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Sensex, Nifty gain on hopes of further Fed rate cuts
Indian equities gained, with the benchmark indices snapping their four-session losing streak on Friday, as soft US inflation data raised hopes of further Federal Reserve rate cuts.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Adani group plans to invest ₹1 trn in airports, infra facilities in 5 yrs
Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (AAHL) plans to invest around ₹1 trillion across its airports and adjoining areas over the next five years, as it looks to develop airports and infrastructure facilities like hotels, entertainment and convention centres, real estate and other assets.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Stop and drop the slop
“Slop” has just been announced as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year as Al-generated content floods the internet and invades our vocabulary.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
MUFG deal: Shriram Finance may benefit from lower cost of funds
Perks of the deal
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Tejas Networks' direct-to-mobile tech gaining ground
Tejas Networks, a telecom gear maker backed by the Tata group, is in talks with international players for providing its direct to mobile (D2M) technology, which it has built in-house, even as it looks to commercially launch the service with Prasar Bharati, said its cofounder, executive director, and chief operating officer, Arnab Roy, in an exclusive interaction with Business Standard.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Volume concerns to weigh on United Breweries
Regulatory pressure adds to the stock’s poor performance
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Lok Sabha passes VB-G RAM G Bill amid Oppn protest
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to replace the 20-year-old scheme MGNREGA amid tearing of papers by opposition members who accused the BJP-led government of destroying the rural economy.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Anti-India US tariffs hurting industries: Rahul
Asserting that the \"anti-India\" tariff policy of the US has had a devastating impact on several industries, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday flagged the plight of the carpet weavers of Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi and called for returning power to the hands of small businesses through policies and economic support.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Top court questions blanket deposit exemption for company directors
NO BLANKET EXEMPTION FROM MANDATORY 20% DEPOSIT DURING APPEAL HEARINGS, SAYS COURT
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
From Vietnam to Iraq: A lifetime of war reporting
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Delhi curbs open new mkt for ICE-to-EV retrofitters
While comprehensive industry-wide figures are unavailable, a rough estimate drawing on Transparency Market Research's 2021 assessment puts the EV powertrain retrofitting market at about 1 million vehicles, valued at roughly $2.14 billion.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
NCLT approves first stage of Adani Harbour and Adani Ports merger
The Ahmedabad branch of the National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday gave its nod for the first-stage approval to the proposed merger of Adani Harbour Services Limited with its parent firm - Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Airtel to call for ₹15,741 cr tranche of rights issue
Proceeds to be used towards retiring majority of non-govt-related debt
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
IndiGo brass to fan out with 'rebuilding' message
The new pilot rest and duty rules increased weekly rest requirements and reduced permissible night flying hours for pilots.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Stalin writes to PM: Tariffs squeezing profits for textile exporters, leading to mass layoffs
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has sought an early conclusion of the ongoing India-US trade negotiations, saying that exporters at knitwear hub Tiruppur had already lost ₹15,000 crore in confirmed orders and millions of jobs were at risk, describing it as a \"looming humanitarian challenge\".
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Shriram group may still stay promoter after $4 bn deal
In one of the largest investments in India's financial services space, Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is likely to invest over $4 billion in Shriram Finance for a 20 per cent stake, and the domestic lender is likely to announce the deal on Monday after board approval, sources said.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
FM tables Bill for unified securities laws
BIGGEST RESET IN DECADES TAKING SHAPE
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
The bubble lies in larger LLMs: Cognizant AI chief
There is a bubble in artificial intelligence (AI) when it comes to building large language models (LLM) with big funding but the adoption of AI by enterprises will remain unaffected even if it bursts in the next two years, according to Cognizant's chief AI officer.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Q3 sales, easing costs bode well for Godrej Consumer
GCPL stock trading at 44x its FY27 earnings per share
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Food delivery platforms employed 1.37 mn in FY24: NCAER
The food delivery platform sector in India employed 1.37 million workers in the 2023-24 (FY24) and is expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.3 per cent, estimates a new report released by the Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Power ministry working on plan to boost domestic mfg of critical items
The power ministry is collaborating with the industry to identify critical electricity sector components, such as subsea cables and high-conductivity copper rods, that rely on imports and require support for local manufacturing.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
‘We can’t keep the boy like this’: SC to speak to parents on euthanasia plea
SC to interact with parents on January 13
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Corporate ministry seeks Cabinet nod for 50 more NCLT courts
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has sought the Cabinet's approval for a proposal to have 50 more courts of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and two more for the appellate tribunal (NCLAT) for its approval.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
2025: A regulatory retrospective
Most public policy failures of 2025 are linked to poor'regulation'. Reforming the regulatory state should be the big agenda for 2026
4 min |
December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Higher residual principal and tenure deliver greater savings
The Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate by 25 basis points on December 5.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
India's 99% exports to Oman to become duty-free
\"The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will energise our ties in the 21st century.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Urea row escalates as farmers report shortage
Sowing for the Rabi (winter) crop season in Rajasthan is almost complete; however, political tensions over the nonavailability of urea have intensified in the state.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
In AI age, upskilling, reskilling likely to create jobs in new areas: Meity secy
The jobs that rely primarily on cognitive skills are at the highest risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), leaving white-collar workers vulnerable to being automated out of their positions, said S Krishnan, secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity).
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
ASK Private Wealth flags AI-led earnings, FII return as 2026 themes
ASK Private Wealth, the wealth management arm of Blackstone-backed ASK Asset & Wealth Management Group, has identified artificial intelligence-led profitability, easing trade tensions and a revival of foreign capital flows as some of the key drivers likely to shape markets in 2026.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Mkt regulator allows zero-coupon bonds to be issued in smaller denominations
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has allowed zero-coupon bonds to be issued in reduced denominations of %10,000 by modifying the conditions under which issuers can lower the face value of nonconvertible debt securities and nonconvertible redeemable preference shares (NCRPS) issued through private placement .
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