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11.02 / 12:09

markets COST Target Platform Strategy Healthcare testing Velumani’s second coming: Why the Thyrocare founder wants a bite of the crowded dental market

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: On most Saturdays, between the whir of drills and the shuffle of patient files in a busy suburban Mumbai dental clinic, you might find a 66-year-old entrepreneur bent over a whiteboard, talking unit economics instead of molars. A.

11.02 / 10:27

markets exclusive outbreak testing Department prevention Vaccines India to centralize testing of 42 veterinary vaccines under regulatory overhaul

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India plans to centralize testing and quality control of 42 essential veterinary vaccines at a single national laboratory, replacing a fragmented system that allows self-certification and state-level testing, according to two government officials and a document reviewed by Mint.

11.02 / 00:49

markets COST Provident Mobile Research performer testing Crash course: How India is strengthening the four pillars of the car testing world

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi is supercharging the four testing agencies behind India's vehicle standards, crash tests and technology research, at a time new power trains and connectivity tech crowd the automotive assembly line.

10.02 / 03:11

Research testing patient prevention medicines symptoms International Why doctors can’t agree on how to dagnose Alzheimer’s

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Imagine you’re in your late 60s and are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. You start planning the rest of your life: telling your spouse you may eventually become incapacitated; looking into long-term memory care; checking off as many bucket list items as you can.

10.02 / 00:35

markets COST security wellness Labrador reports testing From Canada to Gadchiroli: Inside Tata Steel’s race to secure raw material after it loses legacy mines

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI , NEW DELHI : For years, iron ore was one thing Tata Steel never lost sleep over. Owning captive mines meant predictable supply, stable costs and a structural edge over rivals who depended on expensive mines acquired through auctions or remained at the mercy of the markets.

09.02 / 01:25

Align Experts Cycling performer country testing International Govt's new move to make official vehicle data mirror real-world performance

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Come April 2027, carmakers selling vehicles in India will have to comply with testing standards which are stricter and much more aligned with real-world conditions.

07.02 / 03:13

UPS Manufacturing trends Trade Diversity reports testing The week in charts: India-US trade deal, Internship outlay slump, PMI trends

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From India and the US finalizing the much-awaited trade deal, to low budgetary allocation for the Prime Minister’s Internship scheme in the Budget, richer states seeing an uptick in their share in the Centre’s divisible revenue, and startup leaderships lacking gender diversity—here’s this week’s news in numbers.Trade deal Following months of tariff disputes and prolonged negotiations that tested the India–US relations, a long-awaited free trade agreement was announced on Monday.

06.02 / 14:03

FIVE Platform Strategy students reports testing Schools Why PhysicsWallah is betting on schools to fix what coaching can’t

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: PhysicsWallah built its business by fixing what India’s school system often does not, helping students crack high-stakes entrance exams such as JEE and NEET. Now, in a counter-intuitive next phase of growth, the edtech company is betting that the only durable way to improve coaching outcomes is to go back and fix school education itself.

06.02 / 07:27

Provident Mobile Enterprise Inside testing rights International Airtel’s network trials begin, but pricing dispute still clouds Navi Mumbai airport connectivity

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI , NEW DELHI : Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has begun testing mobile signals at the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), two people familiar with the development said, signalling progress on cellular connectivity at the facility that was inaugurated in late December. The development assumes significance as billionaire Gautam Adani’s newest airport has been operating for over a month without network coverage from private telecom operators, causing persistent connectivity issues for passengers.

06.02 / 02:57

markets COST Extreme Platform Software Trade testing The Agentic AI invasion: It’s here—but does the software industry face an existential threat?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was swift and brutal, the global sell-off in tech stocks this week after Anthropic’s launch of Agentic AI tools with startling skills. From America to India, software stocks lost $285 billion in market value globally within the span of a single trading session.

