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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dream of working hard to retire early is eroding as higher costs of living cut into savings and frothy valuations leaves portfolios vulnerable to market dives. The concept of saving to retire early, or FIRE, an acronym for “Financially Independent, Retire Early," has evolved as a result, as adherents salt away more money and prepare for volatility in future markets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Meta Platforms on Friday unveiled a series of agreements that would make it an anchor customer for new and existing nuclear power in the U.S., where it needs city-size amounts of electricity for its artificial-intelligence data centers. The Facebook parent said it would back new reactor projects with the developers TerraPower and Oklo and has struck a deal with the power producer Vistra to purchase and expand the generation output of three existing nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: When presenting the Union budget last February, the government projected a 13% growth in direct tax collections for the current financial year, banking on the strong tax buoyancy seen in preceding years. However, between April and mid-December of this year, collections have grown approximately 8%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: A deluge of solar power and rules binding electricity distributors to purchase it are prompting distress sales on India's electricity exchanges, trade data showed. Discoms sitting on excess power often sell it on exchanges at a loss, as the alternative would be to receive nothing, given the weak demand during solar hours.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 7-8 January, OpenAI rolled out two healthcare products: ChatGPT Health for users and ChatGPT for Healthcare, for organizations in the industry. While ChatGPT Health is an extension of the existing chatbot, offering a space dedicated for health, the latter aims to automate workflows for healthcare organizations, a niche where Indian healthtech firms have attracted investor interest.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. U.S. voters aren’t the only ones up in arms about affordability.

₹9,588 crore in Q2FY26 (July-September), driven by volume growth across key segments. Non-CV businesses are also expanding: aftermarket services grew 11%, power solutions 14%, and defence 25%. These non-truck segments now contribute roughly 50% of consolidated revenue, boosting margins and insulating the company from cyclical CV volatility.Ebitda jumped 14.3% to ₹1,162 crore during the September-ended quarter, with margins expanding 50 bps to 12.1%, aided by cost optimization and higher non-truck growth.

The budget is around the corner, and the government is staring at a massive tax shortfall. To make matters worse, nominal GDP growth is likely to be slower than anticipated in 2025-26.However, neither of these two will put the government in an uncomfortable position, as non-tax revenues have exceeded expectations, and the fiscal deficit calculation will benefit from statistical revisions.The government’s tax collections have grown only 3.3% in April-November, sharply lower than the 10.8% growth aimed for in the budget.

Stock market recap: Frontline indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, declined for the third consecutive session on Wednesday, 7 January, amid mixed global cues. The Sensex dropped 102 points, or 0.12%, to end at 84,961.14, while the Nifty 50 settled at 26,140.75, down 38 points, or 0.14%. The mid and small-cap indices outperformed.

₹20,000 crore that have slowed highway development in the country.The pre-conciliation committee, set up by the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH), will attempt to resolve disputes valued under ₹5 crore between highway contractors and government authorities before they snowball into prolonged legal battles, according to two government officials aware of the development.The development assumes significance given that these small-value disputes account for a fifth of the nearly ₹1 trillion legal claims in road and highway construction that the government has been party to over the past decade. Also, there are documented cases of sub- ₹1 crore road payment disputes where contractors had to wait for 6-7 years for resolution.

Mint.The lender, which had 454,608 prepaid cards as of November, plans to add 100,000 prepaid cards—both domestic and foreign—every year, said the document inviting external agencies to submit their bids.The state-run lender also had an active card rate of 25%, or 112,801 cards, higher than the banking industry average of 18%, as of November, according to data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). An active card is defined as one that has been used for at least one financial transaction in the past year.The bank also has 1.1 million, including 994,062 active, wallets.“The purpose of the RFP (request for proposal) is to seek a detailed technical and commercial proposal for (an) end-to-end prepaid card management module…” the bank said in the document.The project includes issuing rupee prepaid cards, foreign currency prepaid cards (single or multi-currency with a minimum of 12 currency wallets), and national common mobility cards.

Today, more than half of all data breach incidents target personally identifiable information—tax identities, passport numbers, biometric data and the like. In most instances, this information was collected and stored to comply with know-your-customer (KYC) obligations.

Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5° Celsius.Given that backdrop, I was struck by Bill Gates’ recent announcement of a major— and decidedly optimistic—shift in his thinking about climate change.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] July 2025, Mumbai-headquartered Glenmark grabbed the spotlight when it signed what was one of the biggest out-licensing deals for an Indian drugmaker with Chicago-based Abbvie Inc.

Addressing at least 300 company executives in a virtual townhall in the last week of December, Joshi nudged the senior leaders to get closer to the 15% operating margin by March this year, according to two people privy to the development.London-based Joshi, who took over the top job two years ago, is also pushing teams to accelerate AI training for employees, win more deals at higher rates, and reduce the time staff spend away from projects, said the people quoted earlier–they asked not to be identified as details are not public.Tech Mahindra CEO’s push to win more revenue comes as the company lags its large information technology (IT) services peers in growth. The Pune-based company is nearing the final phase of Project Fortius, a three-year turnaround roadmap unveiled in April 2024.

Stock market recap: Indian equities ended lower on Monday, 5 January, despite positive global cues as investors booked profits in select heavyweights amid increased geopolitical tensions after the US military action in Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.However, the US attacks on Venezuela did not deal any significant blow to global markets. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei and Korea's Kospi jumped over 3% each, while China's Shanghai Composite rose by over 1%.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] venture capital (VC) funds have raised about $2.5 billion across 20 new vehicles so far in calendar 2025, outpacing the $1.6 billion secured via 16 funds in 2024 and $1.9 billion across 19 funds in 2023, according to Venture Intelligence.

New Delhi: IPO-bound Inox Clean Energy Ltd announced on Monday that its renewables independent power producer (IPP) arm Inox Neo Energies Ltd has acquired 250 megawatt-peak (MWp) of operational solar projects from SunSource Energy Private Ltd and is in the process of acquiring another 50 MWp.Although the company did not disclose the transaction value, two people in the know of the developments said the acquisition was done for about ₹1,000 crore. It will be funded through pre-IPO fundraises, internal accruals, and capital from the promoters, one these people said.MWp denotes the maximum direct-current power a system can produce under ideal laboratory conditions, representing its theoretical peak capacity, unlike MW, which indicates actual, real-world power output that fluctuates with weather and time.The acquisition is a strategic move in India’s rapidly expanding commercial & industrial (C&I) power market.

Three stocks to trade, recommended by NeoTrader’s Raja Venkatraman:DABUR(Cmp ₹522.60)DABUR: Buy above ₹525, stop ₹507 target ₹580 (Multiday)RRKABEL (Cmp ₹1510.50)RRKABEL:Buy above ₹1515, stop ₹1470 target ₹1615 (Multiday)PAYTM(Cmp ₹1340.60)PAYTM: Buy above ₹1340, stop ₹1315 target ₹1385 (Intraday)Stock Market RecapIndian equity markets closed on a strong note on Monday, buoyed by firm global cues and robust buying in banking and metal counters. The Sensex advanced 573.41 points, or 0.67 percent, to settle at 85,762.01 after touching an intraday high of 85,812.27.

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Israel’s strike on Hamas targets in Qatar in September, the United States began pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza. But with or without one, Israel will continue to pursue expansive goals, redrawing borders in the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and southwestern Syria in ways that could further fracture its neighbors.