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How DMart's Business Model Keeps Grocery Prices Low Through Cost Control and Supplier Deals
DMart keeps prices low through owned stores, fast supplier payments and lean operations. Here's how Avenue Supermarts' model actually works,…
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Micromax's Rise and Fall Shows How Quickly India's Smartphone Market Has Changed
Micromax went from India's top smartphone brand to under 1% market share. Here's how the rise, fall and IN-series comeback…
Environment
How Vishal Prasad Gupta Turns Pond Algae Into Biofuel in a Push for Cleaner Energy
Discover how Jharkhand engineer Vishal Prasad Gupta and his startup More Mileage are converting pond microalgae into third-generation biofuel in…
Business
Why Businesses Urge Shoppers to Save Before Taking on Monthly Loan Payments
Discover why financial experts and lenders urge shoppers to build savings before taking on monthly loan payments and how it…
Business
How Green SM Is Bringing Electric Cabs to Delhi With a Different Driver Model
Green SM has launched its electric taxi service in Delhi-NCR using VinFast vehicles and a direct fleet-operator model, targeting a…
Business
How Linde Turns Air Into Oxygen, Nitrogen and Billions in Industrial Gas Revenue
Discover how Linde uses cryogenic air separation to produce oxygen and nitrogen, generating $34 billion in revenue through a resilient…
Technology
Klang Raises €1.32 Million to Expand AI-Powered Speech Technology
Swedish startup Klang has raised a €1.32 million seed round to scale its local AI speech technology, releasing an open…
Technology
Maritime Intelligence Startup Quartermaster Raises $140 Million to Expand Real-Time Ocean Monitoring
Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster has raised a $140 million Series B to expand its SmartMast technology, turning commercial ships into…
Technology
Delivery-Robot Startup LOMBY Raises $2.5 Million to Scale Autonomous Logistics
Tokyo-based startup LOMBY has secured a $2.5 million Series A round to mass-produce its autonomous delivery robots, tackling the crisis…
Business
Two Friends Turn TikTok Pickle Videos Into an $8.5 Million Food Startup
How two Gen Z founders turned viral TikTok pickle videos into Good Girl Snacks, raising a $3 million seed round…
Business
17-Year-Old IIT Student Builds Zrestro Startup to Transform the Restaurant Industry
IIT Guwahati student Rishu Raj has launched Zrestro, a bootstrapped food-tech startup bringing restaurant delivery and digital jobs to India's…
Technology
Sachin Tendulkar Partners With OpenAI to Explore the Future of Everyday AI
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to explore and promote the practical, everyday uses of…
Business
MrBeast Reaches 500 Million YouTube Subscribers, Redefining the Global Creator Economy
MrBeast's 500 million-subscriber milestone shows how individual creators are evolving into global media companies with audiences, consumer brands, streaming franchises…
Technology
AI and Humanity: How Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Work, Society and Human Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence is moving from a tool people consult into infrastructure that increasingly performs tasks, influences decisions and reorganizes work.…
Business
Italy Backs New Deep-Tech Therapeutics Fund With €20 Million Public Commitment
Italy is directing new public and private capital toward early-stage life-science innovation through BII Catalyst Fund I for Italy, backed…
Economics
India’s Industrial Production Grows 8% in August as Manufacturing Expands 9%
India’s industrial production expanded 8% year on year in August under the new 2022-23-based IIP series, with manufacturing growing around…
Technology
TakeMe2Space Pushes Orbital Computing Forward With AI-Powered Satellite Mission
India's TakeMe2Space is preparing to launch MOI-1A, an AI-powered orbital computing satellite that processes Earth-observation data before it reaches the…
Economics
Europe Seeks to Turn Science and Technology Investment Into New Economic Growth
Europe is trying to solve a long-running economic problem: it produces world-class science but too often fails to turn discoveries…
Finance
Global Investors Reassess Markets as Oil Prices and Bond Yields Rise
Oil above $100 a barrel and government bond yields near multi-decade highs are forcing investors to reassess equity valuations, interest-rate…
Science
Pacific Nations Warn That Deep-Sea Mining Could Create Irreversible Environmental Risks
Pacific governments are intensifying warnings that commercial deep-sea mining could permanently alter poorly understood ocean ecosystems even as the United…
Business
Swiggy Instamart Explores Wallet Strategy as Quick-Commerce Competition Intensifies
Swiggy Instamart is prioritizing wallet share and larger basket sizes with features like Maxxsaver to dominate India’s intensifying quick-commerce market.
