There’s a lot to look forward to when the world’s second most populated country goes shopping over the next decade or two.
At 148 years old, India’s salt-to-steel conglomerate Tata Group wants to get hip and cool.
It’s been dubbed the Google tax, but it will likely hit every global internet company operating in India—and, in turn, the country’s fledgling startup and digital advertising ecosystems.
For the last two-and-a-half years, Gaurav Chawla has had one obsession: Making the perfect cup of masala chai.
It’s taken the country’s largest bread makers only four days to promise a ”voluntary withdrawal” of suspected carcinogenic ingredients from their loaves.
When Akbar took over the Mughal throne in 1556, he was still a 14-year-old boy. The young emperor apparently had such a fascination for intricately illustrated stories that he recruited about a hundred Indian artists to join the imperial atelier. Together with a group of Iranian artists inherited from his father Humayun, the expanded atelier under Akbar’s close supervision mastered the delicate art of the Mughal miniatures.
India’s latest food safety controversy involves your morning loaf of bread.
The West is discovering the goodness of turmeric one latte at a time.
If you’re a woman in India Inc, you are probably paid 27% less than your male colleague—for the same amount of work.
Indians are more confident about their jobs prospects, personal finances and ability to spend, but they still aren’t opening up their wallets properly.
A little past 10 am on May 14, Ruchi Aggarwal stood in a queue at a posh mall in Gurgaon. The 34-year-old was accompanied by her four-year-old son, dressed in a crisp blue Armani shirt paired with white denims and pricey Hogan shoes. Her four-year-old daughter wore a peach dress from H&M, carefully matched with a Hermes Birkin look-alike.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev wants to build a consumer goods empire with an army of patriots in tow.
Late on May 15, Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar vowed to bring alcohol prohibition to India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, if his party alliance was voted to power there next year.
For over 150 years, tea grown in West Bengal’s Darjeeling—one of the world’s most expensive varieties—has been sold in weekly “private” auctions to large tea houses in Japan, America, and Europe.
The last 15 years have been a great time to get rich in India.
A heads-up for smokers in India: your cigarette packet will soon be wrapped in a bigger, more graphic, health warning, especially if you are partial to those made by ITC.
The most vexing question in India’s startup ecosystem has arrived at the table of Zomato.
When it hit the market in 1999, Kurkure wasn’t just PepsiCo India’s first snack developed entirely in the country. It was also an experiment by the Indian subsidiary of the American food and beverages giant to create a completely new snack food category—half-way between the Americanised potato chips and Indian namkeen, the traditional savoury mixtures.
The fascination with the lives of India’s brightest students inside the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has spawned paperback best-sellers and Bollywood blockbusters.
A week after Apple announced a massive 58% jump in quarterly sales in India, the Cupertino-headquartered giant’s plan to sell refurbished iPhones in Asia’s third largest economy has reportedly hit a policy roadblock.
Vitality Air—a Canadian startup founded by a former mortgage broker—made headlines last year for selling bottled air to Chinese struggling with poor air quality.
When it comes to shopping in style, no other Indian city can match up to good old Bengaluru—the country’s technology capital.
India’s politicians have, for long, had a thing with the bottle.
By 2050, India will beat China to become home to the most number of working-age people in the Asia Pacific region.
