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The Walmart-owned fintech’s insurance bet came a cropper. With the imminent cap on UPI market share, Phonepe can’t afford another dud
One door is API Setu, the government’s audited data marketplace. The others are side deals, one of which leaked vehicle owners’ details for Rs 5
Senior-care companies offer hospital-level pay, food, and housing, yet can't find enough caregivers. Without a training pipeline, the silver economy...
Neither cutting broker commissions nor mandating patient co-pay is a sure cure for increasing medical costs. But that’s about the only choice right...
From Entrepreneurs First’s co-founder speed dates to The Foundery’s idea vault, a new wave of venture studios believe that plug-and-play founders...
The audio-series company dabbled in novels, then microdramas, and now AI. In the process, it claims it has doubled its annualised revenue to over $500...
NSE’s listing was so underwhelming that it has shaken faith even in safe-sounding names that are next in line to list, like Zepto and OYO
And as long as the latter remains unlisted
Homes now cost 11X annual income, against an affordability benchmark of 5X. A room of one’s own has never seemed more out of reach
The engineering services provider is undertaking a root-and-branch restructuring in a quest to become an AI-led company
India’s digital infrastructure for the physical world is being built city by city, with no common framework
Journalism as an evolving product, through everything we launched since October 2016, including what we killed. We're now building our second decade.
Voice AI companies brought down the cost of calling customers. Trai’s new rules threaten to turn this into their biggest liability
India’s voluntary carbon market has startups, farms, and self-audited private registries. Big tech is buying from it anyway
Airtel Payments Bank takes roughly the same cut on every rupee as Airtel Money does on every shilling. The African wallet just moves far more. With...
Acquiring beds insatiably, earning more per bed, reducing employee benefits—private equity’s operational and financial engineering is kicking in fast
Once seen as Tata’s black horse, Tata Administrative Services has since lost its power within the group
Inox Clean Energy now has a seat at the table with established renewable energy players; but it’s come at the cost of multiple acquisitions and...
As ASG piles on acquisitions and debt and Dr Agarwal’s faces public-market pressure, The Eye Foundation is betting on patient capital that gives it...
The protests after a recent student death have brought an old divide into the open, raising questions about the original aim of giving engineers a...
The National Household Income Survey is running into several grey areas on the ground, including what, exactly, constitutes a household
From cheaper hotels for crew to revamped pilot training and aircraft maintenance, the Southeast Asian carrier is determined to pull the Tata-owned...
As the industry reels from the regulator’s radical suggestions on commissions, the 10-year-old general insurer has a reason to smile
Genius Sports, Sportradar, and Stats Perform are using Indian workers to feed the data-hungry global sports betting industry, one obscure match at a...
Of the allotted Rs 3,000 crore, only Rs 500 crore has been disbursed. And of the 162 AIFs who’ve applied, not one has received a letter of approval
Nexedge wants to swap cash incentives for equity, requiring a long-term commitment, to get experienced relationship managers to stay
Nearly 90% of all investment and debt in India’s GPU-and-data-centre ecosystem comes from abroad. Domestic lenders are still evaluating the risk
Beset by troubles, HDFC Bank lost much of its lead over its state-owned peer by market value. But with a new CEO in a month, it could again pull ahead
D2C wellness firms are selling urban rich Rs 25,000 full-body scans that promise more than they can deliver. Dognosis is betting on, well, dog noses...
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