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New Zealand produced a commanding response in the fourth ODI, dismantling India for just 89 after a devastating spell from Matt Henry. The emphatic bowling performance has revived the visitors’ series hopes and set up a decisive final match with the contest now finely poised.
A planned increase in fertilizer subsidy is expected to improve sales of diammonium phosphate (DAP) and complex fertilizers, which have been under pressure from supply constraints, elevated prices and weaker seasonal demand. The policy support comes as the market looks for a rebound in rabi crop coverage, a key driver of fertilizer consumption in northern and central India.
Debut director Sreenu Kambala’s Telugu film 'DNK' arrives with a cheeky crime-comedy premise and enough comic energy to keep audiences engaged in stretches. But the film’s crowded writing, repeated gags and multiple subplots blunt its impact, leaving a lively idea that never fully settles into a sharp, cohesive whole.
The International Finance Corporation has extended a $150 million social loan to State Bank of India to expand agricultural financing for about 864,000 rural women, marking its first investment in an Indian state-owned bank. The deal also includes IFC’s first domestic cross-currency swap with an Indian bank, with SBI becoming its first local swap counterparty in South Asia.
TPG’s Rise Funds is set to invest ₹525 crore in Arka Fincap, the Kirloskar Group-backed non-banking financial company, in a transaction that could expand to ₹800 crore subject to performance milestones and regulatory approvals. The capital infusion is aimed at accelerating Arka’s push into secured retail lending while upgrading its technology backbone, underscoring continued investor interest in India’s financial services and mobility-linked credit ecosystem.
A documentary chronicling a girls’ education campaign in rural India has won a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals award, drawing fresh attention to the power of storytelling in advancing social change. The recognition places the film within a wider global conversation on education access, gender equity, and the role of media in amplifying grassroots development work.
Blackstone is poised to invest about Rs 5,000 crore for a 15% stake in IIFL Finance, in a transaction that would significantly deepen the global private equity firm’s exposure to India’s financial services market. Promoters Nirmal Jain and R Venkataraman are expected to put in Rs 1,200 crore to maintain their combined holding at roughly 25%, while investor Rohit Kothari, through Anchorage Capital, will add about Rs 100 crore, taking the total capital infusion to more than Rs 6,200 crore.
Asian Paints remains one of India’s most closely watched consumer and industrial stocks, with its share price history often serving as a proxy for investor confidence in domestic demand, housing activity, and margin resilience. As markets reassess valuation leadership in a shifting macroeconomic environment, the stock’s long-term performance is drawing renewed attention from traders and institutional investors alike.
India paid a record $6.4 billion for Russian crude oil imports in October, reflecting both higher volumes and a sharp rise in shipping and insurance costs after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted regional energy routes. The surge underscores how geopolitical risk is feeding directly into India’s import bill, even as refiners continue to rely heavily on discounted Russian barrels to manage energy costs.
The International Finance Corporation has extended a $150 million social loan to State Bank of India to expand agricultural financing for about 864,000 rural women, marking its first investment in an Indian state-owned bank. The deal also includes IFC’s first domestic cross-currency swap with an Indian bank, with SBI becoming its first local swap counterparty in South Asia.
India’s Comptroller and Auditor General will expand its planned integrated audit of the power sector to include consumer responses in its review of distribution companies, a move that could sharpen scrutiny of service quality, billing practices and accountability. The audit, designed to run over four years, will cover generation, transmission, distribution and renewable energy, signalling a broader examination of the sector’s operational and financial stress points.
Blackstone is in discussions to make a significant investment in IIFL Finance, underscoring a sharp rise in global appetite for India’s non-bank lenders. The move comes amid a wave of foreign capital into financial services, as investors seek exposure to a credit market expanding beyond traditional banks and into underserved segments.
Nine stocks in the Nifty500 universe that gained more than 5.5% on November 12 appeared on StockEdge’s White Marubozu bullish scanner, a technical pattern that often signals strong buying conviction. Among the names flagged was Aditya Birla Capital, underscoring a session in which select counters drew aggressive accumulation even as broader market direction remained dependent on macro and policy cues.
