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Fascinating history of art heists...
... from the Mona Lisa to a gold toilet, and now the Louvre's royal jewels
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Commercial vehicle sales up 2% in H1 as medium, light trucks drove growth
Commercial vehicle (CV) sales registered a modest upswing, growing 2 per cent year-on-year (Yo-Y) to 463,695 units in the first half of the financial year 2025-26 (H1FY26), according to data from the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (Fada).
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Samvat 2082 gets off to quiet but positive start
Sensex, Nifty end flat but log fresh 1-yr highs in muhurat session
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Corporate profits up nearly threefold since pandemic
Corporate profits climbed to 7.1 trillion in 2024-25 from %2.5 trillion in FY21 as post pandemic pent-up demand drove growth in sales, according to a research paper in Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) bulletin.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
US Army needs $150 bn for upgrades. It wants Wall Street to foot the bill
The US Army is short by about $135 billion to overhaul ageing bases, depots, and logistics, a funding gap it cannot fill through Congress.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
India has much to do on toxic cough syrups: WHO
India has more work to do in halting sales of toxic cough syrup, despite some progress, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told Reuters, after at least 24 children died following consumption of a domestically-made medicine.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
7.3k women farmers to get mustard seed kit
Rajasthan’s Panchayati Raj Minister Madan Dilawar recently distributed mustard seed minikits to women farmers at a rural service camp organised in gram panchayat Deoli Kalan in Kota district.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday experienced a major global outage that disrupted several of its widely used applications and services, including Canva, Duolingo, and Snapchat.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Satsuki Katayama becomes Japan's first woman finance minister
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi named Satsuki Katayama as Finance Minister, making her the first woman to oversee the country’s troubled finances. Katayama, a former regional
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
RIL buys West Asia oil as Russian flows scrutinised
Reliance Industries Ltd bought West Asian crudes last week and may place more orders, ina sign that Western pressure against Russian flows may be starting to impact its procurement patterns.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Surge in wellness travel pushes segment into mainstream
Wellness tourism in India, once considered a niche category, is expanding as hotels across the country are banking on wellness-focused bookings — from basic yoga classes to curated nature immersions.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Apple attacks EU crackdown in digital law’s biggest court test
Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
UltraTech Cement gears up for expansion, market share gains
UltraTech Cement’s earnings in the second quarter of 2025-26 (Q2FY26) were inline with consensus estimates or slightly lower.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
PF delays, pension errors or tax refund issues: How CPGRAMS can help
Financial grievances with government bodies, ranging from delayed provident fund (PF) withdrawals to pension miscalculations or income-tax refunds, can be stressful.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
RBI's proposal on ECB may give realty a funding boost
If, interms of a central-bank proposal, real-estate activities in which foreign direct investment (FDI) is permitted also get the benefit of external commercial borrowing (ECB), it will be a landmark shift — one that could reshape how Indian developers access and manage capital.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Rupee, bond trajectories rest on RBI rate cut, US trade talk
Domestic policy rate cut timeline and the trade talk with the US are expected to play an important role in Samvat 2082, according to foreign exchange and government bond dealers.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Core sector growth hits 3-mth low
Despite a favourable low base effect, growth in India’s eight core industries plunged to a three-month low of 3 per cent in September from an upward revised figure of 6.5 per cent in August, data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday showed.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
India a symbol of stability, sensitivity: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday wrote a letter to citizens, wishing them on Diwali and reminding them of the “historic achievements” of the government, such as Operation Sindoor, ending Naxalism, and rolling out new reforms in goods and services tax(GST).
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
$100,000 H-1B fee won't apply to status change or extension cases: USCIS
The $100,000 fee imposed by the Trump administration on new H-1B visa petitions will not apply to applicants seeking a “change of status” or “extension of stay”, according to fresh guidelines.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
US-Aus rare-earths deal won't affect China soon
US President Donald Trump's backing of Australia’s critical minerals will bring much-needed financial support to the industry, but experts say the US president will have to wait longer to shift the supply chain away from China and weaken its market dominance.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
NMDC Steel bags BIS licence for hot-rolled steel
State-owned NMDC Steel Limited (NSL) has bagged an Indian Standards (IS) license for hot-rolled steel strip, sheet, and plates for pipeline transportation systems, a first for any Indian company.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Srinivasan's term renewal at Trusts down to the wire
Amid tension within Tata Trusts, there was lack of clarity till the time of going to press on whether industrialist Venu Srinivasan had been reappointed a trustee already or if the process was still underway.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Solar projects worth ₹35,000 cr on anvil
Public-and private-sector solar projects worth around %35,000 crore are expected tocomeup in Uttar Pradesh as the state is eyeing solar power capacity of 22,000 megawatts (Mw) by 2027-28.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Large private banks expect revival in credit demand in H2FY26
Amitabh Chaudhry, MD and CEO, Axis Bank, said after the bank’s Q2 earnings: “We are seeing some positive signs.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Revolut focuses on linking India to key global mkts
At a time when fintechs are aggressively pursuing co-branded credit card partnerships, the Indian arm of UK-based Revolut has focused heavily on prepaid cards as its primary offering, enabling both domestic payments and forex transactions, with a particular emphasis on key corridors linking India to the US, UK, Singapore, Australia, and other countries.
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October 21, 2025
Business Standard
26% Jan Dhan a/cs with PSBs inoperative
‘The share of inoperative Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts in public-sector banks (PSBs) has risen to 26 per cent as of the end of September, up from 21 per cent a year ago, reflecting a further slowdown in account activity under the government's flagship financial inclusion scheme, according to a senior government official.
2 min |
October 21, 2025
Business Standard
EU to end Russia gas imports by Jan 2028
EU energy ministers on Monday backed a proposal to phase out Russian oil and gas imports to the bloc by January 2028, the Council of the European Union said.
2 min |
October 21, 2025
Business Standard
Rupee weakens 4.38% in Samvat 2081 amid global trade tension
Government bond market saw a positive trend on the back of rate cuts by RBI
2 min |
October 21, 2025
Business Standard
Banks may not require RBI nod for floating arms
Regulator to emphasise non-duplication of business
2 min |
October 21, 2025
Business Standard
Realty developers see a cracker of sales in key cities this festival season
Dussehra-Diwali period bucks trend of falling demand with 10-25% sales jump
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