Shrikant Rao A few months ago, in April, standing on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower for the ninth time in my journalistic career, looking out over the grey slate roofs of Paris and the rise of Montmartre in the distance, I felt a familiar tug of history. But this time, the emotion wasn’t…
New Delhi: Vedanta Ltd on Friday said it has been declared the successful bidder for the Punnam manganese block in Andhra Pradesh. Spread over 152 hectares, the block is currently at the G4 stage of exploration, which is the initial phase of mineral exploration focusing on broad-scale geological surveys to identify potential minerals. “The company…
Greetings to the Orangenews9 Team and its readers. Responding to the Editor’s appeal, I chose to write about how India’s financial architecture has evolved during the last eighty years of Independence. The story of post-Independence India’s financial architecture is a remarkable chronicle of reinvention. Over nearly eight decades, the nation has moved from a rigid,…
New Delhi: Retail inflation inched up to 4.45 per cent in July on expensive kitchen staples, including onion and ginger, even as the price rise remained above the Reserve Bank’s median target for the second consecutive month, according to government data. The consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation was 4.38 per cent in June….
New Delhi: Tata Group stocks fell on Wednesday, with TCS dropping nearly 6 per cent, after Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said he will not seek reappointment when his current term ends on February 20, 2027. Shares of Tata Consultancy Services tanked 5.70 per cent, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles tumbled 4.11 per cent, Tata Consumer…
New Delhi: Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said he will not seek reappointment when his current term ends on February 20, 2027, ending months of uncertainty over the leadership of the Tata Group’s holding company. Chandrasekaran said the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust – majority shareholders in Tata Sons…
Washington: A US judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after the Justice Department said it had decided to abandon the fraud and bribery case. The Brooklyn-based district judge Nicholas Garaufis’s decision to grant federal prosecutors’ rare attempt to toss the case came after he inquired into their reasons for doing…
New Delhi: Parliament on Monday passed the Taxation and other Laws (Amendment) Bill, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman making clear that the legislation does not impose any tax on UPI and the digital payment system will remain free for consumers. The Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha last week, was returned by the…
In 1973, psychologist Paul Slovic ran an experiment on eight professional horse race handicappers that has become a fixture in behavioural finance research. The design was simple. The implications for anyone who equates more research with better decisions are not. The Setup Slovic worked with men who handicapped races for a living, not casual bettors….
Shrikant Rao Wabtec has just given investors another reason to look closely at the company, with second-quarter 2026 sales rising 17.5 percent to $3.18 billion, adjusted earnings per share increasing 21.6 percent to $2.76 and the multi-year backlog reaching $30.93 billion. Management has also raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $12.30–12.60 billion and adjusted…
