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Four years in, Style Union has 180 stores, a fundraise underway, and the experience of building it once before
More than one in four hospitals don’t report how many organ transplants they do, and what the rest report tells you nothing about how patients fare
But trusting them is a whole different ball game. And legacy banks are not there yet
It has proposed dramatic changes at the Indian Statistical Institute at a time when its own numbers don't necessarily inspire trust
From Skyroot and Agnikul to New India Assurance and Tata AIG, India’s nascent space industry is forcing two very different sides of the market to meet
Global private equity has figured out that US medical-billing companies like AGS Health sell for twice as much on the Indian stock exchange
Beating Instamart by dark stores is less about being a force to be reckoned with in quick commerce than about securing the e-commerce giant’s future
It sells everything from atta to paperboards. But the business that keeps paying the bills is still the one it has spent decades trying to outgrow
From finding scripts and storyboarding to generating entire shots and replacing chunks of VFX, AI is creeping into every stage of filmmaking
Vi is pushing discounts, unlimited data, and family plans—all as it quietly adds network density in its strongest circles. That’s a sea change...
From Rs 8-lakh hostel rooms to Rs 100-crore schools, India’s elite institutes are turning to alumni at silver-jubilee reunions as public funding...
One is free, open, and still the last one you would reach for. The other is left carrying the weight of the whole AI Mission for now
With $50 million from KKR, the entertainment company has to worry more about fixing the sorry state of concert venues, licences, and equipment than...
Wellness clinics, fitness trainers, and D2C websites push peptides for mood, skin, and libido. No one is checking what is inside the vial, though
The JSW chairman is trying to crack the automobile market with EVs, but ambition alone might not be enough
The Safe City Project is a privacy nightmare, but over 180 police stations are nearly ready to match your face to your voter’s ID, driver’s...
Private players are eyeing India’s fattest power customers as discoms keep the grid
Once unafraid of showcasing violence, nudity, or state failure, Netflix is slowly becoming a sanitised Indian TV channel
A joint venture for compressors attempts to stabilise the AC supply chain. It isn’t the answer to the Tata company’s woes, though
A joint venture for compressors attempts to stabilise the AC supply chain. It isn’t the answer to the Tata company’s woes, though
Analytics is becoming the next frontier for Indian spacetech. With $96M behind it, Pixxel may be furthest ahead
Across 14 cases, the trail after fraud detection leads to frozen accounts, disputed ownership, court battles, and money that does not always make it...
In the last two years, the fashion vertical has shifted focus from in-house brands to more established ones like H&M and Birkenstock. The pivot has...
Former Swiggy executive Karthik Gurumurthy, backed by Sachin Tendulkar, wants to sell performance shoes built for Indian feet. And use Chinese brand...
Once touted as the next big disruptor, the credit-line-on-UPI spent two years in the shadows. Not anymore
By giving up half of Jio Credit to Bank of America for a song, Mukesh Ambani makes an uncharacteristic move
The country can’t afford to leave the fate of the ever-expanding gig workforce entirely to market forces
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
Bajaj Finance and Tata Capital could lose a lucrative lending tool. But the central bank has another option
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
The upgrade strengthens what SCL already does, including catering to agencies and prototyping for students, rather than the 100X expansion and 28nm...
Advent wanted the water-purifier maker to have Urban Company’s service chops. Then Urban Company came for Eureka Forbes with its own purifier
The government is spending Rs 29,000 crore on regional airports, longer-term subsidies, and even aircraft. That does little for airline economics,...
A new mass-market product, targeted expansion, and a stronger bottom line might just carry Ather all the way to the top
On staying hands-on in the AI age, building venture studios, and staying loyal to a mission
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...
Two years after ISRO did away with its hiring bond with IIST, the institute is struggling to adapt to private-industry requirements—continuing to...
Even without betting the farm like Glenmark and Wockhardt, it’s possible to punt on the drug India won’t make
IT companies are building new tools and repacking existing services to serve as the mediation layer between enterprises and AI models
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...
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...
For over a decade, Tata 1mg has resisted following trends other e-pharmacies did. It wants to be a healthcare company
Almost every major industrial state is giving billions in discounted land, subsidised power, and exempted taxes to attract data centres. What exactly...
Meity is trying to bring AI into every ministry, with six companies freshly empanelled. But messy data, fragmented procurement, and bureaucratic...
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...
Such is the obsession with renewables that no one has bothered to ask how much solar energy is too much without battery storage
The country is losing its world-class hackers to GCCs and foreign firms, just as government bodies are realising they need them most
The midwifery-led model ensures more personalisation and natural births. But it comes with higher expenses and difficulty scaling
The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund is exiting, often if not always, to its investors
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...