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10.12 / 01:43

markets UPS Trade President country Updates Mint Quick Edit | A US anti-dumping duty on Indian rice won’t hurt much but would send the wrong signal

Just hours before a US delegation arrived in New Delhi to wrap up a long-pending trade deal, Donald Trump hinted at a fresh tariff to be levied on India. Speaking at the White House, the US President expressed his displeasure over Indian rice shipments to the US after complaints from a local farmer lobby over cheap imports.

09.12 / 11:35

markets Digital Maxim performer social Features Updates Is India’s privacy law already outdated? AI thrives on data abundance but we’re aiming for scarcity

I have long argued that modern technologies can only be effective if governed by principle-based legislation. Prescriptive rules tend to be sclerotic, calcifying faster than the technology systems they seek to regulate.

09.12 / 07:41

markets UPS Gap security Sustainability social Updates As regulatory changes step up lending competition in India, private credit could prove its mettle and thrive

India’s private credit market has experienced remarkable growth in the first half of 2025, reaching $9 billion across 79 transactions, nearly triple the volume in the preceding six months. This surge has been led by a landmark $3.1 billion transaction by a large Indian corporate, representing the largest onshore private credit deal in Indian history.

09.12 / 05:23

markets Schools Updates Will the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger go through? It depends on how you define market share.

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09.12 / 03:37

markets COST Trade band cover rights Updates Customs reform: How a standard rate of 5% import duty could sharpen India’s export edge

We welcome finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement at this year’s HT Leadership Summit that her next reform would be of India’s customs duty regime. This is vital to boost competitiveness and trade diversification amid today’s tariff turmoil, with the US walling itself apart.It would be best not to limit the exercise to easing procedures and revising customs duty rates.

09.12 / 01:59

markets UPS Trade President country Updates Mint Quick Edit | China’s $1 trillion plus trade surplus could worsen global turbulence if Beijing shrugs it off

China’s role as the world’s big factory isn’t weakening in the face of the US’s tariff-policy pushback. Its trade surplus is set for a record high in 2025, with exports exceeding imports by nearly $1.1 trillion in the first 11 months of the year, according to official data released on Monday, topping the trillion-dollar mark for the first time. Sure, its exports to the US slumped about 29% from a year earlier in November, but this was more than offset by export expansion to other markets.

08.12 / 10:39

markets Updates Is AI making us dumb?

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08.12 / 10:39

markets Digital Assurant Software Enterprise Bill Updates Businesses need reliable software: Taming AI for enterprises could spell business for India’s IT sector

Enterprise technology has long rested on a basic assumption: determinism. When a system gets identical inputs, it must yield identical outputs. Business and tech leaders rely on this expectation.

08.12 / 09:59

markets UPS country social Equality rights Updates As people get suspicious of governments, the value of sound macroeconomic policymaking should assert itself

Across much of the industrial world, trust in government is low and declining. Why is this happening and why exactly does it matter? An unusually thorough new study looks at these questions and finds answers that are somewhat unexpected and, in one way, more disturbing than you might have guessed.The fact of diminished trust is hardly a revelation, least of all in countries such as the US, where anti-establishment populists have turned politics upside down and elite expertise has become not just distrusted but disdained. Last year, a survey found that fewer than one is six Americans expect Washington to do the right thing “nearly always” (1%) or “most of the time” (15%).

08.12 / 09:59

UPS Aviat Airlines Assurant Justice Courts Updates Mint Explainer | IndiGo Chaos: How a decade-long pilot fatigue dispute landed DGCA in high court

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The week-long disruption at IndiGo—India’s largest airline—resulted in more than 1,500 flight cancellations and widespread delays across major airports, prompting the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to issue a show-cause notices to chief executive officer (CEO) Pieter Elbers and other executives for failing to ensure reliable operations. The crisis has deeper roots in a decade-long legal dispute over the rights of pilots to regulated work hours and strict enforcement of fatigue-mitigation norms.

08.12 / 08:41

markets UPS Provident wellness Trade Updates Cheaper global gas supply and rising urban consumption could alter India’s energy mix for the better

India’s recent commitment to purchase 10% of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports over the course of a year from the US to meet the country’s cooking-fuel needs heralds a wider policy approach. It marks the diversification of our petroleum product purchase basket away from traditional proximate sources in West Asia. The move comes amid ongoing negotiations between India and the US that seek to bring greater parity in trade between the two countries.

