Acer expands business amidst dynamic global and local scenario: Sudhir Goel, Chief Business Officer Acer India
Business Lineby Vallari Sanzgiri·26 Aug 2026
Eager to expand its portfolio in the face of changing macroeconomic conditions and a disruptive supply chain in the AI age, Acer India has resolved to go beyond its laptop and large appliances...
Promoters cash in on rally, offload shares worth ₹13,000 crore in August block deals
Business Lineby Anupama Ghosh·26 Aug 2026
Promoters have been taking advantage of the recent market rally to offload shares through bulk and block deals, with August shaping up as one of the more active months for such transactions.
India Inc turns to M&As as stronger balance sheets fuel growth push
Business Lineby BL Mumbai Bureau·26 Aug 2026
India Inc is increasingly turning to mergers and acquisitions to drive growth, with deal volumes more than doubling since FY17 as companies use acquisitions to build scale, enter new markets and...
Global palm oil prices seen surging on narrow production surplus
Business Lineby Subramani Ra Mancombu·26 Aug 2026
Tightening near-term balance and a narrowing production surplus in the 2026-27 season starting in November will likely lift global palm oil prices, analysts said.
Families getting free foodgrains in Gujarat triple in 4 years
Business Lineby Avinash Nair·26 Aug 2026
Gujarat may be among the top three states in India in terms of per capita income, but figures released by the state government on Wednesday show that the number of families receiving free...
FSSAI issues notices to Delhi’s Andaz, JW Marriott over serious food safety violations
Business Lineby Meenakshi Verma Ambwani; Aneesh Phadnis·26 Aug 2026
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has slapped notices on two Delhi-based hotels, Andaz and JW Marriott after serious regulatory violations were uncovered during inspections...
Spacetech startup InspeCity raises ₹100 crore in pre-Series A round
Business Lineby BL Bengaluru Bureau·26 Aug 2026
Spacetech startup InspeCity has raised ₹100 crore, approximately $10.5 million, in its pre-Series A round led by Speciale Invest and Ashish Kacholia, with participation from Antler Elevate, Antler...
Letters to the Editor dated August 26, 2026
Business Line·26 Aug 2026
Unfair to bank customers This refers to the timely Editorial ‘Unkind cut’ (August 26). While agreeing with the Editorial that the proposed bank levy on cash withdrawals is unfair, PSBs like SBI by...
AI talent penetration in retail GCCs doubles to 4.8%, with just 320 senior AI professionals: TeamLease Digital
Business Lineby BL Bengaluru Bureau·26 Aug 2026
TeamLease Digital has announced new findings on the state of AI talent within India’s Retail and Consumer Global Capability Centres (GCCs).
Jio Financial Services to roll out “a personal CFO for every Indian” on its app
Business Lineby BL Mumbai Bureau·26 Aug 2026
Jio Financial Services Ltd (JFSL) will roll out two new features on its JioFinance app -- a personal CFO for every Indian, which will offer advisory and actionable recommendations to users, and an...
Engineering exports sustain 18% growth in July, but West Asia risks mount
Business Lineby Our Bureau·26 Aug 2026
India’s engineering goods exports grew 18 per cent year-on-year to $12.24 billion in July 2026, extending a strong run in the first four months of the financial year despite geopolitical tensions...
Editorial. Sugar trail
Business Line·26 Aug 2026
The Centre’s decision to allow duty-free imports of 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar for the first time in over a decade has raked up a fresh controversy over ethanol blending.
Safeguarding small sellers in the e-comm space
Business Lineby Ajay Sahai·26 Aug 2026
India’s experiment with cross-border e-commerce has reached an important stage. In my earlier article, ‘E-commerce warehouses, a bad idea’ (businessline, November 27, 2025), I had raised concerns...
What do we mean by forex reserves?
Business Lineby Madan Sabnavis·26 Aug 2026
In the light of the FCNR scheme being introduced to attract dollars, a question raised is whether these funds would be used to shore up reserves, or for intervention in the market to stabilise the...
Asymmetry between market access, market capability
Business Lineby Harsimran Sandhu·26 Aug 2026
Imagine two young Indian households, both channelling their savings into the equity markets to seek returns.
Mobile chargers for EVs
Business Lineby Milind Kumar Sharma; Lalit Jyani; Khushboo Shah·26 Aug 2026
India’s electric mobility market is growing rapidly, but the next phase of EV adoption will depend not only on the availability and price of electric vehicles but also on the confidence of...
India, China agree to advance boundary talks, strengthen LAC management
Business Lineby Amiti Sen·26 Aug 2026
India and China have agreed to advance negotiations on a framework for the settlement of their boundary dispute and strengthen mechanisms for managing the Line of Actual Control (LAC) while also...
India’s lower sugar quota for domestic sales failed to tame demand, says industry
Business Lineby Prabhudatta Mishra·26 Aug 2026
Even as speculation is blamed for the recent surge in retail sugar prices, which was Rs 47 per kg in May, the release of monthly quota by the government played a direct role in tightening supply...
Govt steps up on LPG-to-PNG conversion as West Asia conflict continues to choke supply chains
Business Lineby Rishi Ranjan Kala·26 Aug 2026
The Oil Ministry is pushing for converting as many domestic LPG consumers to piped natural gas (PNG) as the West Asia conflict continues to simmer, choking as much as half of India’s LPG...
Wagr now delivers fresh food for dogs on call
Business Lineby Suresh P Iyengar·26 Aug 2026
Shashikant Kulkarni, a retired school teacher, was a relieved man when his son from the US ordered a fresh non-veg meal for his pet dog in India.
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