Police have alleged that caregivers physically mistreated toddlers aged between two and three years. The alleged mistreatment includes threatening the children, locking them inside bathrooms, spraying water into their mouths using a toilet jet spray, making them sit on western-style toilets and placing them inside a front-loading washing machine
The Nifty IT index rebounded more than 4% after falling to a five-year low, but beneath the rally lies a deeper debate over AI, slowing technology spending and whether India's software giants are entering a structural transition rather than a temporary slowdown
Officials managing the disinvestment programme have been reportedly holding weekly discussions with investment bankers to assess investor demand, determine suitable pricing and finalise timelines for the planned offerings
Even as oil prices retreat and policymakers project confidence, lingering uncertainty in West Asia threatens to slow hiring, fuel inflation and delay India's consumption-led recovery
Energy security featured prominently during the discussions. PM Modi announced the India-Japan Biogas Initiative, under which 1,000 biogas and organic fertiliser plants will be established across India
The most significant shift during the process involved how the IPO itself was structured. Reliance's initial plan called for an offer for sale, through which existing shareholders would sell about 2.8% of Jio
The company may also undertake a pre-IPO placement of up to ₹1,330 crore, which would reduce the size of the fresh issue if completed
Union Minister Jitendra Singh says AI is no longer a choice but an essential tool for governance, calling for responsible adoption, human oversight and citizen-centric digital governance to achieve Viksit Bharat 2047
Even in developed markets, consumers talk a great deal about sustainability but when it comes to paying a higher price for products made through sustainable practices, the answer is more complicated
Successive governments have tried to reassure that the rupee's weakness is not a cause for alarm. Many economists argue that a cheaper currency is actually beneficial. The truth lies somewhere beyond these familiar talking points
For import-dependent India, a falling rupee can weaken the economy from within through rising input costs that slow output growth and investment cycles
Michael Patra, former deputy governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), talks to Parth Singh about the impact of weaker rupee on India’s exports in an email interview
Sajjid Chinoy, MD and chief India economist, JP Morgan, tells Parth Singh over email that a weak rupee makes imports costlier and domestic substitutes competitive
Sunitha Raju says the need to pursue the structural shift towards high-complexity exports has been amply underlined, but remains largely unrealised
Amarendu Nandy and Abhisek Sur on how the rupee’s fall should be read less as an export opportunity than as a stress test of India’s production structure
Geopolitical turbulences like the Iran war and internal rifts between the member nations are charting out an uncertain future for BRICS as a multilateral forum
Snabbit founder and chief executive Aayush Agarwal tells Shashank Bhatt how a personal pain point and a large offline market opportunity led to the creation of the company’s on-demand home services platform
WeWork India has survived a collapsing parent, a credit crisis, a pandemic and a bruising IPO. Now the markets are asking a harder question: can it actually make money?
India has placed early bets in the quantum technology space, but global powers like China and the US have a solid head start. Is National Quantum Mission enough to turn India into a computing superpower?
India has not only failed to produce more crude oil from domestic sources, but has also become more and more dependent on crude imports
Rising temperatures could hurt the economy far more than earlier estimates. A 1°C annual rise in temperature variation may reduce India’s economic growth by 3.89 percentage points on average
Odisha-based heavy-lift drone start-up BonV Aero addresses a critical logistical challenge faced by soldiers stationed in India's remote hilly and inaccessible regions
Abhimanyu Munjal, managing director and chief executive, Hero FinCorp, identifies five emerging and important trends in the financial-services segment
The proposed Parle Products IPO could value the biscuits and confectionery manufacturer at over $10.5 billion
India's economy is growing, but millions of jobs are missing. Development economist Santosh Mehrotra argues that unless India fixes its employment crisis before its demographic dividend runs out, the dream of Viksit Bharat could remain out of reach
AI is lifting productivity and compressing effort-based billing, challenging the growth model behind India’s $224-billion IT industry
