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Maduro sits in US custody, loyalists defiant

VENEZUELA'S TOPPLED LEADER Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention center on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the US would take control of the oil-producing nation.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

ONGC Videsh may get to recover $1-bn in dues

RIL, ACCORDING TO media reports, had obtained a licence from US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in July 2024 for crude imports from PdVSA, notwithstanding the sanctions, but actual trade hasn't picked up.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Global degrees, Indian address

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES ARE EXPANDING CHOICE TO EARN GLOBAL DEGREES

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

BSNL, pvt telcos spar over shift to IP-based interconnection

PRIVATE TELECOM OPERATORS, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, have locked horns with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) over the cost of transition of the interconnection framework.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

New airport....

BHOGAPURAM'S OPERATOR, GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport, said the validation flight marked a key regulatory milestone ahead of the airport's inauguration, scheduled for June.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

‘Key theme in 2026 will be discretionary consumption’

Improving liquidity, income-tax relief and GST rationalisation are expected to lift discretionary spending in 2026.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Experts split on Centre's capex pace in Dec-March

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TOTALS ₹6.5 LAKH CRORE THROUGH NOVEMBER

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

GST 2.0: Luxury EV penetration declines

ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) penetration in the luxury car segment has seen a drop by nearly 3 percentage points in the GST 2.0 era with the internal combustion engine versions offering better total cost of ownership, according to industry players.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

X to ban user accounts creating illegal content

ELON MUSK-OWNED X said on Sunday that it would take strict action against illegal content

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Bandhan Bank loans grow 10% in Q3

PRIVATE SECTOR LENDER Bandhan Bank on Sunday reported a 10% year-on-year (yo-y) growth in its loans and advances, totalling ₹1.45 lakh crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2025.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Bring the cinema home

YUVA VIBE DELIVERS SHARP AND VIBRANT VISUALS

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

From parched fields to prosperity

FARMER PROSPERITY CAN BE REAL IF INNOVATION IS SCALED WITH COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL STAKEHOLDERS

4 min  |

January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Citi tops M&A advisory league table

Late surge in big deals lifts overall number in 2025

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

IT results may underline resilience, not recovery

LARGE-CAP DOMESTIC

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

‘2026 will be defined by the industrialisation of AI’

LTIMindtree is betting big on BlueVerse, its AI-native ecosystem that brings together intelligent agents, modular architecture and built-in trust, providing everything enterprises need to move from AI concept-to-value. “We see strong investments in Al, with significant traction both in AI-native projects and in infusing AI into existing capabilities,” says Venu Lambu, CEO & MD, LTIMindtree. In this interview with Sudhir Chowdhary, he outlines the key trends and his company’s strategy for accelerating Al adoption among its clients. Excerpts:

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Subsidies 8% of states' revenue spending

STATE GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE to devote a sizeable share of their budgets to subsidies, underscoring their role in welfare delivery while intensifying pressure on public finances.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

New airport every 50 days, says Naidu

THE COUNTRY'S AIRPORT expansion is gathering pace, with a new airport being added roughly every 50 days as the government is pushing to ease capacity constraints and expand air connectivity, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Sunday.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

ONGC Videsh may get to recover $1 billion in dues

• Venezuelan oil supplies may resume to RIL, other refiners

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

India Inc goes all-in on Al mainstreaming

INDIA INC MAY not be at the forefront of cutting-edge technological development, but it is gearing up for large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence, with large enterprises beginning to rework organisational structures, workflows and leadership roles to embed AI across operations.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

From rare to well-done

FOR ONLINE FRESH MEAT DELIVERY SHOPS, THE PIVOT TO OFFLINE RETAIL HAS BECOME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND EXTINCTION

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

'Expect top line to grow 70-80% in FY26'

After a year spent regaining momentum following a regulatory freeze, Cashfree Payments is starting to see payoffs from investments it made earlier, particularly in cross-border payments.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Decoding Meta’s move to snap up Manus

AI agent developer, has been acquired by Meta for an undisclosed sum, as the social media giant steps up spending to close the gap with rivals such as Google and OpenAl.

1 min  |

January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Romance, mediated by AI

THE RESPONSES CAME quick, but polished.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

We can’t innovate our way out of the climate crisis

OPTIMISM, ESPECIALLY ABOUT our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might beat its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

OPEC+ keeps output steady

OPEC+ KEPT OIL output unchanged on Sunday after a quick meeting that avoided discussion of the political crises affecting several of the producer group's members.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Govt likely to introduce Seed Bill in Budget session

TO ENSURE QUALITY and traceability while curbing spurious sales, the government is likely to introduce the Seed Bill in Parliament in the forthcoming budget session, an agriculture ministry official said on Sunday.

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January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

The quantum era crept up while you were watching AI

STEP ASIDE, Al. Another transformative technology with the potential to reshape industries and reorder geopolitical power is finally moving out of the lab: quantum.

2 min  |

January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Somnath Swabhiman Parv: 1,000 years of unbroken faith

SOMNATH...HEARING THIS word instils a sense of pride in our hearts and minds.

5 min  |

January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Resolving India’s grid bottlenecks

Institutional coordination and transparency is key to ensure that India is able to get the renewable energy it generates to its power grid

3 min  |

January 05, 2026

Financial Express Chandigarh

Bangladesh threaten not to play T20 World Cup matches in India

AMID TENSE BILATERAL TIES BETWEEN SOUTH ASIAN NEIGHBOURS

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January 05, 2026