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:...
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 —...
For years, multinational retailers viewed India primarily as a destination for back-office operations, customer support and cost-efficient technology services. That perception is changing rapidly....
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...
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...
Taking a loan has become a routine part of modern financial life. Whether it's buying a home, financing higher education, purchasing a vehicle or supporting a business, credit helps millions of...
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.
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.
Inspira Global, led by Aayush Agrawal, has completed a ₹2,235-crore acquisition of a controlling 41.78% stake in Restaurant Brands Asia (RBA), the national master franchisee of Burger King in India and Indonesia. The deal involves a complex transaction structure to inject liquidity into RBA's balance sheet and provide operational control to Inspira. Inspira now inherits the challenge of fixing a broken business model in Burger King India and addressing cash bleed in its Indonesian operations.
DMart, a successful Indian retail business, has launched pilot pharmacy counters in select stores in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, offering 20% discounts on medicines. The initiative, run by a subsidiary of Avenue Supermarts, aims to complement DMart's core supermarket operations and increase customer visits. By leveraging its existing strengths, such as high-footfall locations and efficient supply chains, DMart is exploring a new business vertical in pharmacy retail.
