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Worker-owned Uber and Snabbit? India faces up to the grim reality of gig labour

Worker-owned Uber and Snabbit? India faces up to the grim reality of gig labour

The country can’t afford to leave the fate of the ever-expanding gig workforce entirely to market forces

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Inderpal Singh

Inside Rapido’s plan to upend Zomato and Swiggy’s hard-won food-delivery math

Inside Rapido’s plan to upend Zomato and Swiggy’s hard-won food-delivery math

Live in Bengaluru, Ownly wants to take food delivery beyond the top 10% of earners and is already doing over 50,000 orders a day

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Shriya Sahni

The RBI’s revolving-credit rule treats every NBFC like a bad lender

The RBI’s revolving-credit rule treats every NBFC like a bad lender

Bajaj Finance and Tata Capital could lose a lucrative lending tool. But the central bank has another option

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Sarthak Gupta

L&T’s Rs 15,000 cr bet with Nvidia is a gut punch to a struggling E2E

L&T’s Rs 15,000 cr bet with Nvidia is a gut punch to a struggling E2E

E2E is buying chips, splitting its stock, spinning up subsidiaries—anything to sell more compute. L&T’s data-centre unit has already moved on

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

India’s only chip fab is getting Rs 4,500 crore. The shopping list is clearer than the mission

India’s only chip fab is getting Rs 4,500 crore. The shopping list is clearer than the mission

The upgrade strengthens what SCL already does, including catering to agencies and prototyping for students, rather than the 100X expansion and 28nm...

14.08.2026 20

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Priyal Mahtta

A household name, a PE giant, a star CEO. What more does Eureka Forbes need?

A household name, a PE giant, a star CEO. What more does Eureka Forbes need?

Advent wanted the water-purifier maker to have Urban Company’s service chops. Then Urban Company came for Eureka Forbes with its own purifier

13.08.2026 20

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Nuha Bubere

India keeps building runways for airlines that don’t take off

India keeps building runways for airlines that don’t take off

The government is spending Rs 29,000 crore on regional airports, longer-term subsidies, and even aircraft. That does little for airline economics,...

12.08.2026 20

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Sakshi Sadashiv

TVS and Bajaj outsell Ather. A new scooter could flip the equation

TVS and Bajaj outsell Ather. A new scooter could flip the equation

A new mass-market product, targeted expansion, and a stronger bottom line might just carry Ather all the way to the top

11.08.2026 20

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Suprita Anupam

Mukesh Bansal on AI-powered founders, and growing jaggedly by wanting to learn and win

Mukesh Bansal on AI-powered founders, and growing jaggedly by wanting to learn and win

On staying hands-on in the AI age, building venture studios, and staying loyal to a mission

10.08.2026 10

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Rohin Dharmakumar

Bengaluru’s rents have gone too far. It’s time to cap them

Bengaluru’s rents have gone too far. It’s time to cap them

Rents have outpaced home prices, salaries, and any attempt to fix it. A survey of hundreds of the city’s tenants and some landlords, and a look at...

10.08.2026 20

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Anand Kalyanaraman

India’s space college broke its bond with ISRO. Not its dependence

Two years after ISRO did away with its hiring bond with IIST, the institute is struggling to adapt to private-industry requirements—continuing to...

07.08.2026 20

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Santhom J Joseph

Plucky founders, not Indian pharma giants, could reshape drug discovery in its new ‘golden age’

Even without betting the farm like Glenmark and Wockhardt, it’s possible to punt on the drug India won’t make

06.08.2026 30

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Seema Singh

TCS and Infosys think they can profit from AI paranoia

IT companies are building new tools and repacking existing services to serve as the mediation layer between enterprises and AI models

05.08.2026 20

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Debanjali Biswas

The road for Indian EVs passes through Beijing. What if China sets up a barricade?

The recent spate of e-rickshaws stalling in the middle of the road, due to Chinese BMS apps like BAT BMS and Epoch Li-ion, is yet another symptom of a...

04.08.2026 30

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Suprita Anupam

There’s a ‘borrowed revolution’ on our roads. And India has no control over it

The recent spate of e-rickshaws stalling in the middle of the road, due to Chinese BMS apps like BAT BMS and Epoch Li-ion, is yet another symptom of a...

