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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry has been experiencing continuous expansion recently. The key drivers of this expansion are consumer-driven growth and higher product prices, particularly for essential goods.

Wipro surged 5% on Thursday to Rs 324.55 on the BSE, buoyed by sustained optimism following strong third-quarter earnings from the IT services giant. Broader enthusiasm for Indian IT stocks, which tracked a global tech rally driven by the U.S.'s $500 billion AI investment push, fueled a 2% rise in the Nifty IT index, further lifting sentiment. Wipro reported a 24% year-on-year growth in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended December 31, 2024, reaching Rs 3,354 crore. Revenue from operations rose marginally by 0.5% to Rs 22,319 crore during the December quarter. Sequentially, profit after tax (PAT) increased by nearly 5%, while revenue edged up 0.1% in Q3FY25.

NDA 3.0 government must use its enormous political capital to implement 'politically difficult' structural reforms in the upcoming budget to promote growth and job creation, former RBI Governor D Subbarao said on Thursday. The Union Budget for 2025-26, to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, comes amid global economic uncertainties and moderating domestic growth.

India-based startups to provide solutions for its US supply chain and sourcing operations. «Tech innovation is what drives real-world solutions to move forward a globally resilient supply chain. By collaborating with global innovators, we're leveraging fresh ideas to build a more resilient supply network,» said Kyle Carlyle, vice president of sourcing Innovation & Surety of Supply, at Walmart.

Mangesh Bhadang, Senior VP, Centrum Broking, says December has seen substantial cement price hikes in the non-trade segment. There have been some hikes in the trade segment as well. That is going to have a very positive effect on the realisation of cement companies. So far, the higher prices have sustained and have been absorbed in the market. So, Q4 could be a bumper quarter after a long time for the cement sector. What do you make of the earnings that we have till now because overall in the last couple of months or so, we have seen a lot of these upgrades and positive notes flowing in on the cement counters where hopes were pinning on some of the price hike stability. Other than that, the realisation expectation was positive. But given the earnings disappointment, do you feel that the most of the disappointment in Q3 is already priced in and the analysts are now looking for the way forward in terms of better realisation and pricing? Mangesh Bhadang: As you rightly said, anyway we were expecting that Q3 will not be a blockbuster quarter, but because Q2 had been so weak, sequential improvement could definitely be there. Out of the cement results that have been declared, Dalmia Bharat probably was the right comparable to look at for the industry wide points that we can take out.

India's defence spending for the financial year 2025-26 is expected to stabilise around 1.9 to 2 per cent of GDP, consistent with recent years. While this offers financial stability, it may not be enough to counter escalating external threats. At the 21st Subroto Mukerjee Seminar, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh highlighted the importance of prioritising resource allocation rather than increasing funds, noting that the current budget already stretches the absorptive capacity of domestic industries.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Government's withdrawal of demand incentives for small pick-ups has sharply slowed the adoption of Tata Motors’ Ace electric truck, a beneficiary of the erstwhile FAME-II subsidy scheme to promote electric vehicles (EV) in India. EV penetration for the Ace lineup had risen to nearly 10% in the final quarter of FY24, driven by a significant pre-buy as customers anticipated the end of the incentives.

Jalgaon Train Accident LIVE: In Maharashtra's Jalgaon, a tragic incident was reported on Wednesday. While Pushpak Express was on its way to its destination on January 22, a false fire alarm was raised at Jalgaon's Paranda Railway Station.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As India races towards an electric future, powered by renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), a looming question casts a shadow on this green ambition: what happens to millions of EV batteries at the end of their life? With gigafactories rising and mining for critical materials like lithium and cobalt taking an environmental toll, the need for a robust battery recycling ecosystem has never been more urgent.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of Oberoi Realty Ltd are on a shaky ground, plummeting 13% in the past two trading sessions. The fact that sales momentum did not sustain in its marquee project Three Sixty West located at Worli in Mumbai and other projects has weighed heavily on sentiment.

The South Korean government has announced it will reduce indirect subsidies for biomass energy

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MORE THAN 90 years ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt surveyed the wreckage of the Great Depression. He pointed to one of its causes: sky-high tariffs had put America on the “road to ruin" by inviting retaliation and suffocating investment.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nifty 50, India’s benchmark index, closed lower at 23,024.65 after a volatile trading session. The index opened at 23,421.65 but remained in the red for most of the day.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's multiplex boom may be losing steam. With the box office struggling to deliver consistent hits, especially in the Hindi belt, leading chains are slowing their expansion plans, prioritising sustainability over aggressive growth.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The general mood is upbeat at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), though day one at Davos coincided with a flurry of executive orders by US President Donald Trump immediately after he took oath.

JK Tyre & Industries on Tuesday said it has received a USD 100 million sustainability-linked loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The funding includes USD 30 million for JK Tyre and up to USD 70 million for Cavendish Industries Ltd (CIL), a subsidiary of the company, the tyre maker said in a statement.

Deloitte India on Tuesday projected India's GDP to grow at 6.5-6.8 per cent in the current fiscal and said India will have to adapt to the evolving global landscape and harness its domestic strengths to drive sustainable growth. In its Economic Outlook report, Deloitte India also said the country needs to decouple from global uncertainties and harness its domestic potential.