Parijat Garg

When a factory stops, rating agencies notice quickly. Infomerics has cut Som Distilleries & Breweries' long-term rating to BB+ from BBB, and its short-term rating to A4+ from A3+. The trigger is a temporary suspension of the company's manufacturing licence by the excise department. #SomDistilleries #CreditRating #Stocks #India #Business #Markets

The person taking over as chief executive already worked here once before. Prabha Narasimhan leaves Colgate-Palmolive India on 27 September 2026, promoted to an Asia-Pacific marketing role at the parent company. Manish Anandani succeeds her, returning after six years at Kenvue, subject to shareholder approval. #Colgate #FMCG #Leadership #Stocks #India #Business

The length of a dry dock decides what a country can build. GRSE and Yantra India have begun five expansion projects worth about Rs 3,500 crore, across Raichak, Ishapore, Shalimar and Kidderpore. Raichak alone takes Rs 2,500 crore and will handle warships up to 200 metres long. #GRSE #Defence #Shipbuilding #MakeInIndia #India #Business

The people who lived through 2008 tend to phrase things carefully. Lloyd Blankfein, former chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has said every exposure should have a limit. He points back to the Titanic and to AAA mortgage bonds, and says he worries about the market's appetite for the AI revenue story. #AI #Markets #Investing #Finance #Economy #Business

Twenty Indian companies now build things that leave the atmosphere. The Prime Minister met the founders of 20 space startups working on rockets, satellites, propulsion, debris removal and weather intelligence. He asked them to work with schools and with other industries so the technology reaches everyday life. #SpaceTech #Startups #ISRO #Innovation #India #Business

A kilo of sugar costs about Rs 7 more than it did a month ago. Sugar moved from Rs 48.18 a kg on 20 July to Rs 55.70 on 20 August, after the crop came in at 306 lakh tonnes against an early estimate of 343. Exports are barred until 30 September, dealers are capped at 400 tonnes of stock, and 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar may now be imported duty-free until 31 October. #Sugar #Commodities #India #Economy #Inflation #Business

YES Bank told its shareholders it hit the profit mark it had set for itself. It earned 1% on its assets in the final quarter of the year. Bad loans are down to 1.3% of its lending, and it opened 82 new branches. Nearly one in every three digital payments in India passes through it. #YESBank #FY26 #StockMarketIndia #Banking #DigitalPayments #Investing

NVIDIA has put its name behind a lease it is not the tenant of. OpenAI will use the Ohio site, and NVIDIA pays only if OpenAI stops paying. The most it could ever owe under that promise is 105 billion dollars. The site is due to switch on in 2028 and the promise runs for 20 years. #NVIDIA #OpenAI #DataCentres #AIInfrastructure #TechNews #Investing

For six months, no silver came into India through its bullion exchange. This month, 89.81 tonnes did. The import tax had gone from 6% to 15%, and licences became compulsory. India buys more than 80% of the silver it uses from abroad. #Silver #August2026 #Commodities #Bullion #ImportRules #Investing

Since 15 August, someone in Qatar can walk into a post office and send money to a UPI ID in India. Qatar Post hands it to India Post, and it lands in the receiver's linked bank account. The smallest transfer is QAR 10, the largest QAR 4,000, and the fee is a flat QAR 15. India already receives more money from abroad than any other country in the world. #UPI #Qatar #Remittances #IndiaPost #DigitalPayments #IndianEconomy

Announcing an industrial park is easy. Getting a factory to actually run on it is not. 469 plots of land have been handed over across 7 corridors and 13 states. 95 of those units are still being built. 134 are already producing. Dholera, Shendra-Bidkin, Greater Noida and Vikram Udyogpuri are the four smart cities already at that stage. #IndustrialCorridors #Infrastructure #Manufacturing #IndianEconomy #LandAndFactories #Investing

SKF India's factories are running at 93 percent of what they can handle. Sales were 27 percent higher than the same quarter a year earlier. It plans to spend 500 crore rupees on new plants by 2028. The new production lines are only due to start in early 2027. #SKFIndia #Q1FY27 #AutoComponents #StockMarketIndia #Manufacturing #Investing

India is putting 20 critical mineral blocks up for auction. Graphite, rare earths, gallium, tungsten, titanium and potash. These are the rocks behind magnets, batteries, chips and defence gear. A government trust pays back part of the cost of even looking for them. #CriticalMinerals #August2026 #IndiaMining #Mining #EnergyTransition #Investing

Roblox pulled in 36% more revenue than a year ago. But the money players actually spent inside its games grew only 8%. More than 120 million people opened it every single day, for 29 billion hours. A crowd that keeps growing, and a till that grew a lot slower. #Roblox #Q22026 #Gaming #GlobalMarkets #Monetisation #Investing

3M India Limited just posted its largest sales quarter on record. Revenue reached ₹1,423.21 Cr, up 19% from the same months last year. But profit on every ₹100 of sales slipped from ₹18.40 to ₹16.70. And ₹73.13 Cr of the quarter's profit came from selling a piece of land. #3MIndia #Q1FY27 #StockMarketIndia #Manufacturing #QuarterlyResults #Investing

Shriram Properties opened FY27 with its best first quarter of sales yet. Sales value reached ₹484 crore, helped by new launches in Chennai and Kolkata. Management expects a PBT margin of 8 to 9% this year, with most handovers falling in the second half. Around 90 to 100 acres of Kolkata land are still to be monetised. #ShriramProperties #Q1FY27 #RealEstate #StockMarketIndia #Housing #Investing

Jubilant FoodWorks now calls Popeyes its second growth engine. Popeyes like-for-like growth ran at about 45% in the quarter. Domino's stayed inside the 5 to 7% like-for-like band management has held to for years. Separate Popeyes numbers start once the chain crosses 100 stores. #JubilantFoodWorks #Q1FY27 #QSR #StockMarketIndia #Popeyes #Investing

JSW Cement lowered what it expects from one of its growth engines. GGBS growth guidance moved from mid-teens to high single digits. Company-wide volume growth guidance stayed at high teens. The new North India plant is expected to reach EBITDA break-even in September. #JSWCement #Q1FY27 #Cement #StockMarketIndia #Infrastructure #Investing

Godrej Industries just posted its biggest first quarter on record. Revenue reached ₹6,360 crore, up 11.2% from the same quarter last year. Chemicals grew 31.5% and finance grew 43.6%, while the estate business shrank 17.5%. Net profit still fell 18.6% year on year. #GodrejIndustries #Q1FY27 #StockMarketIndia #Chemicals #Earnings #Investing