Ananya Bhattacharya

Elephants have been turned into bulldozers in the battle against encroachers in northeastern India.

Even as the US telecom regulator plans to dismantle net neutrality rules, its Indian counterpart has reaffirmed its intent to keep the internet open in the sub-continent.

The struggles that women entrepreneurs go through are pretty much the same across the world.

The economist Girija Borker’s brilliant new research (pdf) uncovers one of the unseen ways sexual harassment changes lives and the economy.

A neurology professor in one of India’s most storied universities is determined to fight pornography with religious songs and inspirational speeches.

Product reviews are an important part of e-commerce, helping consumers make informed choices. But Indians are increasingly distrustful of them.

Indians’ obsession with picking up alcohol at its international airports might lead to a quadrupling of the duty-free market to over $800 million (Rs5,184 crore) by 2025.

Slowly but surely, bots are making inroads into the human resources (HR) industry. But the responses they evoke may depend on which side of the table one is sitting on: employee or employer.

Indian startups have attracted billions in private equity and venture capital funds from across the world, but loans are another story altogether. Without collateral and often with unproven business models, it’s quite a struggle.

As global giants like Tesla, Uber, and Google take self-driving cars to the streets, Indian companies are still at the experimental stage.

Indian job seekers are getting crafty to get ahead.

Three years after rolling out the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign, which among other things aims to eradicate open defecation by 2019, India is far from solving its filth problem.

Belong, a Bengaluru-based startup, is creating a “Google for people,” as co-founder Rishabh Kaul describes it.

On Nov. 13, San Francisco-based Uber’s board approved a “multi-billion dollar” investment from Japanese internet group Softbank, which may invest up to $10 billion, Reuters reported.

Thirty years after it was founded, the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) will finally have a woman leading it.

It’s Facebook for news, YouTube for music.

New Delhi is choking again, and how.

Punit Soni may have chosen to return to Silicon Valley but he remains incredibly bullish about India’s startup ecosystem. 

In 2013, Antoine Poirson was helping set up a power plant in Rajasthan when an employee was crushed under a solar reflector uprooted by a heavy gust of wind. The man may have survived but the ambulance trip was too long and there were no trained paramedics around.

A 9,000-member strong Amazon India seller’s forum has pulled back sponsored ads from the e-commerce portal over the last two days to protest against what it believes are the company’s weak return policies. The sponsored ads help sellers promote their products in Amazon’s search results.

The Indian mobile apps space is in for some curious crossovers.

After years of prohibiting the public from flying drones, India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Oct. 30, unveiled draft norms (pdf) for the usage of aerial vehicles.

Some of India’s biggest entrepreneurs are serious about getting the country to shut out foreign rivals.

Indian IT services companies have been struggling amid a shifting technology landscape, changing client demands, and protectionist policies in the US. This became quite evident over the last two weeks as the latest round of quarterly financial results trickled in.