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Monday, September 29, 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

Bodoland poll loss a wake-up call for Assam BJP. Zubeen’s death puts CM Sarma in a tight spot

Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Aerial warfare analyst Tom Cooper faults India’s military PR, says Pakistan does it better

In post on social media, Cooper narrated experience of MiG-21 researcher from Germany who wanted to attend aircraft’s farewell ceremony in India, and the roadblocks he faced. 

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.