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DMFs vs FPIs: Beyond the rhetoric
For most of the past two years, a comforting story has taken hold in India’s stock market.
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June 29, 2026
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‘Grateful’: Modi thanks citizens for supporting call for austerity push
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted several milestones achieved by the country to become self-reliant as he cited the maiden flight of the made-in-India C-295 aircraft and the successful test of the indigenous Long-Range Land-Attack Cruise Missile.
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June 29, 2026
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Electronics hit hard by surging chip prices
Apple Inc recently increased prices of MacBook and iPad as rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has led manufacturers to reallocate production toward chips used in AI data centres away from those designed for consumer electronics.
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June 29, 2026
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Tiruppur spun record ₹ 46,000 crore exports in FY26
Industry sets target of achieving ₹ 1 trillion in exports by 2030
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June 29, 2026
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AI's missing inclusivity
The tech revolution is amplifying gender bias
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June 29, 2026
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Dubai’s Danube targets $4 bn launches in FY27
Dubai-based Danube Group plans to launch projects with a combined sales potential of around $4 billion in 2026-27 (FY27), adopting a more selective approach to new developments amid a correction phase in the Emirati property market, according to Danube Group Vice-Chairman Anis Sajan.
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June 29, 2026
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HDFC Bank likely to pick new chairman before CEO extension
The bank has kept RBI informed throughout the process, and if the chairman is appointed by mid-July, there is no reason the CEO appointment decision cannot also be completed in July, he added.
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June 29, 2026
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India, Seychelles boost strategic ties
PM pitches Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of opportunity’
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June 29, 2026
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Zerodha plans foray into investment banking, seeks Sebi registration
Leading discount broker Zerodha is planning to foray into the investment banking space to undertake activities such as the initial public offerings (IPOs) and other corporate finance and issue-related services.
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June 29, 2026
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US lags in social media restrictions for kids, but a reform push is growing
Amy Neville describes Kristin Bride as her “soulmate.” But the day that forged their bond — June 23, 2020 — was the worst of each of their lives. Both Bride and Neville lost their teen sons that day. Their kids lived a thousand miles apart and never met, but they both died from harms related to their social media use.
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June 29, 2026
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‘With leverage available, FCNR (B) scheme remains attractive’
A strong connect with the ‘Global Indian’ community, the Indian arm of British lender Standard Chartered Bank is seeing a robust pipeline of Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) or FCNR (B) deposits from key centres such as Hong Kong, Singapore, New Jersey, and the UAE, its India and South Asia Chief Executive Officer P D Singh tells Subrata Panda and Manojit Saha in an interview in Mumbai. Edited excerpts:
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June 29, 2026
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Rural job scheme transition faces monsoon challenge
As MGNREGA comes to a close, both critics and supporters keenly eye VB G RAM G's performance. Sanjeeb Mukherjee writes
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June 29, 2026
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HDFC Bank: Legal review reveals former chairman's charges 'not substantiated'
India’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank said on Friday that an independent legal review it had commissioned into allegations made by former part-time chairman Atanu Chakraborty in his resignation letter were “not substantiated” by documentary evidence or witness interviews.
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June 27, 2026
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Now, Siam objects to battery recycling rules
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) has warned that battery-recycling targets mandated under the government’s rules could raise electric vehicle (EV) prices by 3-5 per cent and hurt sales in the country.
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June 27, 2026
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Iran reasserts right to control shipping in Strait after ship attack
Calls US-GCC statement ‘interventionist and provocative’
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June 27, 2026
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AIFs expect rebound in investor flows as W Asia uncertainty eases
After months of subdued fundraising amid geopolitical uncertainty stemming from the West Asia conflict, alternative investment fund (AIF) managers are beginning to see signs of revival in investor sentiment.
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June 27, 2026
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Xi backs new B'desh government
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday expressed Beijing's backing for Bangladesh in upholding its sovereignty and “rejecting foreign interference”, as he met visiting Prime Minister (PM) Tarique Rahman here.
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June 27, 2026
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A rediscovery of Aurangzeb/Alamgir
His grandfather and his father are both known by the titles they took once they became the Badshah — Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Hardly anyone knows them by their names, Salim and Khurram.
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June 27, 2026
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10 more jurisdictions come under RBI’s SDL framework
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday expanded its pilot Benchmark Issuance Strategy (BIS) for State Development Loans (SDLs) to nine more states and the Union Territory of Delhi.
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June 27, 2026
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ESIC plans to bring gig workers under social security net
The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), a statutory social security body, is preparing to overhaul its regulations and expand its administrative network for the inclusion of gig workers, platform workers, self-employed persons and other unorganised workers under its benefits coverage, two persons aware of the development said.
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June 27, 2026
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Pressure mounts on Champat Rai to quit Ram temple trust post
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday said it has no knowledge of its vice president Champat Rai resigning as general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust amid allegations of the embezzlement of donations to the Ram temple.
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June 27, 2026
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Rising EV exports get further boost from India-UK pact
The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) will come into force on July 1.
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June 27, 2026
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Pseudoscience cripples societies
Trofim Lysenko is the most famous pseudoscientist of all time — so much so that “Lysenkoism” is a synonym for pseudoscience.
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June 27, 2026
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Air India may restore flights as W Asia situation improves: CEO
Air India may restore some of the flights it had cut because of the West Asia conflict if the security situation remains stable, which would allow more airspace to open and fuel prices to significantly decrease, its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson told employees on Friday.
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June 27, 2026
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Centre seeks to relax residual shelf life of imported drugs
The Centre has proposed two amendments to the Drugs Rules, 1945, aimed at easing the import of medicines and reducing regulatory hurdles for pharmaceutical research, as part of its broader push to improve ease of doing business in the sector.
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June 27, 2026
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Right time to invest in high payout stocks
Krishna Kant and Ram Prasad Sahu analyse 10 stocks that offer investors high dividend yields
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June 27, 2026
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Historic heat wave catches Europe's fashion industry unprepared
As a historic heat wave gripped Paris this week, fashion houses tried to keep their guests cool with ice packs, mist machines and iced Evian on silver platters.
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June 27, 2026
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MiPhi first to make enterprise SSD locally
Micromax-Phison JV making these advanced data-storage solutions at its Noida plant
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June 27, 2026
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Transformational growth prime focus of FTA with UK, says Goyal
Transformational growth should be the prime focus of the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal told business leaders at a plenary session in London on Friday.
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June 27, 2026
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CBSE to modify order on foreign language choices
Class 7, 8 and 9 students who opted for 2 foreign languages may be allowed to continue with the same combination
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