#BreakingNews | The board of Tata Sons has approved a fresh five-year term for N Chandrasekaran as executive chairman. It reverses Chandrasekaran's decision last month not to seek reappointment.

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Tata Group stocks increased by up to 13.5% on September 17 after the Tata Sons board renewed N. Chandrasekaran's five-year term as executive chairman and initiated a potential listing for the group's holding company.

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Tata Trusts chairman to challenge N Chandrasekaran's 5-yr extension as Tata Sons Chairman: Report

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Tata Sons Pvt. is said to have approved going public and asked Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran to stay on for five more years, as one of India’s biggest business houses tries to keep leadership steady through the transition.

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The Finance Ministry on Thursday (September 17) rejected allegations that US pressure influenced the decision to introduce a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select UPI transactions, saying the latest NPCI guidelines do not provide any advantage to international credit cards over RuPay on the UPI platform.

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#WATCH | Puri, Odisha | Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a 25-foot sand art installation using 2,500 earthen lamps (diyas) on Puri Beach to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 76th birthday.

IndiGo has increased prices for several add-on services, including infant travel, unaccompanied minor assistance, priority boarding, and excess baggage. For example, infant travel fees rise to ₹3,000 and excess baggage costs ₹800 per kg.

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Taylor Swift's husband, Travis Kelce, is one of the victims of a Ponzi scheme, run by an Indian-origin man, Reuters reported. Reportedly, the man identified as Siddharth Jawahar duped more than $35 million from unsuspecting investors, as revealed by a Missouri prosecutor.

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#MintMarkets | Market expert Raja Venkatraman shares his top stock picks for 18 September.

Here’s his technical outlook and trade strategy 👇
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#MintMarkets | Shares to buy or sell: Chandan Taparia of Motilal Oswal recommends three stocks to buy today.

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India is on course for its driest monsoon in 17 years, with rainfall 15% below normal so far. A strengthening El Nino is raising concerns over crop yields and food inflation, which hit 5.95% in August.

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OpenAI has disclosed six cases of unexpected AI model behaviour, including unauthorised actions, attempts to evade oversight and an agent uploading files online without user permission. The company has also introduced a new framework to track and investigate such incidents.

Watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7EbnBiFsxk

#MintMarkets | The Indian stock market is expected to open quietly on September 18, following mixed global cues.

Eight stocks to buy 📈
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Petrol dealers’ associations from across the country have approached the ministries of finance and petroleum, seeking an exemption from the flat ₹5 merchant discount rate (MDR) proposed for fuel transactions above ₹2,000 under the new UPI framework.

Here are the latest fuel prices and the key development concerning UPI payments at petrol pumps.

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#MintMarkets | NSE IPO Day 2: Issue subcribed 43% so far. GMP hints 8% listing pop. Check review, key dates.

Should you apply or skip?
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#MintMarkets | Indian equity markets opened higher on Friday, with the Sensex rising 260.65 points to 74,575.24 and the Nifty gaining 64.10 points to 23,334.70.

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Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D work, up from 1% in March, as AI increasingly helps develop the next generation of AI. More than 90% of the company’s research involved human-AI collaboration in August, it said.

Details here 👇
https://www.livemint.com/ai/ais-role-in-building-ai-surging-anthropic-says-claude-now-leads-26-of-its-rd-11789698548510.html

N. Chandrasekaran’s future at Tata Sons took a fresh turn after a crucial board meeting on September 17, bringing the company’s leadership question back into focus.

What happened inside the meeting, and what comes next for Chandrasekaran and Tata Sons? Watch 📹
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3r3znZYAc0

King Charles has warned about AI’s potential dangers, saying it could develop “darker capacities” and potentially be used to take lives.

🤖 He called for stronger safeguards and responsible AI development to ensure the technology remains in service of humanity.

Watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQqMYCrX3JA

Shapoorji Mistry, the chairperson of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, urged all Tata Trustees to back the listing of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd., saying that could also pave the way for a deeper relationship between the two business houses.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/shapoorji-pallonji-tata-sons-listing-11789711001205.html

#MintMarkets | Stock market prediction: Bulls may fancy Nifty 50 hitting 27,000 in CY2026.

Here's how 👇
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