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Premium bike sales defy GST hike, register 4% growth
Sales of premium motorcycles in India, those with more than 350 cubic capacity (cc) engine capacities, have demonstrated notable resilience, registering 4 per cent year-on-year (Y-0-Y) growth in October-November 2025, despite a sharp hike in the goods and services tax (GST) rate, indicating stable demand in this niche segment.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
EU offers Ukraine €90 bn loan via joint bonds
European Union leaders agreed to loan Ukraine €90 billion ($106 billion) for the next two years in a bid to strengthen Kyiv’s hand at the negotiating table and keep the war-torn country afloat.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Fog chaos at airports spreads
Winter made its presence felt across North India as dense smog continued to trigger widespread disruption in flight operations out of Delhi, with IndiGo and Air India cancelling several services that rippled across their network, affecting airports including Mumbai and Hyderabad.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
SAT to hear appeal by Avadhut Sathe on Jan 9
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) will hear on January 9, 2026, an appeal filed by Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy (ASTA) challenging a Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) order that directed the impounding of ₹546 crore and barred the entity from the securities market.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
₹ sees best day in 3 yrs, strengthens past 90/S
The rupee staged a sharp turn- around over the week - from being the worst performer among Asian peers to the best-performing cur- rency on Friday.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Bangladesh on boil after student leader’s death
> PROTESTERS TORCH MEDIA OFFICES, POLITICAL SITES, CULTURAL LANDMARKS > INDIAN DIPLOMAT’S HOUSE ATTACKED; YUNUS APPEALS FOR CALM AMID RISING TENSIONS
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Hard work and humility
‘The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP’s) victory in the Chhattisgarh Assembly election (2023) is considered a turning point in the political career of Nitin Nabin, declared national working president of the BJP last week, the youngest everto hold the position.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Avendus Capital founders eye $35 mn each after Mizuho deal
Avendus Capital has advised on hundreds of transactions since 1999, lately turning into one of India’s fastest growing dealmakers by helping emerging tech tycoons to raise money.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Govt to release compliance handbook for new labour Codes: Labour secy
The Centre is set to release a compliance handbook to help businesses comply with the four new labour codes, Labour Secretary Vandana Gurnani said on Friday.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Sensex, Nifty gain on hopes of further Fed rate cuts
Indian equities gained, with the benchmark indices snapping their four-session losing streak on Friday, as soft US inflation data raised hopes of further Federal Reserve rate cuts.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Adani group plans to invest ₹1 trn in airports, infra facilities in 5 yrs
Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (AAHL) plans to invest around ₹1 trillion across its airports and adjoining areas over the next five years, as it looks to develop airports and infrastructure facilities like hotels, entertainment and convention centres, real estate and other assets.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Stop and drop the slop
“Slop” has just been announced as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year as Al-generated content floods the internet and invades our vocabulary.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
MUFG deal: Shriram Finance may benefit from lower cost of funds
Perks of the deal
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Tejas Networks' direct-to-mobile tech gaining ground
Tejas Networks, a telecom gear maker backed by the Tata group, is in talks with international players for providing its direct to mobile (D2M) technology, which it has built in-house, even as it looks to commercially launch the service with Prasar Bharati, said its cofounder, executive director, and chief operating officer, Arnab Roy, in an exclusive interaction with Business Standard.
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Volume concerns to weigh on United Breweries
Regulatory pressure adds to the stock’s poor performance
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December 20, 2025
Business Standard
Lok Sabha passes VB-G RAM G Bill amid Oppn protest
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to replace the 20-year-old scheme MGNREGA amid tearing of papers by opposition members who accused the BJP-led government of destroying the rural economy.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Anti-India US tariffs hurting industries: Rahul
Asserting that the \"anti-India\" tariff policy of the US has had a devastating impact on several industries, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday flagged the plight of the carpet weavers of Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi and called for returning power to the hands of small businesses through policies and economic support.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Top court questions blanket deposit exemption for company directors
NO BLANKET EXEMPTION FROM MANDATORY 20% DEPOSIT DURING APPEAL HEARINGS, SAYS COURT
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
From Vietnam to Iraq: A lifetime of war reporting
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Delhi curbs open new mkt for ICE-to-EV retrofitters
While comprehensive industry-wide figures are unavailable, a rough estimate drawing on Transparency Market Research's 2021 assessment puts the EV powertrain retrofitting market at about 1 million vehicles, valued at roughly $2.14 billion.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
NCLT approves first stage of Adani Harbour and Adani Ports merger
The Ahmedabad branch of the National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday gave its nod for the first-stage approval to the proposed merger of Adani Harbour Services Limited with its parent firm - Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Airtel to call for ₹15,741 cr tranche of rights issue
Proceeds to be used towards retiring majority of non-govt-related debt
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
IndiGo brass to fan out with 'rebuilding' message
The new pilot rest and duty rules increased weekly rest requirements and reduced permissible night flying hours for pilots.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Stalin writes to PM: Tariffs squeezing profits for textile exporters, leading to mass layoffs
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has sought an early conclusion of the ongoing India-US trade negotiations, saying that exporters at knitwear hub Tiruppur had already lost ₹15,000 crore in confirmed orders and millions of jobs were at risk, describing it as a \"looming humanitarian challenge\".
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Shriram group may still stay promoter after $4 bn deal
In one of the largest investments in India's financial services space, Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is likely to invest over $4 billion in Shriram Finance for a 20 per cent stake, and the domestic lender is likely to announce the deal on Monday after board approval, sources said.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
FM tables Bill for unified securities laws
BIGGEST RESET IN DECADES TAKING SHAPE
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
The bubble lies in larger LLMs: Cognizant AI chief
There is a bubble in artificial intelligence (AI) when it comes to building large language models (LLM) with big funding but the adoption of AI by enterprises will remain unaffected even if it bursts in the next two years, according to Cognizant's chief AI officer.
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Q3 sales, easing costs bode well for Godrej Consumer
GCPL stock trading at 44x its FY27 earnings per share
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Food delivery platforms employed 1.37 mn in FY24: NCAER
The food delivery platform sector in India employed 1.37 million workers in the 2023-24 (FY24) and is expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.3 per cent, estimates a new report released by the Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).
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December 19, 2025
Business Standard
Power ministry working on plan to boost domestic mfg of critical items
The power ministry is collaborating with the industry to identify critical electricity sector components, such as subsea cables and high-conductivity copper rods, that rely on imports and require support for local manufacturing.
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