US tells Americans to leave Middle East
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:44AM IST
The US State Department has issued a fresh security alert urging Americans in the Middle East to exercise heightened vigilance and consider departing the region, citing the potential for sudden escalation involving Iran.The advisory, issued on August 1, warned that the security environment remains complex "with the potential for unforeseen escalation" and that Americans in the region should be prepared for flight cancellations, periodic airspace closures and other travel disruptions. It added that some airlines in the region have postponed the resumption of earlier flight schedules, while others have cancelled routes altogether.US calls Iran 'unpredictable'The State Department described the Iranian regime as unpredictable, pointing to recent strikes carried out without warning and to attacks expanding into areas not previously targeted, including Egypt. It cautioned that the absence of past attacks in a given country does not guarantee safety going forward.The alert also flagged that US diplomatic facilities, including those outside the Middle East, have been targeted, and warned that Iran and groups aligned with it may target other US interests, businesses and institutions linked to Americans anywhere in the world.
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Goldman Sachs sees a bigger space opportunity beyond launch providers
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:39AM IST
Space stocks could offer significant long-term growth opportunities as the industry expands beyond rocket launches into satellites, orbital broadband, communications, defence applications and other space-enabled services, although high valuations and extreme volatility could make the investment journey uneven, according to research report by Goldman Sachs.
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Japan to announce Tokyo, Washington took joint action on yen: Report
INDIA CURRENCY | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:37AM IST
Japan's Finance Minister plans to reveal a cooperation with Washington regarding currency market interventions aimed at arresting the yen's drastic decline to levels not seen in 40 years. Sources suggest that both nations have engaged in yen-buying strategies, marking their first collaborative effort since 2011. The operation is ongoing, as officials work to stabilize the currency.
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Nuvama initiates coverage on KPR Mill and 2 other textile stocks, sees up to 35% upside. Here's why
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:35AM IST
Nuvama Institutional Equities has initiated coverage on KPR Mill, Indo Count Industries and Sanathan Textiles with 'Buy' ratings, citing the global shift in textile sourcing away from China. The brokerage expects Indian textile exporters to benefit from supply chain realignment, supported by capacity expansion, policy tailwinds and improving trade access.
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These 9 equity mutual funds delivered over 10% returns in July. Did you invest in any of them?
INDIA MUTUAL FUNDS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:25AM IST
Technology-focused mutual funds dominated the performance charts in July, with nine equity schemes delivering returns of over 10%. HDFC Technology Fund topped the list with a 16.91% gain, while international funds accounted for most of the double-digit losers during the month.
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Equity mutual funds gained up to 6% in last week of July. Check top 15 with over 3% gain
INDIA MUTUAL FUNDS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:16AM IST
Equity mutual funds delivered gains up to six percent in the last week of July. Top performers included technology and transportation sector funds which saw significant returns. SBI Technology Opp Fund and Aditya Birla SL Digital India Fund led the gains. ICICI Pru Transportation and Logistics Fund also performed well during this period. Several other tech and logistics funds also registered positive returns.
