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Financial Express Kochi
BSNL achieves 93% of Q2 revenue target, says Scindia
STATE-RUN TELECOM operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) achieved 93% of its second-quarter revenue target for FY2025-26, generating Rs 5,347 crore, Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
US ends automatic work permit extension
VISA OVERHAUL ■ The rule takes effect immediately, requiring full re-screening for renewals ■ It follows Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee hike
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Union Bank sees 10% fall in profit
PUBLIC SECTOR LENDER Union Bank of India reported a 10% year-on-year (YoY) decline in net profit to ₹4,249 crore for the second quarter of FY26, compared to ₹4,719.7 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Weddings to generate ₹6.5L cr this year
WEDDINGS IN INDIA will generate ₹6.5 lakh crore business from 4.6 million marriages in the first set of auspicious dates from November 1 to December 14 this year, as estimated by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
RBI rejects SBI Cap plan to raise stake in Investec unit
THE RESERVE BANK of India has turned down a proposal by State Bank of India (SBI) to increase its stake in an institutional equities joint venture with a local unit of Investec, sources said.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
CAG urges states to build Odisha-like budget buffers
'STABLISATION FUND WILL COME IN HANDY IN HARD TIMES'
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Global auto firms brace for chip cuts
CARMAKERS AROUND THE world are planning to scale back production after an export freeze on a Chinese semiconductor company based in Netherlands threatened to disrupt the industry’s supply chains.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
L&T targets 6x rise in data centre biz
ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to expand its data centre capacity sixfold to 200 MW from 32 MW as it bets big on India’s growing digital infrastructure demand.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Groww promoter stake valued at over ₹16,315 cr
BILLIONBRAINS GARAGE VENTURES, the owner of India’s largest brokerage platform Groww, is planning to raise %6,630 crore through an initial public offering (IPO).
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
ITC Q2 profit rises 3% to ₹5,126 crore
REVENUE DECLINES 1.3% TO %21,256 CRORE
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
High gold prices hit demand
Exchange of old jewellery for new has resulted in a fall in imports
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Indices close lower as Fed rules out December cut
THE BENCHMARK INDICES fell up to 0.70% on Thursday, weighed down by the US Federal Reserve’s comments ruling out a rate cut in its next policy announcement in December, amid mixed global cues.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
5,000 FPOs must have turnover above ₹1 cr by FY26: Chouhan
AGRICULTURE MINISTER SHIVRAJ Singh Chouhan on Thursday called for increasing annual sales turnover of at least 5,000 farmers producer organisations (FPOs) to above ₹1 crore each by FY26 for achieving economy of sale and financial sustainability.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Tighter cost control & higher exports drive Hyundai net up
Profit rises 14% to ₹1,572 cr in Q2, revenue grows 1%
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Sebi allows Nifty Bank rejig by March
QSBs get more time to implement optional T+0 settlement cycle
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
L&T targets sixfold rise in data centre business
HE FURTHERADDED that data centres are a capital-intensive business, and getting clients to use the data centre for storing servers and keeping data in is not very remunerative.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Bigger, bolder, brighter
OUTDOOR AD SPENDING, BUOYED BY NEW-AGE FORMATS AND INNOVATIVE DISPLAYS, SURGED NEARLY 20% THIS FESTIVE SEASON
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
OpenAI may target $1-trn IPO valuation
OPENAI IS LAYING the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
RDIF as engine of knowledge economy
THIS YEAR'S ECONOMICS Nobel Prize awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Joel Mokyr underscores the principle that sustained productivity gains stem not from capital deepening alone but from frontier innovation, the systematic generation and diffusion of new technologies that displace obsolete ones through creative destruction.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Yield jumps most in 6 weeks; rupee falls to fortnightly low
FED TURNS HAWKISH
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Bank credit grows 11.45%, show RBI data
LOANS EXTENDED BY banks grew 11.45%year-on-year (YoY) as on October 17, continuing to outpace the growth in deposits, the Reserve Bank of India data released on Thursday showed.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
China's AI push has scale. But substance?
WHEN IT COMES to the sheer number of generative artificial intelligence users in China, the question shouldn’t be how many there are, but how they’re using it.Anew report from the China Internet Network Information Center indicates the nation had some 515 million users as of June, up by 266 million since December, according toa readout from Xinhua.Ata first glance, the figure suggests that Beijing’s push to spread the technology throughout industries to boost productivity — the so-called Al Plusinitiative — is bearing fruit.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
FPIs flash India comeback signal
Short positions at 3-month low
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Tech in the spotlight but Trump tariffs loom large
THEJAPAN MOBILITY Showis highlighting more than just cars or the types of fuel they use from electric to hydrogen, but also various kinds of futuristictransport.Think scuttling robotic chairs, like the Uni-One from Honda. The Tokyo-based maker of the Accord sedan says it is all about personal mobility as a mode for quick transport by 2035. Just sit on the boxlike machine as it zips around quietly.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Bandhan Bank profit slides to ₹112 crore
THE POST-TAX PROFIT of private lender Bandhan Bank decreased to₹112 crore during the second quarter of the current financial as compared to 937 crore in the year-ago period. Operating profit decreased to ₹1,310 crore, from $1,855 crore in the same quarter last year.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Fed split hardens following Powell’s December warning
FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR Jerome Powell’s blunt warning that investors need to rein in expectations for a December interest-rate cut underscored a growing tug-of-war among US policymakers who are opposed in their outlooks for jobs and inflation.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
FPIs flash renewed India comeback signal
BLOOMBERG DATASHOW that in January this year, the open interest of short contracts hit 445,114—the highest since September 2015.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Meta seeks $25 bn from bond sale
META PLATFORMS AIMS to sell at least $25 billion of investment-grade bonds on Thursday, a day after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg warned the company would spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the coming year.
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Building Sustainable and Inclusive Future with Indian PSUs
PSU-led CSR projects not only empower people in backward regions but also help strengthen urban development
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October 31, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
CSR for Nation Building to Achieve Viksit Bharat
PSUs have undertaken a wide range of impactful activities over the years — from environmental protection and women’s empowerment to rural development, education, healthcare, job creation and disaster relief
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