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Festival cheer, tax cuts fuelled strong commercial vehicle recovery in Oct

India's commercial vehicle market logged its best post-pandemic retail growth in over two years as GST cuts, freight recovery, and festive buying lifted demand across segments

Novo Nordisk, Emcure Pharmaceuticals tie up to expand Wegovy's girth

2.4 mg injectable Poviztra to mark next phase of weight-loss rollout

Vodafone Idea Q2 loss narrows to ₹5,584 crore, Arpu rises to ₹180

Telco in talks with DoT for next steps after top court's AGR decision

India's population-adjusted road deaths at 30-year high, shows data

Road design, better enforcement of safety norms can limit fatalities

A lot is at stake in defeat: Odisha bypoll puts key parties to test

With top leaders campaigning, the contest carries weight ahead of 2027 panchayat polls

Bihar polls Phase-2: 37 million voters set to decide fate of candidates

Tejashwi Yadav slams EC for not releasing genderwise voter data after Phase-1 of elections

Varun Berry resigns as Britannia MD and CEO after 13 years at the helm

Britannia Industries vice-chairman and MD Varun Berry has stepped down after over a decade at the company. CFO N. Venkataraman will serve as interim CEO until successor Rakshit Hargave takes charge

Datanomics: 43% candidates in Phase-2 of Bihar polls are crorepatis

Ran Kaushal Pratap Singh of the Vikassheel Insaan Party tops the list with assets valued at Rs 368 crore

Life insurers' new business premium rises 12% in October on GST relief

Exemption in GST nudged individual premium growth, policy sales

BPM is not a low-margin business, says Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat

Aiman Ezzat talks about the WNS acquisition, why artificial intelligence (AI) is still not delivering meaningful value, and why India continues to see strong hiring momentum

Pent-up demand boosted retail health insurance segment in October

According to data released by the General Insurance Council, standalone health insurers (SAHI) reported 38.3 per cent Y-o-Y growth in premiums for October, reaching ₹3,738.34 crore

No consensus on CAFE relief, Siam tells Bureau of Energy Efficiency

Says 3-4 carmakers backed proposed exemption, 14-15 opposed

India's joblessness slowed to 5.2% in Q2 FY26, shows PLFS data

Unemployment rate in rural areas fell to 4.4%

Pre-Budget meetings with govt: Economists urge FM to push capex pedal

Some experts flagged that state governments' debt has become unsustainable

Goldman Sachs upgrades Indian stocks to 'overweight' on growth momentum

The global brokerage has set a 2026 year-end target of 29,000 for the benchmark index Nifty 50, implying a 14% upside from Friday's close

Bajaj Finance consolidated net profit up 23% to ₹4,948 crore in Q2

Bajaj Finance's standalone profit fell 24% to Rs 4,251 crore due to higher loan loss provisions and a high base last year, even as consolidated profit rose 23% on robust loan growth

Uttar Pradesh govt's growing microfinance kitty at ₹32,500 crore

In the quarter ending September 30, 2025, microfinance institutions (MFI) clocked a growth of almost 4 per cent, with quarterly lending at ₹7,258 crore

Festivals, GST rejig boost average credit card spending by 15%: RBI data

Credit card spending surged in September 2025 on strong festive demand and GST rationalisation, with private lenders such as HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank leading the growth in per-card spends

Centre monitoring US Supreme Court case against Donald Trump tariffs

Indian officials and experts are monitoring the US Supreme Court case challenging Donald Trump's tariff powers, assessing how the verdict may affect the proposed India-US trade agreement

Sustained growth acceleration holds key for Trent stock's recovery

Trent will tender around a 15 per cent stake in Inditex Trent Retail (Zara India) for ₹150 crore at ₹15,422 per share in a buyback