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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tiny, niche back offices for high-tech, specialised work are being set up by new-age companies in India at an increasing pace, a trend that experts believe has the potential to take the global capability centre (GCC) wave to the next level in the country. According to industry insiders, companies such as M31, d-Matrix, and MemryX, among several others, are increasingly setting up focused ‘nano’ GCCs in India.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. 1. Apollo Micro Systems Ltd - Current market price: ₹125.18 | Buy range: ₹123–126 | Profit goal: ₹155 | Stop loss: ₹112 | Timeframe: 2–3 months.

Anora (2024) in key and multiple categories at the 97th Academy Awards, there lies an irrefutable fact. It is the noteworthy commercial success of Anora (2024) globally. The film was made on a budget of $6 million.

expensive personal computers used to be. In the clip, experts discuss machines that cost anywhere from $5,000 to $11,000—a sum that, adjusted for inflation, would be roughly $12,000 to $26,000 today. And what did you get for that price? A 20MB hard drive, a black-and-white display, and no internet connectivity. Compared to today’s ultra-thin, ultra-fast laptops that can cost as little as $300, the difference is staggering.

Nifty 50 index posting its biggest weekly gain in over four years. The rally was driven by renewed foreign investor interest and expectations that the worst of the recent market downturn is over. The NSE Nifty 50 closed 0.69% higher at 23,350, while the BSE Sensex gained 0.73% to settle at 76,905—both at six-week highs. For the week, both indices surged about 4.2%.

According to NSE-listed data analytics firm PropEquity, Housing sales in Q1 2025 stood at 1,05,791 units as compared to 1,36,702 units in the same period last year. In 2024, the sale saw a marginal 9% decline in sales at 4,70,899 units while new supply fell by 15% to 4,11,022 units on the back of two quarters of under-activity due to General Elections and monsoon.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. We’ve all heard it before—"You can become anything in life if you really want to." But what if the real problem isn’t effort or ambition, but not knowing what we truly want? Many people spend their lives chasing wealth, believing it to be the ultimate measure of success. Yet, despite amassing fortunes, they find themselves unfulfilled.

Srinivas Rao Ravuri, Chief Investment Officer, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance. While a 12-13% earnings growth rate may not seem particularly strong at first glance, we believe it represents a credible target given the prevailing global uncertainties, he said in an interview with ET Markets.

ICICI Bank and Bharti Airtel emerging as the biggest gainers, in tandem with a bullish trend in equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark gauge surged 3,076.6 points, or 4.16 per cent, and the NSE Nifty jumped 953.2 points, or 4.25 per cent. The market capitalisation (mcap) of ICICI Bank jumped Rs 64,426.27 crore to Rs 9,47,628.46 crore, the most among the top-10 firms.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tejaswini Nair, a product manager in Bengaluru, was in a bad place last November after she lost her dog within months of ending a long relationship. A friend asked her to come for a Singles Day run organised by global sports brand Puma and dating app Bumble in Bengaluru that month.

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MP Supriya Sule criticised Air India over delaying her flight for more than one hour, and urged the Union Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu to enforce stricter regulations to hold airlines accountable. Supriya Sule said that her flight AI0508 was delayed by 1 hour and 19 minutes, noting the continuous trends of delays affecting passengers. «I was travelling on Air India flight AI0508, which was delayed by 1 hour and 19 minutes — part of a continuous trend of delays affecting passengers. This is unacceptable. Urging Hon'ble Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu to enforce stricter regulations to hold airlines like Air India accountable for repeated delays and ensure better service standards for passengers.» Sule wrote on X. In an another post, Sule added that these flights are never on time, affecting professionals, children, and senior citizens with their mismanagement. «Air India flights are endlessly delayed — this is unacceptable! We pay premium fares, yet flights are never on time. Professionals, children, and senior citizens — all affected by this constant mismanagement. Urging the Civil Aviation Minister to take action and hold Air India accountable,» Sule wrote.

market disruption is upending investment blueprints everywhere in 2025, while hitting sentiment across US stocks. It’s a backdrop Wall Street’s diversification-minded pros are ready to celebrate.

Policybazaar. The private sector insurer said in a report that the share of insurance policies for EV cars, which stood at a mere 0.50 per cent in FY23, has expanded to 14 per cent in March 2025, standing at 8.2 per cent Observing the evolving trends, Amit Chhabra, CBO of General Insurance at Policybazaar said, «The accelerating adoption of EV insurance signals India's shift toward sustainable mobility. With EV insurance share growing nearly 16-fold in just three years, consumers are not only adopting electric vehicles but also recognizing the need for tailored protection.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Private credit funding, in which lenders and borrowers directly negotiate financing without engaging an intermediary, is increasing in size and complexity, as companies look to diversify their source of funding, Pramod Kumar, chief executive officer and head of investment banking - India at Barclays Plc. Barclays, which has been quite active in the private credit space over the past few years, is looking at big-ticket transactions.

«Entry-level IT developers will have a tough time landing a job in 2025. If you have just graduated from college, focus on building live products and make them open source. That’s the only way you can showcase your talent and land a job,» said Udit Goenka. India’s $254-billion IT sector, long a global powerhouse, is witnessing a shift in how it operates as automation and evolving technologies redefine its growth strategies.

Tesla trade-ins at dealerships (excluding Tesla’s own trade-in program).

real estate market recorded 19,012 property registrations during the month of February 2025. On a yearly basis, registrations remained steady, with a modest 1% year-on-year growth while on a month-on-month analysis registrations increased by 9%, showed data from the Inspector General of Registration (IGR) and Controller of Stamps, Maharashtra. Pune’s housing demand continues to be supported by ongoing infrastructure development, its relative affordability compared to other major cities, and strong homebuyer sentiment. The city generated over Rs 712 crores in stamp duty collections from property registrations in February, marking a 7.6% on-year and 12% sequential rise. This increase in stamp duty revenue was driven by a higher share of transactions involving properties priced at Rs 1 crore and above.

Rupee billionaire MLAs. Cynics would explain this as an appalling display of power distance in a money-obsessed public life, but the South’s overwhelming representation in the HNI lawmakers’ club is as much a symbol of peninsular India’s broader prosperity as is the glaring regional disparity in staples-loaded retail inflation. In economic terms, the two pieces of data indicate the South’s burgeoning wealth effect – across the spectrum. India’s consumer inflation gauge, with a disproportionate rural weighting of basic food items and a still substantial urban weighting, has fallen below the 4% legal mandate in February to a seven-month low. However, a region-based analysis of inflation data indicates the South has averaged higher on the metric, presumably driven by demand, as those migrating from the less prosperous northern, eastern and central states seek toeholds in bustling economic hubs such as Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, and Cochin. “The region-wise index share CAGR growth during FY12 to FY25 (until Feb 2025) indicates that the southern region has the highest CAGR inflation of 6% in overall inflation,” SBI Research said in a study that analysed inflation across states and federally administered areas over the past 14 years. Curiously, inflation in the South trended above the national average over the period in both rural and urban areas, indicating prosperity across the geographic spectrum – and possibly the impact of labour migration from the less economically advantaged states into even remote villages in the South – particularly the remittance-heavy Kerala.

Like the earlier month, the fortnight (ending March 15) sell-off affected nearly all sectors in the market, with the exception of metals. Metal stocks stood out as they attracted investments worth Rs 1,100 crore, making them the only sector to buck the trend. This was not the case in the preceding period.

global equities Stocks that were in focus include names like GRSE, which rose 4.5% and KEI Industries, which declined 12% and IndiGo, whose shares gained 2.2% on Thursday.