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Sunil Mittal is irreplaceable at Airtel. Now he has to make himself irrelevant

Sunil Mittal is irreplaceable at Airtel. Now he has to make himself irrelevant

With the 68-year-old billionaire’s succession plan, the telco has to find ways to thrive without the man who fought its wars

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Raghav Batra

Oyo shed the Oyo tag. Its IPO wants investors to do the same

Oyo shed the Oyo tag. Its IPO wants investors to do the same

Once known for budget hotels in India, Oyo’s parent, Prism, now owns 40 brands internationally, thanks to debt-funded purchases. Its IPO wants...

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Suprita Anupam

There’s a three-way fight to rent India its AI. Nvidia seems to be winning it anyway

There’s a three-way fight to rent India its AI. Nvidia seems to be winning it anyway

Three companies lease India its AI compute. Nvidia supplies the chips to all of them—then comes for what they sell, one software release at a time

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

At RBI-licensed NBFCs, 600% annual interest is board-approved, ‘reasonable’, and perfectly legal

At RBI-licensed NBFCs, 600% annual interest is board-approved, ‘reasonable’, and perfectly legal

The RBI chose not to set a ceiling on interest rates. Now, NBFCs want to see just how far they can push it

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Mutasim Khan

This company makes every fourth AC in a sweltering India. It still went looking for trouble

This company makes every fourth AC in a sweltering India. It still went looking for trouble

Amber Enterprises, the contract manufacturer behind Voltas, Blue Star, and LG’s ACs, will now assemble Oppo’s smartphones, too. It’s a business...

03.07.2026 20

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Priyal Mahtta

Inside Third Wave Coffee’s unending reinvention

Inside Third Wave Coffee’s unending reinvention

Cafés near Starbucks, a long food menu, and now desserts. The specialty-coffee chain’s search for profits continues

02.07.2026 20

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Nuha Bubere

Your next Samsung or Xiaomi phone must give something up. Which feature would you choose?

Your next Samsung or Xiaomi phone must give something up. Which feature would you choose?

AI’s insatiable appetite for memory is hollowing out the Rs 15,000 smartphone, leaving buyers with dimmer screens, weaker cameras, and higher prices

01.07.2026 10

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Sakshi Sadashiv

ONDC’s first act stalled. Its second comes with Rs 220 crore and a new script

ONDC’s first act stalled. Its second comes with Rs 220 crore and a new script

The state-backed digital commerce network is betting on new offerings for retailers in particular to revive its sagging fortunes. It’s a tough bet

30.06.2026 30

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Inderpal Singh

Cred’s first profitable quarter comes with a trade-off. No, not Kunal Shah

Cred’s first profitable quarter comes with a trade-off. No, not Kunal Shah

The fintech has inherited Rs 6,500 crore, a diffuse revenue stream, and a UI problem

30.06.2026 20

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Suprita Anupam

Accenture, TCS are the first dominoes to fall in the remaking of IT jobs

Accenture, TCS are the first dominoes to fall in the remaking of IT jobs

What looks like a minor tweak to salary structures is eroding the financial certainty that defined India’s tech jobs, with ripple effects on home...

29.06.2026 20

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Debanjali Biswas

Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI

Schools are scrambling to get their AI lessons in order. It’s proving to be a struggle

26.06.2026 30

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Atul Krishna

The Blusmart heir that looks more like a lifeline for Vinfast

Vingroup rolled out ride-hailing services through Green SM in India. It’s also doubling as the largest customer for its automaker

25.06.2026 20

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Suprita Anupam

This Bengaluru startup isn’t building faster chips than Nvidia. It’s building cheaper AI

Nvidia won the race to train AI. Turiyam thinks the race to run it is still wide open, and cheaper to win

24.06.2026 30

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Jio Platforms’ big global backers sit out the IPO. They don’t have a choice

Meta, Alphabet, and nearly a dozen other global investors bought into Jio’s digital-powerhouse story in 2020. Six years later, telecom still pays...

