Ananya Bhattacharya

It may still be a while before Tesla cars hit Indian roads but the company’s CEO Elon Musk seems to be making plans to visit the country.

Indians aren’t just talking non-stop on mobile phones, they are also making them like never before.

By February next year, 22-year-old Sri Ponnada will be forced to separate from her mother and teenage brother and move out of the US—the country where she has spent eight years of her life.

A two-year-old feature phone operating system (OS) is challenging the supremacy of Google’s Android in India.

In 2017, Samsung lost its pole position to Chinese rivals in the world’s second-largest smartphone market. Now, it is fighting back.

Mobile phones will soon be influencing automobile sales in India.

Mukesh Ambani’s speech at the annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries (RIL) is one of the most closely watched corporate events in India. And since 2015, when he geared up to disrupt the $50 billion telecom sector, much of it has centered around the company’s telecom venture Jio.

Over the last decade, there has been much talk of Indian IT companies putting their money where their mouth is and ramping up diversity initiatives. Software giants like Infosys and Wipro now claim that women make up nearly half of their entry-level recruits.

The world’s largest video-streaming platform is betting big on original Indian content across genres and formats.

For the second time this year, the Donald Trump administration has deferred a decision on H4 visa-holders’ right to work in the US.

A 40-year-old Indian movie production house is challenging the world’s largest video streaming platforms, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, with more local content than the two American players together host currently.

More and more Indians maybe obsessed with studying abroad, but it’s those who went to universities within the country that actually create the most wealth.

India’s list of millionaires has more than doubled in the last 10 years. But there’s still no stopping Indians.

India’s stock markets have had a very busy year so far.

Google is celebrating the 145th birthday of one of the first Indian singers to record on vinyl.

India’s app-based taxi ecosystem has witnessed yet another crime—this time involving fellow passengers on a pooled ride.

With the US and the UK slowly shutting their doors, Canada has flung its open, and Indian students are rushing in.

India’s homegrown startups are turning globetrotters.

Meituan-Dianping, a Chinese food-to-flights startup, is quietly increasing its exposure to India.

Growing up, Divya Roop already knew he was attracted to his own gender but he didn’t want to come out until he became independent. Then, his sister found his alternate Facebook profile and outed him to his family. His father suggested yoga as a cure for homosexuality while his mother rued, “I gave birth to a son, not a hijra (a south Asian pejorative for transgenders).”

India has the world’s second-largest internet population. It is also the biggest smartphone market after China. However, its internet users are a tiny sliver of its 1.3 billion people.

Over 50 Indian asylum seekers, many of them Sikhs and Christians reportedly fleeing religious persecution, have been detained at a federal prison in the coastal state of Oregon. In many cases, they’ve been separated from their spouses and children.

At the end of May, Amit Jain, who led Uber’s India operations for three years, was elevated to the position of Asia-pacific head. Less than three weeks later, his replacement is ready for the driver’s seat.

Nearly 45% of Americans are convinced that H-1B visa-holders are eating into jobs meant for local workers, but there’s one part of the country where these immigrant workers are far more popular: California’s Bay Area, home to the likes of Google and Facebook.