04.08.2026 30

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Suprita Anupam

Tata 1mg refused to get carried away in the e-pharmacy battle. It’s in no mood to change its mind

For over a decade, Tata 1mg has resisted following trends other e-pharmacies did. It wants to be a healthcare company

03.08.2026 20

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Sudeshna Ray

You thought $60B in data-centre investments would create jobs?

Almost every major industrial state is giving billions in discounted land, subsidised power, and exempted taxes to attract data centres. What exactly...

31.07.2026 30

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

India’s AI vendors can build copilots. That’s not enough to fix 50 years of govt data

Meity is trying to bring AI into every ministry, with six companies freshly empanelled. But messy data, fragmented procurement, and bureaucratic...

30.07.2026 30

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Inderpal Singh

The Ken Investigation: Army, CRPF, and BSF can’t do without banned Chinese drones

Operation Sindoor made drones the next military obsession. Now, as India prepares to spend $2 billion on them, a 2022 ban has spawned an ecosystem of...

29.07.2026 20

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Pratap Vikram Singh

India should stop adding solar farms. Now

Such is the obsession with renewables that no one has bothered to ask how much solar energy is too much without battery storage

28.07.2026 30

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Shiveka Bakshi

RBI’s pipeline for hackers now starts at IIT Kanpur. It isn’t where they want to end up

The country is losing its world-class hackers to GCCs and foreign firms, just as government bodies are realising they need them most

27.07.2026 30

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Mutasim Khan

India’s elite fight back against C-sections. One midwife at a time

The midwifery-led model ensures more personalisation and natural births. But it comes with higher expenses and difficulty scaling

24.07.2026 30

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Isha Mukhtyar

India’s quasi-sovereign fund is a case of ‘heads I win, tails you lose’

The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund is exiting, often if not always, to its investors

23.07.2026 40

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Priyal Mahtta

How BSE’s Saatvik 100 and NSE’s Ahimsa ended up with missile makers and coal miners

One tracks 100 companies, the other 327. Yet they share 71, showing how India’s listed universe bends even the most niche investment themes towards...

22.07.2026 40

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Tanmay Hardikar

Rs 10K crore, 38K GPUs, and 12 firms later, India’s AI mission is still looking for users

The mission picked companies to build AI for farmers, schools, and hospitals. Two years later, they are selling mostly to everyone else

22.07.2026 40

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

SBI Funds’ dream IPO run is headed for a halt

The stumbles of a smaller, superior competitor don’t bode well for the country’s largest asset manager

21.07.2026 30

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Kanwaljit Singh on the consumer-brands bet, the anti-power-law fund, and turning down twice the money

He built Fireside Ventures by refusing his own industry's two reflexes, chasing the one big winner, and raising all you can

20.07.2026 30

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Rohin Dharmakumar

Adani pays Rs 3,000 crore to outwit electricity-stealing Indians

After Adani Energy’s acquisition of smart-meter company Intellismart, the combined entity now manages a book of 47 million smart meters or 23% of...

20.07.2026 30

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Sakshi Sadashiv

Blackrock gives Udaan more time. But time has never been its problem

The B2B e-commerce company is treading water. And it finds a $160 million lifeline, including from the world’s largest asset manager

17.07.2026 30

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Nuha Bubere

India’s study-abroad lenders are forced to choose their plan B: India

Overseas education lenders have paused their IPOs plans and turned to the domestic market for growth as the US, UK, and Canada have moved to restrict...

16.07.2026 40

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Atul Krishna

Burger King India’s new billionaire owner inherits an old problem, and brings his own

Even as Restaurant Brands Asia tackles an Indonesia challenge, its acquisition by Ajanta Pharma’s promoter family brings fresh concerns over excess...

15.07.2026 30

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Anirudh Somani

BPOs used accent translators to cut costs. Its agents are paying the price

Tools from voice-AI startups like Sanas mute out “human” emotions like laughter. Meanwhile, AI agents are sounding more human everyday

14.07.2026 30

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Debanjali Biswas

The call-centre agent isn’t an AI bot. Good luck convincing Americans

Accent-translation tools from voice-AI startups like Sanas mute out “human” emotions like laughter. Meanwhile, AI agents are sounding more human...

