On August 5, the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee held the repo rate at 5.25% for the fourth straight meeting, unanimous call, neutral stance intact. Governor Sanjay Malhotra
Top Stories
September 7, 2026
Last September, the income tax department’s servers buckled under 7.3 crore returns landing before the deadline, a record the CBDT confirmed publicly (CBDT, 2025). Somewhere in that rush was a
September 5, 2026
Ask a fresh engineering graduate in Bengaluru what work feels like this year, and you’ll get a very different answer than a mid-level bank manager in Mumbai would give. Both
Business
Picking the right workspace can genuinely make or break how a startup functions. It shapes everything from day-to-day productivity to who you end up meeting, who you’re able to hire,
AI isn’t a side bet in India’s startup story anymore; it’s turning into the main engine. Founders who used to build software services for global clients are now building actual
AI
India counted roughly 350 government-recognised startups when the Startup India mission launched in 2016. That number has since climbed past 2.35 lakh, according to the Startup India portal (2026), and
September 4, 2026
Ten years ago, most of the companies on this list were slide decks running on founder savings and a handful of angel checks. Today they move salaries, groceries, insurance premiums,
Startup
September 2, 2026
Walk into any boardroom on Mumbai’s Nariman Point, and the surname on the visiting card is often older than the company logo itself. Roughly three in every four rupees of
Article
September 1, 2026
In India, electric vehicles are no longer a choice for consumers looking for something that is efficient, truly future-proof, and good value for money. It’s a combination of factors driving
At seven, a Mumbai boy sat before the computer his father gave him, more interested in writing code than playing the games on it. That habit grew into the Nazara
Technology
August 29, 2026
A leaking-roof barsati in Delhi is not where you’d expect to find the birthplace of a company that now earns close to fifteen billion dollars a year. But that’s exactly
IT Farms
A Belgian joint venture fell apart in Pune in 1980, just as its founder was stepping back from daily operations. Most small industrial firms would have struggled to survive that
In March 2026, a consortium of the Aditya Birla Group, the Times of India Group, Bolt Ventures and Blackstone paid close to INR 16,660 crore (USD 1.78 billion) for Royal
August 27, 2026
A young mechanical engineer who disliked milk landed a government posting to a dusty creamery in Anand, Gujarat, in 1949, with one plan: finish his mandatory service and leave. He
Success Stories
In 1954, owning an air conditioner in India meant importing one at a price only maharajas, five-star hotels, and government offices could afford. Room cooling was a luxury item, not
Brands
India’s energy story is changing fast, and Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) sits right at the centre of it. As the country leans harder into clean power and pulls away
Energy
August 25, 2026
A nineteen-year-old left Patna for Mumbai in 1973 with roughly two thousand rupees, a tin trunk, and no formal degree to fall back on. He wasn’t chasing a start-up dream
A farmer’s son in Hisar once stared at pipe fittings stamped “Made in England” and decided the label had to change. That irritation, more than any business plan, kicked off
In 1948, a father in a Rajasthani village carried his ten-year-old son on his shoulders for three hours because there was no hospital nearby, and no money for one closer.
Healthcare
August 24, 2026
Two brothers built one of India’s biggest hospital chains, then very nearly lost it to a boardroom war fought across three countries. That is the short version of the Fortis
August 22, 2026
A shuttered factory building in a Bengal town, empty for two years after its previous owner went bankrupt, became the unlikely starting point for one of India’s most recognised brands.
