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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After spending many years in the corporate world, Meenal Majumder decided to set it all aside and don the student’s hat to go the start-up way. Though there wasn’t a perfect plan in place, she knew that if she waited for the ‘right time’, there was a good chance it would never come.

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 against New Zealand on Sunday, India's stalwart batter Virat Kohli shared his thoughts on the title win and said that he is happy as the team was able to play as a unit. In the final, it was Rohit Sharma who led the way. In the semi-final, it was Virat Kohli with the bat and Mohammed Shami with the ball, among others. India won five straight games to claim the Champions Trophy 2025, and in each of those contests, a handful of their star players shone brightly. Those contributions led to another title-yielding run in a major ICC event.

Axis Securities has an equal weight call on Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company with a target price of Rs 1650. The current market price of Cholamandalam Investment is Rs 1465.9. Cholamandalam Investment & Finance, incorporated in 1978, is a Large Cap company with a market cap of Rs 122829.71 crore, operating in the NBFC sector.

Umang Dairies Ltd.(up 4.30%), Future Consumer Ltd.(up 3.71%), LT Foods Ltd.(up 2.23%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 2.20%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(up 2.02%), Emami Ltd.(up 1.94%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.89%), Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(up 1.83%), Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Ltd.(up 1.68%) and Nakoda Group Of Industries Ltd.(up 1.42%) were among the top gainers.

Domestic benchmark index NSE Nifty gained 88.21 points to 22640.7, while the BSE Sensex traded 300.56 points up at 74633.14.

«All the GST products which come in that band, the affordable products, I would guess are the ones where they would see some kind of cut, clearly not the luxury products, and also given that automobiles and tariffs and Trump tariffs are going to impact the automobiles above that $40,000 mark, clearly there is unlikely to be any GST reduction above that,» says Chakri Lokapriya, CIO-Equities, LGT Wealth. Where do you see things are stacking up for the market? We have seen a dinky bounce from the recent low. Are we out of the woods? Chakri Lokapriya: You are absolutely right. We are out of the woods because if you look at the valuation currently trades at Nifty one year forward, trades at about 18.8 times, close to 19 times. The COVID lows was about 18.5 times. So, is the market overall in a far better economic situation than it was during the COVID period lows? Answer is clearly yes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) introduced curbs on options trading with the aim of cooling down market frenzy on expiry day. However, instead of merely slowing down trading excesses, these measures have triggered fresh rivalry between the NSE and the BSE.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 82.91 points up at 22635.4, while BSE Sensex was up 276.91 points at 74609.49 at the time of writing this report.

ICICI Bank Ltd.(up 0.8 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.51 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 0.41 per cent) and HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.05 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Indian rupee weakened on Monday on the back of strong demand to buy dollars at the daily reference rate and as the Chinese yuan slipped amid worries about the country's economy and a global trade war. The rupee declined 0.4% to 87.26 against the U.S. dollar as of 9:45 a.m. IST.

On the BSE, Kesoram Inds.(down 95.24 per cent), Raghuvansh Agrofarm(down 20.00 per cent), RLF Ltd(down 15.65 per cent), Aadi Industries Ltd.(down 10.71 per cent) and Octaware Tech(down 9.99 per cent) were among the stocks that plunged over 5 per cent during the session.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When you see it from a distance, the new Google India campus on Bengaluru’s chaotic Outer Ring Road does look like the infinity symbol. With a curved, rounded structure, both in the outer walls of the building as well as the roof, the building creates an impression of the endless loop.

US agricultural goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest hike on Chinese imports came into force Monday, as trade tensions mount between the world's two leading economies. Since retaking office in January, Trump has unleashed a barrage of tariffs on major US trading partners, including China, Canada and Mexico, citing their failure to stop illegal immigration and flows of deadly fentanyl. After imposing a blanket 10 percent tariff on all Chinese goods in early February, Trump hiked the rate to 20 percent last week.

Devina Mehra, Founder & CMD, First Global, says this time it has been coincidental that the FIIs have pulled out money and the markets have fallen. But over a period of time, data show that the unsaid assumption that if FIIs come in, the market goes up; FIIs pull out, and the market goes down, does not hold any more. In any case, the end of the US outperformance US is coming closer. Mehra also says that they are overweight on IT, pharma, and auto components and have selectively added some FMCG and chemical stocks.

Tata Power shares will be in focus on Monday after its subsidiary, Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government to develop renewable energy projects worth Rs 49,000 crore ($5.6 billion). This marks one of the largest renewable energy investments in the state, the company said in an exchange filing. TPREL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to collaborate and explore opportunities to build up to 7,000 MW including solar, wind and hybrid projects with or without storage solutions.

ONGC will be in focus on Monday after its subsidiary ONGC PetroAdditions Ltd (OPaL) decided to relinquish its «only-for-export» status and shift its focus to the rapidly expanding domestic petrochemical market. The company has received final approval to exit the Dahej Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and will now operate as a Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) unit, effective from March 8, 2025. This move will enable OPaL to concentrate primarily on serving the domestic market, instead of exporting products, which was the primary purpose of operating within an SEZ. As a DTA unit, OPaL will be exempt from paying customs duties on products sold within India, which is expected to enhance its profit margins.

N Chandrasekaran, who joined the Tata Group in 1986 as an intern about four decades ago, with the dream of shaking hands with Ratan Tata. Chandrasekaran ended up succeeding him as chairman of Tata Sons in 2017. In his tribute to the late Tata Group patriarch, Chandrasekaran said, «For him, the small things mattered more. He paid close attention not only to people with the big ideas but what also mattered was his attention to the small things. He cared for the people who could not defend themselves and what set him apart was that he was a defender of the defenceless. I have seen it on so many occasions that he never said anything just for the sake of it and never acted upon anything for the sake of it.»

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) reported 11 sorties of People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and nine People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels until 6 am (local time) on Monday. According to the MND, nine out of 11 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern and southwestern ADIZ. In a post on X, Taiwan's MND stated, «11 sorties of PLA aircraft and 9 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 9 out of 11 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern and southwestern ADIZ. We have monitored the situation and responded accordingly.»

Howard Marks, Co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, during his Mumbai visit, believes fixed-income investments are now highly competitive, with high-yield bonds offering returns of 7% and private credit reaching up to 11%. "High yield bonds are at 7%, other strategies are at 7%, maybe as high as 8%, private credit at 9-11%," he noted, reinforcing the case for fixed income as an alternative to equities.

Zomato's rise as a public company has been rapid as it has expanded into businesses beyond food delivery over the past few years. Adding quick commerce through its Blinkit acquisition and later buying out Paytm Insider to bulk up its going-out business, Zomato's success has emanated from combining profitability with the growth potential of its quick commerce unit and other new businesses which drove its market capitalisation to an all-time high of ₹2.75 lakh crore ($32 billion) by December 2024.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This newspaper stock after undergoing lot of volatility and the Q3 results were found stable and the inability of the bears to drag it lower in this uncertain market speaks well for a strong rounding pattern breakout as buying momentum got built. After biding some time and absorbing the volatility we can look at the prices looking to extend next week.