14.07.2026 30

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Debanjali Biswas

Cloudnine spent four years growing, only to start a PE bidding war

Since shelving its IPO plans in 2022, the healthcare chain has grown bigger in size through private capital and acquisitions, while also changing its...

13.07.2026 40

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Sudeshna Ray

Where to invest Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, Rs 1 crore

The market realities have changed over the past six months. Should you change your strategies?

10.07.2026 30

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Sunil Mittal is irreplaceable at Airtel. Now he has to make himself irrelevant

With the 68-year-old billionaire’s succession plan, the telco has to find ways to thrive without the man who fought its wars

09.07.2026 40

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Raghav Batra

Oyo shed the Oyo tag. Its IPO wants investors to do the same

Once known for budget hotels in India, Oyo’s parent, Prism, now owns 40 brands internationally, thanks to debt-funded purchases. Its IPO wants...

08.07.2026 40

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Suprita Anupam

There’s a three-way fight to rent India its AI. Nvidia seems to be winning it anyway

Three companies lease India its AI compute. Nvidia supplies the chips to all of them—then comes for what they sell, one software release at a time

07.07.2026 40

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

At RBI-licensed NBFCs, 600% annual interest is board-approved, ‘reasonable’, and perfectly legal

The RBI chose not to set a ceiling on interest rates. Now, NBFCs want to see just how far they can push it

06.07.2026 50

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Mutasim Khan

This company makes every fourth AC in a sweltering India. It still went looking for trouble

Amber Enterprises, the contract manufacturer behind Voltas, Blue Star, and LG’s ACs, will now assemble Oppo’s smartphones, too. It’s a business...

03.07.2026 50

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Priyal Mahtta

Inside Third Wave Coffee’s unending reinvention

Cafés near Starbucks, a long food menu, and now desserts. The specialty-coffee chain’s search for profits continues

02.07.2026 50

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Nuha Bubere

Your next Samsung or Xiaomi phone must give something up. Which feature would you choose?

AI’s insatiable appetite for memory is hollowing out the Rs 15,000 smartphone, leaving buyers with dimmer screens, weaker cameras, and higher prices

01.07.2026 40

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Sakshi Sadashiv

ONDC’s first act stalled. Its second comes with Rs 220 crore and a new script

The state-backed digital commerce network is betting on new offerings for retailers in particular to revive its sagging fortunes. It’s a tough bet

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Inderpal Singh

Cred’s first profitable quarter comes with a trade-off. No, not Kunal Shah

The fintech has inherited Rs 6,500 crore, a diffuse revenue stream, and a UI problem

30.06.2026 50

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Suprita Anupam

Accenture, TCS are the first dominoes to fall in the remaking of IT jobs

What looks like a minor tweak to salary structures is eroding the financial certainty that defined India’s tech jobs, with ripple effects on home...

29.06.2026 40

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Debanjali Biswas

Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI

Schools are scrambling to get their AI lessons in order. It’s proving to be a struggle

26.06.2026 50

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Atul Krishna

The Blusmart heir that looks more like a lifeline for Vinfast

Vingroup rolled out ride-hailing services through Green SM in India. It’s also doubling as the largest customer for its automaker

25.06.2026 50

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Suprita Anupam

This Bengaluru startup isn’t building faster chips than Nvidia. It’s building cheaper AI

Nvidia won the race to train AI. Turiyam thinks the race to run it is still wide open, and cheaper to win

24.06.2026 50

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Jio Platforms’ big global backers sit out the IPO. They don’t have a choice

Meta, Alphabet, and nearly a dozen other global investors bought into Jio’s digital-powerhouse story in 2020. Six years later, telecom still pays...

23.06.2026 40

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Why Adani is sailing in Europe’s energy waters

Adani Ports built its heft where ships docked. Now it wants to linger where energy lives—offshore

22.06.2026 40

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Sakshi Sadashiv