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GST fast-track registration scheme triggers spike in automatic approvals
142,000 applications cleared in 15 days
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Ensuring compensation to crash victims' kin is done fairly: A-I CEO
Air India (AI) is committed to ensuring that ex-gratia payouts to families affected by the Ali71 plane crash in June are processed in a “fair and well managed” manner, its chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) Campbell Wilson said on Monday.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Buy riders that align with your financial goals and risks
LIFE INSURANCE ADD-ONs
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Accel-Google AI fund to back startups
Global venture-capital firm Accel has entered into a partnership with Google’s AI Futures Fund (AIFF) to launch the 2026 artificial intelligence (AI) cohort within its Atoms program.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Reframing a relationship
India should selectively reopen door to Chinese investment
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Big clash over small cars
Proposed new emission norms have sparked a big versus small car debate in India. Throw tax rates, complex regulations and shifting demand into the mix, and things start to get complicated for automakers
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
GST boost fuelling growth; private capex showing spark: HDFC Bank
“Against this background, we have an opportunity to activate loan growth, which is what we have started to do from this quarter. We believe that this will sustain and continue, but of course, we have to wait and watch,” he had said in mid-October.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
SC seeks replies on plea against cash donations to parties
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday sought responses from the Centre, the Election Commission of India (ECI), and others on a petition challenging the provision under the Income Tax Act that permits political parties to accept cash donations of up to ₹2,000.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
PF, gratuity, take-home changing under new labour codes. What to expect?
After the new labour codes, some companies have begun changing the salary structure of their employees, who may see changes in their provident fund (PF), gratuity, and in some cases, in their monthly in-hand salary.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Institutional shareholder dissent dips in H1FY26: Prime Database study
Corporate resolutions facing 20 percent or more “against” votes from institutional shareholders fell to 13 per cent (1,545 out of 12,134) in the first half of 2025-26 (H1FY26), a decline from 16 per cent during the same period last year, according to an analysis by Prime Database Group.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
The baffling wait for ‘demand visibility’
All commentary on India’s economic situation is in agreement that private investment must perk up for gross domestic growth (GDP) growth to accelerate or even be maintained, and that there is only so much that a fiscally responsible government can do.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Coverage under QCO is not enough to make an item ‘restricted’ under FTP
We refer to the RBI's notification allowing extension in the time period for realisation and repatriation of full export value of goods/software/services exported from India from nine months to fifteen months from the date of export from India. I want to know the period for which this relaxation is applicable?
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Ayodhya’s tourism economy may touch ₹18,000 cr by 2028
Tourism in Ayodhya, which witnessed a surge after the consecration of the Ram temple in January 2024, is estimated to generate ₹18,000 crore by 2028.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
SC agrees to clear Sandesaras of bank fraud after part-payment
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the closure of criminal cases against former directors of Sterling Biotech Nitin and Chetan Sandesara on the condition that they deposit t5,100 crore by December 17.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Delhi HC grants interim relief to Elon Musk-owned Tesla in infringement case
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed Tesla Power India not to manufacture or market electric vehicles (EVs) or use the word “Tesla” until the final disposal of the Elon Musk-owned Tesla Inc’s trademark infringement suit against it.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
ChatGPT Go’s free year turns India into its biggest test bed
App at No. 1 slot on Google Play Store for more than a month now
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Exports and domestic demand to drive steady growth for pharma SMEs in FY26
Export demand from regulated and semi-regulated markets is expected to support revenue growth of India’s pharmaceutical sector this financial year (FY26).
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Fraudsters Inc
BOOK REVIEW
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Incremental gains, stable demand may boost IT stocks
Demand trends appear to be stable for the information technology (IT) sector, and headwinds may be easing. Most deals are still focussed on cost optimisation.Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and penetration may be accelerating.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Delhi govt, pvt offices to enforce 50% WFH due to air pollution
Delhi government offices and all private establishments in the city will function with 50 per cent staff strength, and the rest will work from home under stage three of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) in view of high air pollution levels, according to an order issued on Monday.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
Avoid ash-affected altitudes, regions, DGCA tells airlines
ETHIOPIA VOLCANO ERUPTION
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
93% firms see positive returns on AI investment: SAP report
Nearly 93 per cent of Indian organisations surveyed expect positive returns on their Al investments in less than three years, underlining the rising confidence of businesses in value and potential of Artificial Intelligence, according to SAP Value of AI Report 2025.
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November 25, 2025
Business Standard
COP30: A summit of fading hopes, fires & thunderstorms
Thirteen days of tropical heat, torrential rain, the flooding of the summit venue, a riot, 70,000strong protesters, a coffin march for fossil fuels, and a fire on the penultimate day razing a pavilion—you could see it all in Belem, Brazil, at the world’s biggest annual climate summit.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
Centre-state collaboration: A must for effective labour reforms
India’s labour law reform is among the most consequential structural changes in decades. By consolidating 29 central legislations into four comprehensive Labour Codes—the Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code—the government has laid the groundwork for a modern, inclusive, and competitive industry ecosystem.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
Delivery platform liable for shortfall in quantity
Raja Vikrant Sharma, a law student at Panjab University in Chandigarh, used his mobile app to place an order on Swiggy Instamart on December 30, 2024. He ordered Nestle Classic Milk Chocolate and 1 kg Nagpur oranges, which he intended to carry with him while visiting his maternal aunt. Swiggy levied a handling fee of 28.61.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
Banks' good run on, but there are challenges
Net profits grew, but operating profits were down for many banks in the Sep quarter. What does it say?
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
AI boom sparks fears of spending built on house of cards
It would not be a stretch to describe this period of hyperactive growth in the tech industry as a historic moment.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
India breaks into global qcom top 3, behind only China and US
India is the third-largest market in the world for quick commerce (qcom) based on revenues — far behind the giants China and the US, but well ahead of markets like Japan, South Korea, the UK, and European Union countries, according to Statista projections.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
Answers blowin’ in the wind
One summer, I worked in southern France, in a town that is the regular victim of the mistral—a punishing, north-northwesterly wind that blows throughout the year.
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November 24, 2025
Business Standard
Banks' good run on, but there are challenges
Net profits grew, but operating profits were down for many banks in the Sep quarter. What does it say?
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