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How Blackstone pulled off a buy-and-flip in less than a year

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 20

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UPI is the Trojan horse carrying small banks into HDFC, Axis’s credit-card empire

Once touted as the next big disruptor, the credit-line-on-UPI spent two years in the shadows. Not anymore

21.08.2026 30

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RBI’s pipeline for hackers now starts at IIT Kanpur. It isn’t where they want to end up

The country is losing its world-class hackers to GCCs and foreign firms, just as government bodies are realising they need them most

27.07.2026 50

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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

06.07.2026 60

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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 60

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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 60

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What Anthropic’s Mythos can hack in hours, Indian banks take months to fix

While super-intelligent LLMs have shrunk the time it takes hackers to mount an attack to under 10 hours, Indian companies still need 180 days to patch...

04.05.2026 70

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Mythos has cut hackers’ attack time to hours. Finserv firms’ defence still takes months

While super-intelligent LLMs have shrunk the time it takes hackers to mount an attack to under 10 hours, Indian companies still need 180 days to patch...

04.05.2026 60

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Bain Capital bet Rs 4,000 crore on gold. The RBI just walked all over it

The regulator’s new rules that come into effect on 1 April undercut the country’s largest private-equity bet on gold-lending to date

31.03.2026 80

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What does Razorpay know about agentic AI that OpenAI, Amazon, Ebay don’t?

The same week OpenAI rolled back its in-chat shopping agent, Razorpay launched what it called the biggest disruption to payments since UPI. But is it...

20.03.2026 50

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Bengaluru’s fix for the water-tanker “mafia”: yet more tankers. What could go wrong?

Even as summer rolls around and demand for water begins to peak, Bengaluru isn’t embracing the public utility’s cheaper alternative to the private...

14.03.2026 80

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The private-equity handbook for turning non-profit schools into cash cows

12.01.2026 90

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