'Multi-retirement' is a new workplace trend, wherein individuals prefer to take multiple planned pauses (or 'mini-retirements') to reinvent and realign themselves, as per an HSBC report. The report found that 85% of Indian respondents stated that taking a mini-retirement improved their quality of life. Indians found 44 to be the ideal age for mini-retirement, the report added.

After an employee raised concerns about a perceived lack of empathy in Microsoft’s culture, CEO Satya Nadella said, "I deeply appreciate that, the question and...sentiment behind it." "I take it as feedback for me and everyone in the leadership team, because at the end of the day, I think we can do better, and we will do better," Nadella added.

US and Chinese officials met in Spain's Madrid on Sunday to discuss trade tensions and TikTok's future in America. While US has kept tariffs on Chinese goods at around 55% until November 10. Another central issue between the two countries is the deadline for TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell its US operations by September 17 or face a shutdown.

Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI), a think tank, said the Indian economy and security are deeply reliant on US software, cloud services, and social media platforms, which pose a major vulnerability during geopolitical tensions. GTRI Co-founder Ajay Srivastava stated Indian government must launch a 'Digital Swaraj Mission' with a sovereign cloud and indigenous OS to address these concerns.

With Western firms exiting Russia, Indian MSMEs are seeing new opportunities across food, pharma, engineering, and textiles, said ITE Group CEO Dmitry Zavgorodniy. Bilateral trade hit $68.7 billion in FY25, with scope to touch $100 billion by 2030. While Russian exports dominate, demand for cost-effective Indian goods is rising, with up to 30,000 Indian firms expected to enter soon.

Indian diamond and jewellery exporters are exploring production units in friendly countries to bypass steep US tariffs of 50% imposed on Indian gems from August 27, 2025. Industry experts suggest rerouting via regions like Oman, Europe, and Southeast Asia. With the US accounting for a third of India's diamond exports, Surat polishers face the hardest hit.

There has been a surge in banks receiving cancellation requests for car loans as customers want to make the purchase after the two-slab GST rate cuts come into effect on September 22, PTI reported. Car brands, Mahindra, Tata and Toyota, have decided to cut rates between ₹1.5 lakh and ₹3.49 lakh. Moreover, cancellation charges are "very low", an official said.

Commenting on pressure from the US, Russia has said that "attempts to harm ties with India will fail". Hailing India's rejection of pressure to abandon ties with Russia, the Russia Foreign Ministry said that "relations are steadily and confidentiality advancing". US earlier said that G7 countries should impose tariffs on China and India for Russian oil purchases .

Talking about tariffs on India, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, "Treat us the way we treat you...That's [President Donald Trump's] model, and you either accept it, or you're going to have a tough time doing business with the world's greatest consumers." "America buys Indian goods freely, but when we want to sell, the walls go up," he added.

Pictures of Priya Sachdev Kapur's first public appearance since her husband and Sona Comstar Chairman Sunjay Kapur's death have surfaced online. She was attending a meeting of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association in Delhi. This comes amid an inheritance battle as Karisma Kapoor's children moved Delhi High Court seeking their share in their father Sunjay's ₹30,000-crore estate.