Eight million advertisers now run at least one AI-built ad creative on Meta’s platforms, roughly double the number a year earlier, per Meta’s own Q1 2026 earnings filing. That jump
Advertising
₹2.11 lakh crore. India’s gross GST collections have hit that mark in July 2026, up 15.4 per cent from the same month of the previous year. Each rupee is an
Twenty-two Zara stores. Forty-seven H&M outlets. Over nine hundred Zudio stores and counting. One of these numbers explains why Tata’s retail arm has been quietly trimming its own stake in
August 21, 2026
Naveen Tewari finished his MBA at Harvard Business School in 2007. He had elite placement offers waiting. Instead, he flew back to Bangalore, pooled savings with three friends, and ran
Education
August 20, 2026
Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced by splitting water using renewable electricity, leaving no carbon footprint at the production stage. It has moved from a niche climate idea to a global
August 18, 2026
Ten big IPOs raised more than ₹44,930 crore in October 2025 alone, led by Tata Capital and LG Electronics India. A lot of retail investors jumped in without reading the
Stock Markets
Every successful startup you can name Airbnb, Uber, or homegrown names like Flipkart and Zepto went through the same basic journey: a series of funding rounds that took them from
Investment & Funding
August 17, 2026
The conversation around AI job losses in 2026 has moved from boardroom speculation to kitchen-table anxiety in Indian homes. Search interest in AI job losses India 2026 has spiked as
A credit card works on a simple promise: the issuer sets a pre-approved limit, and the cardholder draws against it, in person or online, to pay for purchases or draw
Global cloud infrastructure spending hit $129 billion in the first three months of 2026 alone, up 35% from a year earlier, according to Synergy Research Group data reported by Statista
Cloud Computing
India’s edtech space has been on a rollercoaster over the past few years. The pandemic-era boom faded quickly, and many startups that once looked unstoppable began struggling to hold on
August 14, 2026
India’s digital lending platform market pulled in roughly USD 486.6 million in revenue in 2024 and is on track to grow at a 31.5 percent compound annual rate through 2030
Finance
Every rupee of PhysicsWallah’s Rs 3,480 crore IPO in November 2025 traced back to a partnership most of India had barely heard one half of. Alakh Pandey, the physics teacher
CXO Insight
August 13, 2026
In 2023, most companies were still arguing over chatbot scripts. By 2026, Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to carry task-specific agents that plan, act, and course-correct on their own,
August 10, 2026
Behind every handbag, sneaker, and monogrammed scarf sits a balance sheet most shoppers never think about. A small group of names now controls price points, runway influence, and investor attention
In 1986, Tech Mahindra was a single-client telecom vendor writing back-office software for British Telecom under a 60:40 joint venture. Today the company reports revenue of $6.39 billion a year,
August 6, 2026
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is one of the most competitive entrance exams in India, with more than 20 lakh students appearing for the exam every year. The
August 4, 2026
Three researchers. A borrowed office in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. No product, no revenue, no customers. In April 2023, that was Mistral AI. Within a month, it had raised €105 million
August 1, 2026
Harsimarbir Singh had already failed at four startups before he tried a fifth. That track record does not usually get a founder a term sheet from Sequoia Capital. It got
Two platforms, one addiction: your attention. Meta closed 2025 with just under $201 billion in revenue, nearly all of it advertising money. X, the app once called Twitter, chose a
Social Media
July 29, 2026
When people talk about serious Swiss watchmaking, Rolex and Omega are almost always the first names that come up. Both built global recognition through craftsmanship, but they win buyers over
Velvet ropes, imported glass, and a price tag north of 70,000 dollars were Tesla’s welcome card to India. It arrived at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai on July 15,
Automotive
July 28, 2026
A tea bag, a truck, a hotel room, and a line of code running someone’s payroll in Ohio. All four can trace back to one holding company in Mumbai. Few
Walk into a hardware store in rural Tamil Nadu and ask for a bicycle, a fertiliser sack, or a two-wheeler loan. A Murugappa Group company likely sits behind the counter.
Sidhant Keshwani’s first fashion startup sold Rs 5,000 T-shirts that almost nobody bought. When the business shut down, its leftover stock sold out in two days. That contradiction taught him
July 27, 2026
Most billionaires want to be seen. Vinod Adani spent four decades making sure he wasn’t. While his younger brother Gautam became the public face of one of India’s largest conglomerates,
July 24, 2026
The BlueStone success story begins with Gaurav Singh Kushwaha, an IIT Delhi graduate and former Amazon engineer, betting on an industry that had barely gone online. In 2011, he built
Most billionaire origin stories skip the boring part. Changpeng Zhao’s doesn’t work without it. Before Binance, before the private jets and the courtroom, there was a teenager who was frying
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