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AI-Designed Fashion Boosts Japan's World Co.
Japan's World Co. has launched a new brand called OO, where garments and models are created using generative AI, as the apparel giant seeks to regain momentum following a profit decline.
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China Stocks Rise as Semiconductor and Property Shares Lead Market Gains
Chinese mainland stocks advanced on Friday, September 18, 2026, driven by strength in individual property and semiconductor shares, despite a backdrop of weaker economic data.
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NMDC Sets Net Zero Target for Operational Emissions by 2047
State-run iron ore producer NMDC Limited has announced a phased roadmap to achieve net zero operational emissions by 2047, focusing on renewable energy and fleet electrification.
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Amazon India Crosses 20 Lakh Sellers as AI Tools and Lower Fees Drive Its Strongest Growth in Three Years
Amazon India says its seller base has crossed 20 lakh after adding more than 3 lakh sellers, marking its strongest seller growth in three years as AI tools, lower fees and logistics expansion change…
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PepsiCo India's Farmer Network: What the Company's Growth Claims Show, and What Remains Unverified
PepsiCo India cites a growing farmer network under its Partnership of Progress program. Here is a look at what is independently verified regarding its agricultural footprint, and what claims remain unconfirmed.
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Lamborghini Says It Sells a Dream, Not Mobility. The Temerario Shows What That Means
The 920 CV Lamborghini Temerario is more than a new mid-engined hybrid supercar. It explains how Lamborghini protects scarcity, pricing power, personalization and emotion while changing its technology.
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India Amends E-Commerce Rules: New Checks on Fake Discounts, Sponsored Results and Dark Patterns
The Government of India has amended the Consumer Protection E-Commerce Rules to mandate 30-day prior pricing for discounts, dark pattern audits, and clear sponsored search results by 2027.
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UPI Gets 0.4% MDR: How the New Merchant Fee Compares With Debit and Credit Cards
India introduces a 0.4% UPI Merchant Discount Rate on P2M transactions above ₹2,000 starting October 15, 2026. Here is how the new merchant fee compares with traditional card charges.
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Aditya Birla Group Seeks ₹14,000 Crore Debt for Major Renewable Energy Acquisition
The Aditya Birla Group is seeking a ₹14,000 crore domestic loan syndication to finance the acquisition of Shell's Sprng Energy, drawing oversubscribed interest from top Indian lenders.
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Miogra Aims to Empower Local Businesses While Making Everyday Shopping Easier
Miogra, a hyperlocal delivery platform by Kipgra Ventures, is digitising neighbourhood commerce in Tamil Nadu by connecting local vendors directly to consumers.
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Flipkart to Create Over 250,000 Festive Jobs as India’s E-Commerce Demand Surges
Walmart-backed Flipkart has announced the creation of over 250,000 direct and indirect seasonal jobs ahead of its Big Billion Days sale, reflecting a massive surge in India's e-commerce and quick-commerce demand.
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Oil Prices Surge More Than 3% Amid Gulf Supply Disruptions
Global oil prices jumped more than 3% as escalating geopolitical tensions and drone strikes on a major Saudi Arabian pipeline ignited renewed fears over global energy supply security.
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Amazon Now Crosses $1 Billion Annualised Sales in India's Quick-Commerce Race
Amazon's quick-commerce service in India, Amazon Now, has crossed $1 billion in gross annualised sales, marking the fastest-growing business unit in Amazon India's history.
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Oracle Begins New Layoffs as It Ramps Up AI Infrastructure Spending
Oracle employees began receiving termination notices on Monday as the technology giant initiates another round of workforce reductions to help finance a multi-billion-dollar expansion into AI data center capacity.
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Instafix: The Gurugram Startup Bringing 30-Minute Phone Repair to Your Doorstep
Chetan Chauhan and Aniket Kale built Instafix to solve the frustration of broken smartphones, offering 30-minute doorstep repairs in Gurugram.
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Gaurav Londhe's Traffic Vada Pav: The ₹20 Idea Born From Thane's Traffic
Gaurav Londhe turned the frustration of Mumbai traffic into 'The Traffic Vada Pav,' a unique ₹20 snack business serving commuters directly in their cars.
Business
HDFC Bank Sends Two Names to RBI for Next MD & CEO
HDFC Bank has submitted a shortlist of two unnamed candidates to the RBI for its next MD & CEO, initiating the succession process for Sashidhar Jagdishan.
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Inbound Aerospace Signs 5-Year Partnership With Australia's Space Angel for Spacecraft Recovery
India's Inbound Aerospace and Australia's Space Angel Group signed a five-year MoU to explore spacecraft recovery, testing and spaceport infrastructure cooperation.