Finance
SEBI Settlement Overhaul May Improve Recovery in Fund-Diversion Cases
SEBI's new settlement framework could allow financial misstatement and fund-diversion cases to be resolved faster while requiring disgorgement, restoration of…
Technology
Taiwan and the US Strengthen Technology Talent Cooperation as AI Competition Intensifies
Taiwan and the United States are expanding semiconductor education, scholarships, university partnerships and technology-talent exchanges as AI drives unprecedented demand…
Business
Qatar Startup Factory Expands Portfolio With $1 Million Investment in Two Early-Stage Ventures
GrowthX has invested a combined $1 million in Hired Valley and Talebhub, bringing the two early-stage companies into Snoonu Startup…
Technology
Nigeria Unveils Cloud Investment Strategy to Drive Digital Growth and Create Jobs
Nigeria is building a new framework for cloud computing, data centers and sovereign digital infrastructure, with an initial goal of…
Technology
AI Data Center Boom Creates New Energy and Water Challenges for the Technology Industry
The AI infrastructure boom is colliding with the physical limits of electricity grids, cooling systems and local water supplies. Data-center…
Science
Biotechnology Emerges as a New Tool for Helping Wildlife Adapt to Climate Change
Conservationists are beginning to use genomics, cloning, selective breeding, engineered microbes and assisted gene flow to help vulnerable species survive…
Climate
Carbon Removal Market Expands as Amazon Reforestation Draws New Capital
Brazilian carbon-removal company Mombak is targeting $150 million for a second Amazon reforestation fund as Salesforce joins Google, Microsoft and…
Technology
Cybersecurity Alert Grows as Kiteworks Warns Customers of Potential Imminent Attack
Kiteworks took the unusual step of urging customers to temporarily shut down systems after receiving credible federal threat intelligence indicating…
Technology
Airbound Founder Naman Pushp Builds Drone Startup to Transform Medical Deliveries
Airbound founder Naman Pushp has secured a $37 million Series A to expand autonomous medical drone deliveries in India, partnering…
Technology
Snorkel AI Revenue Surges as Demand for Advanced AI Training Data Accelerates
Snorkel AI’s revenue run rate hit $375 million following a $350 million funding round. Explore how the AI training data…
Technology
AGI vs AI Today: The Difference Between a Brilliant Tool and a General Intelligence
Today's best AI can write software, solve advanced mathematics and operate computers for hours, yet still fails unexpectedly on basic…
Technology
DeepSeek Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $1 Billion as Chinese AI Startup Expands
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has reportedly surpassed an annualised revenue run rate of $1 billion, driven by surging API demand…
Technology
Data Centers Are the Next Multi-Trillion-Dollar Business: Inside the $7 Trillion Race to Own Compute
AI is turning data centers from back-end technology infrastructure into one of the largest capital investment themes of the decade.…
Technology
China Puts AI Computing Into Orbit as Space-Based Data Centers Move Closer to Reality
China has launched the Supercomputing-1 satellite, bringing AI data processing into orbit to slash response times and pioneer space-based data…
Environment
Mombak Expands Amazon Reforestation Business With New $150 Million Fund
Brazilian startup Mombak is scaling its nature-based carbon removal business with a new $150 million Amazon reforestation fund and a…
Business
Euro Zone PMI: Business Activity Accelerates as Private-Sector Growth Hits Three-Year High
The September 2026 Euro Zone PMI rose to 53.1, its highest level since April 2023. Explore what accelerating eurozone business…
Technology
Happy 28th Birthday, Google: The Search Box That Changed How Humanity Finds Answers
Google turns 28 today. What began as a Stanford research project became one of the defining technologies of the internet,…
Business
Canada Attracts Nearly $500 Billion in Investment Commitments as Global Capital Targets Energy and Critical Minerals
Canada's first Investment Summit drew nearly $500 billion in commitments from global investors targeting energy, critical minerals and AI infrastructure.
Business
Euro Zone Business Activity Accelerates as Private-Sector Growth Hits Three-Year High
Euro zone business activity accelerated to a three-year high in September's flash PMI, beating forecasts even as inflation pressures intensified.
