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A new Bombay High Court bench will rehear Volkswagen’s challenge to a major customs demand. The procedural reset is not a merits ruling for either side.
Givaudan, Firmenich and IFF face a fresh antitrust investigation, according to a regulatory document seen by Reuters. Investigation is not a finding of cartel condu…
Debate over prominent health warnings has reached a high-stakes regulatory and legal stage. The policy question is whether labels help consumers act quickly without…
The Court disposed of a PIL by directing the Union to consider representations alleging unauthorised commercial access to protected employment and tax-linked data.
The Chinese robot maker surged after listing and then lost a large part of that gain. The episode exposes how strategic-sector excitement can outrun near-term earni…
The options market implies about a 5.4% move in Nvidia shares around earnings — a scale that can move the entire AI complex. It does not predict the direction.
July new-home sales fell to a 607,000 annualised pace while August consumer confidence slipped to a seven-month low. The data points to pressure, not yet recession…
Europe’s largest economy has now posted several quarters of expansion, but investment and domestic demand remain less convincing than the headline recovery.
Japan’s finance ministry is expected to budget for sharply higher interest and redemption costs next fiscal year as assumed borrowing rates rise.
The Court has directed all States to establish dedicated SITs to investigate suspected fraudulent motor-accident compensation claims and has brought key Union insti…
India’s downstream regulator has approved about 1,800 km of new LPG pipeline infrastructure across six states, with reported investment of roughly ₹7,000 crore. The…
Sinopec processed less crude but earned dramatically more from refining in the first half of 2026. The result shows why crude prices, product cracks, sourcing flexi…
CCSH, parent of Chinese NAND producer YMTC, is seeking 33 billion yuan in a STAR Market IPO after an AI-driven memory upswing transformed earnings. The listing test…
A Guangzhou court has accepted a bankruptcy liquidation case against Hengda Real Estate, Evergrande’s mainland property unit. The legal milestone matters for credit…
DHS/USCIS has filed a formal proposed rule for a $103,265 fee on cap-subject H-1B petitions, including the advanced-degree exemption. It is not yet a final fee; the…
Shein is offering 280 million shares and seeking up to HK$13.86 billion, valuing the fast-fashion group at roughly $27 billion—about 70% below its near-$100 billion…
Rainfall is already 13% below normal and senior weather-department sources told Reuters the full June–September season could finish about 15% below average. The next transmission test is crops → food prices → rural demand → RBI, not the rainfall headline alone.
RBI’s August 6 draft would limit most NBFC credit products to term loans and prohibit revolving-credit products, while exempting NBFCs authorised to issue credit cards. Industry estimates say established affected products exceed ₹2 lakh crore of AUM. Comments close August 28 — but this is still a draft, not an operative ban.
The nine-judge ruling in State of U.P. v. Jai Bir Singh changes the analytical framework under the repealed Industrial Disputes Act prospectively, while protecting…
CBDT’s publicly reported verification drive covers 394 entities, while separate financial-media datasets report 6,422 entities linked to ₹1.29 lakh crore of oversea…
The government has now notified the rule change that removes the long-standing 12-minute-per-hour television advertising cap. The business impact is subtler than ‘c…
Canada says it will retaliate across U.S. sectors after new 50% U.S. tariffs hit roughly $20 billion of Canadian exports. This is no longer a narrow tariff spat: it…
U.S. gross federal debt has passed $40 trillion, including about $32.3 trillion held by the public and $7.8 trillion in intragovernmental holdings. The useful inves…
The 2,758-TEU PanStar Acro left Busan on South Korea’s first container-vessel trial of the Northeast/Northern Sea Route. The voyage could shorten Asia–Europe distan…
Indian lenders have tapped global debt markets aggressively after the RBI swap concession. Tight spreads and heavy demand are positives; the durable question is whe…
The law creates an enabling framework; it does not impose a new UPI fee on consumers. If merchant MDR is introduced later, the government says it would apply only t…
India has directed Google to disable hundreds of Firebase resources used in scams impersonating banks and government schemes. The defensive lesson is uncomfortable:…
India’s largest airline restored booking services after intermittent disruption affected its website and app. At a 67% domestic market share, even a short digital f…
Washington plans another sanctions escalation against Iran while commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains far below normal. For India, the immediate…
AI-related hyperscalers have issued roughly $220 billion of debt in 2026, compared with $12.5 billion at the same point last year. The boom is funding data centres…
The parent of NAND maker YMTC plans one of the STAR Market’s largest listings, implying a valuation of roughly $41–$49 billion. The IPO is a test of how public mark…
The coming week combines Nvidia earnings, U.S. inflation data, a Fed leadership spotlight at Jackson Hole and a live Middle East energy shock. For India, the common…
Official RBI data show $72.848 billion of inflows through FCNR(B), overseas bank borrowings and ECBs by August 21. The scale is striking; the more important question is how these dollars affect reserves, bank funding, liquidity and future swap obligations.
Rule changes reduced participation and aggregate losses, yet nearly seven in eight individual traders still ended FY26 with net losses. Options remain the centre of…
Services improved and overall employment accelerated, while manufacturing output and new orders weakened. The mixed survey points to expansion without the exception…
The May reform allows certain non-controlling stakes up to 10% through the automatic route, subject to sector rules. Early investments span AI, manufacturing, pharm…
India’s reserves have risen by roughly $50 billion in seven weeks, yet the rupee remains around 95.69/$ as oil stays expensive. The apparent contradiction reveals how swap inflows, intervention and the forward book work together.
The zero-duty raw-sugar quota runs through October 31 after domestic prices rose nearly 40% in two months. Timing, refinery capacity and shipment lead times will de…
The FTP amendment reduces a practical gap between rupee settlement and export-policy benefits. The reform is meaningful for invoicing and compliance, but it does no…
Cement, electricity, coal and iron ore were strong, while crude oil, fertiliser and gas contracted. The new 2022-23 base makes sector composition as important as th…
