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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicIndian market

Topic: Indian market

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.

Sensex drops for sixth straight day, plunges by 1,115 points

Barring Hindustan Unilever, all Sensex components ended in the red. Similarly, the NSE Nifty crashed 326.30 points or 2.93 per cent to close at 10,805.55.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.