World
Bangkok Declares All 50 Districts Disaster Zones as Severe Flooding Continues
Bangkok declared all 50 districts flood disaster zones after nearly 300mm of rain in 48 hours, as more heavy rain…
World
Fighting Intensifies in Northern Ethiopia as Armed Groups Challenge the Federal Government
A new seven-group armed alliance has clashed with Ethiopia's federal forces across Tigray, Amhara and Afar, raising fears the 2022…
World
U.S. Rejects Iran's Proposal to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Military Activity Increases Near the Waterway
Trump rejected Iran's seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end regional fighting, as Gulf tensions and shipping…
Technology
Caught Red-Handed: Exposing the Global Brands That Failed at Black-Hat SEO
We are exposing the corporate giants who thought they could cheat Google. Dive into the most humiliating black-hat SEO scandals…
Technology
Biocomputing Market Set for Rapid Growth as Biological Systems Enter the Future of Computing
The biocomputing market is growing rapidly as researchers develop DNA storage and organoid intelligence to solve the extreme energy costs…
Business
IIT Madras Deep-Tech Fund Reaches ₹450 Crore First Close, Backing Space and Quantum Startups
The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I hits a ₹450 crore first close, deploying capital into deep-tech startups across space, quantum,…
Technology
Vietnam Moves to Localize U.S. Technology for Drones, Robotics and Marine Automation
Saigontel has partnered with U.S. tech firms, including MOBY Robotics, to localize drones, robotics, and marine automation for Vietnam's domestic…
Business
Global Steel Market Analysis: A Multi-Speed Industry Defined by India’s Boom and the Green Transition
An in-depth analysis of the 2026 global steel market, exploring India's infrastructure-driven demand, China's export surge, and the costly shift…
Technology
The Cloud Drinks 1.5 Billion Litres a Day: The Hidden Water Cost of the World’s Servers
The world’s data centers are estimated to consume about 560 billion litres of water a year, or roughly 1.53 billion…
Technology
Inside the Parasite SEO Economy: Outlook India, Forbes Advisor and Google’s Crackdown on Publisher Reputation Abuse
Google’s war on site reputation abuse exposed a publishing economy built around high-authority domains, commercial listicles, rented sections and affiliate…
World
Russia-Ukraine War: Frontline Movement Remains Limited as Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Continue
In the Russia-Ukraine war latest, frontline movement remains limited while long-range strikes on Ukraine energy infrastructure severely impact the broader…
Technology
OpenAI, Claude, Gemini: How TCS, Infosys and India’s IT Giants Are Building the Enterprise AI Stack
India’s largest IT-services companies are no longer choosing a single AI supplier. TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and LTIMindtree…
Science
James Webb Telescope Discovers Jupiter-Mass Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star-Forming Region
A September 2026 James Webb Space Telescope discovery has revealed brown dwarfs just twice the mass of Jupiter in the…
Technology
Sketchware: The Android IDE Built for a Phone, the Startup Behind It and the Community That Kept It Alive
Sketchware tried to make Android development possible entirely from a smartphone. Its startup failed to sustain the original service, but…
Technology
Wikipedia After 2021: The User Gap, Traffic Decline and AI-Era Pressure Reshaping the World's Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is still one of the world's largest websites, but since 2021 its growth engine has changed. Registrations, editor recruitment…
Environment
Thrifting Could Help Reduce Fashion Waste as Rapid Trends Drive Clothing Consumption
As rapid trends accelerate global clothing consumption, explore how thrifting, resale markets, and circular fashion are tackling the mounting fashion…
Business
FMCG Market Analysis: India vs UK vs Europe and the CEO Outlook
Compare the latest FMCG market trends across India, the UK, and Europe. Explore CEO outlooks, quick-commerce growth, inflation impacts, and…
Technology
Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip as China Expands Domestic Computing Capabilities
Alibaba has unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip, offering triple the performance of its predecessor to boost China's domestic computing…
Technology
New Semiconductor Packaging Technology Gains Importance as Chip Scaling Evolves
As transistor scaling grows harder and costlier, advanced packaging such as chiplets and hybrid bonding is becoming central to chip…
