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SIP inflows top ₹3 trn in 2025
Inflows into mutual fund (MF) schemes via systematic investment plans (SIPs) have topped ₹3 trillion for the first time in a calendar year, as investors increasingly rely on the staggered investment route amid market volatility.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
A mea culpa in national interest
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a mea culpa. I'd deal with the most recent this week
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Chanakya and Sun Tzu
The great debate at the November Mumbai Lit Fest was on the proposition India and China must be friends.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
8 months into FY26, states have spent only 38% of budgeted capex
States have spent just 38.3 per cent of their combined annual budgeted capital expenditure (capex) of ₹9.64 trillion in the first eight months of 2025-26, according to an analysis of monthly accounts for 21 states released by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Skip duration bets, stick to shorter and medium-duration funds
After a phase of policy easing and bond market rallies, debt mutual fund investors are heading into a different environment in 2026.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Castrol India: Well oiled to grow, but valuations may limit sharp upside
BP’s sale of 65 per cent in Castrol Group Holding (CGHL), which owns 51 per cent in Castrol India, to Stonepeak, an alternate investment firm, has led to traders focusing on Castrol India.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
The economy sailed through, but the waters are uncertain
The Indian economy has weathered the onslaught of adverse external developments, such as US President Donald Trump's tariffs, this year, but the immediate future could be bumpy.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Equities decline amid muted sentiment, lack of fresh triggers
Equities declined on Friday, amid relatively muted investor participation due to the slack year-end season and a lack of fresh triggers.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Food processing sector to grow 11-13% in FY26 and FY27
Increasing demand for value-added products such as butter, ghee, paneer, curd and ice cream will help the food processing sector in India log a growth rate of 11-13 per cent in 2025-26 (FY26) and FY27, up from 10 per cent in FY25.
2 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Coforge to buy AI firm Encora for $2.35 billion
All-stock deal marks the biggest acquisition by an Indian IT firm in ER&D space
2 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
25 years of PMGSY: 95% of rural road targets met
Almost 95 per cent of rural road targets have been achieved under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), which completed 25 years on Wednesday.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Myanmar to vote under junta shadow; critics dismiss elections as sham
Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover, nor end a civil war triggered by the nation's harsh military rule.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
EPFO to work on returning money locked in idle accounts: Minister
The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will launch a Know Your Customer (KYC) drive in a mission mode to help return money locked in inoperative accounts to claimants, Union Minister Labour for Employment Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Bullish on India, eyeing deeper integration of its biz: DP World
Multinational logistics firm DP World is aiming for deeper integration of its India business with higher-value supply-chain solutions through multimodal offerings as it is “bullish” on India’s trade growth.
3 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Rogue hegemons are sabotaging the global economy
Although 2025 will probably be remembered as the year that United States President Donald Trump upended the global trading system, the truth is that both of the world's hegemons, the US and China, have gone rogue.
4 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Centre issues EoI for unified Customs portal
The Centre on Friday issued the expression of interest (EoI) to appoint an implementation agency for a proposed Customs Integrated System (CIS), formally kicking off the bidding process for a large-scale overhaul of India's indirect tax technology architecture.
1 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
US launches strike targeting ISIS in Nigeria
›Nigeria government says 'joint operation' with US targeted 'terrorists' >Trump had previously highlighted threat to Christians in African country
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Putin's India visit reaffirms time-tested mutual trust: Russia foreign ministry
Agreements reached during Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent India visit reaffirmed the alignment of strategic goals and the \"steadfastness\" of the two countries' \"time-tested mutual trust, the Foreign Ministry here said on Friday in its year-end statement.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Domestic tourism, corporate travel may push room rates up in ’26
Hotel room rates are expected to rise up to six per cent to reach a range of %9,400 to X9,700 in 2026, driven by continued growth in domestic tourism, corporate travel, and demand continuing to outstrip supply across most markets in the country.
2 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
RBI's new guidelines may slow expansion of UCBs
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) revised guidelines on business authorisation plans for cooperative banks may restrict or slow the expansion strategy of urban cooperative banks (UCBs), bank officials told Business Standard.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
India flags concern to US over disruptions caused by H-1B visa interview cancellations
India on Friday said it flagged its concerns to the US over cancellation of prescheduled H-1B visa interviews of a large number of Indians and that both sides were engaged on the issue to address the disruptions caused by Washington ordering enhanced vetting of applicants.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Gold reserves, foreign currency assets boost forex kitty by $4.4 bn
India's foreign exchange reserves grew by $4.37 billion to $693 billion in the week ended December 19, driven by an increase in gold reserves and foreign currency assets, latest data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
The pretentious shayars
In 1797, Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan was born in Agra on December 27.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
A year of highs & headwinds for Indian travel industry
India’s travel year began on a high-decibel note.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
SHANTI and the nuclear question
The SHANTI Bill brings nuclear power back into public discourse.
3 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
CSR spending of CPSEs surged 31% to record ₹6,437 cr in FY25
Top 10 firms accounted for 59.5% of total expenditure compared to 56.7% in FY24
2 min |
December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Dec 31 deadline for revised returns: Taxpayers waiting for refund face tight window
Taxpayers expecting an income tax refund for assessment year 2025-26 face a tight window if their return is processed late.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
PNB reports over ₹2,400 cr loan fraud linked to Srei ex-promoters
THIS INCLUDES A LOAN ACCOUNT OF SREI EQUIPMENT FINANCE FOR A FRAUD OF ₹1,241 CRORE, AND ONE OF SREI INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE FOR A FRAUD OF ₹1,193 CRORE
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Railway stocks rally on higher capex hopes
Shares of railway-related companies witnessed a sharp rally on Friday, gaining as much as 12 per cent following the implementation of a revised passenger fare structure and optimism around an increase in capital expenditure in the upcoming Union Budget.
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December 27, 2025
Business Standard
Russia could be open to territory swap
Russia's Kommersant reported that Putin told some of top businessmen that he might be open to swapping some territory controlled by Russian forces in Ukraine but that he wanted the whole of Donbas.
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