A review of 10 Indian banks shows that reported deposit growth in the July-September quarter averaged 21.1% year-on-year, but the headline number was flattered by special foreign currency inflows. Excluding FCNR deposits, domestic deposit growth was estimated at just 12.2%, exposing a much weaker underlying trend in bank liability mobilisation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to use the ASEAN-India Summit to deepen strategic and bilateral engagement with Southeast Asian partners even as negotiations over the bloc-wide trade pact remain unresolved. With consensus on the broader agreement still elusive, New Delhi is increasingly leaning on country-specific trade and investment channels to sustain momentum in economic ties.
Adyar Ananda Bhavan, the Chennai-based sweets and vegetarian restaurant chain, has sold a majority stake to Bodhi Tree Systems in a transaction valued at about $180 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal marks a significant move by the James Murdoch- and Uday Shankar-founded investment platform deeper into India’s consumer and food services market.
India celebrated a landmark day in youth boxing as Ambekar and Gunjan delivered gold-medal victories at the Youth Olympic Games. Ambekar edged Ireland’s Kristen Jubani 3-2 in a tense final, while Gunjan produced a commanding 5-0 win over Algeria’s Bouthaina Bensalah to become India’s first-ever woman boxing champion at the Youth Olympics.
Fintech SaaS company Zaggle reported a 30% year-on-year decline in net profit to ₹24.5 crore for the second quarter, even as revenue moved higher. The results point to a business still expanding top line momentum while facing margin pressure, a common tension for growth-stage technology firms balancing scale, customer acquisition and operating costs.
A Special Investigation Team on Friday searched the residence of Gem Granites-linked businessman Veeramani after a court statement by one of the victims alleged that a minor girl had been buried there years ago. The search marks a significant escalation in a sensational case that has already drawn intense public scrutiny and raised fresh questions about the handling of evidence and witness testimony.
Arvind Sanger, Managing Partner at Geosphere Capital Management, said India remains an attractive market despite a less supportive global liquidity backdrop, arguing that the next leg of gains will likely depend more on earnings than on easy money. He described his stance as “cautiously optimistic,” noting that external liquidity tailwinds are unlikely to improve materially from here. The view underscores a broader shift in market leadership toward fundamentals, with investors now watching for a revival in corporate earnings to justify higher valuations.
Actor Shivathmika Rajashekar has reflected on the arc of her career across Telugu and Tamil cinema, saying she never imagined herself in a large-scale mainstream film like Tharun Bhascker's 'ENE Repeat'. Her comments also underscore the range she has pursued on screen, from commercial projects to a challenging role as a sex worker in the web series 'Varam'.
Agricultural lending has become the most vulnerable pocket of Indian banks’ loan books, with the gross non-performing asset ratio in the segment rising to 5.1%, far above the 1.5% seen in industry and services. While the stress reflects the impact of a weak monsoon and uneven rural cash flows, banks say agricultural bad loans have eased from the peaks seen in 2020-21, even as slippages remain a concern.
BSE SME-listed electric vehicle maker Zelio E-Mobility reported a sharp rise in consolidated net profit for the first half of the fiscal year, underscoring resilient demand in India’s fast-growing low-speed EV market. The company’s profit climbed 164.3% year-on-year to ₹31.4 crore, reflecting stronger operating momentum and improved scale in a sector still navigating intense competition and pricing pressure.
Brainbees Solutions, the parent of omnichannel baby and kids’ retailer FirstCry, sharply reduced its net loss in the September quarter even as revenue continued to grow at a double-digit pace. The results point to improving operating discipline, though the company remains under pressure to convert scale into sustained profitability.
Meta has come under renewed scrutiny in India after a member of the National Human Rights Commission raised questions over the company’s funding links with UNICEF amid concerns about child sexual abuse material on its platforms. The development adds a human-rights dimension to a fast-moving regulatory debate over how social media firms police harmful content and protect minors online.
