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Financial Express Lucknow
Bills to levy excise on tobacco, cess on pan masala tabled
FINANCE MINISTER NIRMALA Sitharaman on Monday introduced two new Bills in the Lok Sabha which would ensure that high taxes on “sin goods” such as tobacco, pan masala and related products continue seamlessly after the scheduled phaseout of Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation cess, levied on them.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Stitching aspirations into reality
Inside the journey of Vijay Bansal, who turned lessons in honesty and hustle into Rs. 2100 crore in style
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Govt’s rice stocks surge despite record sales in open market
THE GOVERNMENT'S CENTRAL-POOL rice stocks continue to surge despite brisk offloading of grain through open market sales, allocation to states, for ethanol manufacturing and Bharat rice initiative.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Airbus flags fresh quality issue on limited A320 jets
- PRODUCTION FLAWS DELAYING SOME DELIVERIES
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
₹56,826-crore released to states as capex loans
THE CENTRE'S 50-YEAR interest-free loans for capital expenditure by the states reached ₹56,826 crore so far in the current financial year, the finance ministry informed Parliament.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Insurers line up for SDLs in bond forwards market
INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE, of late, made a beeline for state development loans (SDLs) in the bond forwards market, transforming it from nil activity just three months ago to now accounting for nearly 10-15% of the overall market.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
UPI transactions see marginal fall in Nov
THE UNIFIED PAYMENTS Interface (UPI) system recorded transaction volume of 20.47 billion in November, a marginal decline from 20.70 billion in October, according to data from the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI).
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Centre to sell up to 6% in BoM
THE CENTRE WILL sell up to 6% stake in the state-run Bank of Maharashtra to raise about %2,492 crore through an offer for sale (OFS) at a floor price of *54/share on Tuesday-Wednesday.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
No proposal on bank mergers
THERE IS PRESENTLY no proposal on merger or consolidation of state-owned banks before the government, Parliament was informed on Monday.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Handset makers see red over DoT call on Sanchar Saathi
Pre-installation of the cyber safety app now mandatory
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
NATO readies to confront Russia with limited US help
A FRENCH CAYMAN helicopter flies low over a lush Transylvanian valley, dropping three soldiers onto the grass.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
GST mop-up slows in November
Gross collections down 4%, up 0.7% without cess
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Govt does not advise LIC on investments: FM
FINANCE MINISTER NIRMALA Sitharaman on Monday told Parliament that the government does not advise or direct the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on its investment decisions, including those related to the Adani Group.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
'US gained from talented Indians immensely'
America has ben- efited immensely from talented Indians who have come to America
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Handset makers...
“SANCHAR SAATHI IS a lost phone tracker, but if it gets embedded with no possibility of removal, it becomes a government tracker on your device...The way things work with DoT, there was no public consultation, the order wasn’t disclosed. Just forced.This is dictatorial in nature. If they get away with this, more will follow,” Pahwa wrote on X.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Limits of LLMs
WHEN AI SOUNDS CONFIDENT BUT GETS IT WRONG: THE HIDDEN EPISTEMOLOGY OF LLMs
4 min |
December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
TESLA MAKER SEES ENERGY, NOT MONEY, AS TRUE CURRENCY Musk: AI could make work optional
WORK WILL BE optional, money will vanish, and energy will become the new currency — that’s Elon Musk’s vision of a world transformed by artificial intelligence.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
US, UK ink tariff-free deal to boost pharma trade
THE UNITED STATES announced a deal with Britain for zero tariffs on pharmaceutical products and medical technology on Monday which will lead to Britain spending more on medicines.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Re slides to record closing low
THE RUPEE ON Monday sank to its record closing low of 89.5587, down 10 paise or 0.11%, pressured by maturing non-deliverable forward (NDF) positions, along with a persistent bearish pall on the currency.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Meesho bets over 40% of IPO money on in-house Al infra
STRATEGIC MOVE
2 min |
December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
HUL appoints Vandana Suri to lead home care
Srinandan Sundaram is new CEO of Unilever; International, appointments effective Jan 1
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Fresh applications sought under PLI for bulk drugs
THE DEPARTMENT OF Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has invited fresh applications under the performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for bulk drugs with an aim to boost the domestic production of broad-spectrum antibiotic meropenem and anti-retroviral medication ritonavir.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Fertiliser imports climb 69% in first seven months of FY26
IN ANTICIPATION OF robust demand on surplus monsoon and encouraging trend in winter crops sowing, the imports of urea, di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and NPK variants of soil nutrients have surged in the first seven months of the current fiscal year.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
SC raps authorities for winter-only focus on pollution
THE SUPREME COURT on Monday said the air pollution issue in the Delhi-NCR cannot be treated as a \"customary\" case to be listed only during the winter months, noting that it will be taken twice in a month to find out short and long-term solutions to the menace.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
IIP growth at 14-month low in Oct
WHILE THE WEAKER IIP print can be partly attributed to fewer working days due to multiple festivals, the softness in momentum remains a key monitorable in the coming months, wrote CareEdge.
1 min |
December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
RBI unveils 5-yr financial inclusion strategy
RESERVE BANK OF India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Monday formally released the national strategy for financial inclusion (NSFI) 2025-30 at the 32nd meeting of the subcommittee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC-SC).
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Limited supply, low returns may restrict inflows into REITs
THE DECISION OF the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to reclassify real estate investment trusts (REITs) as equity-related instruments with effect from January 1 is seen as an enabler for mutual funds, but experts said limited supply and low returns may come in the way of getting meaningful inflows into this asset class.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
Maruti Suzuki takes on rivals over CAFE norms
MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA on Monday cautioned that small cars may have to be phased out if the government’s proposed norms on reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions become “unscientific and unjust,” amid escalating tensions within the automobile industry over the upcoming Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) regulations.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
5-yr jail term for Hasina in land scam
A BANGLADESH COURT on Monday convicted and sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years of imprisonment and her niece, British parliamentarian Tulip Siddiq, to a two-year jail term in a land scam case.
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December 02, 2025
Financial Express Lucknow
ICICI Pru AMC gets Sebi nod for ₹10,000-cr IPO
THE COUNTRY'S SECOND largest mutual fund house, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (AMC), has received the final approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for its ₹10,000-crore initial public offering (IPO).
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