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The Mumbai-based company, which focuses on branded land development, has recently expanded into several new locations, including Nagpur, Vrindavan, and Khopoli (Mumbai Metropolitan Region). It sells plots ranging from 1,200 sq ft to 5,000 sq ft, priced between ₹25 lakh and ₹5 crore, depending on size and location.“Our approach remains straightforward, wherever strong infrastructure development, improved connectivity and growing economic momentum begin to shape a region’s growth story, HoABL aims to establish an early presence and create branded land developments that cater to both end-users and investors,” chairman Abhinandan Lodha told Mint.In recent years, plotted sales have seen strong momentum in sales and a rise in prices, prompting many mainstream real estate developers to enter the segment.“The average ticket size for our plotted developments is currently around ₹97 lakh per plot, with the average plot size being approximately 1,500 sq ft.

brand deals and a rise in income since her collaboration with this agency, having worked with top brands such as Netflix, Audible, Britannia and Canva. “With my current team, the income graph has risen. There is consistency and growth,” she said.

₹26,000 crore, lower than ₹33,400 crore in August 2025 and higher than ₹24,000 crore in January 2026. Within equity, the category getting the highest flows, as a trend, is flexi-cap funds. In February 2026, inflows to flexi-cap funds were approximately ₹7,000 crore out of the ₹26,000 crore mentioned earlier.

The West Asia escalation has brought back into focus a structural vulnerability that has long remained underappreciated in policy discourse. Energy flows translate into payment flows, and both are now increasingly mediated by financial architectures that reflect geopolitical reality as much as economic logic. These are not passive conduits, as they can shape outcomes—by enabling, delaying or, in extreme cases, constraining the movement of money across borders.At the heart of this evolving dynamic lies mBridge, an initiative incubated under the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) for interoperability among multiple central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Escorts Kubota, a pure-play tractor manufacturer, reported a 16% jump in sales volume for FY26. Tractors sales are more seasonal than those of other automobiles, so the focus should be on annual numbers.

OTT platforms engage a smaller but paying audience, offering higher completion rates and longer shelf life.According to the Ficci EY Media and Entertainment Report 2026, TVoD revenues in India are projected to rise from ₹500 crore in 2025 to ₹740 crore by 2028. Yet monetization remains skewed towards micro-transactions and subscription models, rather than pay-per-view-led revenue.YouTube is India’s leading ad-supported video platform by reach and watch time, reaching four out of five internet users aged 18 and above.

Mint unpacksZomato has made three attempts at ultra-fast food delivery: Instant, Everyday, and Quick. Each was built on a different model but ended for the same reason: the economics never worked.

This persistent stalemate stems from caps on overseas investments imposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). Once these $8 billion aggregate ceilings were breached in 2022 and 2024, fresh allocations were halted. This effectively locked the market in favour of first-movers.

This summer, Anisha and Karan Kapur, a Delhi-based couple in their mid-40s working corporate jobs, are skipping a ritual they rarely miss: an overseas holiday.With only a few weeks off, they had planned a trip to Portugal, drawn by Europe’s pleasant summer weather. But with geopolitical tensions and the West Asia war, they decided to stay on safer shores instead, swapping the Portuguese summer for a shorter luxury break in Goa and along the Konkan coast.Hotels in India, sensing an opportunity, are looking to lure such travellers with offers that range from longer stays to all-inclusive meals.

₹9,000 crore to become the country’s fourth-largest paint company, sees stronger growth potential in industrial coatings than in the decorative segment, Parth Jindal managing director of JSW Paints and chairman of JSW Dulux, the erstwhile AkzoNobel India, told Mint.“We have global R&D capabilities after we acquired Akzo Nobel and particularly in the absence of Birla Opus in the industrial paints space we see less competition,” Jindal said. He added that a potential shift towards electric vehicles (EVs), driven by the West Asia conflict, could further boost demand.The conflict has already started influencing the EV market.

Domestic steel prices have climbed sharply following the imposition of safeguard duty on imports in December. The war has further disrupted key trade routes, lifting freight costs and, along with rupee depreciation, increasing the pressure on imports.The spot price of hot rolled coil (HRC) has risen about 22% over its Q3FY26 average to ₹57,700 per tonne, but still remains below the landed cost of imports from China, giving domestic producers an advantage, according to a Nomura Global Market Research report.For Q4FY26, the average HRC price stood at ₹53,866 per tonne — a 14% sequential increase.

Last week, the National Statistical Office (NSO) released its annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2025. It differs from earlier PLFS reports in its coverage and sampling design.The PLFS has been in existence since 2017, yielding annual reports for rural and urban areas along with quarterly reports for only urban India. This survey was a departure from the erstwhile Employment and Unemployment Survey (EUS).

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buyers can book a property by paying just 5-20% upfront, with the bulk of the payment deferred until possession. But before you fall for the “affordable home” pitch, understand how the 20:80 subvention scheme for under-construction projects works.Here, buyers make an initial low payment of 20% of the house value from their savings, while the remaining 80% is paid later, as the building nears possession3-5 years later.Buyers mistakenly believe there is no payment due until the possession date.

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Like the ministerial gatherings in 1999, 2003 and 2017, the 14th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held at Yaoundé, Cameroon, ended without an agreement on anything. US trade representative Jamieson Greer used the occasion to reiterate his long-held view that the WTO is not of much use. This trade body operates by consensus and India has had its fair share of blame for such huddles yielding little, having held firm on its right to subsidize agriculture, a point that rich countries found hard to stomach.

Airlines got a fuel price scare after state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) more than doubled its aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price, only to roll back most of the hike within hours on Wednesday. Its initially notified price for jet fuel was ₹207,341 a kilolitre for April in New Delhi, up 115% from March, marking its highest level ever. This was swiftly revised to ₹104,927 for domestic airlines, a mere 8.5% increase.

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