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Flipkart Minutes Overtakes Swiggy Instamart in Dark Stores Across Top 10 Cities
Flipkart Minutes has surpassed Swiggy Instamart in dark-store count across India's top 10 cities, narrowing the gap in the highly competitive quick-commerce market.
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World Bank Raises India's Growth Forecast From 6.3% to 6.6% for Current Financial Year
The World Bank has upwardly revised India's growth projection to 6.6% for FY2026-27, driven by strong domestic consumption and export resilience, while cautioning against global energy risks.
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Abramovich’s Frozen Chelsea Sale Cash Has Earned at Least £175 Million. The £2.5 Billion Question Is Where It Goes
The frozen proceeds from Chelsea’s 2022 sale have generated at least £175 million in interest, pushing the fund toward £2.5 billion while legal disputes delay its humanitarian use.
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Thomson Reuters Acquires World Business Media to Expand Professional News Division
Thomson Reuters has acquired London-based World Business Media, publisher of The Insurer, to expand into insurance and reinsurance trade media. Deal terms undisclosed.
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Fed Rate Hike Odds Rise as Oil Shock Reshapes Inflation Outlook
The Fed's September 16 decision is on a knife-edge as an oil-driven energy shock lifts inflation. Latest CPI, jobs data, Fed comments and market pricing explained.
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Gujarat as "The Next China": A Strategic Business Case for Manufacturing Diversification
Gujarat has become India’s strongest manufacturing state, with scale in exports, autos, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and new semiconductor investment. But the data shows why calling it the next China is still premature.
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Samsung Found a Real Tim Cook in New Zealand and Used Him to Troll Apple’s First Foldable iPhone
Samsung New Zealand found a real Palmerston North resident named Tim Cook and used the coincidence to turn Apple’s iPhone Duo launch into a viral Galaxy Z Fold8 marketing stunt.
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JLR’s 4,000 Job Cuts Are About More Than Payroll. Britain’s Auto Supply Chain Is the Bigger Risk
Jaguar Land Rover is cutting around 4,000 roles while targeting £1.7 billion of savings, but the bigger financial risk may sit across Britain’s supplier network.
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China’s EV Makers Are Betting Their Next Growth Story on Humanoid Robots
China’s EV makers are pushing into humanoid robotics as auto margins compress, betting that motors, chips, batteries, factories and autonomous-driving software can create a second growth curve.
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FirstClub Is Betting India’s Quick-Commerce Race Needs More Than Speed
FirstClub is taking a different route in India’s quick-commerce race: curated groceries, graded produce and ingredient screening, delivered quickly but without making 10-minute speed the entire product.
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Birla Shook Up Paints. Now India’s Wires and Cables Industry Is Feeling the Same Threat
After Birla Opus captured meaningful paint market share, Aditya Birla Group has entered India’s ₹1 lakh crore wires and cables market with Ultravolt. The real threat to Polycab, KEI and peers is not instant…
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India’s Startup Tax Paradox: Founders Are Told to Build, Then Navigate a System Built for Mature Companies
India has more than 207,000 recognised startups, but founders still navigate a tax architecture split across profit tax, ESOPs, GST, TDS and liquidity events. The problem is not one giant tax rate. It is…
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Adani Airports Raises ₹9,825 Crore at $18 Billion Valuation: The Financial Reality Behind the Deal
Adani Airport Holdings is raising ₹9,825 crore from Alpha Wave, Premji Invest, Temasek and BlackRock-managed funds at an $18 billion pre-money valuation. Here is the financial logic, leverage and growth story behind the deal.
Business
The $55 Million Watch Myth: What the World’s Most Expensive Watches Really Reveal About Luxury Business
From Graff’s $55 million headline valuation to Patek Philippe and F.P. Journe auction records, the real business of ultra-expensive watches is scarcity, provenance, liquidity and brand power.
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Crunchbase’s $50 Million Revenue Engine: The Financial Case for Private-Market Data in the AI Era
A financial analysis of Crunchbase’s reported revenue mix, funding history, data-licensing economics, AI strategy and the valuation scenarios that could define its next stage.
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Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Compute Financing Plan: How Wall Street Is Turning GPUs Into Infrastructure
Nvidia and six Wall Street giants want to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI compute. The real story is how GPUs, usage contracts and AI factories could become a new infrastructure asset class.
