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Rakesh Biyani takes the fight to Zudio years after Future Group’s collapse

Rakesh Biyani takes the fight to Zudio years after Future Group’s collapse

Four years in, Style Union has 180 stores, a fundraise underway, and the experience of building it once before

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Shriya Sahni

20,000 organ transplants a year, and ‘success’ is whatever hospitals say it means

20,000 organ transplants a year, and ‘success’ is whatever hospitals say it means

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

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Isha Mukhtyar

In India, falling in love with Chinese open-weight models is the easy part

In India, falling in love with Chinese open-weight models is the easy part

But trusting them is a whole different ball game. And legacy banks are not there yet

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Debanjali Biswas

After TISS and IRMA, the govt comes for India’s top statistics institute

After TISS and IRMA, the govt comes for India’s top statistics institute

It has proposed dramatic changes at the Indian Statistical Institute at a time when its own numbers don't necessarily inspire trust

18.09.2026 20

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Inderpal Singh

India wants to insure its space boom. Insurers want a space boom first

India wants to insure its space boom. Insurers want a space boom first

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

17.09.2026 20

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Sakshi Sadashiv

How Blackstone pulled off a buy-and-flip in less than a year

How Blackstone pulled off a buy-and-flip in less than a year

Global private equity has figured out that US medical-billing companies like AGS Health sell for twice as much on the Indian stock exchange

16.09.2026 20

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Mutasim Khan

Flipkart finds Minutes-shaped redemption after years of struggle

Flipkart finds Minutes-shaped redemption after years of struggle

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

15.09.2026 30

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Nuha Bubere

How many companies can one cigarette company become? Ask ITC

How many companies can one cigarette company become? Ask ITC

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

14.09.2026 9

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Raghav Batra

Bollywood is learning to make movies without those who make movies

From finding scripts and storyboarding to generating entire shots and replacing chunks of VFX, AI is creeping into every stage of filmmaking

11.09.2026 10

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Shiveka Bakshi

Vodafone Idea had no chance of averting a painful death. Then it did exactly that

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...

10.09.2026 20

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Priyal Mahtta

IIT, IIM reunions and that warm, fuzzy feeling of … making a donation

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...

09.09.2026 10

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Santhom J Joseph

What we learnt building a voice agent on two frontier Indian AI models

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

08.09.2026 30

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Bookmyshow prepares for the biggest battle of its life. And District isn’t the enemy

With $50 million from KKR, the entertainment company has to worry more about fixing the sorry state of concert venues, licences, and equipment than...

07.09.2026 10

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Isha Mukhtyar

A peptide party that never happened has raised questions Indian sellers are yet to answer

Wellness clinics, fitness trainers, and D2C websites push peptides for mood, skin, and libido. No one is checking what is inside the vial, though

04.09.2026 20

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Sudeshna Ray

Sajjan Jindal is betting JSW’s steel fortune on cars

The JSW chairman is trying to crack the automobile market with EVs, but ambition alone might not be enough

03.09.2026 20

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Suprita Anupam

Delhi’s mass surveillance: track 50 million faces, identify them in five seconds

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...

02.09.2026 10

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Pratap Vikram Singh

Data centres, airports, IT parks: Adani and Tata get to cherry-pick India’s best electricity buyers

Private players are eyeing India’s fattest power customers as discoms keep the grid

01.09.2026 10

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Sakshi Sadashiv

Netflix went from Sacred Games to Kapil Sharma. And it’s paying off

Once unafraid of showcasing violence, nudity, or state failure, Netflix is slowly becoming a sanitised Indian TV channel

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Debanjali Biswas

72-year-old Voltas turns to 14-year-old Atomberg for help

A joint venture for compressors attempts to stabilise the AC supply chain. It isn’t the answer to the Tata company’s woes, though

28.08.2026 20

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Priyal Mahtta

72-year-old Voltas turns to 14-year-old Atomberg for help

A joint venture for compressors attempts to stabilise the AC supply chain. It isn’t the answer to the Tata company’s woes, though

28.08.2026 40

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Priyal Mahtta

How the US-Iran war fuelled Pixxel and India’s sovereign satellite push

Analytics is becoming the next frontier for Indian spacetech. With $96M behind it, Pixxel may be furthest ahead

27.08.2026 30

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Malaiyandi Sundaram R

Flagged: 3M ‘mule’ accounts. Declined: Rs 25K cr in fraud transactions. Then: who knows?

Across 14 cases, the trail after fraud detection leads to frozen accounts, disputed ownership, court battles, and money that does not always make it...

26.08.2026 20

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Geetha Venkatesan

Nykaa finally fixed fashion, and investors came rushing back. Myntra still sees no reason for panic

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...

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Nuha Bubere

Ten x You’s plan to become India’s Nike: just do it the Chinese way

Former Swiggy executive Karthik Gurumurthy, backed by Sachin Tendulkar, wants to sell performance shoes built for Indian feet. And use Chinese brand...

24.08.2026 20

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Tanmay Hardikar

UPI is the Trojan horse carrying small banks into HDFC, Axis’s credit-card empire

Once touted as the next big disruptor, the credit-line-on-UPI spent two years in the shadows. Not anymore

21.08.2026 30

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Mutasim Khan

Jio Financial signals defeat by selling its crown jewel cheap

By giving up half of Jio Credit to Bank of America for a song, Mukesh Ambani makes an uncharacteristic move

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Anand Kalyanaraman

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

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

18.08.2026 30

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Shriya Sahni

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

17.08.2026 20

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Sarthak Gupta

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

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 50

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Priyal Mahtta

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 40

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Nuha Bubere

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 40

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Sakshi Sadashiv

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 30

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Suprita Anupam

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 30

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Rohin Dharmakumar

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 40

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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 40

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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 50

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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

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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 50

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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...

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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 40

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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 40

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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 50

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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 30

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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 40

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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 50

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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 40

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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 50

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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 50

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Tanmay Hardikar