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Indian cinema shines brighter at box office Down Under
Over the last three years, Indian films have outperformed Australian ones at the Australian box office.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Strong H2FY26 growth may drive rerating in LIC
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) had a positive surprise on annual premium equivalent (APE) growth (up 3 percent year-on-year or Yo-Y), with group business up 20 per cent. Value of new business (VNB) grew 12 per cent.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Pat Cummins’ XI
Edgbaston, 2023. Australia needs 74 runs with three wickets in hand. Pat Cummins walks to the crease as number nine, the tail exposed, England circling. What follows is a demonstration of resolve.
4 min |
November 08, 2025
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Growth momentum to drive gains for UPL
Brokerages bullish on stock amid easing leverage situation
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November 08, 2025
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CHAOS AT DELHI AIRPORT Air traffic control glitch hits over 800 flights
Delhi airport, the busiest in India, plunged into chaos on Friday after a technical glitch in the air traffic control (ATC) system delayed more than 800 domestic and international flights, sources said.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
PAN not linked with Aadhaar? It may become inoperative from Jan 1
The last day to link permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar is December 31, after which taxpayers’ PAN risks becoming invalid.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Hindalco net profit rises 21% to ₹4,741 crore
Aditya Birla Group’s Hindalco Industries on Friday reported a 21.3 per cent year on year rise in its consolidated net profit to ₹4,741 crore in the second quarter of 2025-26 (Q2FY26), driven by its Indian business and its US-based subsidiary, Novelis.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
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Tesla shareholders approve $1 trn pay package for Musk
CEO says it’s not just a new chapter for the company, it’s a new book
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November 08, 2025
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DeepSeek pessimistic about AI impact on humanity
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) developer DeepSeek made its first public appearance in almost a year after it became a global sensation, fielding a senior researcher who told a government-organised internet conference that he was pessimistic about AI's future impact on humanity.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
IPO, deal valuations: Sebi calls for guardrails
Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) whole-time member, Kamlesh Chandra Varshney, on Friday expressed concern over valuations of initial public offerings (IPOs) and certain corporate arrangements, calling for stronger guardrails to protect minority shareholders.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
GST 2.0, festival cheer drove record vehicle sales in Oct
Rural demand added to automobile retail sales
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Hundreds of US flights cancelled amid shutdown
A wave of flight cancellations hit the United States on Friday morning, bringing home the effects of the government shutdown to many more Americans.
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November 08, 2025
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Goldman Sachs promotes 49 employees in India as MD
Goldman Sachs has promoted 49 employees in India as managing directors (MDs) — a record number for the country where the Wall Street bank sees substantial opportunities.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Will the vibrant capital mkt bring next Nvidia from India?
In 1980, Apple went public at a $1.8 billion market cap, just five years after its founding.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Adam Smith and the moral economy we have lost
With the 25oth anniversary of The Wealth of Nations approaching next year, the world is gearing up to honour Adam Smith. But which Smith should be recognised? The hard-nosed “founding father” of modern economics, or the philosopher who wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments? Scholars have wrestled with this question, a riddle known as “Das Adam Smith Problem,” for centuries, because it concerns not just dualities within Smith's thought, but also our own uneasy relationship with morality and markets.
3 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Mounjaro India’s bestselling drug in Oct with ₹100 cr sales
Eli Lilly’s anti-obesity medicine Mounjaro (tirzepatide) emerged as India’s highest-selling drug by value in October 2025, posting sales worth almost ₹100 crore for the first time since its launch in March this year.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Pilot-in-command not to be blamed for A-I crash, observes SC
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that no fault could be attributed to the pilot-in-command of Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad in June this year.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Lacklustre IPO listings cast shadow on D-St euphoria
Back-to-back weak listings have taken some shine off India’s ongoing IPO boom.
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
CEA confident of growth above 6.8%
Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday exuded confidence that economic growth would be upwards of 6.8 per cent in the current financial year driven by consumption boost provided by GST rate cut and income tax relief.
1 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Trump hints at possible India visit next yr
In a sign that India-United States relations could be recovering from the recent friction over the tariffs the White House imposed on Indian goods and negotiations on a trade deal that had reached an impasse, American President Donald Trump on Friday (India time) said he could visit India next year at the invite of his “friend” Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
3 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
The rebel poet-filmmaker
“No one else can shake the people’s middle-class mindset, wealth, and contentment. You have departed, pride has dissipated, and humility has surfaced.” This is my translation of a few lines from Ritwik, for You, a poem written by Bengali poet Shakti Chattopadhyay in 1976, shortly after the death of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
No regulator should substitute boardroom decision: RBI guy
“We need to allow the regulated entities to take decisions based on the merits of each case, rather than prescribing a ‘one size fits all’ rule. This will enable regulated entities to experiment and innovate, learn and improve,” he said.
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
No regulator should substitute boardroom judgement: RBI guv
Financial stability remains the ‘North Star’ for the central bank
3 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
The 1st Republic, the lost Republic
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction
5 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Exponent targets 2-2.5 mn 3Ws with 24-hr EV retrofit
Exponent Energy, a Bengaluru-based energy-tech company with financial backing from the family office of Hero MotoCorp Chairman and CEO Pawan Munjal, has launched its ‘Exponent Oto’ technology, a disruptive solution designed to retrofit Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) three-wheelers into electric vehicles (EVs).
2 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Groww IPO booked 17.6x on last day
Taking the D-Street Billionbrains Garage Ventures
1 min |
November 08, 2025
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MFs turn to covered call strategy to squeeze out gains in flat mkt
Restricted in 2010, the regulator allowed writing options under covered calls in 2019
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
Air traffic control glitch hits over 800 flights at Delhi airport
Earlier in the day, Delhi airport operator DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd) had said in a post on X: “All airline operations at Delhi Airport are currently delayed. Authorities concerned are working on resolving the issue at the earliest.
1 min |
November 08, 2025
Business Standard
HAL inks deal for 113 GE engines for Tejas Mk1A
ENGINE DELIVERIES ARE SCHEDULED BETWEEN 2027 AND 2032: HAL
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November 08, 2025
Business Standard
National song row: PM says key stanzas dropped in 1937
In an apparent attack at the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said important stanzas of the national song “Vande Mataram” were dropped in 1937 which sowed the seeds of partition and asserted that such a “divisive mindset” is still a challenge for the country.
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