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India's fiscal deficit surges in April as receipts drop, spending jumps
India’s fiscal deficit surged to ₹3.62 trillion in April, nearly doubling from a year earlier, driven by a sharp decline in revenue receipts and a jump in expenditure in the first month of the ongoing financial year.
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June 02, 2026
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Industrial output grows 4.9% in April
India’s industrial output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew 4.9% year-on-year in April, data released by the statistics ministry on Monday showed.
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June 02, 2026
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Reforms bills prep for monsoon date
Securities, housing laws may be tweaked in monsoon session
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June 02, 2026
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CEPI to give $60 mn for Ebola vaccine
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) will give roughly $60 million to Moderna and to two other groups to accelerate the development of shots against Ebola Bundibugyo, the deadly virus that has swept through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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June 02, 2026
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Adoption of digital technology could have left India vulnerable
We must use our vast market as a tool to counter supply denials while we push for self-sufficiency
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June 01, 2026
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Volume surge lifts Asian Paints
Save the best for last—this sits well with Asian Paints’ March quarter (Q4FY26) results, which were announced after all its peers.
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June 01, 2026
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Lloyds targets $1.3 bn copper revenue
Lloyds Metals and Energy Ltd is using copper to reduce its reliance on iron ore and India, as the company expands into steel and overseas mining assets in a bid to become a diversified global mining and metals player.
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June 01, 2026
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Research activity points to depth of innovation
Foreign-funded R&D centres expand quantitatively and qualitatively. Zhong Nan reports
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June 01, 2026
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India turns to Canada potash asset amid supply concerns
India is looking to ensure supplies from Karnalyte Resources Inc.’s Wynyard Carnallite Project
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June 01, 2026
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Luxury hotels bet on premium staycations
Affluent Indians are favouring shorter, premium domestic experiences
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June 01, 2026
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A US-China compact could see a new world order arise
In recent weeks, China, America and Russia have been engaged in high-level diplomacy. US President Donald Trump visited China.
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June 01, 2026
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Pvt Adani co quietly builds ₹50,000-cr orders, eyes buyouts
A little-known Adani Group company has quietly emerged as one of India’s largest infrastructure platforms and is now looking to strengthen its in-house project execution capabilities through acquisitions, according to an India Ratings report of 2 April and an executive familiar with the matter.
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June 01, 2026
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RIL cuts new hires by 90,000 in FY26, headcount nears 420,000
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), one of India’s largest employers, may have reduced its new hirings by as much as 90,000 in fiscal year 2026 (FY26) from the previous year.
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June 01, 2026
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Crafting Bharat—Season 3 launches its fourth episode with Vaibhav Tambe of TransBnk
Vaibhav Tambe, co-founder and CEO of TransBnk, on reimagining transaction banking by unifying fragmented financial systems into a single API-driven platform and how AWS Startups has helped the company scale rapidly, while also maintaining complex compliances
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June 01, 2026
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Adani co builds orders worth ₹50,000 crore, eyes buyouts
Adani Infrastructure India Ltd (AIIL), the in-house engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) arm of the Adani Group, is set to become one of the largest infrastructure companies in the country, with an order book of over ₹50,000 crore.
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June 01, 2026
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Futuristic metropolis takes shape
Advanced technology brings convenience and awe to a young city outside Beijing. Deng Zhangyu reports
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June 01, 2026
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TRADING AHEAD OF NEWS: WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE MARKET
A few days ago, Securities and Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) 234-page interim order against Hemant Gupta and six members of his family offered a detailed account of how a finfluencer operation allegedly accumulated positions in 82 small and medium enterprise (SME) stocks, promoted them through X handles and Telegram channels with tens of thousands of followers, and then sold into the buying frenzy it had created, earning an estimated ₹20 crore in unlawful gains.
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June 01, 2026
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₹17,800 cr SVANidhi loans disbursed
Loans worth over ₹17,800 crore have been disbursed to street vendors across the country under the PM SVANidhi scheme so far, Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal said on Sunday.
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June 01, 2026
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SpaceX, OpenAI fuel Asian AI bets
Investors increasingly honing in on Asian supply chain
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June 01, 2026
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AI bubble talk gets real as chip cos rally
Chipmakers are by far the hottest stocks in the market, but their recent surge is lending urgency to the debate over whether investors are buying into an artificial-intelligence (AI) bubble that’s due to burst.
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June 01, 2026
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India, US teams start talks to finalize BTA
The chief negotiators of the US and India will begin four-day talks in New Delhi on Monday on finalizing the details of an interim trade pact, whose framework was agreed upon in February.
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June 01, 2026
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RBI may keep rates on pause this week
said Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at Bank of Baroda. He added that the monsoon outcome is still unknown and would be premature to raise rates at this point of time.
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June 01, 2026
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NLC, RIL to explore lignite gasification
The move is aimed at addressing a domestic gas shortage exacerbated by a global fuel crisis.
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June 01, 2026
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The high-stakes hunt for the next Amazon in AI haystack
owns model-developer Anthropic and Databricks, which makes software to support AI data management.
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June 01, 2026
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China market comes to rescue of Indian seafood exporters
India’s seafood exports to China surged in the fiscal year ending in March, according to official figures, underlining the impact of China's decision to suspend Japanese seafood imports, experts say.
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June 01, 2026
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DRC widens testing for Ebola as cases climb
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has climbed to 260 as officials updated their estimates of the outbreak’s size and international health organizations warned of the risk of further spread.
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June 01, 2026
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INDIA MUST HEED NATURE BEFORE HISTORY REPEATS
If you stand at the ramparts of Fatehpur Sikri, you will notice the howling winds rising from the arid land echoing subdued moans of history. Emperor of India Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar’s new capital city was inaugurated with a lot of fanfare.
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June 01, 2026
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Mango cultivation special for agri: PM
Mango cultivation and the farmers involved in it are “very special for the agricultural economy of the country”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday.
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June 01, 2026
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The high-stakes hunt for the next Amazon in the AI haystack
Where will the money be made next in artificial intelligence? Bankers are gearing up to sell SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI to investors in a series of giant IPOs. Should investors just buy anything with a hint of AI, or try to find the bottlenecks in the parts of the AI supply chain, the “stack,” where bottlenecks capture more of the value?
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June 01, 2026
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A restored lake brings echoes of past and future together
After years of restoration, Baiyangdian Lake in Anxin county, part of the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei province, has regained its historical beauty, with more than 360 square kilometres of interconnected lakes now teeming with life.
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