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SEBI cleared Carlsberg India's IPO filing on 2 October. The issue is sized at roughly Rs 6,650 crore, and the company used the confidential filing route, which lets an issuer get its observations before the draft prospectus becomes public.

Carlsberg has sold beer in India since 2007. The listing puts an Indian valuation on that business rather than leaving it as a line inside a Copenhagen-listed group.

The read, and it is a read rather than a fact, is that a global brewer choosing to raise Indian money for its Indian arm is making a statement about where it expects the growth and the capital to come from. The price band will say how much of that the market agrees with.

From the winter schedule that starts on 25 October, Mumbai's main airport is discontinuing 265 weekly international slots. That is about a third of its 770 weekly international departures.

The cause is Terminal 1, which is going in for redevelopment. Roughly five million domestic passengers shift to Terminal 2, and the international slots are what give way to make the room.

IndiGo takes the largest single cut: 74 of its 224 weekly international departures, leaving 150. Air India gives up 33 of 100. Emirates and Etihad each lose 10 of 28. Airlines had to file which flights they were dropping by 4pm on 6 October.

The Bengaluru electric two-wheeler maker closed a $180 million Series C, about Rs 1,750 crore, in the week to 3 October. The round is led by the family office of Dr A. Velumani, who built the diagnostics chain Thyrocare, alongside the founders.

The money is going into manufacturing capacity rather than into distribution or marketing.

This is the second large electric two-wheeler round in under two weeks, after Ultraviolette's $85 million on 24 September. What is different here is the source of the cheque. A single Indian promoter's exit is funding a scooter factory, which perhaps says the capital backing Indian EV manufacturing is shifting from global growth funds towards domestic wealth that has already been through one hardware-adjacent build.

Reliance said on 2 October that it intends to invest Rs 1 trillion, or Rs 1 lakh crore, in compressed biogas projects in Andhra Pradesh. The state puts the arithmetic at about 3 lakh jobs and Rs 60,000 crore of revenue to the exchequer.

Compressed biogas is made from crop residue, cattle waste and other organic feedstock, upgraded to a quality that can go into a CNG pump or a pipeline.

An announced intention is not a committed spend, and a number that round usually arrives in phases over a decade. The part that is already interesting is the feedstock. A project of this size turns crop residue from something a farmer burns into something a company buys, and on these numbers that may matter more to farm incomes in the state than it does to Reliance's own fuel mix.

A CLSA note out this week puts DMart's store network growth at 15 to 20% a year, with management visibility for roughly 2,200 stores against the few hundred it runs today.

Free cash flow in that phase is negative, because each new store is paid for before it earns. CLSA's comparison is to Walmart and Costco in their own expansion decades.

Holding the margin through it is private label, which DMart prices 40 to 50% below the branded equivalent on the same shelf.