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Unwritten love story of female friendships
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:12AM IST
Buried in my phone live WhatsApp groups called Sole Sisters and Bag Ladies and half a dozen others with delightfully cringey, punny names. Cumulatively, these groups are roughly 500 women deep. I've met, at best, maybe a dozen of them.And, yet, I can tell you with a fair degree of accuracy, who among these familiar-but-faceless women is struggling with caregiving responsibilities for a narcissistic mother who just won't let up. Which one is burnt out by an ADHD child. How many have fallen out of love with their husbands. And who all uninstalled their dating apps for the 36th week in a row after their 228th run-in with a married man tediously quoting Rumi and sermonising about marriage being a social construct. The women in these groups have helped each other crack interviews, start SIPs, rehome shoe/pet/plant babies, build apps and appetisers and, on occasion, even fed and clothed each other.In my 20s, I mythologised romantic love, built my entire emotional architecture around the idea that it is the main event. The meet-cute, the discovering of each other's eccentricities and peccadilloes (and problematic exes that give you pause), the soft and hard launches, the nail-biting will-they-won't-they (and by that I obviously mean both sets of vaguely disappointed parents who think their simple-minded spawn deserves better than what they've chosen for themselves), the invariable separation (because every good love story needs a cliffhanger), the ring and, finally, the choking declarations of finally finding the person who "completes" you and is your "everything".But the thing about trying to complete someone and being their everything is that it's a fantasy. And it is profoundly draining. Love requires equal partnership. Parenting needs you to be a bottomless container. Work asks you to be efficient. Friendship is possibly the only relationship that welcomes the slightly unhinged, unfinished version of the person lurking beneath the competent-adult exterior.Our True Better HalvesWhich is why, now, in my 30s, I have far more appreciation for the people who have been doing the actual heavy lifting. The ones who watch us go through more personality changes in a decade than Ranbir Kapoor has managed in his entire filmography (so far), who are our cheerleaders through three career pivots, who saw us at our most diminished- sedated with grief or humiliated by failure -and still chose to stay. They're really the ones we should be introducing as our "other half" to the world.The friend who, at 18, smoked beedis with me outside the principal's room as a form of silent protest for something that seemed like a good hill to die on for two rebels without a cause during a college trip, is still, at 38, the one who determinedly floods her phone book with my fledgling business's catalogue while waiting for her mammogram.Another one has flown across continents on little notice because "something felt very off" when I suddenly stopped responding to texts for a fortnight. No judgement, no leapfrogging to bitchy interpretations, just a gut that said, "that's not normal", which ultimately resulted in "I'm here" at 2 am with five ice creams and the kind of hug that glues something-you don't yet know what-back together.Council Of WomenOne of the most delightful things about getting older is that if you do it right, you end up with a small council of scarily competent, gossipy-but-not-judgy women who will organise themselves around your crises, combat-ready, wielding Tupperwares and enough packets of Electral because obviously you need to be reminded to eat and drink and at least brush your teeth and hair, if you can't be bothered to shower, because you're not a heathen. There's more romance in their no-nonsense presence than the collective poetic oeuvre of all the men I've encountered in the dating world.Men do all of this, too, but while studiously pretending they're doing nothing at all. An ex and his best friend maintained their own two-decade-old friendship built almost entirely on cricket statistics, aggressive mockery and a shared refusal to ever say the words "I love you, man" without immediately following it with an insult. Unlike my WhatsApp groups with long, verbose paragraphs providing context for the life event currently being dissected and equally sturdy walls of texts dedicated to the pursuit of ferreting out subtexts and undercurrents, his have subsisted almost entirely on memes, cricket/football arguments and the occasional four-word check-ins. For 11 years!Women narrate their closeness. Men, pressured into emotional impermeability early in their lives, often build intimacy through the shared absurdity (and comfort) of doing something pointless together for decades. Both, I've come to appreciate, are expressions of love. One just comes bearing better voice notes.Romantic love, for all its theatre, exists largely to convince you that you were chosen-that one person looked at the field and picked you over everyone else. And, of course, it feels good to be chosen.But friendship never bothered with the audition. It just kept showing up, on its own schedule-mammogram texts, 2 am ice cream, four-word check-ins-sometimes after years of near-total silence, refusing, rather rudely, to make a big deal of itself. Maybe that's the real reason it never got its own love story. We didn't bother to write it down because it was never trying to be literature. It was just trying to get us to Saturday.Sonali Kokra is a Mumbai-based writer
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INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:11AM IST
This week, 573 companies will announce their June quarter results, featuring prominent firms. Bharti Airtel and Nykaa are among those reporting earnings on Tuesday. Trent and Hero MotoCorp will release their quarterly figures on Thursday. State Bank of India and Titan Company are scheduled for Friday announcements. The earnings cycle concludes Saturday with Anant Raj's results.
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Will Nifty, Sensex extend gains on Monday? 6 factors which will drive D-Street action this week
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:09AM IST
Indian stock market is expected to extend recent gains this week. The Reserve Bank of India's policy decision will significantly influence market direction. Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and fluctuating oil prices remain key concerns. Foreign institutional investors are showing renewed interest in Indian equities. Corporate earnings announcements will also provide crucial trading cues for investors.
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INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 9:00AM IST
Celebrate Friendship Day 2026 with beautiful greeting images, heartfelt wishes for best friends, funny messages and emotional friendship quotes to share.
