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India’s residential real estate market moved into a phase of normalisation in 2025, with housing sales moderating from elevated levels even as prices stayed firm, reflecting a more disciplined and resilient market structure, according to a report by digital real estate transaction and advisory platform PropTiger.Across the top eight cities, all-India residential sales declined 12%…
Healthcare emergencies have emerged as one of the leading reasons for personal loan borrowing in urban India, highlighting gaps in health insurance coverage and rising medical costs, according to a new consumer research report released by Paisabazaar.The study, titled The Personal Loan Story, found that 11% of personal loan borrowers nationwide took credit to meet…
OPT is being described in Washington as a loophole, not a ladder. For Indian families, the US degree has rarely been just a degree. It is a sequence you pay for and plan around: Admission, visa, internship, graduation, and then a post-study runway long enough to recover costs, build a résumé, and attempt the H-1B…
Why 80% of people feel unprepared for work in 2026 There is something quietly unsettling about the job market in 2026. It is not defined by mass layoffs or hiring freezes, but by a shared sense of uncertainty felt by both job seekers and employers. New LinkedIn research published on January 7, 2026, captures this…
India is expected to see a sharp surge in battery energy storage capacity this year, with additions likely to rise almost ten times to around 5 GWh in 2026 from 507 MWh in 2025, driven largely by a massive pipeline of projects now moving into the execution stage.According to a study released by the India…
Soaring global demand for semiconductors sent South Korea’s exports to their highest-ever level in 2025, official data showed Thursday, despite a year of trade turmoil sparked by US President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught.Total exports last year were valued at over $700 billion, according to data from Seoul’s industry ministry, up 3.8 percent from the previous…
India’s IT job market is growing again in 2025, but the recovery looks different from the one engineering students were expecting. (Image: AI generated) For students enrolled in India’s IT and computer engineering programmes, the last two years have been unsettling. Placements stalled. Offer letters were deferred. Friends with strong degrees sat idle, refreshing inboxes…
Investors, led largely by younger buyers, purchased an estimated 12 tonnes of digital gold during January–November this year, according to data compiled by the World Gold Council (WGC) even as demand slowed after a recent regulatory caution from Sebi.The estimate is based on data from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on UPI transactions…
MUMBAI: India’s digital payments surge is less uniform than headline numbers suggest. Adjusted for population, Maharashtra, the largest state economy, records almost seven times the per-capita UPI transactions of Bihar. Telangana, ranked second, posts more than six times the average of Tripura. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala sit well above the national mean, while Jharkhand,…
Left- AI generated reperesentative image; Right- Ruchir Sharma (File photo) The global economy has entered a phase where artificial intelligence has become the dominant force shaping growth, markets and policy, with the US now the most exposed to both its promise and its risks, according to economist and investor Ruchir Sharma.“This big factor has out-Trumped…