India’s antitrust regulator has approved Prosus’ plan to acquire a stake in Navi Ltd, removing a key regulatory hurdle for the Dutch technology investor’s deeper push into the country’s digital financial services market. The transaction will be executed through MIH Payments Holdings BV, a Prosus entity, and comes as Navi broadens its lending, insurance and digital payments businesses.
Madhya Pradesh’s registered electorate has risen sharply to 5,47,99,628 after the addition of 8.19 lakh voters since the final Special Intensive Revision roll, underscoring the scale of electoral expansion in one of India’s largest states. The updated list now includes 2,82,85,144 men, 2,65,13,547 women and 937 transgender electors, reflecting both demographic growth and the continuing administrative task of keeping voter rolls current.
Dilpreet Bhullar’s new photobook, Lands We Inherit: Lines We Breathe, turns refugee memory into a carefully constructed visual archive, combining photographs of personal objects, first-person testimonies and cyanotype-rendered archival maps. The work frames displacement not as abstraction but as lived inheritance, placing intimate evidence at the centre of a broader conversation about identity, belonging and historical rupture.
India’s agricultural economy is entering a phase in which digital tools alone will not determine competitiveness. Organisations that can map regulatory obligations, build robust compliance systems and retain skilled people will be better placed to scale sustainably in a sector shaped by policy scrutiny, supply-chain complexity and rising quality expectations. The message is especially relevant as agribusinesses, processors and input suppliers seek growth across a market that remains vital to inflation, rural incomes and fiscal stability.
Flight Of Fancy and Splendid Dream are expected to dominate attention in the day’s feature contest, with the market and form lines suggesting a closely fought finish. The race has drawn interest not only because of the pair’s recent credentials, but also because the field appears evenly matched enough to punish any tactical misstep.
A new policy framing around a national farmers’ health capital index is drawing attention to a long-ignored constraint on India’s agricultural growth: the physical health of farmers as a productive economic asset. The argument, aligned with Food and Agriculture Organization thinking, is that unless policy measures human health shocks as a direct drag on total factor productivity, farm output and rural resilience will remain structurally limited.
Technology adoption is accelerating growth across India’s third-party logistics sector, but the industry’s expansion is being constrained by a persistent shortage of skilled manpower. As warehousing, automation and digital supply-chain tools become more central to operations, companies are finding that infrastructure alone is not enough to sustain scale. The result is a widening gap between logistics demand and workforce readiness.
HDFC Bank’s share price remains a key barometer for India’s financial markets, drawing close attention from investors tracking the country’s largest private-sector lender. The stock’s history reflects shifting expectations around credit growth, margin resilience, deposit mobilisation, and broader macroeconomic conditions that continue to shape banking valuations in India.
Kotak Mahindra Bank has secured approval from the Competition Commission of India for its acquisition of Deutsche Bank AG’s retail, private banking and wealth management businesses in India. The transaction covers loans, deposits and other customer assets tied to roughly 150,000 clients, while the two lenders will also establish a referral arrangement through their affiliates.
Blackstone is set to invest about Rs 5,000 crore for a 15% stake in IIFL Finance, in a transaction that would mark one of the largest private capital infusions into an Indian financial services company this year. Promoters Nirmal Jain and R Venkataraman will also invest Rs 1,200 crore to keep their combined holding near 25%, while investor Rohit Kothari, through Anchorage Capital, will add about Rs 100 crore, taking the total infusion to more than Rs 6,200 crore.
Nearly half of Indian households now use online shopping or digital payments for at least one purchase, underscoring the steady mainstreaming of digital commerce across the country. But the report also shows a sharp divide: 54.4% of households still rely on traditional payment methods, while adoption is strongest in consumables and services and rises with higher monthly spending.
HCL Technologies’ share price is drawing renewed attention as investors weigh the stock’s long-term performance against a shifting macroeconomic backdrop for India’s technology sector. The company remains a bellwether for enterprise IT demand, but its stock history also reflects the market’s changing appetite for growth, margins, and global outsourcing exposure.
