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• Adani's ₹1L Cr Bengal Bet Tracks BJP's Rise, Adani's ₹1 lakh crore pledge comes right after a BJP government took over in Bengal, where previous investment stayed far below that mark, s
• India-EU FTA: A 22-Year Wait for Real Tariff Relief, The India-EU FTA is not one single tariff cut but a three-speed access machine where only 70.4% of tariff lines get immediate relief, 6.1% g
• Reliance's FMCG War Chest: ₹40,000 Cr for Big Buys, Reliance is quadrupling its FMCG arm's capital to ₹40,000 crore for acquisitions, meaning buying other companies, not just organic growth, b
• CSK Hires Zaheer: 2-Year Fix, Not a Coach, CSK's Zaheer Khan appointment is really a two-year transition plan to fix a playoff drought, meaning the team has missed the postseason in r
• Spinny's IPO: It Owns the Cars, Not Just the Listings, Spinny's ₹3,000 Cr IPO is a bet that public investors will back a retailer that owns every car it sells, not a marketplace, because its inve
• SpaceX's IPO Just Made Rich Indians' Tax Lives Harder, Rich Indians who bought SpaceX via offshore funds now face a compliance audit, because fund managers handed over the shares directly to avoi
• Copper: India's New Oil, and HCL Is Digging In, Hindustan Copper's Rs 7,000 crore bet is tiny against its Rs 87,000 crore valuation, so the stock's pop rests on copper prices staying high
• Iran's Bronze Medal Is an Exit Ticket From the Army, For Iran's male players, an Asian Games medal isn't just glory, it's a get-out-of-military-service card, so they braved a brutal schedule an
• GDP's Black Box: Why 7.7% and 9.2% Both Look Right, The new GDP estimate shows manufacturing growing at 9.2% in real terms but 7.7% in rupees, a gap the double-deflation trick produces, yet no
• SEBI's Deadline: 23 IPOs Must Launch by Sept 30, SEBI gave 23 companies a one-time extension to launch IPOs by September 30, now they face a cliff: either debut into a risk-averse market or
• NSE's IPO Was a Sell-Off, Not a Fundraiser, The NSE IPO's 5.71x subscription masks a retail rush that never came (only 1.39x), because this was existing shareholders cashing out, not t
• HDFC MF Buys Into a 52-Week High Stock, Entero's promoter trust is cashing out 13.9 lakh shares (13.9 lakh equals 1.39 million) at a near-peak price, and HDFC MF is buying in, even
• UPI's Free Ride Ends for Big Merchants, UPI stayed free for a decade because govt subsidies covered the ₹20,000 crore running cost, and this fee shifts that bill from taxpayers ont
• Foreign Investors Sell Indian Stocks Again, FIIs pulled Rs 23,676 crore from Indian stocks this month because crude oil and US bond yields spiked, but they still poured Rs 2,703 crore
• How DUSU Candidates Dodge The ₹5,000 Cap, DU candidates cap spending at ₹5,000 by rule, but fake handwritten posters printed for as little as ₹300 a bundle and SUV rallies show the r
• Tata Sons' IPO Value May Be Cut in Half, Tata Sons' assets are worth ₹15-16 lakh crore, but bankers say the IPO could value it at just ₹9-12.5 lakh crore because holding companies g
• Modi and Xi Shake Hands, Trade Gap Widens, Modi and Xi met in Delhi to project warmth, but the real state of ties, a record USD 112 billion trade deficit that keeps growing, is becaus
• India's Spending Mix Shifts, Not Its Size, Indians spent 18% more on alcohol, tobacco and personal care in 2024-25, but total consumption grew at the same 6% pace as last year, so hou
• Ola Electric Wants ₹1,500Cr, Again, Ola Electric is raising ₹1,500 Cr just three months after its last ₹780 Cr raise, and it still owes ₹1,637 Cr in loans while revenue has fal
• India's 7.8% GDP Growth Is a Repeat, India's economy grew 7.8% in Q1, exactly matching last year's Q1, and last year's 7.8% start slowed to 6.2% by Q4, so the question is whethe
• TCS's ₹70K Cr AI Bet Isn't TCS's Money, TCS is naming a ₹70,000 crore ceiling for its Hyderabad AI campus, but its own math for building 1 GW elsewhere costs far less, because most
• TCS's ₹70K Cr AI Bet Has One Tenant, TCS is building 1 GW of AI data centre capacity in Hyderabad for ₹70,000 crore, but only 100 MW is actually booked by OpenAI, the rest is ju
• RBI's Dollar Rush: $60B in Just 10 Days, Banks raised $60 billion, nearly half of the RBI's entire $136 billion dollar deposit scheme, in the last 10 days before it shut a month ear
• AfD's Saxony-Anhalt Vote: Win Isn't Majority, Forecasters give AfD a 93% chance of finishing first in Saxony-Anhalt, but an outright majority needs smaller parties to miss the 5% cutoff,
• Railways to Quadruple Tracks on Busiest Routes, Just seven routes, 16% of the network, carry 41% of all rail traffic, and quadrupling their tracks means building two more lines while train
• Nifty Fell Yesterday Because IT Stocks Dragged It Down, Nifty fell 0.52% not because investors fled Indian markets, but because IT stocks sank on a US visa pause while banks and metals rose, and t
• LPG's Hidden Bill Keeps Growing for OMCs, The loss oil companies book on every subsidised LPG cylinder is shrinking, but the total unpaid bill still crossed ₹59,000 crore, so the gov
• India's Inflation Gauges Are All Over, India's wholesale prices are rising near 9.78% while retail inflation sits at 4.45%, but the gap is mostly food, fuel and gold prices, not w
• NITI Aayog: 1 in 12 Grads Get a Matched Job, NITI Aayog says only 8.25% of India's graduates work in jobs that actually match their degree, and the rest end up wherever the labour marke
• Nepal Floods: 157 Dead, 480 Still Missing, Devastating flash floods in Nepal result in the death of 157 recovered bodies but the nation still has about 480 people unaccounted for

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