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Nestle wants India to consult firms on front-of-pack food labelling rules

Nearly 80% of products made by India's more than $100 billion packaged food and beverages market could be regarded as high in fat, sugar and salt, according to industry estimates

India's nuclear ambitions may be blunted by limits on foreign reactor tech

India is counting on nearly $210 billion in investments that the industry expects to require to raise its nuclear power capacity almost tenfold to 100 gigawatts (GW) over the ‌next two decades

Coworking operators lease 191,000 seats across 8 cities in Jan-Jun: Report

Real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield noted that corporates are increasingly preferring to adopt flexible workspace solutions offered by the coworking operators

Homegrown direct-to-consumer companies raise $6 billion in five years

India's homegrown D2C startups raised nearly $6 billion across 2,000 equity funding rounds between 2021 and 2026 YTD, but funding has slowed sharply this year

JSW, SAIC discuss fresh capital as MG Motor plans its next growth phase

Shareholders discuss fresh funding as Parth Jindal says the Halol plant can scale to 400,000 units; carmaker targets 100,000 sales in CY26 and expands its new-energy vehicle play

Pests, poor sanitation: FSSAI notices to JW Marriott, Andaz, Juniper

The regulator flagged licensing and labelling lapses at JW Marriott and hygiene, pest-control and storage deficiencies at Andaz, operated by Juniper Hotels in Aerocity

GIVA withdraws rakshabandhan advertisement after backlash; stirs a debate

GIVA's withdrawal of its Kriti Sanon Raksha Bandhan ad highlights the tightrope brands walk between creative risk-taking and cultural sensitivities during festive campaigns

Danish maritime equipment firms eye India's upcoming shipbuilding clusters

Companies see opportunities in vessel equipment, propulsion, ship recycling and green fuels after India announced a ₹70,000 crore maritime support package and new clusters

Banks, NBFCs to reset partnership terms with fintech firms

RBI's draft data governance norms and DPDP rules are pushing banks and NBFCs to reassess fintech partnerships, contracts and third-party data risks

Blinkit expands beyond metros in India's quick-commerce market race

CLSA says Blinkit has the largest dark-store network in India's top cities and is the only major player expanding beyond them, positioning it to gain as adoption spreads

Premiumisation to drive 8-11% growth in home sales value in FY27: Icra

Sales value across the top seven cities is expected to reach ₹7.9 trillion in FY27 even as area sold grows only 2-5 per cent, as buyers shift towards premium homes

Meghalaya Assembly passes resolution against exploration, mining of uranium

The Meghalaya assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution against exploration and mining of uranium in the northeastern state.

August Energy, Energeia form $100 mn platform to decarbonise C&I facilities

The August Energeia platform will finance and manage energy-efficiency upgrades and renewable energy systems for commercial and industrial customers without upfront investment

M&A emerges as core growth strategy for India Inc as deals double: Crisil

Crisil said India Inc is increasingly turning to M&As for faster growth, with annual deal volumes more than doubling since FY17 as leverage and capex intensity decline

Octave Intelligence opens GCC in Hyderabad, plans workforce expansion

Octave Intelligence has inaugurated a 2-lakh-sq-ft technology centre in Hyderabad and plans to scale its workforce to 2,000 engineers across software, AI, data and cloud

India's merchant fleet to get 100 ships, but ageing fleet remains a hurdle

The move comes at a time when nearly half of India's registered vessels are more than 20 years old

PM Surya Ghar: Why govt is tightening tracking of solar generation data

The government has long required generation data from rooftop solar systems. A new MNRE order now tightens inverter-level reporting, requiring daily output data to be shared with the National Portal

Over 600,000 Indian travellers visited Singapore in first half of 2026

Indian visitors also topped spending, recording Singapore dollar 374 million in the first quarter of 2026, according to data

India's rice exports to 26 priority markets outpace 3-year average

Export value was 1.1 per cent above the average for the corresponding November-March period in the previous three years, while volume was 5.6 per cent higher

Which Indian manufacturing sectors are actually becoming self-reliant?

India is moving beyond assembly in several industries, yet gaps in critical components and upstream manufacturing continue to limit domestic value addition