23.06.2026 20

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Why Adani is sailing in Europe’s energy waters

Adani Ports built its heft where ships docked. Now it wants to linger where energy lives—offshore

22.06.2026 20

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Sakshi Sadashiv

AI cites a hospital for health advice, but the hospital uses AI to write the advice. And both are wrong

The vicious loop poses real-world health risks

19.06.2026 20

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Sudeshna Ray

‘You have to be clear what is more important—the economy or the market’

Despite a truce in West Asia, foreign investors don’t seem keen to keep their Indian stocks. The problem and the solution lie closer to home,...

18.06.2026 20

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Why Sunil Mittal is betting on a food business that doesn’t scale like fast food

Bharti’s dining arm, Gourmet Investments, wants to more than double its restaurant footprint to 125 in three years. But casual dining chains don’t...

17.06.2026 20

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Aakriti Bhalla

India’s Rs 1 lakh crore R&D fund: speed was the signal, but Rs 5 lakh crore is the point

The Technology Development Board ran through its budget in weeks. Approved VCs are next. The harder ask, persuading one more stakeholder to respond to...

16.06.2026 30

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Seema Singh

Heads, founders win. Tails, platforms win. AI fund Activate wins either way

The country’s latest AI fund, founded by a former IndiaAI Mission advisor, is courting the next crop of Indian AI founders, while also backing...

15.06.2026 20

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Zepto wants Rs 8,100 crore—and investors to trust the numbers it won’t disclose

Revenue is up 5X since FY24. So are losses. Yet the IPO filing leaves investors without key customer metrics and answers on FDI risks

12.06.2026 30

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Suprita Anupam

Firstcry’s winning formula is running out of road. It keeps doubling down on it anyway

The babycare retailer spent years building stores and private labels. Even when the world around it was changing rapidly

11.06.2026 20

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Nuha Bubere

Anand Mahindra built an elite engg university. It isn’t attracting elite students

Mahindra University is offering generous scholarships to address the problem. It may not be enough

11.06.2026 20

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Atul Krishna

Blackstone’s next big IPO looks built more for its own exit than the public’s entry

Horizon Industrial Parks is set to be India’s largest warehousing platform. But it’s saddled with Rs 6,700 crore of debt and over half of its 58...

10.06.2026 30

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Mutasim Khan

Bajaj’s website to Malabar’s AI: Accenture didn’t build the world’s biggest ad agency through ads

Accenture Song’s biggest competitors are no longer just WPP, Publicis, and Dentsu, but everyone trying to blur the lines between marketing,...

09.06.2026 20

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Debanjali Biswas

Lendingkart’s last stand: a founder, a Temasek unit, an outdated deal, and a $600M wipeout

Harshvardhan Lunia and family have filed an NCLT petition alleging foul play by Temasek subsidiary Fullerton. The case will be heard on 18 June

08.06.2026 40

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Suprita Anupam

HCLTech, which sells to the world, invested $150M in Sarvam AI, which is built for India

$150 million buys influence over Sarvam's roadmap and a stake in India's sovereign-AI story. Whether it buys revenue is the question nobody can yet...

05.06.2026 20

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Rohin Dharmakumar

Optimist wants to reinvent the AC. Daikin and LG don’t need to

The energy-efficient AC startup prioritised engineering and services before expanding its retail presence. But slow and steady brand building has a...

05.06.2026 30

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Priyal Mahtta

India built a Rs 50,000 crore MSME fund to fight VCs’ tech bias. It still became a tech backer

Of the 750 companies the fund has invested in, seven out of 10 are tech-heavy—defying the fund’s intention of backing traditional manufacturers

04.06.2026 20

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Inderpal Singh

Tesla and Figure AI are building robots to act like humans. Indian workers are teaching them how

…for a few hundred rupees. It may be a Faustian bargain, once again

03.06.2026 40

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Sakshi sadashiv

Equity investing is sold as a must. The affluent can do just fine without it

A fixed-income-only corpus can work if you get your numbers and objectives in line

02.06.2026 30

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Anand Kalyanaraman

Sun Pharma bought the dip in its $11.7B Organon deal. Just not the right kind of dip

Organon’s Q1 numbers on 30 April showed how Sun bought its worst quarter. But India’s biggest pharma company will hope it doesn’t get worse...

