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Luggage to flaunt

Offering smart features like USB ports, anti-theft zippers, and more, baggage options for travel are now moving from ‘nice to have’ to ‘must have’

2 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

A land far away

Stories that bring to life the world of Tangkhul Nagas of Manipur

3 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

COP30 outcome skips mention of fossil fuels

WORLD GOVERNMENTS AGREED on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poornations coping with global warming but omit any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

1 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Repatriating culture

LOST, FOUND, OR STOLEN — populations across the globe draw their histories and origins from the artifacts that the generations prior left behind. Where they come from and where they end up over the centuries are often two separate stories. Last week, Pope Leo the XIV announced that the Vatican would be returning 62 artifacts that originally belonged to a host of indigenous communities based in Canada. The recent past has seen a variety of conversations on the real heritage of artifacts and where they ought to be displayed.

3 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Red yellow green

Kota became the first Indian city to be traffic signal-free. Can the model be emulated?

3 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Byju must pay over $1 bn

BYJU'S ALPHA WAS incorporated when Raveendran was running the management of edtech firm Think and Learn (TLPL), which operated under Byju’s brand name.

2 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Emmanuel Macron warns of end to G20

EMMANUEL MACRON HAS a penchant for predicting the end of eras. Back in 2019, years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it was the pronouncement that NATO was effectively brain dead. Indeed the postwar military alliance has struggled to rise to the occasion.

1 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Kissing has existed for at least 16 million years, scientists say

And humans are far from the only species locking lips

2 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

'US peace plan for Ukraine needs work'

EU, G7 say borders must not be changed by force

2 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Aggregators hail social security for gig workers

INDIA'S PLATFORM ECONOMY spanning e-commerce, quick-commerce, and ride-hailing, has largely welcomed the Centre’s move to operationalise the Code on Social Security (CoSS), 2020, terming it a necessary step toward formalising the country’s gig workforce.

1 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

LED gets luxe

A SIMPLE TUBELIGHT or bulb no longer makes the cut for the Indian consumer— they need the lighting to elevate the decor and aesthetic of the room, and complement the walls, flooring and furniture as well.

4 min  |

November 23, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Frauds drain ₹10K cr from health insurers annually: BCG

INDIA'S HEALTH INSURANCE system is losing around ₹8,000-10,000 crore annually on claim-payout leakages arising from fraud, waste and abuse (FWA), according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Medi Assist Healthcare, the country’s largest health insurance third-party administrator.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Centre to release new GDP series on February 27

THE MINISTRY OF Statistics and Programme Implementation will release a new series of national accounts with FY23 as the base year on February 27.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Japan approves $135-bn stimulus to spur economy

PRICE STEPS MAY CUT INFLATION BY ABOUT 0.7% FROM FEB-APRIL

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Understated billionaire

AS KESHRE SETTLES INTO HIS NEW ROLE AS CEO OF A PUBLIC ENTERPRISE, THE MARKET WILL BE WATCHING TO SEE IF HE CAN BUILD A LEGACY THAT BEATS THE NOISE

3 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

HC rules against freezing of cyber fraud accounts

IN A SIGNIFICANT ruling, the Bombay High Court has held that probe agencies can not ‘debit freeze’ a bank account allegedly involved in cyber fraud transactions under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

TCS bets on AI backbone to drive long-term value

AIMS TO SHIFT FROM INTEGRATOR TO INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDER

2 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

IPO-bound Meesho looks at ₹53,000-crore valuation

E-COMMERCE PLATFORM MEESHO, which plans to launch its initial public offering in the first half of December, is seeking a valuation of about ₹53,000 crore ($6 billion), according to people familiar with the matter.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Alegend reborn, with a lot of muscle

THE NEW 650 HAS THE TIMELESS SILHOUETTE OF THE BULLET, BUT FAR MORE POWER

2 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Codes progressive, say experts

TO SPUR JOB CREATION BUT EXECUTION REMAINS KEY, THEY SAY

3 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

'Crypto regulation in India has definitely come a long way'

Crypto unicorn CoinSwitch started in 2017 with only one product, its retail app. Today, it offers a suite of products, including a trading platform for traders, white glove services for HNIs, algo and API-based trading, futures and options in rupee and more. The company will continue to innovate on products to serve the market

2 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

IAMAI: Draft accessibility norms to impose cost burden on OTTs

IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPOSED accessibility norms for online curated content specifically for persons with hearing and visual impairment will lead to a high cost of compliance in several cases, which may even surpass their revenue and make them commercially unsustainable, industry body IAMAI said on Friday.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Markets snap winning streak

AFTER CLOSING IN on their all-time highs, benchmark equity indices took a break on Friday, reports Kishor Kadam.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Target sustained double-digit growth: Irdai chief to insurers

THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY should aspire to grow in double digits and in a sustained manner, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) Chairperson Ajay Seth said at the FE Insurance Summit 2025 here on Friday.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Seizing opportunities

There are openings on agri with US and pharma with China

3 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Familiar crisis at COP30 as nations reject...

IN ORDER TO ensure that these issues do not become a roadblock to progress on the other items on the agenda, COP30 presidency Brazil had conducted several rounds of consultations on these difficult issues,and had planned a separate outcome document addressing each of these issues.

2 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Kotak Mahindra Bank cuts SME loan time by 60% using AI tools

KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK has reduced the time taken to process fresh SME loans by 60% through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based digital underwriting tools, a senior bank official said.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Board of Kotak Bank okays 1:5 stock split

KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK announced on Friday that its board has approved a proposal to split its shares in the ratio of 1:5.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Telcos, satcoms differ on spectrum auction plan

MIXED SIGNAL

2 min  |

November 22, 2025

Financial Express Bengaluru

Codes to accelerate formal job creation: Experts

THE FOURLABOUR codes will go a long distance towards universalising minimum wages and social security for all workers and accelerating formal job creation, experts said, reports Surya Sarathi Ray.

1 min  |

November 22, 2025