A Rare Alignment That Historically Produces Strong Markets There is a combination in Indian equity markets that has historically signalled sustainable bull runs rather than speculative spikes:...
India’s electric vehicle retail market touched a record 3,06,220 units in June 2026, reflecting strong adoption across two-wheelers, passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, and three-wheelers. The...
A Historic Visit That Rewrote the Bilateral Relationship The announcement came during Modi's historic two-day state visit to New Zealand on July 10 and 11 — the first by an Indian Prime Minister in...
A Market at Its Most Consequential Inflection Point India consumes roughly 20% of the world's data. It hosts less than 5% of the world's data centres. That gap — between demand and infrastructure —...
The Aditya Birla Group has made one of the biggest acquisitions in India's renewable energy sector by agreeing to acquire Sprng Energy, Shell's India-focused renewable energy platform, in a...
India has produced several remarkable wealth-creation stories over the past three decades, but few demonstrate the power of patient capital as dramatically as the journey of SBI Funds Management, the...
Aequs shares surged to a fresh all-time high after Nuvama Institutional Equities initiated coverage on the aerospace and precision engineering company with a bullish rating and a sharply higher...
From Niche Premium to National Contender Twelve years ago, two IIT Madras graduates — Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain — sat in a Bengaluru garage and asked a question that most Indian automotive...
A Company in Deliberate Transformation There is a version of HCLTech that most people know: India's third-largest IT company by revenue, strong in engineering services and infrastructure management,...
A chance encounter on a motorcycle in the mid-1980s laid the foundation for one of India's most resilient financial empires. Nearly four decades later, billionaires Motilal Oswal and Raamdeo Agrawal...
From CureFit to Cult.fit — A Decade of Ambition, Rebranded In 2016, Mukesh Bansal incorporated a company called CureFit Healthcare with a vision so broad it barely fit on a pitch deck. The plan was...
India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has transformed the way millions of people pay for everything from groceries and taxi rides to utility bills and online shopping. What started as a...
India's online food delivery industry has been dominated by two names for almost a decade—Zomato and Swiggy. Together, the two companies have transformed how millions of Indians order meals, built...
India's provident fund framework is undergoing one of its biggest structural updates in decades with the notification of the Employees' Provident Funds Scheme, 2026, replacing the EPF Scheme of 1952...
For many homeowners, a home loan EMI is the single biggest monthly expense. At the same time, long-term investors often build sizeable mutual fund portfolios that generate healthy returns over time....
A financial emergency often leaves people with two choices—take a personal loan at a high interest rate or withdraw money from long-term investments. But many Public Provident Fund (PPF) account...
June 2026 was a brutal month for the world's most valuable technology companies. Between June 1 and June 27, the combined market capitalisation of Big Tech fell by approximately $2.3 trillion —...
Artificial intelligence has already transformed the technology sector, but the next wave of wealth creation may come from a very different part of the economy. While companies like Nvidia have...
SpaceX has officially revealed the name of its next-generation artificial intelligence satellite network—Starmind—marking what could become the company's most ambitious space infrastructure project...
AI-curated summaries
In July 2026, India's equity market is experiencing a rare alignment that historically signals sustainable bull runs. Foreign Portfolio Investors have turned net buyers, investing over ₹15,157 crore after four consecutive months of heavy outflows. Meanwhile, domestic mutual funds have reduced their cash holdings to multi-year lows, with the average cash holding ratio across top 20 Asset Management Companies easing to 4.79% in May.
India has a significant lead in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in its enterprises, with 40% of Indian businesses having implemented AI at a significant or full scale, compared to a global average of 28%. However, the country lacks high-level AI expertise, with only 4% or less of Indian organisations having expert-level knowledge of AI. This paradox highlights India's unique position as a major consumer of AI, but not necessarily a leader in developing its own AI models.
People often underestimate the adequacy of their emergency funds due to rising costs and changing household needs. To assess the sufficiency of their emergency funds, individuals should focus on essential expenses, not total spending, and consider their risk profile to determine a suitable target amount. A simple review of current costs and emergency savings can help identify if the fund is sufficient or needs to be adjusted.
Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Limited (IMFA), the country's largest fully integrated producer of value-added ferrochrome, is investing ₹1,200 crore to scale its captive chrome ore mining operations to 12 lakh tonnes per year. The company is funding its growth through internal cash reserves and is executing a highly coordinated capital expenditure strategy to protect its operating margins from volatile global commodity cycles. IMFA is also acquiring strategic assets and pivoting towards hybrid renewable energy to build an unmatched cost barrier.
Emergent, a Bengaluru-based startup, has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round, taking its valuation to around $1.5 billion. The company's AI-powered platform enables users to create software using natural-language prompts, a rapidly growing category known as "vibe coding." Emergent has achieved significant growth, with over 200,000 paying customers and an annualised revenue run rate of approximately $120 million.
Anmasa, a Gurugram-based hyperlocal staples platform, has secured ₹30-crore ($3.15 million) in seed funding to expand its operations outside the National Capital Region (NCR) and upgrade its proprietary warehouse technology. The company aims to disrupt the packaged FMCG supply chain by operating a made-to-order, zero-inventory model with compact neighborhood micro-factories. Anmasa has demonstrated rapid financial traction, recording a 23-fold expansion in order volume over the past 12 months.
