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Diwali is past, but shopping season is roaring ahead
India's consumption engine appears to be humming well past the Diwali rush, with digital payments showing none of the usual post-festival fatigue.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
AI bond flood adds to market pressure
Wall Street is straining to absorb a flood of new bonds from tech companies funding their artificial intelligence investments, adding to the recent pressure in markets.
4 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
TCS, Wipro US patent suits worsen IT's woes
Two of the country’s largest information technology (IT) services companies—Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Wipro Ltd—faced fresh patent violations in the last 45 days, signalling challenges to their expansion of service offerings.
2 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Auto parts firms spot hybrid gold
Auto component makers are licking their lips at the ascent of hybrids, spying a new growth engine at a time when electric vehicle (EV) sales have not measured up.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Micro biz has a harder time securing loan to start up
Bank lending to first-time micro-entrepreneurs has plummeted, signalling tighter credit conditions for small businesses already struggling with cash flow pressures and trade turmoil. In the first six months of the fiscal year, a key central scheme to support such lending managed to sanction just about 12% of what was sanctioned in the entire previous fiscal year, official data showed.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Why was a fresh approach to QCOs needed?
The government is now withdrawing the quality control orders (QCOS) issued earlier across sectors. Mint examines the original intent, the reasons for the policy reversal, and the expected national benefits from this move.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Inverted duty fix is next on GST agenda
GST Council to expand work on fixing anomaly at next meet
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Page Industries scouts for missing piece of comeback puzzle
Page Industries Ltd has been struggling with muted growth.Its thrust on operational efficiencies, calibrated distribution expansion and new product launches is yet to reignite the dwindling investor faith.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
REAL ESTATE PLAY: THE END OF INDIA’S BIGGEST TAX HACK
For years, the easiest dinner-table flex in India was a line that began with “You know what I bought that flat for?” and ended with a smug smile. Real estate wasn’t just an investment, it was a moral victory. Hold long enough and inflation would ensure you paid no to minimal tax. All thanks to indexation, a process that adjusts the cost of acquisition for inflation until the year of sale, effectively reducing your capital gains and the tax on them.
3 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Independent films fight for screen space despite critical acclaim
Critically acclaimed Indian filmsthat sparkle onthe international festival circuit are finding it hard to be screened in the country even though theatresare struggling with low supply of new commercial films.
2 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
SC clears Sandesarass after ₹5,100-crore settlement deal
Court drops all criminal proceedings against Sterling Biotech promoters in a bank fraud case
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Centre to review stalled RE projects
Union minister for new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi on Monday said officials have been directed to carry out an assessment of renewable energy projects for which power sale agreements (PSAs) and power purchase agreements (PPAs) have not been signed.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Govt plans reform push in winter session
The government is preparing to push a packed reform agenda through parliament's short winter session that will start 1 December, with 15 sittings scheduled to clear major legislations tied to crucial issues, including ease of doing business, regulatory consolidation, foreign investment, and sectoral reforms.
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November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
EU eyes summit with India to seal FTA
The European Union (EU) is eyeing the upcoming summit meeting with India in January as an opportunity to finalise a long-gestating trade deal, strengthen defence and security cooperation, and firm up cooperation on a global agenda amid geopolitical churn set off by the trade policies of the US, people familiar with the matter said.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Quality control orders: Let's fix all distortions
Dropping QCOs that act as import barriers for factory inputs will help reduce costs but India should also tackle other distortive aspects of our trade policy that do the economy a disservice
2 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Wipro VC eyes exits, packaged food bets
Wipro Consumer Care Ventures, the venture capital arm of consumer goods major Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting, is looking to cash out of some of its investments from its first fund of ₹200 crore.
2 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Adani posts record H1FY26 earnings
The Adani Group's consolidated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) surpassed ₹90,000 crore on a trailing twelvemonth basis for the first time during the September quarter.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
India’s buffalo-milk mozzarella melting its way into global markets
India is emerging as an unexpected player in the global mozzarella market, upending a space long dominated by Western suppliers.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Sobha debuts in Mumbai realty
Realty firm Sobha Ltd has entered into Mumbai housing market with its first project comprising 310 apartments.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Let digital links and AI fix gaps in power grids as they go green
Digital interoperability and AI can deliver energy efficiency and resilience against transition shocks
3 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
What went into quadrupling Jio Payments Bank's footprint
Jio Payments Bank Ltd is aggressively expanding its sales network to catch up with market leader Airtel Payments Bank, with the aim of using this wider reach to acquire customers for its more profitable financial products.
2 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Vibe coding: Make way for intuition-driven software
New jargon emerges regularly in the world of software development. Most terms vanish quickly, but ever so often, a term bubbles up from the cultural stew and goes mainstream—not because it introduces a breakthrough technology, but because it captures a shift in how people think about software development. ‘Vibe coding’ is one such phrase. It’s a term that reveals more about the future of programming than its whimsical name suggests.
3 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Sunteck in Dubai with ₹10,000-cr luxe project
Sunteck Realty Ltd has ventured into the Dubai property market with a ₹10,000-crore luxury project in the prime Downtown Dubai area, at a time when the city is witnessing a surge in demand for high-end properties.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Tesla vs Tesla: HC grants protection to Musk’s company
The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim protection to Elon Musk-led Tesla Inc. in its trademark infringement case with Gurugram-based Tesla Power India Pvt. Ltd.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
How online bond platforms are powering retail investor interest
Lowering the minimum bond investment from %1 lakh to 710,000 has opened the market to first-time investors
4 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
For a weakened Zelensky, yielding to Trump is riskier than defiance
Buffeted by a corruption scandal that has sparked fury across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky is in political trouble at home, weaker than at any point since the full-scale Russian invasion of his country began nearly four years ago.
5 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
RBI warns on global stock exuberance
India’s economy is gaining momentum even as the global environment remains unsettled, the Reserve Bank of India said in its latest State of the Economy report released on Monday.
1 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
Japan’s new leader infuriated Beijing. She isn’t backing down.
Sanae Takaichi has been Japan’s first female prime minister for barely a month and already she has made an impression on the world’s two most powerful men.
3 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
AI ignites the return of Bezos the inventor
‘Tm the least retired person in the world,’ Amazon founder says
4 min |
November 25, 2025
Mint New Delhi
MFs seek a middle ground with Sebi on broker fee cap
Mutual funds have urged the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to make the proposed cap on brokerage costs feasible for asset management firms, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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