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US-Iran Truce? Trump Cancels Fresh Attacks Against Tehran As 'Perimeters Of Deal Agreed'
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:59AM IST
According to Trump the deal includes complete reopening of Strait of Hormuz.
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The surprising metrics of Goa's tourism boom led by traffic, villas and paneer
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:53AM IST
As flights and hotel occupancy fail to capture the number of tourists flocking to Goa, here are some unusual indicators that also mark the changing nature of tourism-traffic jams in monsoon of vehicles sporting KL, MH and TG licence plates, rising short-term stays in villas and Airbnb properties and, of course, the many avatars of paneer on menus
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In the AI era, why flaw is not a failure
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:51AM IST
Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue, and our belief in human supremacy over machines took a big blow.The ancient game of chess, created in India and perfected by other civilisations, was al-ways regarded as the highest theatre of pure human intelligence. But now it was conquered by a machine. Since then, the machine has only become more powerful.Today a decent chess engine on a mobile phone can defeat the strongest human grand master. Magnus Carlsen or R Praggnanandhaa is not better than Stock fish, and no human being ever will be.And yet, playing chess has become even more popular.An increasing number of people watch Carlsen and Pragga play They watch because the point of human chess is not only the perfect move, but the vulnerability of two hu mans like us who would hesitate, mis calculate, panic and improvise, get tired and then suddenly find a move that feels like magicIt is human drama, and machine-like perfection of two computers playing each other will leave them cold, the very antithesis of drama. This peculiar quest for imperfection may be come the defining truth of the Alage.Also read | After making inroads into healthcare, private equity players are targeting India's schoolsWe have spent the last few years asking whether Alcan write, draw.code and create as well as human beings. Increasingly, the answer seems to be yes, or at least close enough, for most practical purposes.Al can write a clean LinkedIn post, generate a hummable song, produce a perfectly structured memo, make a McKinsey-like slide and finish off by summarising all of it in a competent email. It is fluent, smooth, tireless, often near perfect; 10 out of 10, almost.The problem is that we may soon become sick of 10 out of 10.MARK OF THE HANDWe are already seeing this in the plague of AI slop on LinkedIn. You can spot it from a mile away: the smooth opening line, the neat three lessons, the inspirational paragraph, the carefully balanced humility, the "here is what it taught me" ending.It is grammatically correct and emotionally dead. In response, we have started hunting for posts that are messy, opinionated, oddly structured, perhaps even badly punctuated, but unmistakably written by someone who has lived that thought.The same is happening with books. Amazon is reportedly flooded with AI-generated titles, many polished but soulless. As a result, we increasingly look for books from known publishers rather than self-published ones as a signal of human authorship.In such a world, the value of a human book lies not just in how well it is written, but in how clearly it has been felt. When text becomes infinite, real authorship becomes scarce.This phenomenon is not new Human beings have always valued the mark of the hand.Also read | GLP-1 craze stirs up demand for a new type of talentA machine can make a perfect ceramic bowl, smooth, symmetrical and identical to the next thousand bowls. But we often pay more for the potter's bowl precisely because it is not perfect. The uneven lip, the thumbprint, the mi-nor dent, or the slight tilt in the body of the pot: these are not defects, but provenance, signal-ling that a human hand passed through here.The Japanese have a phrase for this: wabi sabi, the beauty of something that is impermanent, imperfect and incomplete, and thus its art of kintsugi, where a broken pot is mended back together with gold lacquer:In India, we have our own version of it. We have the nazarbattu, the small black spot on a baby's face or the fiercely ugly face mask hung above doors. Perfect beauty feels dangerous, almost inhuman. Persian carpet makers were said to leave a flaw in their carpets because perfection belonged only to God. The flaw was not a failure, but a human signature.Great art has always under-stood this. Picasso did not paint faces the way a camera sees faces. MF Husain did not draw horses like they should look like; his horses were restless, elongated, full of motion rather than anatomy, their power coming not from accuracy but from distortion.AI will become very good at beauty, with symmetrical faces, flawless prose, balanced compositions and correct answers. But beauty is not the same as perfection; it is in the cracked note of a singer, the pause before an actor remembers a line and the grandmother who never measured any-thing but always got the dish right.This is why author Sangeet Paul Choudary says that in the age of AI, humans will become "luxury goods". He uses the example of a wine sommelier-it is for their knowledge, selection and cork-sniffing performance that we pay a premium in a restaurant.Similarly, we pay a huge premium to go