BlackRock leverages ELTIF 2.0 framework to increase private markets access for European clients The revamp of its investment objective and policy, subject to the continuation of the vehicle, will comprise combining big data, artificial intelligence and human expertise in a bid to «unlock new ways to seek consistent portfoli...

MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is set to shake up the mutual fund space with a bold new category—specialized investment funds (SIFs). 

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed revising the ₹500 crore exposure limit for index futures and options (F&O), along with other measures to strengthen risk assessment in the derivatives market.

Sebi has introduced a Specialized Investment Fund (SIF) framework to bridge the gap between mutual funds (MFs) and portfolio management services (PMS) and it aims to provide sophisticated investors with more flexible investment opportunities while ensuring regulatory oversight. The new framework will be effective from April 1, 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's two largest steelmakers have diverging strategies on the acquisition of captive iron ore mines for securing the supply of this critical raw material. JSW Steel, which has historically had more reliance on the open market to meet its iron ore demand, is aggressively bidding for acquiring more captive mines, or mines under its leasehold.

Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras could bring forward investments in the future if it leads to higher oil production earlier, Chief Executive Magda Chambriard told journalists during a presentation of the 2024 financial results. On Wednesday the firm reported higher-than-expected investments for 2024 in its fourth-quarter results release, surprising analysts and leading to a dip in the share price on Thursday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Annual reports are generally not known to be candid. It’s a different story when you’re reading Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders of his company Berkshire Hathaway.

Capcom has finally confirmed the global release times for Monster Hunter Wilds. 28 February is the key day that things are going to the twist, and gamers will be able to download the game, and if you have pre-ordered the digital version, then you can begin downloading the latest update now so you’re good to go when the game actually releases on February 28.

Toronto-Dominion Bank beat analysts’ expectations after missing for two consecutive quarters as it reported higher first-quarter profits in its Canadian personal and commercial banking and wholesale banking segments.

HSBC slashed target prices for India’s leading wires and cables companies by as much as 23% on Thursday, citing competitive risks from UltraTech Cement’s surprise foray into the industry. The brokerage said UltraTech’s Rs 1,800 crore investment could be an “industry-fragmenting” event, weighing on long-term earnings growth for incumbents.