Technology
Google Tests Satellite-Based AI Computing With Project Suncatcher
Google is preparing to launch its first prototype satellite to test whether its AI chips can survive and operate in…
Technology
MediaTek Advances Smartphone Chip Technology With TSMC's 2nm Process
MediaTek has unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first smartphone chip built on TSMC's 2nm N2P process, arriving just ahead…
Business
Pesticide Industry Seeks Tighter Rules for Online Sales and Traceability
CropLife India has urged the government to bring online pesticide sales under existing rules, citing gaps in traceability, licensing and…
Sports
Asian Games 2026: Full List of India's Medal Winners and Updated Medal Tally
Full list of India's medal winners at the Asian Games 2026, updated to September 26: 3 gold, 11 silver, 13…
Business
IBBI Extends Deadline for Personal Guarantor Insolvency Reporting to December 31
IBBI has extended the deadline for filing personal guarantor insolvency forms to December 31, 2026, with penalties for delays applying…
Finance
Bond Investors Are Starting to Demand a Premium for the AI Borrowing Boom
The AI buildout is becoming a credit-market story as investors demand more compensation for a flood of hyperscaler borrowing and…
Business
Amazon Plans a $3 Billion Push Into India’s Quick-Commerce Market
Amazon is preparing a multibillion-dollar expansion of rapid delivery in India, entering a market where local companies established consumer expectations…
Business
BlackRock and IFM Circle a Data-Center Portfolio Valued at Up to $25 Billion
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM is in exclusive talks for STACK Infrastructure’s Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio, underscoring the scale…
Politics
Danish Intelligence Warns Russia Could Intensify Hybrid Activity Against the West
Denmark’s defense intelligence service says it expects more frequent Russian hybrid activity against Western countries, while Moscow has repeatedly denied…
Economics
A Stronger El Niño Raises the Risk of a New Food-Inflation Shock Across Asia
A worsening El Niño is threatening rainfall, agriculture and fisheries across Asia, creating potential pressure on rice, palm oil and…
Healthcare
Eli Lilly and InnoCare Sign Drug-Discovery Pact Worth Up to $3.35 Billion
Eli Lilly and China’s InnoCare have formed a research and licensing partnership covering up to five targets, adding to a…
Business
Europe’s August Car Market Leans More Heavily on Electric Demand
European car registrations rose in August as demand for electrified vehicles offset steep declines in petrol and diesel models, making…
Energy
Europe Faces a Large Q4 Jet-Fuel Deficit as Middle East Supply Routes Shift
Europe could face a jet-fuel deficit of roughly 510,000 barrels per day in the fourth quarter as Middle East disruption…
Finance
Fed Weighs Higher Asset Thresholds for Tougher Bank Supervision
The Federal Reserve is developing a plan that could lift the asset thresholds triggering more intensive supervision, potentially changing compliance…
Technology
Geely Enters the Ultra-Fast EV Charging Race With a 4.5-Minute Demonstration
Geely says its latest smart-charging system took selected production vehicles from 10% to 70% in four minutes and 30 seconds,…
Finance
Gold Slips Despite Geopolitical Tension as Yields and the Dollar Take Control
Gold is heading for a weekly decline near $4,275 an ounce as rising Treasury yields and a stronger dollar outweigh…
Technology
Google’s Project Suncatcher Moves AI Computing From Data Centers Toward Orbit
Google is preparing an orbital test of TPU-based computing, turning a once-speculative idea into a real engineering experiment around power,…
Energy
Gulf of Oman Oil Transfers Hit Capacity as Hormuz Disruption Rewires Shipping
Ship-to-ship transfer capacity in the Gulf of Oman is being stretched as producers reroute barrels around disrupted Strait of Hormuz…
Energy
Hormuz Crude Exports Reach 33.7 Million Barrels Even as Vessel Traffic Stays Thin
Crude volumes moving through the Strait of Hormuz remain substantial despite unusually low commodity-vessel traffic, showing how larger cargoes and…
Technology
Huawei’s AI-Chip Push Shows China Is Still Building Around Technology Restrictions
Huawei is expanding its AI-computing roadmap despite Western technology restrictions, increasing pressure on the assumption that export controls can permanently…
India
India’s Chief Economic Adviser Flags Energy, U.S. Ties and the AI Gap as Near-Term Headwinds