Business
LNG Prices Surge to Multiyear Highs as West Asia War Squeezes Supplies
Renewed US-Iran hostilities and a largely stalled Strait of Hormuz have pushed Asian and European gas benchmarks to their highest levels in nearly four years.
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Oil Prices Climb as Global Markets Turn Nervous
Global oil prices have surged to their highest levels in months, driven by renewed conflict between the U.S. and Iran, rattling equity markets and bond yields.
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Tata Motors Launches €14.10 All-Cash Tender Offer for Iveco Group; Acceptance Opens September 7
Consob-approved offer marks the shareholder-acceptance phase of Tata Motors' bid to build a larger, globally competitive commercial-vehicle group.
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Pine Labs: Business, History, Revenue, IPO and Technology Explained
A verified 2026 analysis of Pine Labs covering its business model, POS and UPI payments, revenue, financials, IPO, ownership, technology and future growth.
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Reliance Enters Ice Cream Market With Bombay Creamery, Prices Starting at ₹10
Reliance Consumer Products has launched Bombay Creamery, an ice cream brand priced from ₹10, entering a competitive market against Amul, Mother Dairy and Kwality Wall's.
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GoPro Agrees to $285 Million Starman Optical Merger, Pivots Toward AI Infrastructure and Defense
GoPro has agreed to a $285 million merger with Starman Optical, a move that will recapitalize the struggling camera maker and push it into AI data-center infrastructure.
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Festive Hiring Push Accelerates as E-Commerce, Quick Commerce and Logistics Expand Beyond Metros
E-commerce, quick-commerce, and logistics companies are expanding their seasonal workforces as the festive shopping cycle becomes longer and increasingly dependent on rapid fulfilment.
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Global Stocks Struggle as Iran Fighting Fuels Inflation Fears and Bond Yields Surge
Renewed U.S.-Iran fighting is driving oil volatility, inflation fears and higher global bond yields, putting pressure on stocks and borrowing costs worldwide.
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India's Auto-Component Makers Face Growing Competition for Talent and Raw Materials
A joint ACMA-BCG report says India's auto-component makers face rising competition for skilled workers and raw materials from data centres and renewables, even as the industry eyes $200 billion by FY30.
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Tata Motors Gains PV Share as Non-EV Sales Rise and Electric Vehicles Rebound
Tata Motors became India’s biggest passenger vehicle market-share gainer in January-August 2026 as petrol, diesel and CNG registrations increased alongside a strong EV recovery.
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Green SM Leases 1,050 EV Parking Bays in Greater Noida for ₹15.5 Crore
Green SM has leased 1,050 basement EV parking bays and space for five charging stations in Greater Noida's Golden Grande to support its all-electric taxi fleet in Delhi-NCR.
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Shein Shares Fall in Long-Awaited Hong Kong Stock Market Debut
Shein shares dropped as much as 10% on their Hong Kong debut, valuing the fast-fashion giant at about $26 billion, far below its 2022 peak.
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Oil Crosses $91 as Renewed US-Iran Violence Shakes Global Markets
Brent crude topped $91 a barrel as renewed military strikes between the United States and Iran near the Strait of Hormuz revived fears of a wider energy supply disruption.
Business
AI and Robotics Fuel China's 2026 IPO Boom as Tech Companies Rush to Market
Hong Kong and Shanghai IPO proceeds have topped $54 billion in 2026, driven by AI, semiconductor, and robotics listings, though post-IPO volatility highlights growing risks for investors.
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Russia Extends Diesel Export Ban Until September 30 Amid Domestic Fuel Supply Concerns
Russia has extended its ban on diesel exports by producers until September 30, citing the need to stabilize domestic fuel supplies amid refinery outages and seasonal demand.
Business
NCLT Approves Subhash Chandra's ₹6.5 Crore Repayment Plan Against ₹22,006 Crore in Claims
Subhash Chandra will pay creditors ₹6.5 crore against ₹22,006 crore in admitted claims under an NCLT-approved personal insolvency plan, representing a 99.97% haircut for lenders.
Business
Before the Health Inspector Walks In: How Restaurants Audit Their Own Kitchens
Learn how restaurants run daily food-safety audits, from temperature control to allergen management, and why consistency matters more than inspection-day prep.
Business
PNGRB, EESL Sign Pact to Build Nationwide Smart PNG Metering Framework
PNGRB and EESL have signed a memorandum of understanding to aggregate demand and create a nationwide procurement and implementation framework for smart domestic PNG meters.
Business
Nvidia Forecasts Continued Rapid Growth as AI Spending Boom Accelerates
Nvidia reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year earlier, and projected approximately 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.
