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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. On 14 February, the boards of Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL) and Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL) approved a demerger of its insurance and financial services businesses into two separate listed entities. REL will retain control of Care Health Insurance, while lending, broking, investment, and ancillary activities would be transferred to RFL.

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.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hours before the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's tariffs on Friday, a section of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in India flipped their bearish bets to bullish ones, even as proprietary traders sharply raised their bullish bets. The two moves, combined, may signal anticipation of a ruling which has the potential to trigger a stock market rally on Monday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: The rupee is likely to open stronger against the US dollar on Monday after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs, prompting a recalibration of the North American country’s trade policy and reducing India’s effective tariff exposure to 15% from 18%. However, traders believe any near-term appreciation may be modest and short-lived, given lingering policy uncertainty and month-end dollar demand.

UPL Ltd plans to spin off and list its crop protection business as an independent entity, as part of a strategy to create the world's second-largest agrochemical firm. The Mumbai-headquartered company announced on Friday a three-step restructuring plan to consolidate its domestic and international pesticide units into a single global entity.This restructuring was undertaken in 2022 when the country’s largest agro-chemicals firm brought in private equity giants into three of its businesses.Under the three-step process, UPL Ltd will first merge its India crop protection subsidiary, UPL Sustainable Agri Solutions, with its parent.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Navin Fluorine International Ltd’s stock has delivered almost 60% returns over the last one year. On 10 February, the shares hit an all-time high of ₹6,965 apiece and are now trading around 7% lower.

Judith Wiese, board member and chief people and sustainability officer at Siemens AG, cautioned that Germany will lose 15-20% of its workforce over the next decade due to demographics. And this is why India is “central” to Siemens' strategy of a capability hub.In an exclusive interaction with Mint, Wiese assuaged fears of AI-led layoffs, marked out workplace shifts since the pandemic and spoke on how data centres do guzzle energy, but that challenge needs to be dealt with responsibly.Some things have stayed since covid, particularly hybrid work. In India and China, more employees prefer working from the office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: As India plans to set up 10 gigawatts (GW) of data centre capacity by 2030, demand for electricity is expected to surge. Mint explains how this will impact India’s power sector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A BIT OF sabre-rattling can be useful in foreign policy. Too much of it, though, and the sabre is liable to end up pointing back at you.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market update: Absolutely disappointing end to a day when all the effort that was seen in the last three days was brought to a nought, leading the trends to capsize without any hesitation. This has now proved that we need to work harder as domestic cues are not able to sustain the momentum.

Vedanta Ltd is in a race against time to shore up production levels at its oil and gas business that has declined each of the past 10 years.Higher production levels could bolster the business's financials, helping it fend for itself when it is housed in an independent company named Vedanta Oil & Gas Ltd.Over the past decade, ageing oil blocks have more than halved production at Vedanta’s oil and gas vertical from 211 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (kboepd) in FY15 to 103.2 kboepd in FY25. During the first nine months of FY26, average output stood at 89.1 kboepd—below the 95-100 kboepd guidance given by the company at the beginning of the year.To be sure, falling production at ageing blocks is a problem endemic to the oil and gas sector, with peers like Reliance Industries and Oil and Natural Gas Corp.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Weighed down by continued outflows—amounting to a record $18.9 billion in 2025—the ownership of foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in companies listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) shrank to a 15.5-year low of 16.7% in the quarter ended December, according to data from the exchange. Within key indices, the share of FPIs in the Nifty 50 fell by 25 basis points (bps) quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) to a more than 13-year low of 23.8%, while remaining broadly stable at 18.1% in the Nifty 500.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Torrent Power Ltd continues to scale its coal-based portfolio. The recent acquisition of Nabha Power Ltd, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd, comes at a time when other power producers are also increasing their coal-based capacities to meet rising electricity demand.

Human societies have long found ingenious ways to cope with extreme weather; and India is no exception. The ancient Kallanai dam in southern India, for example, built to divert the Kaveri River for irrigation, sustained fertile delta farming for centuries.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Reworked concession terms, stronger traffic growth and falling yields on operational assets are nudging long-term capital back toward construction-linked road bets. After staying away from construction-risk projects for almost a decade, fund houses and private equity firms are re-evaluating greenfield build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects in India.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Global data centre capacity will more than double to 219 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, from 82 GW in 2025, as per global consulting firm McKinsey's estimates. Of this, 156 GW alone will come from artificial intelligence (AI)-related workloads.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Stable Money, an Indian platform allowing users to book fixed-income assets, has raised $25 million in a pre-Series C funding round, valuing the Bengaluru-based fintech startup at $175 million, at a time when Indian fintechs are under pressure to build more sustainable business models Peak XV Partners led the all-equity round with a $20 million investment, Saurabh Jain, co-founder of Stable Money, told Mint. Existing backers Z47, RTP Global, and the Fundamentum Partnership, co-founded by Infosys Ltd chairman Nandan Nilekani, also participated.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market update: Indian equity benchmarks extended their recovery for a second consecutive session on Tuesday, 17 February 2026, as the Nifty 50 closed 0.17% at 25,725 and the Sensex rose 173 points to settle at 83,451.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The viability of businesses entering bankruptcy proceedings should be tested in the first month before they’re allowed to operate as going concerns, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed in a set of new draft regulations.