India’s chief economic adviser has identified energy prices, unsettled relations with the United States and the absence of a large…
India
India’s Business Activity Rebounds to a Three-Month High as Export Momentum Softens
India’s flash composite PMI rose to 56.5 in September from 54.3 in August, signaling stronger domestic activity even as export-order…
Energy
Italy Reopens the Door to Nuclear Power Nearly Four Decades After Its Exit
Italy’s Senate has approved legislation establishing a framework for a return to nuclear energy, beginning a long implementation process after…
Healthcare
Novo Nordisk Bets €1.165 Billion on Longer-Acting Obesity and Diabetes Injections
Novo Nordisk has licensed Nanexa’s PharmaShell platform in a deal worth up to €1.165 billion, targeting monthly or potentially quarterly…
Technology
Oracle’s Project Jupiter Delay Puts AI Data-Center Financing Under a New Spotlight
A power-related delay at the huge Project Jupiter data-center development in New Mexico is forcing lenders to look harder at…
Space
Private Space Investment More Than Doubles to $23 Billion as Investors Demand Proof
Global private investment in space companies reached $23 billion in the year through June, more than double the prior-year level…
Healthcare
Roche Commits Up to $2 Billion to Atavistik’s Small-Molecule Discovery Platform
Roche’s agreement with Atavistik Bio targets cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic disease, extending Big Pharma’s push to source novel drug platforms…
Finance
SoftBank Taps the Bond Market for More Than $11 Billion to Fund OpenAI Exposure
SoftBank is using one of the largest corporate bond offerings in the region to finance its OpenAI commitment, showing how…
Finance
Global Stocks Rally While Bond Markets Send a Very Different Signal
Equities are ending the week strongly even as long-term bond yields remain elevated, creating a striking split between growth optimism…
Politics
Sweden and Finland Conduct Joint Interception of Russian Military Aircraft
Swedish and Finnish fighters jointly intercepted and identified Russian military aircraft over the Gulf of Finland, highlighting the operational tempo…
Politics
Taiwan Pushes Back on Xi’s Summit Remarks as Cross-Strait Risk Stays in Focus
Taiwan’s government rejected Xi Jinping’s characterization of the island’s future after his meeting with Donald Trump, keeping the Taiwan Strait…
Finance
U.S. 30-Year Treasury Yield Reaches Levels Not Seen Since 2004
Long-term U.S. borrowing costs have surged to levels last seen more than two decades ago, raising the discount rate for…
Politics
U.S. and China Extend Trade Truce as Major Disputes Remain After Trump-Xi Summit
Washington and Beijing extended their trade truce by two months after the Trump-Xi summit, while major disagreements involving technology, Taiwan…
Energy
America Is Curtailing More Renewable Power Just as AI Needs More Electricity
U.S. power markets curtailed 23.8 million MWh of renewable generation through July, highlighting a transmission problem at the same time…
Business
Volkswagen Deepens Its China Strategy With a Second Xpeng-Developed EV
Volkswagen has opened presales for its second jointly developed model with Xpeng, showing how global automakers are increasingly integrating Chinese…
India
India Moves GI Registrations Online With New e-Filing Portal and Draft IP Guidelines
India has launched an online filing portal for Geographical Indications and published draft GI guidelines, pushing a key part of…
Business
Ather Energy Plans Aggressive Overseas Expansion as Global Electric Scooter Demand Grows
Discover how Ather Energy is driving its international expansion, taking its smart electric scooters to new global markets amid rising…
Business
QIA and JPMorgan Forge $20 Billion Investment Partnership Across Global Markets
The Qatar Investment Authority and JPMorgan have announced a $20 billion strategic partnership covering global public equities and U.S. private…
Environment
Clean Energy Expansion Could Accelerate Global Climate Action Through Positive Tipping Points
Discover how positive tipping points in the clean energy transition are accelerating global climate action through falling costs and rapid…
Science
Landmark Brain Gene-Activity Atlas Offers New Clues to Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Aging
A new brain gene-activity atlas mapping 6.3 million cells in the prefrontal cortex offers unprecedented clues into Alzheimer's disease and…
Technology
Adobe Premiere Launches on Android With 4K Video Editing and Advanced AI Features
Adobe Premiere is now free on Android, offering unlimited 4K exports, multi-track editing, and Firefly-powered AI tools a year after…