06.02 / 00:41

markets UPS Provident Software Enterprise reports testing Agents are coming, and India's IT is rushing to meet them

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Top information technology (IT) services companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence agents from specialist firms across their domains, at a time when the debut of advanced AI tools threatens to eat their lunch.

06.02 / 00:41

markets COST UPS IPO Booking band testing Aye Finance to test IPO market even as non-bank peers prefer to wait

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Aye Finance Ltd is headed for a public market debut at a valuation below its last funding round, becoming the first non-bank lender to test the appetite after months of sector-wide delays. The venture capital-backed microlender has set a price band of ₹122-129 per share for its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the company at approximately ₹3,200 crore at the upper end.

05.02 / 08:01

Digital hiv testing patient infection donates malaria India launches nationwide audit of blood banks after children test HIV-positive post-transfusion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered a nationwide audit of all 4,153 licensed blood banks and centres after children in some states tested HIV-positive following allegedly contaminated transfusions, according to two government officials and a document that Mint reviewed. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has started risk-based inspections of all blood centres and any facility not compliant with the standards will be closed down, the officials said.

02.02 / 07:57

UPS Waves Election Opinion Research Universities testing AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. POLLSTERS HAVE been burning through their nine lives. First, as caller ID spread, people stopped answering their phone calls.

02.02 / 02:29

COST UPS Target economy Trade testing India’s budget doubles down on a tried and tested formula—with debt reduction as a distant target

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India kept calm and carried on this fiscal year, with a GST spur for retail offtake, an urgency for foreign trade deals and a few tariff tweaks for factory-cost relief making up the bulk of our response to trade adversity. That spirit prevails in India’s budget for 2026-27 too.

30.01 / 08:33

markets COST UPS Citi Platform Racing testing Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A Journey in one of Pony.ai’s robotaxis is, in some respects, a familiar experience for anyone who has ridden in a cab in China. For one thing, the horn honks just as often.

30.01 / 04:39

COST economy Align Discover Universities social testing The background and importance of ‘delayed gratification’, the signature phrase in the Economic Survey 2025-26

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The marshmallow test, a social experiment at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s, made a comeback Thursday halfway across the world in New Delhi—in the Economic Survey penned by chief economic adviser Venkatramanan Anantha Nageswaran and team. The test, credited to American psychologist Walter Mischel, was simple.

30.01 / 01:35

Digital Apple Tesla love Experts Xiaomi testing I test drove a Chinese EV. Now I don’t want to buy American cars anymore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. My dearest Xiaomi SU7 Max, It’s been about a month since we were last together. Now, every time I climb back into my Ford Mustang Mach-E, I can’t stop thinking about you—your long range, your modular interior, your absurdly large infotainment screen.

27.01 / 11:43

markets UPS Manufacturing Volkswagen Hyundai Trade testing India-EU FTA opens import route for European carmakers even as near-term price cuts unlikely

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai: India’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, announced on Tuesday, will allow European carmakers such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz India and Volkswagen Group to use imports more strategically to introduce newer models and test demand in India, without committing to local manufacturing. The deal, however, is unlikely to trigger immediate price cuts for most vehicles already sold in the country.

27.01 / 11:11

COST UPS Booking Trade testing Axis Bank Q3 profit beat has investors cheering. Margin recovery next test

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Axis Bank’s investors heaved a sigh of relief after the lender delivered a strong profit beat for the December quarter (Q3FY26), following several quarters weighed down by one-offs and disappointments. Net profit rose 3% year-on-year to ₹6,490 crore, sharply surpassing estimates that had anticipated a decline.

27.01 / 08:33

markets COST Provident Action track testing UltraTech Cement tightens grip on volumes, costs as pricing revival awaited

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Cement pricing disappointed in the December quarter (Q3FY26), but UltraTech Cement Ltd still delivered a comfortable earnings beat. Consolidated Ebitda jumped 36% year-on-year to ₹3,916 crore, ahead of consensus, even as grey cement realizations fell about 6%.

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