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Business ITC Now Second Largest FMCG Company by Revenue, Aims for Top Spot
ITC's non-tobacco FMCG business crossed Rs 24,000 crore in revenue, making it the second-largest FMCG company in India by revenue after Hindustan Unilever, surpassing Nestle and Britannia. Chairperson Sanjiv Puri announced the milestone at the annual general meeting, saying the company aspires to become India's number one FMCG player.
Business Gujarat Tops NITI Aayog's Investment Friendliness Index; Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu Follow
NITI Aayog released its Investment Friendliness Index, ranking Gujarat first (score 56.6), Maharashtra second (53.7), and Tamil Nadu third (53.3) among large states. The index assesses 28 states and eight Union Territories across eight pillars. The report aims to strengthen competitive federalism and promote an investment-friendly ecosystem.
Surprise-Guided MergeSort Reduces Human Ranking Costs by Using AI to Prioritise Comparisons
Researchers propose Surprise-Guided MergeSort (SGS), a framework that combines a Vision-Language Model with MergeSort to schedule pairwise comparisons for subjective ranking tasks. SGS routes only ambiguous comparisons to humans, achieving Kendall's τ×100 improvements of +6 to +12 over Active Elo under the same budget.