Narendra Modi’s re-election as India’s prime minister in 2019 is increasingly assumed to be a given, especially by his staunch backers. His party, the Bharatiya…
HOPE
BHEL, the Indian government’s heavy-engineering jewel, is in trouble
In 2012, as India was battling an economic slowdown, its government-owned power-equipment maker, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), was busy raking in a lot of…
REVERSE THE REGRESSION
More funds, less cow dung: Angry Indian scientists’ message to the Modi government
Chennai/New Delhi Suresh Govindarajan spent Wednesday (Aug. 09) evening walking the length of Chennai’s Elliot’s Beach in silent protest. The professor of physics at the…
CHUCHU TV
An Indian dad turned his daughter’s favourite nursery rhymes into a million-dollar business on YouTube
Vinoth Chandar has music in his blood. Through the 1980s and 90s, his father Chandrabose had been a music composer in Tamil Nadu’s film industry.…
E-COMMERCE
Timeline: From unsold discount coupons to unicorn to Snapdeal 2.0
After months of wrangling, Snapdeal has pulled the plug on a potential deal that would’ve seen rival Flipkart acquiring it. Snapdeal has decided to go…
IT'S HIGH TIME
The movement to make marijuana legal in India now has support from one of Narendra Modi’s ministers
Taking inspiration from the West, India’s women and child development minister, Maneka Gandhi, has voiced her support for legalising marijuana in the country. In a…
WHAT AN IDEA
India is betting on compulsory internships to improve its unemployable engineers
India has come up with a solution to improve the quality of the engineers it churns out. Over 60% of the 800,000 engineering graduates that…
LET THE RACE BEGIN
Uber and Ola may soon have a new competitor: the government of India
The Indian government could soon become a player in the $10 billion ride-hailing market, launching its own taxi-booking app, the country’s minister for transport said…
SHOW ME THE MONEY
What’s helping India’s richest man get richer?
India’s richest man, and the country’s most valuable company, just can’t stop making money. On July 20, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) announced a 28%…
BABANOMICS
White knight in saffron robes: Yoga guru Ramdev to the rescue of India’s distressed infrastructure sector
Yoga guru Ramdev is a man on a mission. After foraying into businesses such as cosmetics, education, baby foods, and even private security, the $1.6…
WILL YOU TRY?
A startup is looking to rule India’s cow economy with dung soap and urine toothpaste
You’ve heard of ayurveda, the traditional Indian medical science. So have you about Unani, the Perso-Arabic healing science. Then there is homeopathy. Now prepare for…
BABANOMICS
Why on earth is India’s most famous yoga guru building an army of security men?
India’s most famous yoga guru-turned-businessman is building an army of security guards. On July 12, fifty-one-year-old Ramdev, whose Patanjali Ayurved has taken on India’s reigning…