to a live concert over a Spotify rendition. When machine output becomes abundant and cheap, human output becomes premium not because it is perfect, but because it carries human presence and lived experience.AUTHENTICITY OVER EFFICIENCYThe mistake humans will make in the Al age is to compete with machines on the finish and polish. The worst thing a writer or an artist can do now is try to sound like AI, as many of us are doing on our LinkedIn posts sounding smooth, agreeable, optimised and dead. The winners will be those who become more of themselves, not less. Authenticity will always win over efficiency.We began with chess, so let us end with football. Imagine if the recent football World Cup was played by perfect AI robots. There would be no misplaced passes or bad tack-les, nerves or exhaustion, no striker missing from two yards, and no Messi walking for 70 minutes and then suddenly bending space-time. It would be technically astonishing and emotionally hollow.In a world where machines can generate perfection on demand, the most valuable thing a human being may do is remain un-mistakably, recognisably imperfect.The author is co-founder, AI&Beyond
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Iran Warns US Against 'Any Aggression', Threatens Retaliation Amid Middle East Tensions
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:49AM IST
Araqchi made the remarks in a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
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INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:22AM IST
Here are latest petrol and diesel rates across major Indian cities on Sunday, August 2.
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Trump pauses new strikes, says parameters set for deal to end Iran war
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:21AM IST
President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and said he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict for now.
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OPEC+ to raise oil output as Gulf war looms
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 8:11AM IST
London: Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other members of OPEC+ are expected to raise their oil production quotas for September when they meet online Sunday as the Middle East war continues to disrupt global energy supplies.The enlarged Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will likely increase production by 188,000 barrels per day, following several months of similar hikes, said Jorge Leon, an analyst at Rystad Energy.However, the September increase is likely to be the last in the current series of production adjustments, he said.Between late 2022 and 2023, OPEC+ became concerned that oil prices were falling, and agreed to cut oil production in three separate rounds, reducing total output by nearly six million barrels per day.But Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Oman and the United Arab Emirates -- before their exit from the group on May 1 -- then changed their strategy by gradually upping production starting in 2025.A September increase would complete the unwinding of the second of the three production-cut packages introduced by OPEC+.However, in reality, many OPEC+ members cannot produce as much oil as their official targets allow due to a "decline in production capacity", so increasing targets has become less meaningful, said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS.The Gulf countries have struggled to increase exports due to the near-paralysis of the Strait of Hormuz orchestrated by Iran during the war in the Middle East -- despite a brief upswing in shipping traffic after a US-Iran memorandum of understanding was signed in June.'Difficult talks'And in Russia, whose oil infrastructure has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian drone attacks, production is hovering at around nine million barrels per day -- compared with a target of 9.8 million barrels per day.It remains unclear when the group will actually be able to increase its oil volumes, but some member countries, such as Iraq, have expressed a desire to significantly boost production.Currently, "the group is undergoing a process in setting maximum sustainable capacity levels for all member states", according to Staunovo.OPEC+ "faces potentially difficult talks over new production quotas" starting next year following the September increase, according to analysts at DNB Carnegie."I don't think cohesion is at risk at this very moment," said Leon, warning, however, that the UAE's withdrawal from the group in May has highlighted a weakness in this area.Explaining the move, Abu Dhabi said it "serves our national interests and long-term strategic objectives".The UAE had announced many projects and investments aimed at expanding its ability to pump oil in recent years, making it increasingly difficult to justify staying under strict OPEC+ production limits.
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After making inroads into healthcare, private equity players are targeting India's schools
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:54AM IST
As private equity firms turn their attention to India's school education sector, they are adopting innovative investment strategies. By focusing on non-profit school trusts and for-profit service models, they aim to replicate the success seen in healthcare. The continued financial commitment from parents towards education positions the sector as a lucrative opportunity, but the long-term ramifications for schools are still uncertain.
