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Huge crowds bid farewell to former B'desh PM Khaleda Zia
Hundreds of thousands of people on Wednesday bid an emotional farewell to former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) matriarch Khaleda Zia as she was laid to rest near the parliament building amid tight security.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
Weakness in ₹, broader equity market shrinks India’s billionaire club in 2025
But a robust IPO market leads to emergence of 9 new promoter billionaires
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January 01, 2026
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India Inc expects faster growth, stronger earnings in 2026
Plans to invest and hire more but is concerned about global uncertainty
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January 01, 2026
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Climate analysts mull over El Nino graph in 2026
As the world enters 2026, there is a growing interest among meteorologists and climate watchers on whether 2026 will turn out to be a full blown or evolving El Nino year, something which has consequences for India’s monsoon and also agricultural production and general economic growth.
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January 01, 2026
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Vi to get 5-year lifeline on AGR dues of ₹87.7K cr
Telco has to make repayments from 2031-32 to 2040-41
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January 01, 2026
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Beef import quota breach: China to impose 55% tariff
China will set quotas for beef imports from top suppliers including Brazil and Argentina, and impose tariffs if they are exceeded, in a bid to support the country’s domestic industry.
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January 01, 2026
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Northern borders 'stable yet sensitive': Defence ministry
The situation along India’s northern borders “remains stable yet sensitive”, the Ministry of Defence said in a media statement on Wednesday.
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January 01, 2026
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Disentangling RBI-govt ties
The relationship between the central bank and the government is holding back India’s financial sector
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January 01, 2026
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China's reunification with Taiwan 'unstoppable': Xi
Says country's GDP growth rate expected to be 5% after an 'extraordinary' year
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January 01, 2026
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Centre launches ₹4,531 cr mkt access support scheme
The government on Wednesday launched ₹4,531 crore market access support (MAS) intervention scheme for a six-year period (FY26-31) to improve global reach, visibility and competitiveness of Indian exporters through ‘structured and outcome-oriented’ interventions.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
Growing reliance on external funding increases NBFCs' susceptibility to exchange-rate volatility
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cautioned that increasing reliance of non-banking financial companies (NBFC) on external funding has made them susceptible to greater exchange rate volatility.
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January 01, 2026
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Bond mkt to be under pressure; rupee seen range-bound in 2026
‘The bond market is expected to remain under pressure in 2026 as heavy supply, particularly of state government securities, is expected to keep yields higher, and with the rate-cut cycle seen as largely over, the benchmark 10-year yield is expected to trade in a 6.50-6.75 per cent range in the near term and edge up further thereafter, said market participants.
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January 01, 2026
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Credit growth nears 12%, deposit slows to 9.35%
Credit growth in the period ended December 15 expanded to nearly 12 per cent year-on-year (Yo-Y), while deposit growth slowed further to 9.35 per cent, according to revised data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
2026 to bring data, policy, tax changes
The year 2026 will bring in various new reforms, deadlines, policy and taxation changes ranging from the revision of base year for calculating GDP, IP to European Union’s (EU) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) coming into force and the new labour codes, tax reforms getting fully operational.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
SPREE scheme deadline extended till January 31
The deadline for the Scheme for Promotion of Registration of Employers and Employees (SPREE 2025) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been extended to January 31, 2026 from the earlier deadline of December 31, 2025.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
The ATM interchange conundrum
Stakeholders are pulling in different directions, and the ATM channel has to be reimagined to make it commercially viable. Are there any alternatives?
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January 01, 2026
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Chandra calls for risk-taking amid volatile environment
As volatility becomes the new constant, bold risk-taking and not caution will define who succeeds, Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran said in his year-end letter to employees, calling on the conglomerate to lift its sights and invest for the long term even amid volatility.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
A potted history of global revolts
Most well-known for his Horrible Histories books written for children, Terry Deary is a writer with more than 300 titles to his name.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
India's household debt rises to 41.3% of GDP, above 5-yr avg
India’s household debt climbed to 41.3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of March 2025, marking a sustained rise from its five-year average of 38.3 per cent, with consumption-related loans accounting for bulk of the borrowings, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its Financial Stability Report.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
Quad ambassadors hold rare publicised meeting in China
‘The ambassadors of the Quad nations, comprising the US, India, Australia and Japan, held a rare publicised meeting in Beijing.
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January 01, 2026
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Food delivery, qcom firms raise incentives amid gig workers' strike
Food delivery and quick commerce (qcom) companies, including Swiggy, Zomato, Blinkit, Instamart, and Zepto, increased payouts and rolled out additional incentives for delivery partners on Wednesday (December 31), as New Year’s Eve (NYE) remains one of the busiest days of the year for these platforms.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
THE COMPASS Acquisitions, order book to drive growth for Samvardhana Motherson
From its lows in November, the stock of the country’s largest auto parts company by market capitalisation (mcap), Samvardhana Motherson International (SAMIL), gained about 17 percent.
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January 01, 2026
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₹3.84 trillion proposals for weapon, equipment acquisition okayed in '25
Proposals for acquiring military weapons and equipment worth over ₹3.84 trillion were approved by the government in calendar year 2025, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Tuesday.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
After huge surge in 2025, gold, silver can rally more
For investors of gold and silver, 2025 has been the best year after record returns of 1979.
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January 01, 2026
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Cabinet nod to ₹19,142 cr highway project in Maha
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the construction of a six-lane greenfield highway corridor from Nashik to Akkalkot in Maharashtra in build, operate, transfer mode at a cost of ₹19,142 crore.
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January 01, 2026
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Curbs on import of low-ash metallurgical coke extended for 6 mths
The government on Wednesday said it is extending import restrictions on low-ash metallurgical coke from January 1 till June 30, 2026.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
Fiscal deficit hits 62.3% of full-yr Budget target in Nov
‘The government's fiscal deficit for April-November of 2025-26 widened to ₹9.77 trillion, or 62.3 per cent of the budget estimates (BE), with capital expenditure increasing by 28 percent year-on-year (Yo-Y) for the same period, latest data of the Controller General of Accounts showed.
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January 01, 2026
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Mahindra bets on AI, skills for tech shift
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra (pictured) said the conglomerate is positioning itself to address structural shifts driven by artificial intelligence (AI), skills development and changes in global education trends.
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January 01, 2026
Business Standard
New billionaires of the AI boom
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has turned high-profile billionaires like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chip maker Nvidia, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of the ChatGPT maker Open AI, into even richer billionaires.
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January 01, 2026
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Govt notifies rules to enable 100% FDI in insurance sector
Following the notification allowing 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector, the Finance Ministry has revised norms to remove the requirement that a majority of directors and key management personnel in an insurance company with foreign investment be Indian residents.
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