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Karnataka Cracks Down on Online Datura Sales, Suspends E-Commerce Food Licences
Karnataka has suspended food licences linked to Amazon, Swiggy Instamart and BigBasket over listings of toxic Datura fruits and seeds.
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Mahindra Last Mile Evaluates Near-Doubling of Capacity Ahead of Proposed IPO
Mahindra Last Mile is evaluating a near-doubling of its manufacturing capacity and a possible new plant as rising demand for electric commercial vehicles precedes a proposed IPO.
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TCS to Acquire Porsche’s MHP at €320 Million Enterprise Value, Signs €1.25 Billion Five-Year Deal
Tata Consultancy Services will acquire Porsche’s management and technology consultancy MHP for an enterprise value of €320 million, and has signed a separate €1.25 billion five-year strategic AI deal.
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Pre-Engineered Buildings in India: Cost, Design, Market Growth and Construction Guide
A detailed 2026 guide to pre-engineered buildings in India, covering PEB design, components, construction stages, costs, standards, applications, market growth and procurement.
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Dhoot Transmission Bets on EV Shift Ahead of IPO
Dhoot Transmission completed its ₹3,066.89 crore IPO with strong listing gains, positioning itself as a dominant supplier of wiring harnesses and electronic components for India's booming EV sector.
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Wipro Consumer Care to Buy Dermatouch for Enterprise Value of ₹387.5 Crore
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting marks its entry into India's premium digital-first skincare segment by acquiring a 60% stake in Dermatouch.
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Cement Firms Post Strong Q1 Volumes, But Fuel and Input Costs Keep Squeezing Margins
Despite strong volume growth and modest price hikes, Indian cement companies face shrinking profit margins in Q1 FY27 due to a sharp spike in geopolitics-driven fuel and input costs.
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Tata Motors PV Profit Sinks 80% in Q1 as JLR Stumbles and Costs Bite at Home
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles reported an 80% plunge in Q1 FY27 net profit due to JLR supply disruptions and rising commodity costs, despite strong domestic sales.
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Hero MotoCorp's Volume Engine Is Roaring, But Rising Metal Costs Are Eating Into Profits
Hero MotoCorp delivered a stellar 23% volume growth and 36% revenue increase in Q1 FY27, but rising commodity and metal costs are creating margin pressures for the two-wheeler giant.
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Only 4 Cases of Fuel Contamination Found in Daily Testing of 2,000 Samples, Says Oil Minister Hardeep Puri
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri addresses concerns over India's E20 ethanol-blended petrol, revealing only four confirmed contamination cases amid intense daily testing.
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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow - And Even Hire More Workers
The fear that AI shrinks small business payrolls doesn't hold up against the newest data. A study of more than 21,000 U.S. firms, fresh Congressional testimony, and the latest Chamber of Commerce survey all…
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Why India's SaaS Sector Has Something to Learn From Leah Tharin's Product-Led Growth Playbook
As generative AI compresses the cost of writing software, India's SaaS companies are increasingly being judged on revenue architecture rather than release velocity. A widely cited Product-Led Growth framework - and India's own SaaS…
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Taasha Craft: The Kosamba Village Bangle Brand That Landed a ₹75 Lakh Shark Tank India Deal
Four women from a small village in Valsad district turned a lockdown hobby into a ₹15 crore-valued bangle brand supporting 140-plus local artisans - and walked away from Shark Tank India with a joint…
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Unlocking B2B SaaS Scale: The Financial Impact of Product-Led Growth and Leah Tharin's Blueprint
An in-depth analysis of B2B SaaS revenue models, the financial viability of self-serve software, and the exact Product-Led Growth frameworks used by Leah Tharin.
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Frebulous: Building the 'Zomato-Like' Digital Infrastructure for India's Laundry Industry
Frebulous is bringing the Zomato model to India's laundry industry. Discover how founders Mihir Modhiya and Umesh Vadhel are digitizing the hyperlocal garment care ecosystem.
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TCS Nashik Crisis 2026: Corporate Governance Risk, Operational Failures, IT Sector Reputation Impact, and Regulatory Implications
In-depth analysis of TCS Nashik crisis 2026: corporate governance failures, operational risk escalation, India IT sector reputation impact, regulatory scrutiny, shareholder implications, sector-wide governance frameworks, and implications for India's $200B+ IT industry credibility and…
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Federal Reserve's Michael Barr Warns Private Credit Stress Could Trigger 'Psychological Contagion'
An in-depth analysis of Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr's warning regarding psychological contagion and systemic risks within the $1.7 trillion private credit market.