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ETFs (exchange traded funds).While fund houses are preparing to launch offerings under the new category, the key question is whether these products meaningfully improve outcomes for investors.At its core, the structure is simple: risk reduces automatically over time.In the early years, for instance, 15 to 30 years before maturity in a 30-year fund, portfolios can hold high equity exposure, typically between roughly 65% and 95%, with smaller allocations to debt and limited exposure to gold and silver. As maturity approaches, equity allocation is gradually reduced while debt exposure rises to cushion volatility and preserve gains.

Earlier this month, IDFC First Bank reported it had been the victim of a fraud in which four of its current and former employees connived to siphon off ₹590 crore from the bank account of a Haryana government department. The theft was uncovered when the department tried to close its account with the bank and found a discrepancy between the account balance in its records and the actual balance.While the Haryana government subsequently said it had recovered all its money, the incident underscores the risks of banking fraud, especially as the number of digital transactions increase, enabling new methods of fraud.Indian banks reported 11,615 cases of fraud involving ₹3,497 crore in 2024-25. Both figures were lower in 2023-24.

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India’s once busy SME-to-mainboard migration route has slowed sharply. Tougher rules, volatile markets and heightened governance scrutiny have cooled the graduation cycle that had gathered pace during the 2020–22 bull run.A higher eligibility bar introduced in 2025 by the National Stock Exchange raised the threshold for graduation, reshaping the scale at which companies can aspire to move up.The revised migration framework required small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to report revenue from operations exceeding ₹100 crore in the preceding financial year and maintain an average market capitalisation above ₹100 crore.

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former professor of international trade stood before Parliament and borrowed from Victor Hugo: "No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. India is now wide awake."The life that produced that moment was itself a story of improbable journeys. Born in Gah, a village in Punjab now across the border in Pakistan, into a family of dried fruit traders, Singh lost his mother young and was raised by his paternal grandmother.

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From gross domestic product (GDP) growth easing in the December quarter, to the government outlining a nearly ₹17 trillion asset monetization pipeline, IT stocks extending losses amid AI-driven concerns, India weighing contingency plans for crude oil imports, and a moderation in salary hikes, here’s a compilation of this week’s news in numbers.India's economy likely grew at 7.8% during the December quarter, slowing from 8.4% in the previous quarter, due to slower growth in agriculture and the non-manufacturing industrial sectors, and government spending cuts, data released on Friday showed. GDP growth is estimated at 7.6% for 2025-26, up from 7.1% in the previous year.

Chatbots don’t sound human by accident. Lots of work has gone into shaping that tone. Systems are trained to detect mood from text, infer context in a conversation and even respond with something resembling empathy or understanding.

AI-native startups are now trying their luck in astrology, aiming to supplement or replace current aggregator business models with hyper-personalised algorithms with greater accuracy.Currently, market leaders in faith-tech, such as AstroTalk and InstaAstro, rely on the marketplace model, using their platforms as intermediaries between users and astrologers and charging both.However, as startups such as Melooha, AstroSage AI, Vaya, AstroSure AI, and HiAstro, among others, continue to attract modest cheque sizes, questions are likely to persist over how real their disruption will prove to be and whether they can scale meaningfully.Data from Venture Intelligence shows that among the top 10 deals between 2023 and 2025, the two largest went to AstroTalk: a $20 million round in February 2024 from Left Lane Capital, followed by a $14 million cheque in June that year from Elev8 Venture Partners and Left Lane Capital.Apart from that, most rounds have been under $5 million. HiAstro has raised $4 million from AdvantEdge Partners and others.

India’s economy is now officially smaller than previously thought. New GDP estimates released on Friday based on an updated methodology and base year have reduced the country’s nominal output by over ₹11 trillion ($133 billion), validating earlier concerns about the size of the economyThe downward revision may complicate the government’s fiscal arithmetic for FY26 and FY27, and may also delay India’s chances of becoming a $4-trillion economy, and the fourth largest economy leaving Japan behind.Over the past decade, questions were raised by researchers, economists and policymakers, including former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian, over the methodology used in the 2011-12 series and the size of India’s GDP.GDP data released on Friday by the statistics ministry based on the updated 2022-23 base year, showed India’s nominal GDP in 2025-26 at ₹345.47 trillion ($3.93 trillion), 3.26% smaller than the ₹357.14 trillion figure given in January based on the 2011-12 series.This downward trend (2.9-3.8%) is visible across all four years for which data based on the 2022-23 series has been released.“This has happened because 2011-12 data was likely overestimating figures as organized sector data was largely used to extrapolate figures for other sectors,” an official involved in the GDP calculation process explained, requesting anonymity.The revised GDP takes into account several steps to capture the economy better such as the integration of goods and services tax (GST), expanding the use of double deflation and using improved deflation techniques in case of single deflation, and using survey results to capture the informal economy instead of relying on proxies.P.C.

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