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Mint Bangalore
It's a new day for labour
Four consolidated codes advance equal pay for women, gig worker protection, gratuity after a year, health checks
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November 22, 2025
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How Indian archers hit the bull's-eye
India's recurve archers set a roadmap for future by ending South Korea's reign at the Asian Archery Championships
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November 22, 2025
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Did the people have a say in the making of the Constitution?
A new book, based on archival research, offers an original take on the framing of the Constitution as a participatory process
5 min |
November 22, 2025
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THE AGE OF MT
In the 1990s and 2000s, MTV changed Indian pop forever through innovative programming and VJs who gained their own fandom. When did it stop experimenting?
7 min |
November 22, 2025
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Global giants press for PLIs on aerospace components
Airbus, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney seek production-linked incentives like the one for drones
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November 22, 2025
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Gratuity and benefits to soar for millions of employees
The government on Friday implemented four new labour codes, marking the biggest overhaul of workers’ laws in decades.
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November 22, 2025
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Chip crunch hits laptops, budget smartphones
Atypical memory chip used in smartphones and laptops accounts for 10-15% of the cost of production.
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November 22, 2025
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Diagnostics chains step up as weight-loss therapies take off
The anti-obesity wave has birthed a new growth engine for diagnostics, as labs curate tests for those undergoing therapies involving drugs such as Mounjaro and Wegovy.
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November 22, 2025
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Space startup Agnikul raises ₹150 crore
Aerospace startup Agnikul has raised ₹150 crore in a Series C round, two people familiar with the matter told Mint, after its earlier plan to raise up to $50 million failed to draw sufficient investor interest.
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November 22, 2025
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Why selling out has become normalised
The indie scene was once built on a siege mentality. But when film music has overtaken everything, does holding out for principles hold any meaning?
6 min |
November 22, 2025
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Behind strong Q2 show, a shallow recovery
India Inc’s September-quarter print was shaped by small- and mid-cap outperformance, and sector-specific boosts for oil marketing companies, cement and consumption niches rather than a broad-based demand upturn.
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November 22, 2025
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Road trippin' through the Deep South in the US
A road trip through Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee reveals the weight of civil rights history and its contradictions in small-town America
4 min |
November 22, 2025
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Mahindra targets 8-fold auto growth
Mahindra Group is aiming for an eight-fold growth in consolidated revenue of its auto sector by FY30 compared to that in FY20, betting big on SUVs and light commercial vehicles.
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November 21, 2025
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Street scales 13-month high as index heavyweights fire
November, showed NSDL data. As of Thursday, FPIs' cumulative net short index futures stood at 165,565 contracts. Covering a part of these can also take the Nifty and Sensex to new highs.
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November 21, 2025
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Lots of art and Christmas joy
A Mint guide to what's happening in and around the city
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November 21, 2025
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Valuation format plan may cut IBC disputes: IBBI
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed a new format for professionals valuing distressed assets to make reports uniform, credible, and reduce lawsuits.
1 min |
November 21, 2025
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Delhi may miss the biggest e-bus roll-out
The 2,800 electric buses allocated to Delhi under the PME-Drive scheme meant to electrify public transport hangs in the balance, as the city government has yet to meet a crucial condition under the incentive plan.
2 min |
November 21, 2025
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Flipkart-backed super.money preps ‘buy now, pay later’ play
Flipkart-backed UPI app super.money is preparing afresh push into buy now, pay later (BNPL) by partnering regulated banks and lenders, as it hunts for its next leg of growth beyond credit on UPI, according to two people aware of the plans.
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November 21, 2025
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Automation hits tech jobs as GCCs dial back on hiring
Automation is beginning to reshape India's tech-hiring landscape, with global capability centres (GCCs) pulling back on routine recruitment-intensifying the slowdown already hitting large staffing firms dependent on information technology (IT) hiring.
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November 21, 2025
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What we frequently get wrong about mental health
Everybody talks about mental health so much these days; yet, somehow, we misunderstand it the most. We have a sea of information that is easily accessible to us, but very little understanding of what emotional pain actually feels like. From what I understand of Baek Se-hee’s book, I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, which was referred to in a recent Mint column (‘Why reasons needn't be ascribed for poor mental health,’ 27 October 2025), it is about a woman experiencing dysthymia who also talks about how she seeks comfort in her favourite food. The book is about her mental health journey.
3 min |
November 21, 2025
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Investors now wait till last minute to put in IPO bids
Between 65% and 80% of all applications pour in on the final day of the bidding window
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November 21, 2025
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RBI governor stays guarded on crypto
India will maintain a guarded stance on cryptocurrencies and stablecoins even as it accelerates support for homegrown digital payment systems such as UPI, NEFT and the digital rupee, Reserve Bank of India governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Thursday.
1 min |
November 21, 2025
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Life of Vi: How India was able to avert a telco duopoly
But to capitalize on this potential, Vi needs capital. Large amounts of it. Vi has guided for ₹50,000-55,000 crore of capex in the near term, contingent on bank funding, which itself requires clarity on AGR.
2 min |
November 21, 2025
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Kirin starts talks to recast B9, has no plan to sell stake
meeting to Jain, said a person directly aware of developments at the company.
1 min |
November 21, 2025
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ED seizes assets worth ₹1,452 cr in RCom loan fraud case
The enforcement directorate on Thursday said it has attached multiple properties worth ₹1,452 crore, in an alleged money-laundering case involving Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom).
1 min |
November 21, 2025
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US ESTATE TAX: THE OVERLOOKED RISK FACING INDIANS WITH US EQUITIES AND ESOPS
Rahul*, a Bangalore based senior professional at Broadcom, built most of his wealth via stock options in US-listed firms.
3 min |
November 21, 2025
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Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant facade
THE 21ST-CENTURY tech landscape was built with a winner-takes-all mindset. It started with Microsoft’s Windows monopoly at the end of the 1990s. Since then Alphabet-owned Google has cornered search and Amazon has become the king of e-commerce. Meta, too, has blanketed much of the world with social media—though on November 18th, a judge in Washington, DC, spared it the ignominy of being declared a monopolist.
2 min |
November 21, 2025
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Child poverty falling but millions still trapped in crises: Unicef
Child poverty has declined globally over the past two decades, but staggering disparities and overlapping crises continue to push millions of children into deprivation, Unicef said in a report on Thursday.
1 min |
November 21, 2025
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How a delay in possession of homes affects loans, taxes
Delays are likely to reduce tax savings and wipe out the leverage advantage of home loans
4 min |
November 21, 2025
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PMS firms ask Sebi to review fees paid for index data
The industry body for portfolio management services, or PMS, managers has approached markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India to reduce or remove fees paid to exchanges to use their indices to benchmark scheme performance, said four people aware of the development.
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