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Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Act, aiming to make Khadi products more marketable, connect with the youth and promote exports of desi clothing.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The tobacco industry is feeling the heat. Rising tobacco leaf prices have squeezed cigarette makers' margins over the past year, and experts anticipate little relief in the fourth quarter of FY25.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even though a lot of big ticket names were missing from the London Fashion Week schedule this season, there was no dearth of creativity. Temperley clocked in its 25th year and the designer's son’s great-great-great-great grandfather Levin August von Bennigsen, who fought Napoleon back in 1807 was on the mood board.

John Abraham recently spoke out against this trend, calling it an unsustainable burden on the industry.

Stock market Holiday today: Stock exchanges, BSE and NSE, will be closed on Wednesday on account of Mahashivaratri. During a market holiday, trading in equities, derivatives, and all other segments will remain suspended for the day. This will be the first official trading holiday for the current calendar year, which has a total of 14 days off. In the month of March, there are two holidays scheduled for Holi (March 14) and Ramzan Id (March 31).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Once a niche therapy prescribed for a chronic condition like lymphoedema, post-surgical healing, and severe fluid retention, manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) has evolved into a mainstream wellness practice today.

Shreenath Paper Products, which opened for subscription earlier today, has seen a subscription of 6.5% so far on the first day of the bidding process. By noon, the issue had attracted total bids for 3,54,000 shares via 112 applications, out of the 53,10,000 shares reserved for allotment. The portion reserved for qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) had not yet received any bids.

green buildings is transforming India's commercial real estate sector, with a substantial portion of Grade A office demand driven by global capability centres (GCCs) and IT/IT-enabled services (ITeS) firms.

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Unilever may struggle to attract buyers for its plant-based meat business, complicating the company's plan to cut its exposure to products which are falling out of favour with consumers, industry experts said.

As is the case with most other SME IPOs, the company will use the funds raised for meeting incremental working capital requirements and general corporate purposes.

ONGC, NTPC, SBI Life, Manappuram Finance, Biocon among others will be in focus due to various news developments. ONGC ONGC has approved an investment of Rs 1,200 crore in its wholly owned subsidiary ONGC Green via rights issue.

These high-performing stocks that rallied more than 10% during the session included, Apollo Pipes (13.65%), Kimia Biosciences(13.60%), Trio Mercantile(13.40%), Medi-Caps Ltd(12.30%), Indian Hume Pipe(12.09%), Sonal Mercantile(11.78%), Brand Concepts(11.50%), DIC India Ltd(10.35%), ETT Ltd(10.14%) and Sanrhea Tech(10.00%).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Every month, Mint’s Plain Facts section brings out an update on key global data to thread together the biggest developments in the world that are worth paying attention to. The accompanying analysis and charts explain how each story is creating ripples on the global stage, where it is headed in the coming weeks, and whether it can impact India.

Ajay Bagga, Market Expert, says the market now predominantly favours long positions in gold, emerging market debt, US equities, and Chinese technology stocks. These four investment strategies are currently popular on a global scale, yet none appear to adequately account for the potential impact of Trump’s tariffs. Bagga says the market appears somewhat complacent. The true implications will likely become clearer in the next two to three months. April 1st is expected to be a crucial date, as it marks the beginning of announcements regarding the implementation of tariffs, followed by additional updates starting April 2nd. A lot of these news plays are flowing around with respect to the threat related to tariff, the emerging market flows etc. What is your view on the broader market space and any pockets of opportunity that you are spotting right now because though the consensus view or the buy is in the largecap space, does any niche pocket within the broader market look interesting to you? Ajay Bagga: Right now, no. I would say let us hold on for the broader markets right now. Overall if you see the global macro, what are the global bond markets telling you, what are the global currency markets telling you, stock markets are still complacent, they are not believing the Trump threats, the Trump strategy is to shock, then negotiate, then come to a deal which might be a one-tenth or one-twentieth of the original ask.

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The muted GMP is in line with the trend seen in IPOs in the recent past, where many companies are struggling to find enough premium in the grey market.