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Mumbai: Dairy products like milk, khoya, cheese, and ghee have become the top targets of adulteration and counterfeiting in India’s FMCG sector. Counterfeiting reported a 2.5x jump to 187 reported incidents in 2025 from 2018, per the Aspa-Crisil State of Counterfeiting in India report.Most of these incidents in the FMCG sector focused on milk-based products, the report added.

BENGALURU: India’s home appliances market is drawing a surge of new entrants from design-led startups to D2C brands, each trying to rewire how Indians cook, clean and live at home.From glass air fryers and smart chimneys to app-enabled kitchen devices, a new crop of companies is targeting urban consumers who are upgrading their homes and are willing to experiment beyond established brands.The surge is mirrored in early-stage funding. EDT, the maker of glass air fryers, raised $4 million from Fireside Ventures in August 2025.Nuuk, which makes fans and vacuum cleaners, among other products, secured $2 million from Vertex Ventures and Good Capital in the same month, followed by chimney maker Beyond Appliances’ $4 million round in December.

₹74,795.57 crore in the month through 17 March, according to National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) data.That works out to an average daily sale of ₹6,799.59 crore over 11 sessions of the month. If the FPI selling for the remaining eight days continues with the same intensity, March would clock ₹1.29 trillion, higher than the record ₹1.14 trillion FPI outflows seen in October 2024.The average daily FPI outflow in October 2024 was ₹5,175 crore .The record selling that month was induced by rising US bond yields, over concerns of global tariff wars following a likely Republican victory in the US presidential elections.

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On 7 January, Mint made a case for reforming India’s highly inefficient regime of fertilizer production, pricing and distribution, and for switching over from product subsidization to income support for farmers. This imperative has since been sprung centre-stage by a war in West Asia that has disrupted our imports of urea and its feedstock gas, both of which form large shares of domestic usage and have seen global prices flare up.

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Stephen Miran has dissented in favor of easier policy at every meeting since joining the board last September. Before that, he served as a top economic adviser to Trump.Christopher Waller, who also dissented at the most recent gathering in January, is seen as a candidate to dissent again after February’s unexpected drop in payrolls reinforced his argument that a weak labor market is near a tipping point.Michelle Bowman cited the labor-market report as evidence the economy “could use some support from our policy rate” in a television interview two weeks ago.

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Even as the US-Israel war on Iran has put the world on edge, another flare-up closer home is threatening regional stability. As Kabul has reported, at least 400 people were killed in an airstrike by Pakistan that struck a hospital in Afghanistan.

investors, and capital typically recedes from emerging markets as investors scramble for safety.First Global founder Devina Mehra noted that private credit concerns have emerged amid a broader global environment already tilting risk-off. The current stress underscores the inherent risks of investing in illiquid instruments, where exits can become challenging during periods of uncertainty, she said.Since the US-Iran conflict erupted, the benchmark Nifty 50 is down more than 6%.

The Adani Group’s acquisition of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) out of insolvency is set to significantly scale up its real estate ambitions in north India, giving it access to a vast land bank and a pipeline of stalled housing projects in the National Capital Region (NCR), where it has had limited exposure so far.The National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT’s) approval of Adani Enterprises Ltd’s (AEL’s) ₹15,000-crore-plus resolution plan for JAL hands the group a ready-made real estate platform spanning 3,985 acres across Noida, the Yamuna Expressway and Greater Noida, at a time when land scarcity and surging prices have intensified competition among developers.The Ahmedabad-based ports-to-power conglomerate’s portfolio will now include prime land parcels, large, partly developed projects such as Jaypee Greens in Greater Noida and the Jaypee International Sports City near the upcoming Noida International Airport in Jewar, along with thousands of undelivered apartments across multiple projects.JAL’s assets also comprise five hotels and resorts across locations such as Greater Noida, Agra and Mussoorie, in addition to commercial and industrial properties.Beyond real estate, the acquisition gives Adani access to JAL’s cement capacity of 6.5 million tonnes in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, along with limestone mines and other raw material linkages, strengthening the group’s broader infrastructure and construction play.“This transaction will give Adani access to a ready-made portfolio of good quality land and projects in Noida, a market that has performed extremely well in recent years,” said Santhosh Kumar, vice-chairman, Anarock Property Consultants, adding that Adani will create a huge future customer base if it executes

green hydrogen annually by 2030 under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.Reliance did not disclose the quantity of green ammonia that would be supplied as part of this deal with Samsung C&T. However, while announcing the deal on Monday, it hinted in a press release that this was the first of a series of such deals that it plans to strike in the coming days.The Korean company is the holding company of the leading chaebol and is engaged in materials trading and construction, among other things.Reliance did not respond to Mint’s query on the quantum of the supply.This is the second large export agreement struck by an Indian manufacturer of green hydrogen.

semiconductor maker also established a global coalition of companies, Nemotron. It includes the likes of Perplexity and Cursor to build large language models (LLMs) that will act as a reference point for enterprises globally.

deferred a decision on granting another term at its meeting on 24 February. The surprise development came after Noel Tata sought a clear roadmap for the performance of some of the new businesses launched under Chandrasekaran’s watch, including e-commerce, aviation and semiconductors.

investors in a FoF that then allocates capital across underlying AIFs, managers can effectively broaden participation while staying within the letter of the rules.“We have seen a gradual increase in FoFs in the industry as it helps an AIF accommodate investors who could not participate in a fund the first time around,” said Pratik Jain, managing partner–investments at Wealth Co. Asset Management Pvt.

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₹20,000 crore via infrastructure bonds, Union Bank of India announced its plans to issue the first ₹7,500 crore tranche of 10-year bonds on Friday, three merchant bankers told Mint.The issue will have a base size of ₹3,000 crore and a greenshoe option of ₹4,500 crore. The bonds are rated AAA by Care Ratings.On 13 February, Mint reported that state-run lenders are preparing to tap the debt market through infrastructure bonds in March.Banks and financial institutions raise funds through infrastructure bonds to finance their long-term infrastructure projects.

Mumbai: Global private equity firm L Catterton’s India pool of capital, led by former Hindustan Unilever (HUL) chief Sanjiv Mehta, is eyeing more proprietary deals in the country after deploying over $100 million across companies like Farmley, Haldiram’s and Healing Hands Clinic over the last year.“Our deals are primarily proprietary in nature, and we don’t take part in intense bidding processes. This preferential access allows us to have better returns for our investors through better pricing discipline.