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PE players are targeting India's schools
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:54AM IST
If you woke up in 2026 after a decade in a coma, you would be surprised by the extent to which private equity players have made inroads into India's private hospitals. Most big private hospital chains have tasted PE money at some point. Major names like HCG are majority owned by KKR, while others like Manipal Hospitals have inducted global investors such as TPG and Temasek.For years, hospitals were set up as charitable trusts, which on paper meant promoters could not take money out of them directly But PE, a class of capital that seeks very high returns, has quietly established itself in this critical sector, navigating complex regulations such as price caps and quotas for economically weaker sections as it seeks to generate quick returns. They drove consolidation of hospitals and funded expansion.In the last few years, PE majors have set their sights on another one of those traditionally conservative sectors in India-school education. Hospitals and schools bear similarities in that they were both historically viewed as philanthropic activities, not meant to be profited from.Marquee names have made their moves. KKR has backed Lighthouse Learning, a platform that owns schools that operate under multiple brands such as Billabong High, Euro School, Heritage Xperiential and Centre Point Blackstone has bought into Jayshree Periwal International School. Kedaara Capital has backed K12 Techno Services, which operates Orchids schools. As much as $1.5-2 billion in PE money has flown into education in the last decade, according to industry sources.For PE, the attraction is obvious: fees arrive upfront, students tend to remain enrolled for years and parents rarely reduce education spend even during a downturn. Since schools operate through non profit entities, these investors participate through service, management and infrastructure companies built around them, which is not unlike how they cracked healthcare.The big question: Can PE replicate its hospital playbook in the class-room, and at what cost?ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITIONPE interest stems from how families treat schooling. "Parents don't pull their children out in the middle of an education cycle. Unlike health- care, where if the doctor moves, the patient follows, in education, the child stays through the full cycle of 12 years, regardless," says Jacob Kurian, former partner of New Silk Route, a PE firm that was a pioneer in investing in K-12 schools. It once owned a significant stake in Sri Chaitanya Schools, which it sold back to the promoters.132799260Once a child is enrolled, the relationship with a school can last over a decade. Add to that a country where private schooling is in high demand and government spending has not kept pace, and it is easy to see why investors have gotten involved.Government spending on health and education, individually, is under 5% of GDP. And the population that needs schooling is enormous. India has close to 508 million, aged 3 to 23 years. That is a formal education cohort 1.4 times the size of China's, according to a DRHP filed by educational platform Elevate Campuses.For Jayshree Periwal, founder of Jayshree Periwal International School, PE capital has resulted in expansion. "We can reach out to more children and more cities. We can empower children," she says. Her schools in Jaipur include three large campuses and five kindergartens. Only one of the big schools runs an international curriculum, and it's residential as well, drawing students from Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain.MONEY FLOWTo understand PE money flow, it helps to understand how a school is set up.A school in India cannot be owned by a company. It has to be run by a trust, society, or something called a Section 8 company, all structures that are legally not for profit. This trust does two main things. It runs the school and it pays teacher salaries. Everything else can be out sourced. The school bus, uniforms, catering, IT support, HR, finance, marketing, teacher training-none of this has to sit inside the trust. Most schools hire outside companies to handle these.This is where PE has found its opening. A fund doesn't buy the trust. It builds a separate company that provides these outsourced services, and that company charges the school trust a fee. The trust stays non profit, exactly as the law re-quires. The company earning the profit sits one step away.According to a Bengaluru based lawyer specialising in education, structures are "set up with isolated buckets or silos for the not-for-profit trusts", which continue to operate the schools. "All the licences sit with those trusts and employees and teachers are employed by the trust. You essentially have service providers who come in to work with these trusts."132799267It also means clearing several layers of government approval before a single class can begin. "Broadly, this is a three-layered regulatory regime," the lawyer says. "State level compliance, which is what you need just to commence operations. Central compliance, which is fundamentally the Right to Education Act. And affiliation-specific compliances, depending on which board you are affiliated to."On top of that come two rules that hit a school's finances directly. Several states cap how much fees a school can raise each year. Private schools are also required to set