News Headlines from Business News Agencies 31.10.2025

*Business Standard*

 

📝 RBI Dy Guv reaffirms crypto scepticism, says CBDC will grow step by step

📝 SBI Card to charge 1% on wallet top-ups, app-based education payments

📝 IntrCity SmartBus secures ₹250 crore as India's intercity travel booms

📝 Cipla's global CEO Umang Vohra to step down, COO Achin Gupta to take over

📝 Exide Industries delays board meet as I-T department surveys offices

📝 Rajasthan govt aims to boost farmers' income through MSP procurement

📝 Swiggy trims sequential loss to ₹1,092 cr on back of Instamart growth

📝 Happiest Minds targets $50 mn Gen AI revenue over next three years

📝 Assocham seeks tax certainty, SEP relief for data centres in wishlist

📝 UP approves 38 private logistics, warehousing projects worth ₹2,600 cr

📝 Tata Motors, THINK Gas enter partnership for truck LNG refueling ecosystem

 

*Economic Times*

 

📝 Coal exchange rules to be finalised by November-end: Coal Secretary

📝 HDFC Bank board clears extension of Kaizad Bharucha as DMD for 3 years

📝 Union Bank Q2 Results: Profit falls 10% over dip in core income, recoveries from written-off loans

📝 Hyundai’s rural drive hits record pace; domestic SUV share reaches highest ever at 71%

📝 India perfect harbour for investments in maritime sector: PM Modi

📝 India Fintech Foundation asks govt, RBI to address concentration risk on UPI payments

📝 Dabur India launches Rs 500 crore investment platform 'Dabur Ventures'

📝 Shriram Properties eyes Rs 700 cr revenue from new housing project in Pune

📝 Singapore's Keppel nine-month profit jumps 25% on growth across operations

📝 REIT Mid-America Apartment forecasts annual AFFO below estimates

📝 BSNL achieves 93 pc of Q2 revenue target at Rs 5,347 cr: Jyotiraditya Scindia

 

*Mint*

 

📝 APTEL defers hearing of IEX’s plea challenging CERC’s market coupling order

📝 US grants India 6-month exemption from American sanctions on Chabahar port: MEA

📝 Canara Bank Q2 net profit rises 19% to ₹4,774 crore, NII falls 2% YoY

📝 Swiggy plans ₹10,000 crore fundraise via QIP

📝 State development loans crash in October as yields remain high

📝 Govt to take legal view on Supreme Court's Vodafone Idea order

📝 Bank of Japan keeps interest rates unchanged amid lingering ‘high uncertainties’

📝 Orkla India IPO Day 2 LIVE: Issue booked 2.13x so far

📝 General Motors to cut 1,700 jobs, 5,500 employees to be laid off temporarily

📝 Hyundai Motor India Q2 Results: Topline miss but margins expand better than anticipated

📝 Gopal Snacks operationalises new manufacturing facilities in Modasa, Gujarat.