Top Business & Market Headlines Today — BL Morning Report, January 12, 2025

ISRO to kick off 2026 with launch of Earth Observation Satellite The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch the PSLV-C62 mission carrying the EOS-N1 Earth Observation satellite along with 15 co-passenger satellites from domestic & international customers on Monday. The mission is the ninth dedicated commercial mission undertaken by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of the space organisation. This launch will be the 64th flight of the Polar Satellite launch Vehicle(PSLV) - a workhorse of ISRO’s notable missions like Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission, Aditya-L1 and Astrosat Mission.  The PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 mission would initially deploy the Earth Observation Satellite-N1 made by DRDO, followed by other co-passenger satellites into the sun-synchronous orbit around 17 minutes after lift-off. The mission will carry satellites from Indian start-ups like Dhruva Aerospace and OrbitAID Aerospace’s AayulSAT, an experimental payload to demonstrate in-orbit satellite refueling technology. X accepts its mistake, says will work as per Indian laws: government sources After a few exchange of communications, Elon Musk-owned X (formerly twitter) has finally accepted its mistake and stated that around 3,500 pieces of content have been blocked, and over 600 accounts were deleted from its chatbot ‘Grok’. The company has also said that going forward, it will not allow obscene imagery, adding that it will work as per law of the land. “X has accepted its mistake and has said it will work as per Indian laws. The company has blocked around 3,500 pieces of content and over 600 accounts were deleted. Going forward, X will not allow obscene imagery,” a senior official at Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) told businessline, reports S Ronendra Singh. SEBI set to give the nod for NSE IPO with NOC likely to be issued in a month’s time The No Objection Certificate (NOC) for the much-anticipated listing of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) is likely to be issued as early as in a month’s time, as per SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey. “They are right now waiting for our no objection and once they get it, they have to follow other processes and go ahead with preparations...Possibly within this month we will issue it [NOC],” Pandey said in a select media round table in Chennai, reports Sindhu Hariharan. Censor politics: The delay of actor-turned politician Vijay’s Jana Nayagan likely to redraw TN poll alliances The denial of the Censor Board nod to Jana Nayagan, starring actor-turned-politician Vijay could potentially alter the political equation in the Tamil Nadu with Assembly polls three months away, and has set off various alliance possibilities, say political observers. Jana Nayagan has been touted as the much-anticipated farewell film for Vijay, the founder of political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) who threw his hat into the TN political ring. The movie was scheduled to be released on January 9 but its release now stands indefinitely postponed due lack of censor certificate, writes TE Raja Simhan. And from this week’s portfolio edition How safe are large-cap stocks? Over the last one to two years, it has become almost cliched to point out that large-caps are attractive/offer value than small- and mid-cap stocks. How true is that? Of the 100 large-caps, 96 hit their all-time highs in the past five years and 42 of these 96 are trading at least 20 per cent below their peaks. So, before tuning into the usual safety mantras for large-caps, investors should get a hang of why many stocks in that segment, too, have tanked. Bl.portfolio’s conducted an analysis (data from Bloomberg) to find whether large-caps delivered earnings in line with consensus estimates prevailing at their all-time highs. Nishanth Gopalakrishnan explains.