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'We need to start proper landfill management'
While India is now waking up to the problem of waste, propelled by increasing urbanisation, Guillaume Dourdin’s employer Veolia has been dealing with landfills for over a century. Dourdin, CEO of the Indian arm of the $24 billion wasteand water-management French utility, tells $ Dinakar in a video interview how India can profit from the twin problems of excess waste and scarce water supplies. Edited excerpts:
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Professionals call for fixing MCA 3.0 portal
Professionals, such as company secretaries and chartered accountants, have raised several technical issues with the new version 3 portal, which has delayed annual filings.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
From ministries to markets
There are reports that India is looking to set up asovereign wealth fund (SWE).
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Delhiites head out for cleaner air in the hills
Diwali is over and Delhiites are feeling the effects of the celebrations.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
India should attract global oil firms, says Rystad Energy CEO
'Guyana-like' moment in oil discovery requires that countries offer transparent fiscal terms, quality geological data and allowing global firms to take the risk involved in oil and gas exploration, says Jarand Rystad, chief executive officer (CEO) of Rystad Energy and one of the most cited petroleum industry analysts globally.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
The GST model for power
Implementing the ambitious electricity law changes can be easier with the promise of an Electricity Council
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Malaysia: Modi likely to attend East Asia Summit
MEA yet to confirm his participation
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Hot question
Stubble burning needs sustainable solutions
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Skye Air eyes 300K drone deliveries this month
Skye Air expects to deliver nearly 300,000 orders in October through drones, a threefold year-onyear jump, due to a surge in demand for online orders during the ongoing festival season, said Ankit Kumar, the chief executive officer of the drone delivery logistics startup.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Large private banks expect credit demand revival in H2FY26
Attribute this to fiscal, monetary measures
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Higher valuation hinges on ‘Persistent growth
Firm continues to outperform mid-, large-tier listed IT majors
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Temporary lull in business not cessation, deductions allowed: SC
The Supreme Court has ruled that a lull in operations does not amount to business activities of an organisation ceasing and the entity can continue to show on its books “business expenditure” and “unabsorbed depreciation costs”.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Diwali sales skyrocket to record ₹5.4 trillion
GST 2.0, local goods drove demand, says trade body
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Car sales hit top gear on festival push
Up 15-35% during Navaratri-Diwali period
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Investors may see up to 15% returns from equities
Pickup in earnings growth and sustained foreign flows hold key
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
China drags India to WTO over EV, auto PLIs
China has alleged that certain conditions in India’s production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for advanced chemistry cell battery, automobiles, and the policy to promote the manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs) violate global trade rules, and has filed a complaint against these measures at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Recent SME IPOs saw sharp listing gains, quick reversal
RBI study reveals signs of overvaluation in some of these stocks
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
India surpasses $20 bn in AI investment, more on cards
With India surpassing the $20 billion mark in cumulative and new investment commitments in artificial intelligence (AI) to date in 2025 — according to the latest estimates by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) — the country is well poised to become a key player in the race for a place in global Al sweepstakes.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Vance visits US-led base in Israel with Gaza truce in balance
US Vice President JD Vance visited the base of a multinational monitoring force near Gaza, seeking to bolster faith in a peace plan.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Meity for inclusion of rare-earth magnet recycling in PLI scheme
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has suggested to the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) that the proposed production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for boosting rare earth permanent magnet (REPM) manufacturing in India should also encourage the recycling of spent magnets, as the country is already among the world’s top three generators of electronic waste (e-waste), multiple sources aware ofthe development told Business Standard.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Fascinating history of art heists...
... from the Mona Lisa to a gold toilet, and now the Louvre's royal jewels
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Commercial vehicle sales up 2% in H1 as medium, light trucks drove growth
Commercial vehicle (CV) sales registered a modest upswing, growing 2 per cent year-on-year (Yo-Y) to 463,695 units in the first half of the financial year 2025-26 (H1FY26), according to data from the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (Fada).
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Samvat 2082 gets off to quiet but positive start
Sensex, Nifty end flat but log fresh 1-yr highs in muhurat session
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Corporate profits up nearly threefold since pandemic
Corporate profits climbed to 7.1 trillion in 2024-25 from %2.5 trillion in FY21 as post pandemic pent-up demand drove growth in sales, according to a research paper in Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI's) bulletin.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
US Army needs $150 bn for upgrades. It wants Wall Street to foot the bill
The US Army is short by about $135 billion to overhaul ageing bases, depots, and logistics, a funding gap it cannot fill through Congress.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
India has much to do on toxic cough syrups: WHO
India has more work to do in halting sales of toxic cough syrup, despite some progress, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told Reuters, after at least 24 children died following consumption of a domestically-made medicine.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
7.3k women farmers to get mustard seed kit
Rajasthan’s Panchayati Raj Minister Madan Dilawar recently distributed mustard seed minikits to women farmers at a rural service camp organised in gram panchayat Deoli Kalan in Kota district.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday experienced a major global outage that disrupted several of its widely used applications and services, including Canva, Duolingo, and Snapchat.
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
Satsuki Katayama becomes Japan's first woman finance minister
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi named Satsuki Katayama as Finance Minister, making her the first woman to oversee the country’s troubled finances. Katayama, a former regional
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October 22, 2025
Business Standard
RIL buys West Asia oil as Russian flows scrutinised
Reliance Industries Ltd bought West Asian crudes last week and may place more orders, ina sign that Western pressure against Russian flows may be starting to impact its procurement patterns.
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