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Industry Trends

Silver Price Outlook: White Metal Hits Fresh Global High; Can Rates Touch $100/oz Today?

Silver prices surged to record highs in international markets, with COMEX silver futures for March 2026 contract jumping above $94 per ounce

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Top stocks to buy or sell today: Stock market recommendations for January 20, 2026 - check list

Stock market recommendations: Somil Mehta of Mirae Asset Sharekhan recommends buying NTPC, and Mphasis, while Blue Star is a sell call. Let’s take a look:

Startup Funding

UPL subsidiary Advanta Enterprises files IPO papers with SEBI

The issue will be entirely an Offer-for-Sale (OFS) of 3.61 crore equity shares, with no fresh issue component. UPL will offer 2.8 crore shares for sale in the issue.

Startup Funding

2care.ai aims to transform chronic care management in India through WhatsApp

Healthtech startup 2care.ai combines WhatsApp and AI to simplify cancer care, organising health data, tracking treatment, and supporting patients between appointments.

Industry Trends

Why India’s IT slowdown is proving hard to shake

Strong December-quarter results have lifted sentiment, but slowing full-year growth, weak demand visibility and cautious guidance suggest India’s top IT firms are yet to beat the slowdown.

Startup Funding

Lab-to-fab in weeks: Why Fundamentum led Whizzo's $15 million raise

Whizzo was founded in 2024 by Shrestha Kukreja, a former Zetwerk executive who now serves as chief executive. The startup had earlier raised $4.2 million in seed funding in January 2025.

Startup Funding

Whizzo raises $15M in Series A round led by Fundamentum to deepen R&D

Whizzo will use the capital to expand its science and engineering teams, invest in fundamental research, and deepen its manufacturing partnerships as it scales its technical textiles platform globally.

Industry Trends

Far from crash, talk on AI ‘just getting started’ in India: Netweb CMD

Netweb Technologies earned ₹450 crore from a government contract last quarter. CMD Sanjay Lodha believes demand for sovereign AI will sustain for five years. While investors are largely bullish, concerns remain around flat margins and Netweb's sole focus on AI.

Layoffs / Restructuring

Wipro down 8%; Reliance and ICICI Bank top drags

Industry Trends

Young workers most worried about AI affecting jobs, Randstad survey shows

Young workers most worried about AI affecting jobs, Randstad sur:Young workers most worried about AI affecting jobs, Randstad survey shows

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TCS incorporates regional HQ in Saudi Arabia

Tata Consultancy Services Netherlands B.V. is the holding Company of the Tata Consultancy Services Regional Headquarters, which is a step-down subsidiary of TCS

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Government removes QCO on textile machinery imports

Now the government has removed the quality control order on all machinery and the textile industry will be able to import quality machinery required

Industry Trends

Korea Kicks Off AI Squid Game in Bid to Compete with US, China

The state-backed survival contest aims to find the best indigenous AI models.

Startup Funding

Shadowfax raises Rs 856cr from anchors

Industry Trends

Ceat gains traction in Europe: CEO

Layoffs / Restructuring

Ola Electric CFO exits, co names successor

Industry Trends

BHEL reports 3-fold jump in net profit to ₹390 crore in Q3

BHEL's total income rose 18% to ₹8,691.85 crore during the third quarter from ₹7,385 crore in the year-ago period

Startup Funding

TVS Infrastructure Trust raises ₹830 crore under first tranche of ₹1,100-crore NCD programme

The company, in a statement, said the funds were raised through a 20-year, long-tenor bond issuance, anchored by the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development

Startup Funding

Another Rs 10.5k cr on table, Ikea to boost store count

Startup Funding

Wealth-tech startup AssetPlus raises '175cr

Industry Trends

CEO revenue confidence hits 5-year low - PwC survey

DAVOS-MEETING/CEO-SURVEY:CEO revenue confidence hits 5-year low - PwC survey

Government Jobs

RBI revises priority sector norms to include NCDC

The RBI has revised priority sector lending norms, now allowing loans to the National Cooperative Development Corporation to qualify. This aims to expand credit for cooperative societies, especially in agriculture, while simultaneously tightening compliance to prevent double counting of benefits.

Hiring News

Wanted: Fresh graduates with AI, data skills

Tech firms are shifting from volume hiring to skills-led recruitment, narrowing fresher intake to specialized roles. Companies are offering significantly higher packages, ranging from Rs 16 lakh to Rs 55 lakh, for niche positions in AI, data engineering, and cybersecurity, reflecting a growing demand for specialized talent.