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Crisis exposes operational weakness
The recent IndiGo crisis leading to hundreds of flight cancellations across India has brought renewed attention to the overall performance of the country's airlines.
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
Telangana to name roads after Ratan Tata, Trump
The Telangana government on Sunday said it has decided to name the upcoming greenfield radial road at the proposed RRR in honour of the late industrialist Ratan Tata.
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
Pesticides Mgmt Bill should not foster 'licence raj': Plant protection industry
As the government reopens consultations on the long-pending Pesticides Management Bill (PMB), sections of the plant protection industry have raised serious concerns that the draft — in its current form— could create an inspectorand license-driven regime.
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
UP’s $1 trillion target gathers steam
State government has operationalised the UP State Transformation Commission and tasked it with the job of catalysing growth. Virendra Singh Rawat writes
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
Favourable position
Near-term focus will be on currency
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
China locks radar on Japan's military jet
Chinese fighter aircraft locked fire-control radar on Japanese military jets for the first time on Saturday, according to Japan’s Defence Ministry, an incident that is likely to further stoke simmering tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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December 08, 2025
Business Standard
Rushdie’s meditations on mortality
Salman Rushdie’s latest opus is a many-splendored offering.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Markets likely to stay range-bound
Rate cut a response to economic data; US tariffs still weigh: Analysts
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Tata, Cyient, Applied Materials bag SCL modernisation tender
The government has awarded the ₹4,500 crore tender for the modernisation of the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, Punjab, to Tata Semiconductor, Cyient Semiconductor, and Applied Materials for different aspects to upgrade the plant, according to tender documents.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Mainboard IPOs score a century for the first time after 18 years
Riding on favourable valuations, strong DII participation, IPO proceeds to cross 1.7 tm mark
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Stranded flyers face brunt of IndiGo turmoil
Following flight cancellations, airfares of Air India, Akasa, Spicejet rise exponentially, dealing a double blow
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Deputy USTR to lead team to India next week
AUS trade delegation, led by Deputy US Trade Representative (USTR) Rick Switzer, will visit India next week at a time India is aiming to conclude the first tranche of the bilateral trade agreement (BTA) before the end of the calendar year, according to people privy to the matter.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Sweeps and stakes in Nepal
Superficially, it is all back to normal.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
The pioneer who built India's first beauty brand
Back in the early 1960s, when India, barely in its teens as an independent nation, was beginning to embrace the idea of fashion shows, mostly organised by textile mills, Simone Tata would be among those quietly watching from the audience.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
SEBI PROPOSAL FOR BANK PARTICIPATION Looking at allowing banks in non-agri commodity derivatives mkt: RBI
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is examining the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi’s) proposal to allow banks to participate in non-agriculture commodity derivatives, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Friday.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Urban consumer confidence perks up, rural stays flat
Consumer confidence perked up in November among those living in urban areas against the previous month owing to improved sentiments on price and general economic situation, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) forward-looking surveys.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
'Focus is on volume, even if average ticket size of orders falls for a while'
Westlife Foodworld is the West and South India franchisee for American multinational fast-food chain McDonald’s.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
RBI's MPC delivers again, takes 2025 rate cut tally to 125 bps
Repo rate cut by 25 bps, stance still neutral; liquidity boost via ₹1 trn OMO in Dec
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Avadhut Sathe academy to challenge Sebi order
Denies allegations, claims it works solely as a training institution
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Indian fertiliser majors, Uralchem join hands for mega offshore urea project
Three Indian firms on Friday signed a pact with Russian fertiliser giant Uralchem to set up a 1.8-2 million tonne (mt) urea plant in Russia, making it one of the biggest such offshore joint ventures in the sector which will help India strengthen its long-term crop nutrients needs.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Fino 1st payments bank to get RBI nod to turn SFB
Fino Payments Bank (Fino) has become the first such entity to get an in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to transition into a small finance bank (SFB).
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
SKF India Industrial expects top line to double in 5 yrs
India’s new and demerged industrial unit is aiming for aggressive growth, projecting it will nearly double its revenue within five years as it completes a major investment cycle and boosts operating profit.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
The failed Marshal Doctrine
None of Pakistan's Prime Ministers has lasted five years. The fact that the current PM has given Asim Munir five years shows that of all the military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan's is the most creative
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Sitharaman stresses need for steady defence funding
Lok Sabha clears Health Security se National Security Cess Bill
2 min |
December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Near-term margin pressure for city gas distribution majors
Global energy markets are trending down.
3 min |
December 06, 2025
Business Standard
UP tops Centre's capex assistance scheme
Just over a third of the special assistance to states for capital investment (SASCI) fund for 2025-26 (FY26) — %56,826 crore — has been released across 4,106 approved projects as of November 27, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary informed Parliament on Monday.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Bank NIMs may squeeze further
Net interest margins (NIMs) of scheduled commercial banks, which are already under pressure as deposit rates tend to adjust more slowly than lending rates, are likely to face further compression following the decision of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) monetary policy committee (MPC) to cut the repo rate by another 25 basis points (bps) in its December meeting.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Board nod must for bank entities to do same biz: RBI
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday allowed multiple entities in a bank group to undertake the same business as long as they cater to different client segments, while mandating board approval to ensure that any overlap in business has proper rationale and justification.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
RBI to maintain ample banking liquidity: Guv
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will ensure ample liquidity in the banking system without explicitly targeting surplus levels of around 1 per cent of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL), Governor Sanjay Malhotra said at the post-monetary policy press conference.
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December 06, 2025
Business Standard
Ironies of history
History, with all its vagaries, can be unkind. Marxists tenaciously clung to the belief that \"history is behind us.
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