01.06.2026 30

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Seema Singh

Why Amazon seems so calm about being awfully late to quick commerce

The global giant’s betting rapid expansion and a pre-existing subscription program will make up for the delay

29.05.2026 40

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Nuha Bubere

Bajaj Finance mastered self-disruption. Succession may be harder

An early stage ultimatum—meet this target or I’ll shut you down—still reverberates across the company, propelling it forward

28.05.2026 50

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Neha mehrotra

India needs Tata, Mahindra EVs to cut the oil bill. But EV owners are stuck at workshops

The lack of a robust EV ecosystem, from poor afters-sales service to paltry infrastructure, is fraying consumer interest

27.05.2026 30

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Suprita Anupam

Cipla had one of its worst quarters. Investors still rewarded it

India’s fourth-largest drugmaker lost two of its most-profitable drugs within months. Its new pipeline is what investors care about

26.05.2026 40

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Sudeshna Ray

Tata and Murugappa’s chip race starts with what India doesn’t have

While Tata is trying to build a self-contained chipmaking ecosystem from the ground up, Murugappa is acquiring disparate pieces and stacking them...

25.05.2026 30

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Priyal Mahtta

NEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you don’t

The government is moving NEET online to fight question paper leaks, but the real problem might not have to do with the mode of exam

22.05.2026 30

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Atul Krishna

Maharashtra lured Amazon, NTT with cheap green power. Then it changed the data-centre deal

The state built India’s largest captive solar market for its data centres. Now it’s dismantling the economics that made it work

22.05.2026 30

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Two ex-Tesla engineers show what is waste for Reliance or Praj is gold for them

By making high-value chemicals from biomass, at mouth-watering gross margins, and replacing petroleum-derived products

21.05.2026 30

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Seema Singh

Drones already move groceries, blood samples. D2C brands want them to move customers too

As drones shrink delivery times and logistics costs, D2C brands like Mamaearth and Giva are beginning to see a way around Amazon and Flipkart

20.05.2026 40

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Mutasim Khan

Airtel and Jio treated AI like an OTT bundle. Was OpenAI right to stay out?

The onus of bankrolling the partnership has fallen on AI companies. All telcos have to do in return is leverage their existing ecosystem

19.05.2026 60

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Debanjali Biswas

LIC has lost its throne to SIPs. It’s still the smartest investor in the room

Mutual funds have grown faster as domestic institutional investors in Indian stocks than LIC of late. Yet, in moments of market stress, the insurer...

18.05.2026 40

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Aakriti Bhalla

Can ‘drug visas’ soon outgrow drug manufacturing? This pharma company is betting on it

Factory-less HRV Pharma has turned managing regulatory paperwork into a successful standalone business

15.05.2026 40

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Sudeshna Ray

Can Adani do for apples what Mahindra did for grapes?

Not by trading, but by storing

15.05.2026 40

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Sakshi sadashiv

Why Vijay Sales’ billionaire owners have no use for a family office—or even a wealth manager

Nilesh Gupta and his family know that putting money back in the Rs 13,600 crore electronics chain is time-tested and lucrative. They aren’t so sure...

14.05.2026 100

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Seetharaman G

From Bengaluru to Mumbai to Pune, metro projects are colliding with India’s monsoons

Cities building metros acquire land, divert drains, and tear up roads. Fixing what the rain does to all of it is somebody else’s problem

13.05.2026 40

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Mrunmayee Kulkarni

Meesho built Valmo to keep deliveries in-house—until orders surged to 5,000 a minute

The e-commerce platform’s management is on a quest to lower costs of its in-house logistics arm, Valmo, but it has much to learn from 3PL players...

12.05.2026 30

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Nuha Bubere

Is Swiggy snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

Once a pioneer, Instamart now takes 15 months to add as many users as Blinkit does in three. Swiggy’s growing losses are no comfort, either

11.05.2026 50

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Suprita Anupam

Is Swiggy snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

Once a pioneer, Instamart now takes 15 months to add as many users as Blinkit does in three. Swiggy’s growing losses are no comfort, either

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Suprita Anupam