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Top stocks to buy (AI image) Stock market recommendations: According to Bajaj Broking Research, the top stock picks for December 19, 2025 are Max Healthcare, and Sagility. Here’s its view on Nifty and Bank Nifty:Index View: NIFTYBenchmark indices continue to trade in a range with corrective bias and are currently placed around 25,800 levels as…

BENGALURU: Accenture reported revenues of $18.7 billion for the first quarter (Sept-Nov) of the 2026 financial year, marking a 6% increase in dollar terms and 5% growth in local currency. The performance came in at the top end of the company’s guided range of $18.1-18.7 billion, which had implied 1-5% growth in local currency.The performance…

NEW DELHI: Govt has managed to get significant concessions for Indian workers and professionals looking to work in Oman, with the Gulf nation allowing companies to employ up to 50% Indians in their workforce, instead of 20% at present.The move is aimed at ensuring that Indian companies that set up shop do not end up…

NEW DELHI: The board of Bharti Airtel on Thursday approved the appointment of Shashwat Sharma as MD & CEO from Jan 1 as Gopal Vittal will take charge as executive vice chairman for a period of five years. The board also green-lighted access of the remaining around Rs 15,740 crore proceeds from the Rs 21,000…

BENGALURU: Cognizant AI CTO Babak Hodjat said at the Nasdaq-listed company’s AI Lab here that as enterprises race to embed large language models (LLMs) deeper into business operations, a key question remains unresolved: how much can these systems be trusted to reason correctly at scale? While today’s LLMs are powerful, he said, they tend to…

MUMBAI: US-based private equity firm L Catterton has picked up a minority stake in Haldiram Snacks Food amid a rush among investors to take a bite of India’s growing consumer market. The latest investment in Haldiram’s, known for its wide range of namkeen (snacks), sweets and ready to eat products comes less than a year…

The TOI correspondent from Washington: In an animated prime time address from the Diplomatic Room in the White House on Wednesday night that was anything but diplomatic, President Donald Trump doubled down on a protectionist agenda that is sending ripples through the global financial system, emphasizing the benefits of broad tariffs and steep reductions in…

NEW DELHI: A day after photos of Vijay Mallya‘s pre-birthday celebration in London surfaced, ED Thursday announced it had restituted Rs 312 crore of Kingfisher Airlines to its former employees towards long-pending dues.The amount was transf-erred to the official liquidator for disbursement to former employees of Kingfisher Airlines after the restitution was approved by Debt…

US stock markets rallied on Thursday after a better-than-expected inflation update eased concerns over the interest rate outlook, while a strong earnings report from Micron Technology helped arrest the recent slide in artificial intelligence-linked stocks, AP reported.The S&P 500 rose about 1%, snapping a four-session losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 350…

NEW DELHI: The new nuclear energy bill, which was passed in Rajya Sabha by voice vote after a four-hour discussion while rejecting many amendments moved by opposition to send it to a parliamentary panel for scrutiny, marks a decisive shift in India’s nuclear governance, embedding safety oversight in law across the lifecycle of an atomic…