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Rohit Sharma's toes, Pakistan-born net bowler Awais Ahmed caught the attention of the cricket world, including the revered India skipper. Rohit praised the bowler after facing some fiery deliveries in the nets, and the India captain also playfully told the young pacer that he was «trying to break his legs» with his toe-crushing yorkers.

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Virat Kohli will return to his run-scoring ways in the Champions Trophy and lead the team's batting this year along with Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer, reckons former India player Robin Uthappa. The 36-year-old Kohli's recent struggles in Test cricket have led to discussions about his career, but he has no plans to retire and aims to play in the 2027 ODI World Cup.

Virat Kohli has always liked the format of Champions Trophy as it demands the eight participating teams to be at their best from the get go. The Champions Trophy is taking place for the first time since 2017 when India lost the final to Pakistan.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday claimed that Uddhav Thackeray planned to make Eknath Shinde the chief minister of Maharashtra after the 2019 polls, but first the BJP and later MVA allies including Sharad Pawar played a spoilsport.

Shubman Gill on Wednesday became the top-ranked ODI batter after pipping Pakistan's Babar Azam. Gill, who scored two half centuries and a century in three matches against England last week, has 796 rating points to his name, which are 23 more in comparison to Babar (773). It is the second time in ODI that Gill has moved to the No. 1 position in the ODI rankings.

«There has been some pickup, whether in GDP numbers, in earnings growth, or in top line or something for it to get some trigger or some reason to be bullish about or to add on to what the current holding is, so that is what the whole situation is,» says Aman Chowhan, Abakkus Asset Manager. Let us understand what is the way forward for small and midcap stocks and I will break it into two or three points here, first, for the mid and the smallcap stocks as a cycle; second, where are they headed in terms of a theme and when will the momentum really come back in some of these stocks? Aman Chowhan: First thing is, see, there is always this assumption that it is largecap versus midcaps. Normally, it does not happen that way. At any given point of time, there will be some largecap that will do well, some midcap that will do well, irrespective of the cycle.

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«Short-term adjustments will be there, might be there, I mean one cannot really comment on that but I do not think there is anything structural threat to that,» says Vikas Khemani, Carnelian Asset Management. What we have known from you is that you have been liking the pharma space overall and within that, you have been firm believer that CDMO space has a long way to go and I still remember a line of yours that you shared on our channel itself that Indian CDMO sector is poised for a growth similar to the IT boom of the mid-90s. But given there so many announcements related to tariff and that is the biggest headline for today, do you believe that it can actually make a dent to the structural story or do you believe that tariff imposition and this higher tariff is not likely and the structural story still remains? Vikas Khemani: Again, do not confuse short-term issues with the long-term structural trends. CDMO is a very long-term trend. The need for that is moving away from China, diversifying the base for innovator drugs being manufactured elsewhere and US knows what their interests are, just by imposing some short-term tariffs is also counter to their interest.

«Specifically, we do not have a stock list ready, like a shopping list per se. We are still observing what has happened in the quarter which has gone by,» says Dipan Mehta, Director, Elixir Equities. What does one do, just sit it out and watch or do you think it is time now to selectively start buying largecaps or any other for that matter? Dipan Mehta: See, for many-many months I have been quite negative on the market, but now I am getting cautiously optimistic as well and I do feel that there has been a steep correction in many stocks. Valuations have come to reasonable levels.

Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ Pvt. Ltd, says Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) previously short sold their holdings in the F&O market and are now making cash market deliveries while withdrawing funds. This situation is expected to resolve soon. There may be some capitulation, especially in the high valuations of small and mid-cap stocks, but large-cap stocks, particularly in the Nifty 50, are showing more stable valuations. The question on everyone's mind is how much more pain to go before we actually see at least a sustained recovery, if not that, at least the selling should abate. Deven Choksey: I believe that we are at the tail end of selling in the markets. Maybe the larger part of the pain is over. The data of FPI selling from October onwards till date, shows that except for a couple of months in between, in this month we are likely to see a little lower selling compared to what in previous months we had.

Ashi Anand, Founder & CEO, IME Capital, says he would understand if there is further downside to the market. However, due to the strong long-term outlook for India, major declines are not expected. The main worry is with smallcap stocks. In larger-cap indices, a drop of 5-10% seems manageable. But with smallcaps, if retail investors start to panic, liquidity can vanish quickly, leading to significant losses. Therefore, he recommends that investors should stay cautious. Anand also says that for people with a slightly longer-term horizon, some attractive buying opportunities exist in Digital and some could emerge in capital markets and real estate and capital goods spaces. All these companies have run up very considerably. These are also stocks that have led the fall, and have all fallen more than the overall markets. How much more of a selling are we likely to see or do you think that the end is near now? Ashi Anand: That is really the question on everyone's mind. We do not necessarily think we are at the absolute bottom. There could potentially be further downsides. Just to understand that in the overall context, markets have doubled from before pre-COVID levels taking the COVID fall. But if you look at the largecap indices, they have doubled from pre-COVID. You are down only 10%. Smallcaps were up 300%, and are down only about 20%.

Global stocks have become the most popular asset class with investors, who are showing the biggest willingness to take risk in 15 years, according to a survey by Bank of America Corp. Fund managers' cash levels fell to the lowest since 2010, while 34% of participants said they expect world equities to be the best-performing asset in 2025, the survey showed. A net 11% indicated they were underweight bonds.

Stock market investors enjoyed lofty annual returns over the past two years. However, 2025 may not offer a «three-peat,» investment analysts say.

Pershing Square's Bill Ackman hiked his takeover offer for Howard Hughes Holdings, offering current holders of the real estate company $90 a share to create a «modern-day» Berkshire Hathaway.

Indian rupee weakened to its all-time low on Monday in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump announcing fresh tariff plans, which drove regional currencies lower, while persistent portfolio outflows remained a sore point for the local unit. The rupee weakened to 87.95 against the U.S. dollar before closing at 87.4750, down slightly on the day.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ask a question about the relative performance of Indian states and most Indians will recall the term ‘BIMARU.’ This acronym, attributed to analyst Ashish Bose, was coined in the mid-80s and referred to laggard states in terms of economic and human development indicators (HDI): Bihar, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (UP). The word was used pejoratively, since it translates from Hindi as ‘sick.’ In the intervening 40 years, much has happened.