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Corporate governance can’t just be reactive: Sebi chief

Even minor infractions in corporate governance can lead to “amplified consequences” in the capital market, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Friday.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

PM to inaugurate new airport terminal in Guwahati today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to Assam from Saturday, during which he will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for several projects and address public meetings.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Credai's Budget wish list: Revise affordable housing price cap to ₹90 lakh

Realtors body Credai on Friday appealed to the Centre to revise the %45 lakh price cap and provide tax incentives to developers for building affordable housing projects in the upcoming Union Budget 2026-27, while citing high demand for such units.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Premium bike sales defy GST hike, register 4% growth

Sales of premium motorcycles in India, those with more than 350 cubic capacity (cc) engine capacities, have demonstrated notable resilience, registering 4 per cent year-on-year (Y-0-Y) growth in October-November 2025, despite a sharp hike in the goods and services tax (GST) rate, indicating stable demand in this niche segment.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

EU offers Ukraine €90 bn loan via joint bonds

European Union leaders agreed to loan Ukraine €90 billion ($106 billion) for the next two years in a bid to strengthen Kyiv’s hand at the negotiating table and keep the war-torn country afloat.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Fog chaos at airports spreads

Winter made its presence felt across North India as dense smog continued to trigger widespread disruption in flight operations out of Delhi, with IndiGo and Air India cancelling several services that rippled across their network, affecting airports including Mumbai and Hyderabad.

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December 20, 2025
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Business Standard

SAT to hear appeal by Avadhut Sathe on Jan 9

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) will hear on January 9, 2026, an appeal filed by Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy (ASTA) challenging a Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) order that directed the impounding of ₹546 crore and barred the entity from the securities market.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

₹ sees best day in 3 yrs, strengthens past 90/S

The rupee staged a sharp turn- around over the week - from being the worst performer among Asian peers to the best-performing cur- rency on Friday.

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December 20, 2025
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Business Standard

Bangladesh on boil after student leader’s death

> PROTESTERS TORCH MEDIA OFFICES, POLITICAL SITES, CULTURAL LANDMARKS > INDIAN DIPLOMAT’S HOUSE ATTACKED; YUNUS APPEALS FOR CALM AMID RISING TENSIONS

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Hard work and humility

‘The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP’s) victory in the Chhattisgarh Assembly election (2023) is considered a turning point in the political career of Nitin Nabin, declared national working president of the BJP last week, the youngest everto hold the position.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Avendus Capital founders eye $35 mn each after Mizuho deal

Avendus Capital has advised on hundreds of transactions since 1999, lately turning into one of India’s fastest growing dealmakers by helping emerging tech tycoons to raise money.

1 min  |

December 20, 2025

Business Standard

Govt to release compliance handbook for new labour Codes: Labour secy

The Centre is set to release a compliance handbook to help businesses comply with the four new labour codes, Labour Secretary Vandana Gurnani said on Friday.

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December 20, 2025

Business Standard

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
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Business Standard

MUFG deal: Shriram Finance may benefit from lower cost of funds

Perks of the deal

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December 20, 2025

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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

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Volume concerns to weigh on United Breweries

Regulatory pressure adds to the stock’s poor performance

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December 20, 2025

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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
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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
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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

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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

Business Standard

FM tables Bill for unified securities laws

BIGGEST RESET IN DECADES TAKING SHAPE

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December 19, 2025
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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