Jio Financial Services is back in focus as investors revisit its share price history, market positioning, and the broader implications for India’s financial sector. The stock’s performance continues to be watched closely for signals on how the market is pricing the company’s long-term growth prospects, parentage, and capital allocation strategy. As a relatively new listed financial entity, Jio Financial Services remains a key reference point for investors tracking large-cap consumer finance and digital financial services in India.
OpenAI has introduced local inference and data processing for its APIs in India, a move aimed at addressing enterprise demand for lower latency, stronger data controls and greater regulatory comfort. The step marks a notable expansion of the ChatGPT maker’s India strategy as it seeks to convert developer interest into durable commercial adoption.
Hindalco Industries’ share price is back in focus as investors reassess the aluminium major’s long-term stock performance against the backdrop of commodity cycles, capital spending, and broader macroeconomic shifts. The stock’s history reflects the market’s changing view of metals, manufacturing demand, and the company’s ability to convert scale into earnings resilience. For market participants, Hindalco remains a proxy not only for India’s industrial growth story but also for global aluminium pricing, input costs, and the health of downstream demand. Its share price trajectory continues to be shaped by earnings visibility, balance-sheet discipline, and the direction of the wider fiscal and industrial policy environment.
Two men were killed and several others injured when a van crashed into a tree in Tirupattur, underscoring the persistent toll of road accidents on India’s highways and district roads. The injured passengers are undergoing treatment, while authorities are expected to examine whether speed, fatigue, or road conditions contributed to the crash.
The International Monetary Fund has said India must generate higher-quality jobs and accelerate productivity growth to sustain its expansion and translate headline growth into broad-based gains. The warning comes even as the Fund, in its October World Economic Outlook, raised India’s medium-term potential growth estimate to 6.8% from 6.5%, underscoring both the economy’s resilience and the scale of the reform challenge.
Spandana Sphoorty Financial reported unauthorized transactions worth Rs 7.8 crore after discovering a cyber fraud incident on Sunday, triggering immediate containment measures and a formal request to its bank to reverse the transfers. A senior company official said the microfinance lender has insurance coverage for the loss, while investigations continue into how the breach occurred and which services were affected.
India has emerged as the world’s most economically resilient major economy for the 2026-30 period, according to an ASSOCHAM assessment that assigns the country a score of 71. The ranking underscores the strength of India’s growth outlook, household savings and investment momentum, while also warning that fiscal consolidation remains a critical policy challenge.
India’s merchant payments market is moving beyond the race to digitise every checkout, with industry leaders now focusing on identity, risk, credit and growth. At the Global Fintech Festival 2026, the conversation shifted toward intelligent commerce and the coming role of AI agents in consumer shopping.
India’s markets regulator has eased Know Your Client requirements for overseas investors, allowing non-resident Indians, Overseas Citizens of India and foreign nationals from FATF-compliant jurisdictions to complete onboarding remotely. The move is designed to reduce friction in cross-border investing and make it easier for intermediaries to rely on existing records and video-based verification where needed.
Online pharmacy startup PlatinumRx is in advanced talks to raise about $32 million in a new funding round led by Belgian investment firm Sofina, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction, if completed, would value the company at roughly $200 million and mark a significant vote of confidence in India’s digital healthcare and pharmacy market.
India’s smaller microfinance institutions are increasingly stepping back from direct lending and shifting toward business correspondent roles as funding tightens and borrower stress rises. With bank credit and fresh equity harder to secure, many are choosing to route loans for banks off balance sheet and earn fee income instead of carrying credit risk themselves.
The Rubber Board has introduced a self-registration facility for its BSNR sustainability certification, advancing a digital framework designed to improve traceability, compliance, and market credibility across India’s natural rubber value chain. The initiative is aimed at positioning Indian natural rubber more competitively in global markets, where sustainability documentation and supply-chain transparency are becoming increasingly important.
India’s smaller microfinance institutions are increasingly stepping away from direct lending and moving toward business correspondent arrangements as bank funding tightens and equity inflows slow. The shift reflects a broader structural change in the sector, where off-balance-sheet growth and fee income are becoming more attractive than carrying fresh loan assets amid rising stress.
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