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₹580 crore to the sponsorship, spread over two and a half years. “This impact is likely to reflect in financials from Q3 onwards,” Motilal Oswal’s analysts noted.Apollo’s consolidated Ebitda margin in the September quarter (Q2FY26) had risen 130 basis points (bps) year-on-year to 14.9%, the highest in the past six quarters, having declined about 110 bps to 13.2% in Q1.

compressed natural gas (CNG) and city gas distribution (CGD) prices cheaper.Noting that the regulator is vested with power primarily to fix tariffs for natural gas pipelines, the report said: "However, other remaining major part of delivered cost of gas i.e. gas prices, regasification charges (including truck loading charges) are currently not in PNGRB’s regulatory oversight.

Climate finance is becoming an increasingly important topic, especially as we see more gaps in Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments and rising surface temperatures. Countries outline their climate goals by labelling targets as either unconditional, achievable with their own resources, or conditional, relying on international support for finance, technology, or capacity building.

Indian stock markets: The Indian equity benchmarks ended Monday’s trading session on a cautious and subdued note, as persistent selling pressure weighed on overall market sentiment.Nifty 50 declined 0.38% to close at 25,942.10, while Sensex shed 346 points to settle at 84,695.54. Market breadth remained weak, with only 11 stocks advancing against 39 declines within Nifty 50 pack, highlighting broad-based selling and a negative undertone across sectors.Although selective buying was visible in a handful of stocks, it failed to offset the overall weakness.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex are among the worst performers globally, even as markets elsewhere surge: South Korea’s Kospi leads with 67.5% gains in 2025 so far, followed by Brazil at 31.6% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng at 28%.Indian equities trailing global peers this year has prompted investors to ask whether this is a passing phase or a deeper trend.

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₹325 crore, allows Bhansali Productions Pvt. Ltd to retain full intellectual property rights over its films while giving Saregama exclusive music rights to all its future films.Experts see this development paving the way for more institutional funding in Indian cinema at a time when OTT platforms are tightening content spends and global capital is looking for disciplined exposure to Indian storytelling.This model also aligns India closer to global studio-platform economics—separating high-margin IP ownership from high-risk production, and accelerating the sector’s institutional maturity.“For Saregama, the transaction is fundamentally a music play rather than a film bet.

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all-stock deal will bring Advent and Warburg Pincus onto Coforge’s board, a move that could bolster its fundraising prospects. Coforge will issue shares worth $1.89 billion to Encora’s shareholders at ₹1,815 apiece, and may raise about $550 million through a qualified institutional placement or a bridge loan to retire Encora’s term debt.The deal—India’s largest ever in IT services—could lift Coforge’s FY27 revenue by 28%, according to Jefferies India.

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₹25,000 crore safety net, as the Union Budget for FY26 could unveil a risk guarantee fund designed to ease financing bottlenecks and attract capital to stalled projects. The move comes amid rising project delays, cost overruns, and higher borrowing costs that have long constrained investment flows into the sector.Modelled on credit guarantee schemes for small businesses, the fund, likely managed by the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC), would underwrite development risks for infrastructure projects, allowing banks and financial institutions to lend on easier terms, said two government officials aware of the development.

Times of India reported that Warburg was planning to sell its stake in a transaction that could value IndiaFirst at more than ₹10,000 crore.Set up in 2009, IndiaFirst offers a range of life insurance products, including term plans, savings and retirement solutions. Its initial shareholders were Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank, now part of Union Bank of India, and Legal & General Middle East Ltd.In February 2019, Legal & General sold its stake to Carmel Point Investments India Pvt.

Meanwhile, the companies creating the AI superstructure are having a golden run on the stock market. Valuations of companies making advanced chips, hardware, data centres, or AI engines are loaded with expectations that AI will find ample and utilitarian business use-cases. Some of the large investment and sourcing deals across these AI companies are interlinked, and fragility in one part of the chain can have a cascading effect.

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Capitalism: A Global History by Harvard historian Sven Beckert.In the self-interest of this claim, its length is best left undisclosed.It kicks off with a jaw-dropper: the 1639 trial in America of Robert Keayne, a trader shamed for ‘false principles’ like it being fine for someone to “sell as dear as he can and buy as cheap as he can” and take advantage of either “his own skill or ability” or “another’s ignorance or necessity.”Adam Smith’s thesis of an ‘invisible hand’ blending our interests to serve our collective well-being came much later, in 1776, though capitalism as an economic order is characterized not just by a free market, but also by the right to private property, contract enforcement and other props.The charm of Beckert’s account of endless capital self-creation is that it offers us a global view. After all, its story not only spans a millennium, it girdles the globe.Aptly, thus, this book takes us back to trade across the high seas around India about nine centuries ago.

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