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₹ hits new low on delay in US trade deal

‘The rupee, which depreciated 0.45 per cent on Thursday, is the worst-performing Asian currency this year, slipping 5.26 per cent against the dollar.

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December 12, 2025

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Affordable housing financiers attractively valued after correction

The affordable housing financiers (AHF) segment is a long-term structural story, given low mortgage penetration and favourable policy.

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December 12, 2025

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India must overhaul corporate bond market architecture: NITI Aayog

In a bid to mobilise long-term, low-cost capital to sustain its growth ambitions, NITI Aayog on Thursday called for a sequenced and harmonised reform strategy to deepen the country’s corporate bond market, cautioning that the current scale and structure could become a bottleneck to investment-heavy growth.

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December 12, 2025

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Gram, barley surpass sowing targets, wheat lags

‘The sowing of gram and barley in Rajasthan has surpassed that of wheat and mustard

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December 12, 2025

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Maha set to free Mumbai from ‘Pagdi’ system

New framework aims to ensure fair redevelopment

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December 12, 2025

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Pension parking lot expanded to gold, AIFs, InvITs

Moreover, the pension regulator has allowed investments in initial public offers (IPOs) of firms if their full float market capitalisation (mcap) based on the lower band of issue price is equal to or higher than the mceap of the 250th firm in the NSE 250 Index.

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December 12, 2025

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The art of ‘intentional space’

Marie Kondo’s Letter from Japan is at once an intimate postcard and a manifesto: Part memoir, part cultural primer, and part practical theology of household life.

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December 12, 2025

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US approves $686 mn tech upgrade for Pakistan’s F-16 jets

The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved sales valued at $686 million of technology and equipment for Pakistan’s F-16 fighter jets to moderise its fleet.

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December 12, 2025

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PaRRVA, Sebi's tool to check performance claims, explained

Sebi’s new verification system, Past Risk and Return Verification Agency (PaRRVA), validates past return claims of registered intermediaries.

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December 11, 2025
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‘First-time entrepreneurs making a mark on the market’

India is entering an era of extraordinary long-term wealth creation, and the financial sector is likely to be its biggest beneficiary, says Raamdeo Agrawal, chairman and cofounder, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Speaking to Samie Modak in Mumbai ahead of the release of his 30th Wealth Creation Study, Agrawal argues that 12-15 per cent annualised Sensex returns remain structurally sustainable, supported by rising household participation and a powerful wealth effect. Edited excerpts:

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December 11, 2025

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This land is whose land?

What is a nation for?

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December 11, 2025

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Brookfield Reit raises 3,500 cr through QIP to fund growth

Brookfield India Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has raised 3,500 crore ($390 million) through a qualified institutional placement (QIP).

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December 11, 2025
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Business Standard

As rupee wobbles and costs surge, car firms gear up for new-year price rise

Come January, passenger vehicles are poised for a price increase, now almost an annual ritual, as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) contend with forex pressures from weakening of the rupee against the dollar and euro, rising commodity prices, and uncertainty over rural demand.

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December 11, 2025

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Ajanta Pharma earmarks 1K cr for acquisitions to plug therapy gaps

Ajanta Pharma has earmarked over ₹1,000 crore for inorganic opportunities as it looks to plug gaps in select therapy areas, its joint managing director, Rajesh Agrawal, said while emphasising that the company was sharpening its growth focus on India and emerging markets.

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December 11, 2025

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$70 bn and rising: Amazon's $35 bn bet lifts India's AI tide

Amazon's mega 5-yr plan tops announcements made by Microsoft, Google

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December 11, 2025
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Business Standard

Netflix, Paramount in a game of thrones

What does the sale of Warner Bros Discovery to Netflix or to Paramount mean for India? Time to recalibrate your viewing

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December 11, 2025

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US trade team may press India on greater market access in agri products

The visiting US trade delegation is expected to push India for greater market access in agricultural products, with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer on Wednesday highlighting New Delhi's resistance to certain row crops such as corn and soybeans, as well as meat products.

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December 11, 2025

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DGCA stations officers at IndiGo HQ to monitor internal ops

The aviation regulator on Wednesday stationed a group of officials at Indi Go’s headquarters in Gurugram to monitor the day-to-day internal operations of the country’s largest airline, even as it summoned the airline’s CEO Pieter Elbers on Thursday to provide updates on the recent disruptions which led to cancellation of over 4,200 flights in a span of nine days till December 9.

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December 11, 2025

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IMF asks China to curb exports, boost consumption

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday urged China to make the “brave choice” of speeding up structural reform, as pressure grows on the world’s second-largest economy to shift towards a consumption-led model and curb reliance on debt-driven exports.

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December 11, 2025

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Bull-case scenario puts Nifty at 32,032 by 2026: Kotak Sec

The Nifty 50 index could rise around 24 per cent from current levels to 32,032 by December 2026 in a bull-case scenario, Kotak Securities said in a recent note.

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December 11, 2025

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10-year bond yield rises 14 bps since 25-bp rate cut

The yield on the 10-year benchmark government bond has hardened 14 basis points (bps) since the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) 25-bp policy repo rate cut on Friday.

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December 11, 2025

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Markets continue downturn ahead of Fed’s rate decision

Stock benchmarks extended losses on Wednesday on concern the US Federal Reserve may signal a more hawkish 2026 outlook ahead of the expected rate cut later in the day.

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December 11, 2025
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Business Standard

Trai, RBI to begin pilot of digital consent acquisition

Select customers to get SMS notifications from ‘127000’

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December 11, 2025

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Scindia, Starlink V-P discuss ways to speed up digital inclusion

Waiting to serve India with Starlink services: Musk on X

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December 11, 2025

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ADB raises India’s growth forecast to 7.2% for FY26

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday raised India’s growth forecast for the financial year 2026 (FY26) by 70 basis points to 7.2 per cent, citing consumption boost driven by recent tax cuts.

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December 11, 2025

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Car firms gear up for new-year price rise

M&M Group CFO Amarjyoti Barua said the company has taken a hedge position.

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December 11, 2025

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Lord’s-Renalyx Wins Licence to Manufacture Class c World’s 1st AI-Based Smart Hemodialysis Machines

Becomes World’s 6th CE-Certified Brand

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December 11, 2025

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Trai recommends backhaul spectrum charges at 0.1% of AGR

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that a fee of 0.1 per cent of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) be applied to the airwaves that link cell towers to the core network.

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December 11, 2025

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French drugmaker Servier bets big on Indian market

French drugmaker Servier is sharpening its India strategy as it looks to bring more first-in-class and precision medicines into the country, deepen its role in global clinical research, and use India as a hub for manufacturing and global capability centres (GCCs).

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December 11, 2025

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Amazon's $35 bn bet lifts India's AI tide

It comes on top of the $3 billion investment that was earmarked for this year and the next for cloud and Al infrastructure including for setting up data centres.

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December 11, 2025