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₹ may stay under 95/$ till Sep
After witnessing a 4.17 per cent depreciation against the dollar since the onset of US-Iran war in the last week of February, the rupee is expected to trade around 94.88 per dollar by September-end, according to the median of a Business Standard poll.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
India's green hydrogen market at an inflexion point: IFC exec
International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank group, has identified several new areas to invest in India, focusing on decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
US space, tech IPOs spark Indian investor interest
Planned listings by OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX — three of the world’s most valuable firms — have spurred interest among domestic investors keen to tap into the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, but industry players have advised caution over access and a potential bubble.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Scheme to build bulk drugs' R&D, capacity in works
The government is working on a new support scheme for the bulk drugs industry even as it rules out any blanket increase in medicine prices despite cost pressures arising from the West Asia crisis, Pharmaceuticals Secretary Manoj Joshi has said.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Big Bond Bang reignites Indian Gsec hopes in global portfolios
Bloomberg's review of its flagship global index is scheduled for mid-June this year
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Rising fuel & fertiliser bill, El Niño risk could drag FY27 growth to 6.5%
India’s economic growth is expected to slow to 6.5 per cent in FY27 from the 7.7 per cent estimated by the National Statistics Office (NSO) for FY26, according to a poll of 10 economists, as the fallout from the West Asia conflict and the prospect of a below-normal monsoon weigh on economic activity.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
IT services in the era of enterprise AI
AI will help IT experts do more, on a bigger scale and across a wider canvas, than ever before. A look at the five big opportunities it presents
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
BaaS lowers entry cost of owning an EV, but may not always be cheaper
Assess your usage intensity and ownership period before making a decision
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
EMs in the oil shock
Policymakers are going into an examination hall
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
OpenAI plans ‘superapp’ overhaul ahead of listing
Looks to redesign ChatGPT with coding tools and AI agents to boost revenue
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Cash mkt turnover at 22-mth high in May; derivatives volumes subdued
Trading activity in the equity cash segment climbed to a 22-month high in May, even as derivatives volumes remained largely unchanged, highlighting a divergence in investor participation.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
OMCs losing ₹700 per cylinder despite hikes
Domestic LPG price raised by ₹29 a cylinder
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
M&M bets beyond tractors to drive farm mechanisation
After building a record 43.6 per cent share in India’s tractor market, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is increasingly looking beyond tractor sales and considering broader farm mechanisation encompassing harvesters, balers, seed drills and telematics-enabled services as its next growth driver.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Sattva group explores data centre opportunity
Expands Mumbai redevelopment pipeline
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
We'll definitely win in India: Amazon country manager
Samir Kumar returned to India in October 2024 to lead Amazon India as country manager — his second stint with the company in the country after helping launch Amazon.in in 2013. In an interview with Peerzada Abrar in Bengaluru, he says it is still “early innings” for ecommerce and quick commerce in India, where the space is witnessing heated competition. Kumar uses a cricket analogy to showcase his outlook: Matches are won on the field, not in the commentary box. Edited excerpts:
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
India seeks a more 'vibrant' Colombo Security Conclave
The government has increased efforts to set up a permanent secretariat of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) in the Sri Lankan capital, as competitive regionalism between India and China gets edgier in the Indian Ocean Region, and the security of Indo-Pacific sea lanes becomes ever more pivotal amid the West Asia conflict.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
CJP finds a crowd, but not converts yet
The barricades were firmly in place. Police deployment began kilometres away. Permission to protest at Jantar Mantar came without much friction, and about 2,000 supporters turned up: The scene in Delhi on June 6 suggested that the first major offline outing of the online GenZ political satire, Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), had grown too large to ignore.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
World’s hottest market has bulls reaching for protection
A wave of optimism over South Korean stocks is giving way to growing caution, as some investors hedge positions and pare back crowded trades on concerns that the rally has run too hot, too fast.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Demand woes may pull hotel occupancies down
Analysts expect room rates to improve in the upcoming quarters as the impact of the West Asia crisis may normalise
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
LIC in talks with regulators to facilitate long-term instruments to match growing liabilities: CEO
State-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is engaging with key financial regulators, including the Reserve Bank and Sebi, to expand the availability of long-term investment instruments as inflows into its annuity products keep on rising, CEO and MD R Doraiswamy said.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Modi era: The tides and the troughs
The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has turned 12, and on June 9, it completes two years of its third term. Key economic indicators show this has been a period of both progress and challenges.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
China puts EVs on a diet as battery boom adds bulk
China wants slimmer electric vehicles after years of bigger batteries and rising demand for space and features helped make passenger cars significantly larger and heavier, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Sunday.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Pentagon sees espionage threat from Israel
Recent US intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising concern over a more general counterintelligence threat by Israel.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
AI is rewiring the software industry
Autonomous agents are shortening project timelines and changing how people work in the sector, reports Avik Das
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Pak minister meets Iran FM, delivers message for Khamenei
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Sunday held a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran, during which he delivered a written message from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the Iranian government said in a statement.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Out of power, in existential crisis?
With TMC struggling to keep its flock in order, the Opposition space in Bengal remains in a state of chaos. Ishita Ayan Dutt writes
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
India tops the charts in workplace AI adoption
Workers in India use artificial intelligence (AI) more often, and with greater enthusiasm than almost anywhere else in the world, according to a new study.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
New entrants reshape Indian EV landscape
FROM VINFAST TO ERICKSHAW STARTUPS
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
Russian drone hits nuclear-fuel facility near Chernobyl
Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in an ‘‘extremely vile’’ attack that did not lead to a spike in radiation.
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June 08, 2026
Business Standard
'In an AI world, compromised security will lead to fraud'
Matthew Driver, executive vice-president for services in the Asia Pacific at Mastercard, believes companies must strengthen cybersecurity amid a complex software environment and the rise of agentic commerce — where autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents independently research and execute online purchases for customers.
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