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Financial Express Ahmedabad
PFC flags concerns over RBI’s NBFC draft norms
LENDER TARGETS 10% LOAN GROWTH FOR FY27
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May 14, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Import duty on gold, silver hiked to 15%
Move aimed at easing pressure on current account
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May 14, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Uber to set up first India data centre with Adani
GLOBAL RIDE-HAILING MAJOR UBER Technologies is set to establish its first data centre in India in partnership with Adani Group, marking a fresh step in the company’s effort to deepen its technology and engineering presence in one of its fastest-growing markets.
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May 14, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Fuel prices will go up if oil stays high: RBI guv
THE GOVERNMENT MAY need to increase retail fuel prices if the conflict in West Asia drags on, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said.
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May 14, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Cabinet clears modest 3% hike in paddy MSP
THE CABINET ON Wednesday approved a 0.4%-8% increase in the minimum support price (MSP) of 14 major kharif crops for the 2026-27 season (July-June), but raised the support price for paddy, the season's key crop, by only a modest 3%.
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May 14, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Hormuz standoff drives oil higher as Iran-US ceasefire hopes fade
Brent crude prices climb to around $108 a barrel
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Tata Power beats estimate, net profit falls 4.5% in Q4
TATA POWER ON Tuesday posted a net profit, attributable to owners, of ₹996 crore during the March quarter, down 4.5% y-o-y, but beat analyst estimate of ₹825 crore.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Trump to meet Xi tomorrow in high-stakes US-China summit
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet Thursday morning in Beijing, according to the White House, for a high-stakes summit that will be dominated by discussions on trade and the war in Iran.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
VARDE TOPS Q1 PVT CREDIT LENDING
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT FUND Varde Partners was the top private credit provider in the country during January-March, investing $340 million, amounting to 19.7% of the total, as per Octus Intelligence.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Sebi mulls revising position limits on farm derivatives
THE SECURITIES AND Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday proposed higher position limits (maximum number of contracts that can be held by a client) in agricultural commodity derivatives at 2% of the deliverable supply, up from 1%, a move aimed at improving liquidity, depth and price discovery in the commodities market.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
AI begins to tilt scale edge towards mid-tier IT firms
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is beginning to weaken the traditional scale advantage enjoyed by the country’s largest information technology services firms, with mid-cap players gaining ground through faster execution, lower-cost delivery and quicker workforce retraining.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
‘Using in-house tech controls amid rising AI threats’
HDFC Bank is switching from reactive patching to ‘secure software manufacturing’, embedding AI-led controls into development and threat detection. Ramesh Lakshminarayanan, chief investment officer and group head - IT, tells Kshipra Petkar much of the software development has moved in-house to make it more secure. Excerpts:
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Govt weighing how long oil firms can continue to absorb cost impact: Puri
UNION PETROLEUM AND Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said fuel price revisions were “unrelated” to elections, but acknowledged that the government would eventually have to assess how long state-run oil companies can continue absorbing massive losses caused by elevated crude prices and stagnant retail fuel rates.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Renewable energy deal value surges 5x to $2 bn
RENEWABLE ENERGY DEAL values in India increased more than five-fold to nearly $2 billion last year even as the country prepares for the next phase of its clean energy transition centred around battery storage, grid resilience and round-the-clock renewable power systems, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi said on Tuesday.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
More SIPs stopped than opened in March, April
THE NUMBER OF discontinued SIPs (systematic investment plans) continued to outnumber new SIP registrations for the second consecutive month in April, even as monthly SIP contributions crossed ₹30,000 crore in the last two months.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Govt clears ₹503 cr for 4.8K EV chargers
THE CENTRE HAS approved proposals worth ₹503.86 crore for the installation of 4,874 EV chargers across multiple states and Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), Heavy Industries Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Jewellers push recycling, exchange for gold sales
RETAILERS SAY RESTRICTING DEMAND NOT PRACTICAL
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Why $70 should be most worrying number for LNG
HERE'S SOME BACK-OF-THE-NAPKIN maths to show why LNG producers should be fearful for their future, even if the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz hadn’t just knocked a fifth of global supplies offline.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Ambani’s cola war with rivals fuels fridge boom
THE MARKET SHARE war between Mukesh Ambani’s Campa Cola, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo is creating an unlikely winner in the world’s largest consumer market: refrigerators.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
India facing live BoP stress test: CEA
INDIA IS FACING a “live balance of payments stress test” due to the ongoing West Asia crisis, but the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals and reform momentum place it in a stronger position than many emerging economies to weather the turbulence, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Tuesday.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Crisis widens India's brand divide
Iran war boosts the big boys, hurts smaller rivals
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
PSBs post record ₹1.98 lakh-crore profit in FY26
PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS (PSBs) posted a record aggregate net profit of ₹1.98 lakh crore in 2025-26, aided by robust credit growth, improved asset quality and stronger operational efficiency, finance ministry said.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Tourism can be India's green forex engine
India has not yet fully linked tourism strategy with broader economic and green diplomacy. This is a major policy gap
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
NEET-UG cancelled, re-exam date in 7-10 days
THE NEET (UG) 2026 exam held on May 3 was cancelled on Tuesday amid allegations of paper leak with the CBI registering an FIR after the government asked it to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the “irregularities”.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Kotak's shock therapy: Less of Vishnu, more of Brahma & Mahesh
Veteran banker warns India must prepare for a major economic shock due to geopolitical tensions
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Moody's trims 2026 India growth forecast to 6%
MOODY'S RATINGS ON Tuesday downgraded its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth projection for India to 6% from a previous estimate of 6.8% for 2026, citing the economic fallout from the ongoing West Asia conflict.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
OpenAI gives EU access to its new cyber model
US ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE giant OpenAI said it was granting access to its latest models including GPT-5.5-Cyber to Deutsche Telekom, BBVA and dozens more European companies to help bolster their resilience to vulnerabilities in their systems.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Govt cuts oil & gas royalty; ONGC, OIL, Vedanta gain
MOVE TO PUSH DOMESTIC OUTPUT
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
Swiggy sticks to margin play as Blinkit widens lead
ETERNAL-OWNED BLINKIT widened its lead over Swiggy Instamart during the January-March quarter across scale, profitability and network expansion, sharpening investor debate over whether Swiggy’s slower, margin-led approach risks ceding strategic ground in the fast-growing quick commerce market.
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May 13, 2026
Financial Express Ahmedabad
CEPA with Oman may come into effect on June 1: Goyal
THE COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Oman is likely to come into effect from June 1 while the free trade agreement with Chile can be finalised if India can secure a good deal on critical minerals, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday.
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