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Financial Express Lucknow
X to ban user accounts creating illegal content
ELON MUSK-OWNED X said on Sunday that it would take strict action against illegal content
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Long build
HOW NIYO TOOK SHAPE WITHOUT A FOUNDING THESIS, AND BUILT ITS BUSINESS BY STAYING CLOSE TO PAYMENTS, REGULATION & USER BEHAVIOUR
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Citi tops M&A...
DALAL POINTED TO a series of large transactions announced late in the year, including Torrent Pharmaceuticals' acquisition of JB Pharma, Emirates NBD's agreement to acquire a controlling stake in RBL Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's blockbuster ₹39,618crore investment in Shriram Finance, Mizuho Financial Group's acquisition of Avendus Capital, Coforge's outbound share-swap acquisition of Encora and Bharti Enterprises, Warburg Pincus' acquisition of 49% stake in Haier.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Experts split on Centre's capex pace in Dec-March
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE TOTALS ₹6.5 LAKH CRORE THROUGH NOVEMBER
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Coding gets the right vibe
FOR THE LAST three decades, the sheer headcount of software engineers have been translating into big revenues for Indian IT services companies. The offshore execution efficiency combined with the ability to add talent as and when new projects came up, defined the growth trajectory for the business. This phenomenon is poised for a dramatic shift that would redefine how IT service businesses can count on their advantage.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
From rare to well-done
FOR ONLINE FRESH MEAT DELIVERY SHOPS, THE PIVOT TO OFFLINE RETAIL HAS BECOME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND EXTINCTION
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
The quantum era crept up while you were watching AI
STEP ASIDE, Al. Another transformative technology with the potential to reshape industries and reorder geopolitical power is finally moving out of the lab: quantum.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Global degrees, Indian address
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES ARE EXPANDING CHOICE TO EARN GLOBAL DEGREES
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
India Inc goes all-in on Al mainstreaming
INDIA INC MAY not be at the forefront of cutting-edge technological development, but it is gearing up for large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence, with large enterprises beginning to rework organisational structures, workflows and leadership roles to embed AI across operations.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
From parched fields to prosperity
FARMER PROSPERITY CAN BE REAL IF INNOVATION IS SCALED WITH COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL STAKEHOLDERS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
'Expect top line to grow 70-80% in FY26'
After a year spent regaining momentum following a regulatory freeze, Cashfree Payments is starting to see payoffs from investments it made earlier, particularly in cross-border payments.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Customs rejig must resolve inverted duty, supply chain issues: Virmani
AHEAD OF THE Union Budget for FY27 and an expected overhaul of the customs duty regime, economist and Niti Aayog member Arvind Virmani has underlined the need for India to address inverted duty structures, ease supply chains and facilitate labour-intensive stages of production to enhance the competitiveness of the Indian economy.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
‘Key theme in 2026 will be discretionary consumption’
Improving liquidity, income-tax relief and GST rationalisation are expected to lift discretionary spending in 2026.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Decoding Meta’s move to snap up Manus
AI agent developer, has been acquired by Meta for an undisclosed sum, as the social media giant steps up spending to close the gap with rivals such as Google and OpenAl.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Bring the cinema home
YUVA VIBE DELIVERS SHARP AND VIBRANT VISUALS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
New airport....
BHOGAPURAM'S OPERATOR, GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport, said the validation flight marked a key regulatory milestone ahead of the airport's inauguration, scheduled for June.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
From multiple regulators to one framework
VIKSIT BHARAT SHIKSHA ADHISHTHAN BILL, 2025
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Unsold homes rise 4% in 2025
UNSOLD HOUSING UNITS rose 4% to nearly 577,000 units last year across 7 major cities as supply of new homes exceeded demand, according to Anarock.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
GST 2.0: Luxury EV penetration declines
ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) penetration in the luxury car segment has seen a drop by nearly 3 percentage points in the GST 2.0 era with the internal combustion engine versions offering better total cost of ownership, according to industry players.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
BSNL, pvt telcos spar over shift to IP-based interconnection
PRIVATE TELECOM OPERATORS, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, have locked horns with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) over the cost of transition of the interconnection framework.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
We can’t innovate our way out of the climate crisis
OPTIMISM, ESPECIALLY ABOUT our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might beat its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Without reforms, 2026 could be another damp squib for equities
GLOBAL HEADWINDS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
New airport every 50 days, says Naidu
THE COUNTRY'S AIRPORT expansion is gathering pace, with a new airport being added roughly every 50 days as the government is pushing to ease capacity constraints and expand air connectivity, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Sunday.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Bandhan Bank loans grow 10% in Q3
PRIVATE SECTOR LENDER Bandhan Bank on Sunday reported a 10% year-on-year (yo-y) growth in its loans and advances, totalling ₹1.45 lakh crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2025.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Govt likely to introduce Seed Bill in Budget session
TO ENSURE QUALITY and traceability while curbing spurious sales, the government is likely to introduce the Seed Bill in Parliament in the forthcoming budget session, an agriculture ministry official said on Sunday.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
‘2026 will be defined by the industrialisation of AI’
LTIMindtree is betting big on BlueVerse, its AI-native ecosystem that brings together intelligent agents, modular architecture and built-in trust, providing everything enterprises need to move from AI concept-to-value. “We see strong investments in Al, with significant traction both in AI-native projects and in infusing AI into existing capabilities,” says Venu Lambu, CEO & MD, LTIMindtree. In this interview with Sudhir Chowdhary, he outlines the key trends and his company’s strategy for accelerating Al adoption among its clients. Excerpts:
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Somnath Swabhiman Parv: 1,000 years of unbroken faith
SOMNATH...HEARING THIS word instils a sense of pride in our hearts and minds.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
India Inc ...
AT TATA SONS, Chairman N Chandrasekaran in his New Year message to employees, reiterated the group's focus on adopting AI across functions to improve execution, signalling that AI is now viewed as an enterprise-wide lever rather than an experimental tool.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
IT results may underline resilience, not recovery
LARGE-CAP DOMESTIC
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Lucknow
Resolving India’s grid bottlenecks
Institutional coordination and transparency is key to ensure that India is able to get the renewable energy it generates to its power grid
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