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Financial Express Kochi
Global degrees, Indian address
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES ARE EXPANDING CHOICE TO EARN GLOBAL DEGREES
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
GST 2.0: Luxury EV penetration declines
ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) penetration in the luxury car segment has seen a drop by nearly 3 percentage points in the GST 2.0 era with the internal combustion engine versions offering better total cost of ownership, according to industry players.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Citi tops M&A...
DALAL POINTED TO a series of large transactions announced late in the year, including Torrent Pharmaceuticals' acquisition of JB Pharma, Emirates NBD's agreement to acquire a controlling stake in RBL Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's blockbuster ₹39,618crore investment in Shriram Finance, Mizuho Financial Group's acquisition of Avendus Capital, Coforge's outbound share-swap acquisition of Encora and Bharti Enterprises, Warburg Pincus' acquisition of 49% stake in Haier.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Unsold homes rise 4% in 2025
UNSOLD HOUSING UNITS rose 4% to nearly 577,000 units last year across 7 major cities as supply of new homes exceeded demand, according to Anarock.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Flights grounded in Greece on radio frequency loss
FLIGHTS ACROSS GREECE were grounded on Sunday after a collapse of radio frequencies crippled air traffic communication, stranding thousands of travellers and bringing airport operations to a halt.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Customs rejig must resolve inverted duty, supply chain issues: Virmani
AHEAD OF THE Union Budget for FY27 and an expected overhaul of the customs duty regime, economist and Niti Aayog member Arvind Virmani has underlined the need for India to address inverted duty structures, ease supply chains and facilitate labour-intensive stages of production to enhance the competitiveness of the Indian economy.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
X to ban user accounts creating illegal content
ELON MUSK-OWNED X said on Sunday that it would take strict action against illegal content
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
OPEC+ keeps output steady
OPEC+ KEPT OIL output unchanged on Sunday after a quick meeting that avoided discussion of the political crises affecting several of the producer group's members.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Citi tops M&A advisory league table
Late surge in big deals lifts overall number in 2025
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
‘2026 will be defined by the industrialisation of AI’
LTIMindtree is betting big on BlueVerse, its AI-native ecosystem that brings together intelligent agents, modular architecture and built-in trust, providing everything enterprises need to move from AI concept-to-value. “We see strong investments in Al, with significant traction both in AI-native projects and in infusing AI into existing capabilities,” says Venu Lambu, CEO & MD, LTIMindtree. In this interview with Sudhir Chowdhary, he outlines the key trends and his company’s strategy for accelerating Al adoption among its clients. Excerpts:
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
We can’t innovate our way out of the climate crisis
OPTIMISM, ESPECIALLY ABOUT our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might beat its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
ONGC Videsh may get to recover $1 billion in dues
• Venezuelan oil supplies may resume to RIL, other refiners
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Without reforms, 2026 could be another damp squib for equities
GLOBAL HEADWINDS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
India Inc ...
AT TATA SONS, Chairman N Chandrasekaran in his New Year message to employees, reiterated the group's focus on adopting AI across functions to improve execution, signalling that AI is now viewed as an enterprise-wide lever rather than an experimental tool.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Resolving India’s grid bottlenecks
Institutional coordination and transparency is key to ensure that India is able to get the renewable energy it generates to its power grid
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Bangladesh threaten not to play T20 World Cup matches in India
AMID TENSE BILATERAL TIES BETWEEN SOUTH ASIAN NEIGHBOURS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
D2C acquisitions by FMCG companies set to continue
VALUATIONS LIKELY TO STAY DISCIPLINED
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Subsidies 8% of states' revenue spending
STATE GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE to devote a sizeable share of their budgets to subsidies, underscoring their role in welfare delivery while intensifying pressure on public finances.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
IT results may underline resilience, not recovery
LARGE-CAP DOMESTIC
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Coding gets the right vibe
FOR THE LAST three decades, the sheer headcount of software engineers have been translating into big revenues for Indian IT services companies. The offshore execution efficiency combined with the ability to add talent as and when new projects came up, defined the growth trajectory for the business. This phenomenon is poised for a dramatic shift that would redefine how IT service businesses can count on their advantage.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Somnath Swabhiman Parv: 1,000 years of unbroken faith
SOMNATH...HEARING THIS word instils a sense of pride in our hearts and minds.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
ONGC Videsh may get to recover $1-bn in dues
RIL, ACCORDING TO media reports, had obtained a licence from US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in July 2024 for crude imports from PdVSA, notwithstanding the sanctions, but actual trade hasn't picked up.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Bring the cinema home
YUVA VIBE DELIVERS SHARP AND VIBRANT VISUALS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
We plan to invest up to ₹5,000 crore in Noida airport cargo infra'
Air India SATS Airport Services (AISATS) is sharpening its focus on cargo and logistics as a long-term growth engine, alongside its core ground-handling business.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
FPIs pull out ₹7,608 cr from equities in Jan
FOREIGN PORTFOLIO INVESTORS (FPIs) have started 2026 on a cautious note, extending their selling streak from last year by withdrawing ₹7,608 crore ($846 million) from Indian equities in the first two trading sessions of January.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
From parched fields to prosperity
FARMER PROSPERITY CAN BE REAL IF INNOVATION IS SCALED WITH COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL STAKEHOLDERS
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Early screen time leads to teen anxiety
A STUDY BY a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital exposure.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Delhi voices concern, calls for dialogue on Caracas
Statement urges all concerned for ‘dialogue, ensuring peace & stability'
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
New airport every 50 days, says Naidu
THE COUNTRY'S AIRPORT expansion is gathering pace, with a new airport being added roughly every 50 days as the government is pushing to ease capacity constraints and expand air connectivity, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Sunday.
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January 05, 2026
Financial Express Kochi
Long build
HOW NIYO TOOK SHAPE WITHOUT A FOUNDING THESIS, AND BUILT ITS BUSINESS BY STAYING CLOSE TO PAYMENTS, REGULATION & USER BEHAVIOUR
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