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Up, close and personal: Why do AI chatbots use 'I'?
Some researchers believe the popular interactive tools should act more like software and less like humans
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
US reform proposals challenge WTO's basic principles
Last week, the United States (US) circulated proposals for reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that question several of its core principles, such as the most favoured nation (MFN) obligation, special and differential treatment (SDT) for developing countries, the consensus-based decision-making process, and the role of the WTO Secretariat.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Air India’s Maharaja Collection finds permanent home at Red Fort
A defining slice of Air India’s cultural legacy has found a permanent public home at New Delhi’s Red Fort, where the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) has opened two new galleries to house the airline's historic art collection put together over 80-odd years.
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December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Railways hikes passenger fares for 2nd time in FY26
Move may add ₹600 cr to its kitty in current FY
3 min |
December 22, 2025
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₹ may trade around 90 vs $ by Dec-end
Indian currency likely to rise to 88.5 by end of FY26
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Up, close and personal: Why do AI chatbots use T'?
Some researchers believe the popular interactive tools should act more like software and less like humans
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Open offers highest since '08
Open offers this calendar year, following attempts at acquisition and takeover, came in at more than two a week.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Urban Bengal sees biggest impact of SIR
The Election Commission of India (EC) on December 16 released draft electoral rolls for West Bengal.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Image editing spurs an industry
While the internet’s memory is permanent, our digital identities have become fluid.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
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Why private member Bills matter
Despite rarely becoming law, these have left a lasting imprint on India’s legislative journey. Aditi Bagaria writes
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Vertis Invit weighs IPO to tap deeper capital pools
Vertis Infrastructure Trust, an infrastructure investment trust (Invit) backed by global investment firm KKR and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), is evaluating a shift from a privately listed structure to a publicly listed one, with initial discussions around an initial public offering (IPO) underway.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Ease of investing
Sebi’s intervention will bring transparency
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Intermediaries with high commissions may see payouts drop
NEW INSURANCE AMENDMENT BILL
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
A-I's Maharaja Collection finds home at Red Fort
At the “Wings of Modernity” exhibition, the display moves between abstraction and figuration, from Gaitonde’s meditative untitled canvases to Husain’s monumental horses, to B Prabha’s portrayals of rural and working women.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Creators are the media studios of the future: YouTube India MD
With revenues of ₹14,300 crore in India in 2024, Google’s YouTube is at the same time a broadcaster, publisher, podcaster, music company, influencer hub, streaming app, and directory.
5 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
'Valuations already elevated, so large multiple expansion hard to justify'
Simultaneous fiscal and monetary tightening created a drag on the economy and markets, says Neelkanth Mishra, chief economist, Axis Bank and head of Global Research, Axis Capital.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Can Al learn to consume with care?
Big Tech is pumping more than $60 billion into data centres in India to power a smart future. This will also put pressure on scarce power and water resources. Fortunately, there are solutions
6 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
₹ may trade around 90 v$ $ by December-end
BUSINESS STANDARD POLL
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
India's stock mkt calmest but a challenge for options traders
India’s stock market has become one of the calmest in the world — so calm that it’s prompting a rethink of strategies among players in the country’s vast derivatives space.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Modi sounds poll bugle in Bengal, Assam
PM hits out at TMC & Congress over the illegal immigrant issue; Opposition accuses him of neglecting other concerns in both states. Archis Mohan reports
3 min |
December 22, 2025
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Business that’s hiring as AI race hots up
GCCs outpace traditional IT giants in taking in talent as they pivot from basic operations to strategic AI, marking a decisive shift from maintenance to modernisation, reports Avik Das
4 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
New market code may constrain Sebi funding
Greater clarity is also needed on the proposed Ombudsperson to resolve investor complaints, experts feel
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Name changer or game changer?
President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday gave her assent to the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, which replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by raising guaranteed workdays from 100 to 125 per year.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Saudi Arabia expands access to sole alcohol store
Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the latest step in the once ultraconservative kingdom’s experiment in liberalisation.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Prices in the electricity system
Only the price system can solve the complexity of modern electricity
4 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Shrimp exports can beat the tariff challenge
India’s export-oriented shrimp industry seems set to convert the challenge from the punitive tariffs imposed by the United States (US), the largest importer, into an opportunity.
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
The evolution of Deepi
Stories about startup founders are made of stuff that invariably inspire and impress.
3 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
16 Epstein files disappear from DOJ website
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
Near-term impact unlikely from US drug pricing policy
US President Donald Trump's move to lower prescription drug prices for Americans in line with the lowest prices paid by other developed nations is unlikely to have an immediate impact on Indian drugmakers, according to analysts and experts.
1 min |
December 22, 2025
Business Standard
L&T turns focus on green hydrogen expansion
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) views green hydrogen as the most critical segment as it gradually builds presence in that space.
3 min |