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Phonepe’s trading app has lost 40% of active users since March ’25. But hey, it at least has a new name

Phonepe’s trading app has lost 40% of active users since March ’25. But hey, it at least has a new name

The Walmart-owned fintech’s insurance bet came a cropper. With the imminent cap on UPI market share, Phonepe can’t afford another dud

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Suprita Anupam

AI agents will come for govt data. Govt is yet to decide which door they’ll use

AI agents will come for govt data. Govt is yet to decide which door they’ll use

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

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Inderpal Singh

India needs about 2 million caregivers. The govt has trained fewer than 40,000

India needs about 2 million caregivers. The govt has trained fewer than 40,000

Senior-care companies offer hospital-level pay, food, and housing, yet can't find enough caregivers. Without a training pipeline, the silver economy...

29.10.2026 20

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Isha Mukhtyar

‘Winner’ to patsy: what the radical insurance reforms could mean for the patient

‘Winner’ to patsy: what the radical insurance reforms could mean for the patient

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...

28.10.2026 20

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Sudeshna Ray

New-age venture capital would rather manufacture founders than find them

New-age venture capital would rather manufacture founders than find them

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...

27.10.2026 30

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Mutasim Khan

Pocket FM won’t stop throwing things at the wall

Pocket FM won’t stop throwing things at the wall

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...

26.10.2026 40

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Shriya Sahni

Retail investors piled into the unlisted market’s favourite stock. Regret followed

Retail investors piled into the unlisted market’s favourite stock. Regret followed

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

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Tanmay Hardikar

Jio and Reliance Retail are tied at the hip. That’s fine as long as the Ambanis are one big happy family

Jio and Reliance Retail are tied at the hip. That’s fine as long as the Ambanis are one big happy family

And as long as the latter remains unlisted

22.10.2026 30

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Anand Kalyanaraman

For Gen Z, inheritance is the surest path to owning a home

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

21.10.2026 20

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Priyal Mahtta

L&T Tech took a Rs 350 cr haircut for the AI tag. Now it must prove the moat isn’t rented

The engineering services provider is undertaking a root-and-branch restructuring in a quest to become an AI-led company

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Suprita Anupam

India built digital twins of cities to predict floods. It’s now using them to find tax evaders

India’s digital infrastructure for the physical world is being built city by city, with no common framework

19.10.2026 40

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

2026–2036: The Ken’s second decade

Journalism as an evolving product, through everything we launched since October 2016, including what we killed. We're now building our second decade.

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Rohin Dharmakumar

Gnani, Eleven Labs’ cheap, human-like calls face a regulatory test

Voice AI companies brought down the cost of calling customers. Trai’s new rules threaten to turn this into their biggest liability

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Sakshi Sadashiv

Google and Amazon’s newfound fascination with India’s paddy fields

India’s voluntary carbon market has startups, farms, and self-audited private registries. Big tech is buying from it anyway

15.10.2026 20

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Airtel Money is worth $7 billion because Africa never got UPI

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...

14.10.2026 250

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Sumit Chakraborty

KKR and Blackstone found ‘platforms’ in hospitals. Will patients find healthcare in them?

Acquiring beds insatiably, earning more per bed, reducing employee benefits—private equity’s operational and financial engineering is kicking in fast

13.10.2026 60

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Mutasim Khan

TAS was Tata’s leadership factory. Now it’s a glorified recruitment agency

Once seen as Tata’s black horse, Tata Administrative Services has since lost its power within the group

12.10.2026 60

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Debanjali Biswas

Inox Clean’s ‘masterclass’ in growing revenue 43X in one year is a cautionary tale

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...

09.10.2026 40

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Shiveka Bakshi

As Temasek, TPG, KKR fuel an acquisition spree, this eye-care chain is betting on something different

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...

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Sudeshna Ray

At IITs, a long-brewing ‘culture war’ between engineering and humanities boils over

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...

07.10.2026 10

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Vishnu Prakash

450K families, 90 questions: India’s first income survey can’t get people to reveal their income

The National Household Income Survey is running into several grey areas on the ground, including what, exactly, constitutes a household

06.10.2026 30

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Inderpal Singh

Singapore Airlines is scripting Air India’s rescue—with only a 25% stake

From cheaper hotels for crew to revamped pilot training and aircraft maintenance, the Southeast Asian carrier is determined to pull the Tata-owned...

05.10.2026 50

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Nuha Bubere

Go Digit is an unintended beneficiary in the proposed shake-up of Indian insurance

As the industry reels from the regulator’s radical suggestions on commissions, the 10-year-old general insurer has a reason to smile

02.10.2026 70

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Watch local cricket, get Rs 5K: the Indians helping global betting giants see games before bettors

Genius Sports, Sportradar, and Stats Perform are using Indian workers to feed the data-hungry global sports betting industry, one obscure match at a...

01.10.2026 100

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Sakshi Sadashiv

A $12B R&D fund was meant to turbocharge startup funding. It did the opposite

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

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Suprita Anupam

Wealth managers love job hopping. An upstart wants to fix that

Nexedge wants to swap cash incentives for equity, requiring a long-term commitment, to get experienced relationship managers to stay

29.09.2026 40

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Priyal Mahtta

Who’s actually paying for Yotta, rivals’ multi-billion-dollar Nvidia orders?

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

28.09.2026 100

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

HDFC Bank’s losing streak and SBI’s dream rally have run their course

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

25.09.2026 30

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Sniffing dogs join the race to catch cancer early in India

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...

24.09.2026 50

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Tanmay Hardikar

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

23.09.2026 100

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Shriya Sahni

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

22.09.2026 30

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Isha Mukhtyar

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

21.09.2026 70

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Debanjali Biswas

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 50

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Inderpal Singh

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 70

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Sakshi Sadashiv

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 40

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Mutasim Khan

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 60

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Nuha Bubere

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 30

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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 30

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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 60

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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 20

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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 90

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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 30

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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 70

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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 40

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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 30

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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 50

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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

31.08.2026 70

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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 70

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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 70

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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 90

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Malaiyandi Sundaram R