08.12 / 02:05

markets Maxim Align Bill Trade Updates Mint Quick Edit | India’s customs regime should be rejigged to sharpen our export edge

It would be music to many ears that India’s government is planning to overhaul its customs regime. The goal will not just be to ease compliance, but also bring down rates wherever they are higher than optimal, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday at the HT Leadership Summit 2025.

08.12 / 01:23

markets film Anthem Pride song recommendations Updates Can controversy on Vande Mataram finally end?

India? Symbols of national pride and struggle shouldn’t be seen from a religious prism as they transcend such limited boundaries.The uninitiated should know that Vande Mataram is not just a film song. Bengali author Bankim Chandra Chatterjee penned it in 1875. Later he included the song in his famous novel “Anand Math”.

05.12 / 08:21

markets Digital Aware security testing Updates International What really counts in life insurance: The claim experience

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In life insurance, value is proven not in brochures or marketing campaigns, but at the moment a family files a claim. It’s here—where operational efficiency, regulation and human empathy intersect—that the industry’s promise is truly tested.

05.12 / 02:45

markets COST UPS Target rights Updates The path to a greener electricity grid may be paved with good intentions but we mustn’t set targets in stone

With rising solar and wind capacity in India’s electricity system, these clean sources have crossed the one-third mark. Given the vagaries of weather, however, a key challenge lies in ensuring the delivery of reliable supplies on schedule.

05.12 / 01:45

markets Digital Aware Platform Instagram social Updates Mint Quick Edit | Can any government really keep young teens off social media? All eyes are on Australia

A week before Australia’s social media ban for under-16s kicks in, Meta has started pushing underage Australians off its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms.The ban, which comes into effect on 10 December, is aimed at shielding children from harmful content. Social media being what it is, the rest of the world is watching what many consider a doomed experiment. Age-faking has been a common practice for the underage to gain access to platforms and many under-16s are aware of VPN and other hacks to get around digital walls.

04.12 / 07:21

markets COST Provident information rights Updates Relationships India needs a robust framework to regulate AI-telecom bundling that exposes us to privacy risks

India’s telecom giants are reshaping how millions access artificial intelligence (AI). When Airtel partners with Perplexity or Jio bundles Google’s AI tools into its data plans, it creates a new architecture of power, data flow and risk that existing regulations aren’t designed to handle.AI-telecom bundling involves pre-installing or subsidizing AI services—assistants, search tools, content generators—through authorized telecom providers, either free or at reduced cost. These arrangements give AI companies instant access to countless users while telecom firms gain a new revenue stream and stickier customer relationships.

04.12 / 03:05

markets UPS Platform Analysis show reports Updates RBI Ombudsman grievance data shows high retail discontent: Remedial measures, please

Soon after assuming office at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) almost a year ago, Governor Sanjay Malhotra had flagged the central bank’s growing concern over the banking sector’s disregard for customer service, especially the scant resources that banks earmark for timely redressal of grievances.The 2024-25 annual report of the Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (IOS), a framework designed for complaint handling, offers details and analysis of the sector’s receipt and resolution of complaints. It shows the scale of the problem that needs to be tackled.

04.12 / 01:51

markets UPS Fallout Bill Updates Mint Quick Edit | As the rupee sinks past 90, look at the bright side of a subtle shift in policy

For the rupee, finding a floor seems to be getting difficult. On Wednesday, it slid past the psychologically-important 90 mark against the dollar to touch an all-time low of 90.29, before recovering slightly to end at 90.19. For the year, it is down about 5%.

03.12 / 10:53

markets COST UPS Bill Universities Updates Power sector proposals brighten India’s energy outlook but lasting gains need a stronger jolt of reforms

The power sector has emerged as a key lynchpin of the economic engine that the government is revving up to help drive India’s growth in times of geopolitical tumult. The distribution business continues to be a bugbear of the power sector, with snags that curtail the ability of consumers to benefit from modern technology, be it the low cost of solar electricity or smart meters that enable consumers to schedule some part of their consumption (like the use of washing machines) to reduce bills.

03.12 / 09:33

markets UPS Citi Waters country reports Updates Megacities are both booming and increasingly exposed to the risk of disastrous floods

Humanity’s future lies in some of the most vulnerable spots on the planet. We’ve seen that in stark relief of late. A United Nations report last month concluded that the world’s population is increasingly crowded into a group of often low-lying, middle-income megacities in Asia and Africa.Jakarta and Dhaka dethroned Tokyo’s long-held status as the world’s biggest city, with 42 million, 37 million and 33 million people respectively.

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