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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicIndian market

Topic: Indian market

60% Indians ready to spend this festive season, up from 30% at Covid 2nd wave peak: Survey

Survey by LocalCircles says the rise indicates the 'economic uncertainty that was prevailing in May at the peak of second Covid-19 wave has greatly reduced'.

Stock markets are soaring but so is grief — Indian traders grapple with surreal disconnect

Booming markets have left the industry swamped with work when employees have been sickened by Covid. Contrast of pandemic pain & financial-market euphoria has nowhere been so extreme.

UBS Group expects record IPO year for India despite surging Covid burden

Before the arrival of the second wave of Covid, India’s markets were full of optimism. So far in 2021, IPOs in India have raised nearly $3 billion, the best start to the year since 2018.

NSE halts trading in all segments due to telecom connection failure

The NSE has telecom links with two service providers and there were issues with both leading to impact on the NSE system. However, the trading at BSE was not impacted.

YouTube stars, broking apps lure pandemic-hit day traders in India into stock investing

A wave of YouTube influencers as well as a host of private stock-tipping social media chat groups have drawn millions of day traders into discount brokers.

How this quant mutual fund has given over double the returns of BSE Sensex this year

DSP Quant Fund has returned more than 19% in 2020, compared with a 9.3% gain in the S&P BSE Sensex Index, which surged to an all-time high on Friday.

Global funds are swooping in to invest in India’s stressed companies

Researchers calculate that funds have already pumped $1.5 billion in distressed assets in India this year, 55% more than through all of 2019.

This is India’s hottest internet company that’s behind Zomato, Naukri, Policybazaar & more

Founded in 1995, it was the first Internet-related company to list on Indian stock exchanges in November 2006. Currently, it has investments in at least 23 startups.

In biggest Indian property deal yet, Canada’s Brookfield to invest $2 bn in RMZ Corp assets

Canadian asset manager Brookfield is acquiring 12.5 million square feet of rent-yielding offices and co-working spaces from Indian developer RMZ Corp.

Don’t expect gains from NSE Nifty 50 stocks over the next year, Citi says

Citigroup Inc expects India’s economy to 'normalize' in the January-March quarter as the country gradually emerges from strict lockdown measures.

On Camera

Be soft, smile more, never text first—‘feminine energy’ is men’s new obsession

Uncertified dating gurus are teaching women to be suggestive, mysterious, and never loud. For some of us, this level of performance is simply unachievable. We might as well give up and become Brahma Kumaris.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.