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Adani Ports Crosses 500 MMT as India's Logistics Sector Splits Between Port Winners and Rail Challengers

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- The cargo counter at Mundra Port ticked past 500 million metric tonnes on an annualised basis in the April-June quarter of FY27, and Adani Ports & SEZ did not celebrate quietly. ... Read More


Asian Paints Faces Its First Real Challenger as Birla Opus Forces a Q1 FY27 Reckoning

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- For the first time in a decade, Asian Paints entered a quarter genuinely uncertain about its own market share. Birla Opus, Grasim Industries' Rs 10,000-crore paints bet, captured... Read More


UPL Returns to Profit as India's Specialty Chemicals Sector Stages Q1 FY27 Recovery

NEW DELHI, Aug. 27 -- India's specialty chemicals sector spent two years absorbing a price rout that few companies forecast and none could fully hedge. In Q1 FY27, the first signs of a structural reco... Read More


Indian Hotels Posts Record Revenue as India's Hospitality Boom Reaches Tier 2 Cities

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- The summer quarter confirmed what India's hotel industry has been signalling for two years: the domestic tourism cycle is not normalising back to pre-pandemic levels - it is buil... Read More


IndiGo's Profit Nearly Doubles as India's Aviation Boom Concentrates in One Cockpit

NEW DELHI, Aug. 27 -- Three months after the summer travel season peaked, India's aviation industry delivered a record and a warning in the same quarter. IndiGo, the country's dominant carrier, report... Read More


Bajaj Finance's Profit Growth Halved as India's NBFC Sector Splits on Secured vs Unsecured Lines

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- The first thing Bajaj Finance's Q1 FY27 numbers tell you is how good last year was. Net profit rose 14% to Rs 4,376 crore for the April-to-June quarter, an outcome that in most i... Read More


UltraTech Hits 200 MTPA as India's Cement Price Rout Erases Its Scale Advantage

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- India's largest cement manufacturer crossed a milestone it had been building toward for three years in Q1 FY27: UltraTech Cement's installed capacity reached 200 million tonnes p... Read More


ONGC Posts Highest-Ever Quarterly Profit as $100 Crude Splits India's Oil Sector in Two

MUMBAI, Aug. 27 -- One figure captures what the April-to-June quarter did to India's oil industry: Rs 17,034 crore in profit at one end of the supply chain, Rs 3,962 crore in loss at the other, separa... Read More


RBI's new framework to ease loan comparisons: How will transparency benefit borrowers?

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed clearer rules for banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) on loan spreads and annual percentage rates (APR) to enhance tran... Read More


Journalist Sunday Isuwa to launch book on digital transformation of Nigerian newspapers

Nigeria, Aug. 27 -- Sunday Isuwa, Group News Editor of LEADERSHIP Newspaper, is set to launch a book examining the transformation of Nigeria's newspaper industry in the digital era. The book, Digital... Read More