Amid a surge in fees for employment-based US H-1B visas, the applications have skyrocketed for "Einstein visa", reserved for people who can show extraordinary ability in their fields. A CBS News investigation found that brokers are helping applicants get Einstein visas by adding their names as co-authors on scholarly articles. Most clients are from India seeking this visa, report said.

A high-level delegation from Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) will attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland's Davos. The delegation is set to hold a series of strategic interactions with global business leaders, investors and policymakers. Discussions will be held on international banking, fund management, sustainable finance and emerging technologies.

The top five IT services companies' hiring fell down more than 105% year-on-year in the first nine months of the Financial Year 2026, Moneycontrol reported. At TCS, total employee strength declined to 5,82,163 at the end of Q3 of FY26, from 5,93,314 in the previous quarter. At Infosys, headcount increased by 5,043 whereas HCLTech's net employee addition was at 261.

ICICI Bank's Board of Directors unanimously approved the reappointment of Managing Director and CEO Sandeep Bakhshi for a period of two years. Bakhshi's current tenure at the bank is till October 3, 2026. It also approved the reappointment of Executive Director Ajay Kumar Gupta for a period of two years. The reappointment decisions are subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals.

IndiGo has been fined ₹22.2 crore by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for widespread flight cancellations that disrupted operations in early December. The airline has also been directed to furnish a bank guarantee of ₹50 crore in favour of the regulator. A four-member DGCA panel had probed the widespread disruption that occurred between December 3 and 5.

The US' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested Chinese casino billionaire Cui Lijie, a Chinese national and the key figure behind a lavish casino on Saipan in US' Northern Mariana Islands. Lijie was the majority shareholder of Hong Kong-based Imperial Pacific International, a now-bankrupt Chinese investment holding company. She was arrested for allegedly entering the US illegally.

SEBI imposed a five-year ban and fines totalling ₹90 lakh on 12 entities in a front-running case. Chairman of Mangal Keshav Financial Paresh Bhagat had placed orders through dealers who were in possession of the non-public information. These dealers shared confidential information that helped place orders in the trading accounts of connected entities in advance of big client's impending orders.

Two US senators recently wrote to Donald Trump to urge India to remove a 30% import duty imposed on American pulses, calling it "unfair". According to reports, the previously unreported tariffs were imposed on US on November 1, 2025, in retaliation for Trump's 50% tariffs on Indian exports. The move wasn't publicised by India, revealing its delicate balancing act.

A man claimed that a four-year-old Noida-based startup fired him after he refused to work on a weekend. The employee said the company had hired a new senior-level employee who increased sales targets and demanded employees to work late hours and on weekends. People slammed the "toxic work culture", with some saying, "Don't join a startup if you have dependents."

Goa has been ranked Best Performer in Category B in the States’ Startup Ecosystem Ranking by DPIIT. The award, announced at National Startup Day in New Delhi, was received by Dr Milind of DITE&C along with D S Prashant of SITPC. Minister Rohan A Khaunte credited coordinated government and ecosystem efforts behind the achievement during the national startup policy assessment.