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Shriram Life's H1 premium collections increase 20%
SHRIRAM LIFE INSURANCE Company reported a 20% year-on-year rise in total premium collections to %1,954 crore for the first half of FY26, driven by a strong growth in renewal premiums across individual and group segments.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
India’s appetite for global brands has never been stronger: Adwaita Nayar
Swedish fashion brand H&M has teamed up with Nykaa to retail its beauty and fashion range in an attempt to reach the Indian fashion platform’s 45-million-strong customer base.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
ABFRL loss widens, revenue rises 12.6%
ADITYA BIRLA FASHION and Retail (ABFRL) on Tuesday reported a widening consolidated net loss of 263 crore for the quarter ended September 30 (Q2FY26), compared with a net loss of $146 crore in the same period last year.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
JSW Steel CEO flags concerns over met coke import curbs
INDIA'S IMPORT CURBS on metallurgical coke, a key steelmaking fuel, have become a concern for many producers, Jayant Acharya, Indian steelmaker JSW Steel’s chief executive, said on Tuesday.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Keeping it simple
IT STARTS WITH a quiet scroll. Gen Z consumers fly through their feed, absorbing and discarding a blur of trending sounds, rapid cuts, and bold visuals. Then something makes them pause. What stops them is authenticity, content that feels natural, not manufactured.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Steel PLI 1.2 to focus on advanced products
THE GOVERNMENT ON Tuesday launched the third round of production linked incentive (PLI 1.2) scheme for “specialty steel” to attract new investments in these emerging and advanced steel products.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Dick Cheney, former US vice president, dies
DICK CHENEY, A driving force behind the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 who was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
'Secondary market liquidity trails market growth'
SECONDARY MARKET LIQUIDITY, despite growing over the years, has not been able to keep pace with the expansion of the market, Dimple Bhandia, chief general manager (financial markets regulation department) at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said on Tuesday.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Norway wealth fund to oppose Musk’s $1-trn Tesla pay deal
NORWAY'S SOVEREIGN WEALTH fund, the world’s largest, would vote against ratifying Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposed compensation package,containing shares worth up to $1 trillion, at an AGM this week.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Hyundai sees GST boost to SUVs, drives in new Venue
HYUNDAI MOTOR INDIA expects the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment to keep powering the domestic passenger vehicle market, as buyers continue to gravitate towards larger cars even after the GST changes.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
M&M profit beats Street, rises 18% to ₹4,521 crore
STRONG TRACTOR AND LIGHT TRUCK VOLUMES DRIVE GROWTH
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Xi pushes for enhanced economic ties with Russia
CHINA'S PRESIDENT XI Jin-ping on Tuesday sought to expand mutual investment with Russia and affirmed Beijing’s commitment to advance ties despite“turbulent” external conditions, Chinese state media reported.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Exporters seek interest relief, faster GST refunds
INDIA’S EXPORTERS, IN a recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have asked for support that will help mitigate the adverse fallout of extra tariffs that their shipments to the US face, when compared to main competitors.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Govt turns wary of green power bids
To revise contract model; case-by-case approach likely
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Promise and precarity
NEED FOR URGENT OVERHAUL, BACKED BY LEGAL RECOGNITION, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND ACTIVE GOVERNANCE
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Lenskart issue gets 28x subscription
THE INITIAL PUBLIC offering of Lenskart Solutions, India’s largest prescription eyewear retailer, received 28.26 times subscription on the final day of the share sale on Tuesday.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
SBI open to collaborate with foreign banks on M&A finance, says Setty
THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST lender, State Bank of India ( SBI), is open to collaborating with foreign banks once the Reserve Bank makes it possible for local banks to do acquisition finance, its Chairman CS Setty said on Tuesday.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
The Badshah of bankability
BRANDS CAN PICK UP LESSONS ON AUTHENTICITY & CONTINUOUS REINVENTION FROM SRK
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
‘Discretionary spending has revived with GST rate cuts’
After nearly five quarters of a decline in same-store sales growth, Tata Starbucks, a joint venture between Starbucks and Tata Consumer Products, posted a low single-digit SSG in the July-September period. This was driven by improved sentiment and out-of-home spending by consumers following the GST and income tax cuts, Sunil D’Souza, MD & CEO, Tata Consumer, told Viveat Susan Pinto in an interview. He also highlighted demand trends in FMCG and the company’s outlook for the second half of FY26. Excerpts:
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
ICAI proposes optional joint taxation for married couples
Wants F&O trading excluded from presumptive income rule
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Bank privatisation won't hit financial inclusion: FM
@ Minister says next goal is ‘new-gen Customs structure’
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
OpenAI launches IndQA to test AI on Indian languages
AI major explores data centre infra in India
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Spot power prices down 32% in October
STEADY SUPPLY
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Nafed to launch e-auction portal
AGRI-COOPERATIVE MAJOR NATIONAL Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed), the government's biggest procurement agency for oilseeds and pulses, will soon launch its e-auction portal for selling agricultural commodities in the market.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Domestic capital to form bigger part of PE fundraise’
Homegrown private equity firm ChrysCapital has closed its latest Fund X at a record $2.2 billion, marking a 60% jump over its $1.35-billion Fund IX in 2022. In an environment where global fundraising cycles have stretched and limited partners (LPs) have turned cautious, ChrysCapital wrapped up the fund’s final close within six months of its first close, Managing Director Saurabh Chatterjee tells Ayanti Bera in an interview. Excerpts:
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Mamata tears into BJP, EC over SIR
MOUNTING A BLISTERING attack on the BJP and the EC, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused them of turning the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voterlists into a political tool for a “silent, invisible rigging” ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Builders’ luxury focus hits affordable housing supply’
Despite demand being high, affordable housing is facing supply-side issues, DLakshminarayanan, MD of Sundaram Home Finance, tells Narayanan V in an interview. He also speaks about the overall housing demand, the impact of GST and the lender’s plans to scale up the emerging business segment. Excerpts:
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
EU attempts new targets ahead of COP30
THE EUROPEAN UNION is attempting to forge new climate goals on Tuesday before the UN climate talks in Brazil starting next week.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Airtel to approach Govt for AGR relief
BHARTI AIRTEL ON Tuesday said it plans to approach the government, seeking a reassessment of its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues.
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November 05, 2025
Financial Express Pune
Looking east with confidence
At a time of heightened Sino-US rivalry, India must engage more with Southeast Asia as that will provide a template to join mega-regional groupings like RCEP and CPTPP
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