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Sachidanand Upadhyay Joins the Global Business Elite with Second Appearance in Time Magazine
Sachidanand Upadhyay, Managing Director of Lord's Mark Industries Ltd. (LMIL), has achieved a significant milestone with his second consecutive appearance in Time Magazine.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Upper-layer NBFCs should be allowed to accept deposits, say CEOs
India’s leading non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have said that allowing well-governed, upper-layer NBFCs to accept public deposits would help diversify their funding base, and reduce dependence on banks at a time when regulatory oversight and funding constraints are tightening.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
'AI's RoI may be slow, but governance can't wait'
The return on investment (RoI) from technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) will take time to materialise, and the immediate priority should be to increase spending on building governance frameworks around AI, top bank executives said at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2025.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
SFBs' MFI stress set to ease in 2-3 qtrs
The stress in the microfinance portfolios of small finance banks (SFBs) is likely to ease in the coming months, with the sector likely to be 'out of the woods' in the next two to three quarters, chiefs of two such lenders said on Wednesday.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Akasa eyes IPO in 2-5 years
Akasa Air plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) within the next two to five years, its Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vinay Dube said on Wednesday, adding that the airline remains “well-capitalised at every step” to ensure flexibility and resilience as it expands operations.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Govt mulling $12 bn plan to bail out power discoms
‘The government is considering a bailout plan of about $12 billion for debt-laden state-run power distribution companies.
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October 30, 2025
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Manufacturing, the one cylinder that isn’t firing: NITI’s Bery
‘The Lewis model explains how economies grow through the migration of surplus labour from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector, where wages are higher and productivity greater.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Nvidia becomes world’s first $5 trillion company on AI boom
Nvidia Corp achieved a historic $5 trillion market capitalisation on Wednesday as Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s spree of deals catapults the artificial intelligence frenzy to new heights.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Strong demand to rev up growth for auto component SMEs
The auto component industry's revenue is expected to increase 7-9 per cent in 2025-26 (FY26) driven by a slew of factors.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Banks increasingly looking towards retail customers: Kamath
With technological and financial diversification reshaping Indian banking, K V Kamath, chairman and independent director, Jio Financial Services, talks to Tamal Bandopadhyay about the reduced dependence of companies on banks, and the need for lenders to reinvent themselves, focus on retail customers, and invest in the right technology.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Centre brings draft rules to debar drugmakers who provide fake information
The Centre has come out with draft rules which seek to amend the Drugs Rules, 1945 to debar drugmakers who give misleading or fake information to the licensing authorities. Ithas invited suggestions and objections from stakeholders within 30 days.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
India, China hold military talks on eastern Ladakh
India and China held a fresh round of high-level military talks focusing on maintaining peace and security along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh using existing mechanisms.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Boeing takes near $5 billion hit on much-delayed 777X programme
Boeing pushed the first delivery of its long-delayed 777X jet programme out to 2027 and took a nearly $5 billion charge due to the delays, in another series of setbacks for the aerospace giant.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
Economists torn between rate cut and pause in next MPC
While participants in the domestic financial market are expecting a 25 basis-point policy repo rate cut in the December meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), economists remain torn between a reduction in rate cut and a pause.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
'Inflation-targeting worked, no major revamp required'
Almost a decade after India shifted to a formal inflation-targeting regime under the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) framework of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a high-level panel of economists said that the flexible inflation targeting has largely worked in keeping it under control and no major revamp is required.
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October 30, 2025
Business Standard
The best & brightest gather at BFSI Summit
India (Sebi) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey; Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) Chairman Ajay Seth; Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Chairman S Ramann; Department of Financial Services' Secretary M Nagaraju; Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran; Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governors T Rabi Sankar and Poonam Gupta; State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman C S Setty; veteran banker and non-executive Chairman of Jio Financial Services K V Kamath; former whole-time member of Sebi Ananth Narayan G, and Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson & CEO of Salesforce, India.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Multi-asset funds take divergent paths on gold, silver allocation
Half of the top 10 schemes pare exposure, others raise their bets
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Supreme will need H2 rebound to plug Q2 leak
Profitability hit by weak agri demand; management eyes revival ahead
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
CIL intensifies critical mineral push
State-owned coal producer looks at fresh domestic bids, overseas scouting
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
HDFC sends 2 bankers on paid leave
HDFC Bank Ltd, the country's largest private-sector lender, has put two senior executives on gardening leave amid a probe after customers alleged mis-selling of Credit Suisse securities, according to people familiar with the matter.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Big Blue’s big bets: AI, Cloud and quantum
India is central to ‘Big Blue’, IBM's global playbook — both as a market and an innovation hub
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Labs that build nations
The Nobel economics prize committee has been remarkably consistent in highlighting what drives sustainable prosperity.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Services sector jobs risk falling into 'low-wage trap'
Informality and poor pay still define India's largest employer, says NITI Aayog report
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Falling for a 'card limit upgrade'? That OTP could drain your account
Anewscamis doing the rounds, targeting credit card users looking for ahigher spending limit.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Cyclone Montha makes landfall on Andhra coast
Multiple trains, flights impacted
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Man vs machine
Automation at Amazon indicates impending disruption
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Best & brightest at BFSI Summit
Come October 29, India's largest financial sector event - the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit - will return in a bigger form.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Sebi seeks details after MCX hit by four-hour outage
Opening delayed for 2nd time in 4 months
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
SFB advances to grow 16-17% to cross %2 trn in FY26: Crisil
Advances of small finance banks (SFBs) are poised to cross ₹2 trillion this financial year, marking a growth of 16-17 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) against 13 per cent in FY25, according to Crisil Ratings.
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October 29, 2025
Business Standard
Noel, 2 others vote out Mehli from Tata Trusts
Late Ratan Tata's associate to step down from two core trusts
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