aside a share of seats for students from economically weaker families, at reduced or no fees. Both rules exist to keep education affordable. Both also cut into what a school, or the company servicing it, can actually earn.That combination-a not-for-prof-it trust at the centre, and a for-profit services company built around it-is what people in the sector call a grey area. It hasn't been challenged or tested in any major way yet.THE PARALLELSMukesh Tiwari, partner at Alta Capital that owns and invests in Elevate Campuses, says, "There are multiple platform plays. You have platforms that invest directly in schools. And you have NBFCs doing the financing side. Coaching is a platform, but that's a discretionary spend. In between all of these, no body was focused on the essentials the real estate and infrastruc-ture management of schools. That's where we come in," he says.Hospitals faced similar restrictions, and built the same kind of structure around it, called opcopropco structures in legal parlance. To put it simply, an operations company and a property management company are put in place. They charge the trust for services and manage the real estate. Now it doesn't matter if the trust runs a hospital or an educational institu-tion. The money it earns can still be redirected to these companies."Opcopropco structures exist in hospitals as well but in the health-care sector for-profit companies are allowed to exist," says Raajiv Singhal, CEO of Marengo Asia Hospitals, which is backed by Samara Capital, the Godrej family office and the Havells family office. Max Hospital Saket, one of Delhi's largest, is registered as a trust, with a separate opco that charges its fees. Fortis Hospital Vasant Kunj is structured the same way. So is BL Kapoor Hospital in Delhi. Singhal sees real upside in the entry of PE in education, like in healthcare. "Private equity can achieve certain things by entering edu-cation. Professionalism will come. Scale will come, especially if they can build brands they can take it to tier-2 cit-ies, where people want better offerings."All of which is welcome.THE CONCERNSBut for those who have spent years building schools, the worry is about what changes once a fund is involved."I believe the soul should remain in the school," says Nipun Goenka, MD of GD Goenka Group, which operates over 120 K-12 schools. "It should not be too much about cost optimisation-after all, you are dealing with students. If a private equity player comes in, it's all about the bottom line."He also sees clearly why funds are drawn to the business. It's a good annuity model, he says. Schools are also increasing fees by 5-10% every year-a good compounding return over 12 years.There are also questions around whether consolidation of the sort that happened in hospitals will hap-pen in schools, resulting in the rise of chains and franchises.The sector does have plenty of room for upsides. "The market is Characterised by a persistent supply demand imbalance, with limited capacity in high-quality schools. Coupled with rising household in-Comes, this has strengthened parents' willingness to spend on premium private education offering best-in-class infrastructure and international curricula," says Aakansha Sethi, partner at LEK Consulting's glob-al education practice.The predictability of the cash flow works in a fund's favour too. "It has a negative working capital model since fees are collected at the start of the academic year," says Sethi. "It offers long-term revenue visibility, with students typically enrolled for 12 years. It's resilient to economic downturn, as parents tend to prioritise education spending over most other discretionary expenses."Even so, the question is whether they can replicate the success in hospitals. Nobody has had an exit. No large PE-backed education plat-form has gone public. None has been sold at the scale of hospital chains. The management-company structures built around school trusts have never been through a public market, or any real stress test.But then, hospitals had an almost 10-year head start and, even there, big exits are a fairly recent development. Education is further behind that curve. Simply put, the capital arrived well before anyone has proven it can be multiplied.
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Venezuela Starts US-Backed Talks On Future Democratic Elections
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:53AM IST
President Donald Trump recently said Venezuela was not ready yet to hold elections, but the negotiations could help determine the trajectory following the removal of Nicols Maduro by US forces in January.
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Hungary To Shut Its Only Nuclear Plant For First Time On Drought
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:42AM IST
The halt of the 44-year-old Paks plant south of Budapest removes more than 40% of the nation's electricity generation capacity and will likely force the country to rely more on expensive imports.
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Crushed By Kospi Rout, Angry Koreans Rip Lee And Vow Not To Buy
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:33AM IST
Encouraged by President Lee Jae Myung's stock-market reform drive as well as the debut of single-stock leveraged ETFs offering the prospect of amplified gains, mom-and-pop traders piled about 78 trillion won ($54.2 billion) into Kospi shares over May and June, only to be sucker-punched by the index's wild swings in July.
