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Financial Express Kochi
India among 3 top markets for Honda
JAPANESE AUTOMOTIVE GIANT Honda is reevaluating its global priorities, and has said that India is one of its three key markets for future growth, placing it alongside the US and Japan.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
From reactive to proactive intelligence
LATE ONE NIGHT at a network centre,a regional node strains under rising traffic. Previously, this would have triggered technician alerts and manual interventions. Now, an Al agent detects the anomaly, reroutes traffic, optimises bandwidth, and logs the event seamlessly. No alarms, no downtime, just intelligence at work.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Nifty futures rollover declines to 76% in Oct
THE ROLLOVER PERCENTAGE in Nifty futures October series fell to 76% from an average 81% for the past three series, a report by Nuvama Alternative & Quantitative Research said on Wednesday. It was 82.6% in September, while the six-month average stoodat 79.4%.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Market coupling: A premature reform hijacked by pvt interests
THE CENTRAL ELECTRICITY Regulatory | Commission's (CERC) order to push ahead with market coupling from Jan 2026 isnot just ill-timed — itis deeply questionable.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
PepsiCo looks to unify 500-brand empire in first rebranding in 25 yrs
GLOBAL FOOD AND beverage major PepsiCo on Wednesday unveiled a new corporate identity — its first in more than 25 years — as part of a broader effort to accelerate growth and strengthen its connection with consumers worldwide.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
‘FPIs see India as a core & strategic allocation’
Next multi-baggers will come not from momentum or leverage, but from patient compounding in businesses that scale with India’s domestic demand, Siddharth Mehta, founder & chief allocator (CIO) of Bay Capital, tells Nesil Staney in an interview.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Modi ‘tough as hell’ like a father figure: Trump
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump said he threatened India and Pakistan with 250% tariffs to help spur the resolution of their conflict earlier this year, describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as \"the nicest-looking guy\" who is also a \"killer\" eager to fight.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Finally, South Korea, US clinch trade deal
DONALD TRUMP AND South Korean President Lee Jae Myung finalised details of their fraught trade deal at a summit in South Korea on Wednesday, and the US president also sounded an optimistic note about a looming summit with China’s Xi Jinping.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
I am doing a trade deal with India, says Trump
AFFIRMS STATEMENT BY AN OFFICIAL EARLIER THAT IT IS VERY CLOSE
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Canada pension fund looks to raise India investments
LOCALASSETS AT C$29.5 BN; INVESTMENTS TRIPLE IN 5 YEARS
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
AI can’t replace classroom educators
ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE finally waking up to the educational harms of mobile phones in public schools. As more districts ban them, the reports are highly encouraging — though hardly surprising, given the positive results we sawin New York City when we removed them from schools nearly 20 years ago. Yet even as phone bans spread, elected officials and Silicon Valley executives are trying to open classrooms to atechnology that could set students back even further than mobile phones have: artificial intelligence (AI).
2 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Building a digital network for better service delivery
AMAZON WEB SERVICES HELPS STARTUPS DRIVE PUBLIC SECTOR TRANSFORMATION
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Nobel nod to innovation drivers
Economics Nobel provides a reminder of the importance of innovation for material progress and that of openness and competition for innovation
3 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Policy push to unlock private investment: RBI deputy governor
RESERVE BANK OF India (RBI) Deputy Governor Poonam Gupta on Wednesday said that the policy environment is increasingly supportive of private investment.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Second Fund of Funds scheme may focus entirely on deeptech
AS MARKET VALUATIONS of tech companies skyrocket around the world, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday that the second Fund of Funds scheme for startups that is being finalised will provide domestic deeptech ventures resources to grow without coming under pressure to cede equity to foreign investors at an early stage.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Trump to discuss Nvidia, cut fentanyl tariff with Xi
DONALD TRUMP SAID he expects to lower tariffs the US has imposed on Chinese goods over the fentanyl crisis and speak with China’s Xi Jinping about Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell artificial intelligence chip, as leaders of the world’s biggest economies seek to ease tensions in a meeting on Thursday.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
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
Financial Express Kochi
8th Pay Commission has its task cut out
OVER THE DECADES, especially since the mid-1990s, the pay hike for government staff in real terms has been much higher than that of per capita net national income.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
FY26 growth may be near 7%: CEA
India can break into‘A’ rating, says Nageswaran
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
OMCs ethanol cuts may raise sugarcane dues
WITH OIL MARKETING companies (OMCs) allocating only a “smaller” portion of total requirement for ethanol from sugar-based feedstock for the supply year 2025-26, the sugar industry on Wednesday expressed concern that it would lead to surplus stocks of the sweetener, underused distilleries and delayed payments to the farmers in the current season (October-September).
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
‘We plan to invest 15-20% of our third fund in India’
As Japan’s largest bank, MUFG has been investing in India’s fintech landscape, backing startups such as Jupiter, M2P, Lentra and Dhan through its corporate venture arm, MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP).
2 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
500 Indians cross over to Thailand after Myanmar raids
NEARLY 500 INDIAN nationals crossed into Thailand following acrackdown on some notorious scam centres in Myanmar and India is working with Thai authorities to fly them home after completing the legal process, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
1 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Sebi's fee reset proposals hit AMC, brokerage stocks
UNDER STRESS
2 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Mistry's exit puts spotlight on October 2024 resolution
Legal experts divided on whether the resolution grants tenure for life to all trustees or only those unanimously reappointed
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
NITI Aayog unveils road map for advanced manufacturing
NITI AAYOG'S FRONTIER Tech Hub has introduced a comprehensive road map titled “Reimagining Manufacturing: India’s Roadmap to Global Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing.” This identifies 13 high-impact manufacturing sectors and five key clusters, with artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced materials, digital twins, and robotics as critical enablers. The goal is to achieve a 35% contribution of the manufacturing sector to India’s GDP.
1 min |
October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Varun Beverages makes alcobev market foray
Profit up 19.6% in Sept quarter
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Raymond Lifestyle Q2 profit jumps 2x to ₹75 cr
RAYMOND LIFESTYLE ON Wednesday reported a twofold increase in consolidated net profit to ₹75.19 crore for the September quarter, helped by volume growth in its branded textile and branded apparel segments.
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October 30, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Ranjana Desai will head 8th pay panel, report by Apr 2027
THE UNION CABINET on Tuesday announced the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, with Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai as its head.
1 min |
October 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
'Noel wants to be Ratan Tata within a year'
“IT’S BLATANTLY UNFAIR to expect us to support resolutions, the details of which were not shared with us in advance,’ they said.
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October 29, 2025
Financial Express Kochi
Mistry loses Tata Trusts battle; legal war looms
MEHLI MISTRY, REGARDED as one of Ratan Tata’s longtime confidants, lost his bid to reappointment on Tuesday after a majority of trustees voted against his continuation on the boards of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trusts, the two principal entities that along with other group trusts hold a combined 66% stake in Tata Sons, the Tata Group’s holding company.
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