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With the 68-year-old billionaire’s succession plan, the telco has to find ways to thrive without the man who fought its wars
Once known for budget hotels in India, Oyo’s parent, Prism, now owns 40 brands internationally, thanks to debt-funded purchases. Its IPO wants...
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
The RBI chose not to set a ceiling on interest rates. Now, NBFCs want to see just how far they can push it
Amber Enterprises, the contract manufacturer behind Voltas, Blue Star, and LG’s ACs, will now assemble Oppo’s smartphones, too. It’s a business...
Cafés near Starbucks, a long food menu, and now desserts. The specialty-coffee chain’s search for profits continues
AI’s insatiable appetite for memory is hollowing out the Rs 15,000 smartphone, leaving buyers with dimmer screens, weaker cameras, and higher prices
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
The fintech has inherited Rs 6,500 crore, a diffuse revenue stream, and a UI problem
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...
Schools are scrambling to get their AI lessons in order. It’s proving to be a struggle
Vingroup rolled out ride-hailing services through Green SM in India. It’s also doubling as the largest customer for its automaker
Nvidia won the race to train AI. Turiyam thinks the race to run it is still wide open, and cheaper to win
Meta, Alphabet, and nearly a dozen other global investors bought into Jio’s digital-powerhouse story in 2020. Six years later, telecom still pays...
Adani Ports built its heft where ships docked. Now it wants to linger where energy lives—offshore
The vicious loop poses real-world health risks
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,...
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...
The Technology Development Board ran through its budget in weeks. Approved VCs are next. The harder ask, persuading one more stakeholder to respond to...
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...
Revenue is up 5X since FY24. So are losses. Yet the IPO filing leaves investors without key customer metrics and answers on FDI risks
The babycare retailer spent years building stores and private labels. Even when the world around it was changing rapidly
Mahindra University is offering generous scholarships to address the problem. It may not be enough
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...
Accenture Song’s biggest competitors are no longer just WPP, Publicis, and Dentsu, but everyone trying to blur the lines between marketing,...
Harshvardhan Lunia and family have filed an NCLT petition alleging foul play by Temasek subsidiary Fullerton. The case will be heard on 18 June
$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...
The energy-efficient AC startup prioritised engineering and services before expanding its retail presence. But slow and steady brand building has a...
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
…for a few hundred rupees. It may be a Faustian bargain, once again
A fixed-income-only corpus can work if you get your numbers and objectives in line
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...
The global giant’s betting rapid expansion and a pre-existing subscription program will make up for the delay
An early stage ultimatum—meet this target or I’ll shut you down—still reverberates across the company, propelling it forward
The lack of a robust EV ecosystem, from poor afters-sales service to paltry infrastructure, is fraying consumer interest
India’s fourth-largest drugmaker lost two of its most-profitable drugs within months. Its new pipeline is what investors care about
While Tata is trying to build a self-contained chipmaking ecosystem from the ground up, Murugappa is acquiring disparate pieces and stacking them...
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
The state built India’s largest captive solar market for its data centres. Now it’s dismantling the economics that made it work
By making high-value chemicals from biomass, at mouth-watering gross margins, and replacing petroleum-derived products
As drones shrink delivery times and logistics costs, D2C brands like Mamaearth and Giva are beginning to see a way around Amazon and Flipkart
The onus of bankrolling the partnership has fallen on AI companies. All telcos have to do in return is leverage their existing ecosystem
Mutual funds have grown faster as domestic institutional investors in Indian stocks than LIC of late. Yet, in moments of market stress, the insurer...
Factory-less HRV Pharma has turned managing regulatory paperwork into a successful standalone business
Not by trading, but by storing
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...
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
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...
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
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