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Coal India July coal supplies hit record high, production rises 8.44%
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:28AM IST
Coal India said July 2026 supplies rose to 64.19 MT, the highest-ever coal offtake for the month in the company's history, while production grew to 50.36 MT
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Iran warns of strikes on other nations' energy fields if US attacks again
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:20AM IST
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran would respond decisively to any aggression and discussed the consequences of destabilising actions by the US
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CWG: Gulveer wins bronze in men's 5000m
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:16AM IST
Glasgow: Gulveer Singh, on Saturday, scripted history as he became the first Indian to win a 5000m medal in the Commonwealth Games with a bronze as well as the first track and field athlete from the country to win two medals in a single edition of the Games.Reigning Asian champion Gulveer, who had won a silver in the 10,000m on July 28, finished third in the 5000m with a time of 13 minute 24.95 seconds to complete a historic double on the concluding day of the athletics competition.Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang of Kenya took the gold with a time of 13:23.61, while Australia's Ky Robinson, who had earlier won the gold in the 10,000m, clinched the silver, clocking 13:24.70.However, the 28-year-old Indian, who holds national records in both 5000m and 10,000m, ran much below his season best timing of 13:03.93. His Saturday's time was also well outside his national record effort of 12:59.77.Gulveer, who also won a 10,000m bronze in the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023, kept himself among the leading pack throughout the race before surging ahead in the final lap. He beat Kenya's Cornelius Kemboi for the bronze by a mere 0.04 seconds.Kemboi is a sub-13 runner, having clocked 12:56.02 in June, but on Saturday, Gulveer beat him, though by a whisker.
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120+ Happy Friendship Day 2026 Wishes, Messages, Quotes, WhatsApp Status & Instagram Captions
INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:00AM IST
Celebrate Friendship Day 2026 with heartfelt wishes and messages
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INDIA MARKET | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 7:00AM IST
ICICI Bank Ltd. will go ex-dividend on Monday, Aug. 3 for a dividend of Rs 12 per share.
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Many dead in shooting at US' Idaho restaurant
INDIA NEWS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 6:20AM IST
Los Angeles: A gunman opened fire at a fast-food restaurant in the western US state of Idaho on Saturday, killing an as yet unknown number of people, police said, adding that the suspect was also dead.The shooting at the In-N-Out Burger restaurant "resulted in fatalities," but authorities were still working to determine the number of victims, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said."It was a very chaotic scene," Hicks told reporters.Twin Falls city spokesman Josh Palmer told NBC News that three people were killed and two were wounded, but it was not clear if the gunman was counted among those casualties.Video footage aired by local media showed what appeared to be a young man with a long gun outside the In-N-Out Burger.Other video posted on social media showed more than a dozen people running out of the restaurant.Twin Falls is a city of about 56,000 people in southern Idaho, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) northwest of Salt Lake City.acb/sst
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House of the Dragon Season 3 consists eight episodes, with new chapters releasing weekly.
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India PV sales hit record high in July, up 34% on strong demand and GST cuts
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 6:00AM IST
As per industry estimates, around 469,000 passenger cars, utility vehicles and vans were dispatched from factories to dealerships last month, a 34% increase from a year earlier. The previous record was 460,000 units last October. Since the beginning of this fiscal year, sales rose 25% in April, 27% in May and 24% in June. The data include sales of electric cars as well.
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GLP-1 demand stirs up hunger for obesity care talent
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 5:30AM IST
Demand for nutrition professionals is rapidly rising across India. Hospitals and digital health platforms are hiring more dietitians and educators. This trend supports patients using new GLP-1 obesity medications. Specialized obesity care teams are expanding to meet growing patient needs. Long-term monitoring and lifestyle support are crucial for sustained health outcomes.
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NEET holdup puts question mark over engineering admissions
INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 5:30AM IST
The medical entrance paper leak is now affecting engineering college admissions. Medical aspirants are securing engineering seats due to admission cycle delays. This situation necessitates additional admission rounds for engineering institutions. Many students are now exploring biotechnology programs as alternative career paths. The extended uncertainty causes academic disruption and increased student stress.
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INDIA BUSINESS | Sun, 2 Aug 2026, 5:30AM IST
Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey is driving increased book sales in India. Print editions of The Odyssey have seen sales more than double compared to last year. Young readers in their late teens and twenties are showing renewed interest in classic literature. Affordable paperback translations and accessible retellings are performing exceptionally well. This surge extends to Homer's Iliad and Greek mythology collections, indicating a lasting impact.
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