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Tata Trusts Says The Board's Reappointment…
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Tata Trusts Says The Board's Reappointment Of N Chandrasekaran Is A Legal Nullity
Both sides read the same Articles differently. The shareholder holds the majority of the company, and the board voted against it anyway.
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MARKETS & IPO
Info Edge Names Himanshu Agarwal CFO…
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Info Edge Names Himanshu Agarwal CFO After Nine Months Without A Permanent One
The company ran without a permanent CFO for nine months. It has also re-recruited an independent director who left the board in 2023.
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K.P. Tiwari's Move From Systems Integration to Building His Own Business Software
After heading business applications at Team Computers, he started building the products he had spent years implementing for others. The newest, MoovMail, is corporate email made in India.
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FOUNDERS
upGrad Completes Unacademy Acquisition At $206…
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upGrad Completes Unacademy Acquisition At $206 Million, 94% Below Its 2021 Peak
The all-stock deal closed on Tuesday at ₹1,955 crore. Unacademy held ₹900 crore in cash at the time, which puts a different frame on the discount.
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Parth Jindal Takes the Chair at…
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Parth Jindal Takes the Chair at JSW MG Motor as the Group's Auto Bet Widens
The 36-year-old already runs JSW Cement and JSW Paints. Automobiles are a harder problem than either, and he is now running three parallel bets on them.
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Fymble Launches Kyra AI as It Turns From Affordable Gym Access to the Harder Retention Problem
Fymble, which offers pay-per-use gym access starting at ₹99 a session with no long-term commitment, has launched Kyra, a Personal AI Health Companion built into its fitness app.
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RURTECH's Saddam Hussain Is Building Parcel-Level Satellite Advisory for Indian Farmers
RURTECH sends satellite-derived advice for individual farm parcels over WhatsApp. Its live log covers 134 farmers and 1,875 messages across three weeks.
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98 Fahren: The Gurugram Startup Building Cooling Vests for India's Outdoor Workforce
Vikkas Singh's bootstrapped Gurugram startup 98 Fahren has sold over a million cooling vests across 20+ countries — and counts Amazon, Royal Enfield, Zomato, and multiple state police forces among its clients.
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Shaadi.com Founder Anupam Mittal Urges Corporate India to Adopt Bi-Monthly Salary Payouts
The Shaadi.com founder argues that frequent liquidity and timely wage distribution provide significantly more value to the modern workforce than superficial corporate perks like free food or remote work policies.
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Byju Raveendran Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail by Singapore Court Over Asset Order Non-Compliance
The sentencing marks a major escalation in the multi-jurisdictional legal battle between global lenders and the edtech founder over unaccounted capital and unfulfilled disclosure mandates.
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Satish Kumar — A 17-year-old with zero funding starting a local dairy business. → Built a Rs 2,000 Crore dairy empire processing 1.5 million litres of milk daily.
A 17-year-old with zero funding starting a local dairy business. → Built a Rs 2,000 Crore dairy empire processing 1.5 million litres of milk daily.
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Ambrish Verma — Corporate engineer in Mumbai secretly training in theatre after office hours. → Writer, actor, and director behind record-breaking Indian web series.
Corporate engineer in Mumbai secretly training in theatre after office hours. → Writer, actor, and director behind record-breaking Indian web series.
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Mansi Baranwal — Worked as a Bain & Company consultant and studied nutrition-focused consumer problems closely. → Built Troovy Foods, a chocolate spread brand positioned as a cleaner, nut-rich alternative for Indian families.
Worked as a Bain & Company consultant and studied nutrition-focused consumer problems closely. → Built Troovy Foods, a chocolate spread brand positioned as a cleaner, nut-rich alternative for Indian families.
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Ankur Warikoo Shuts Down ₹100 Crore Course Business, Citing the Disruption of Artificial Intelligence
After five years, five lakh students, and massive commercial success, the prominent content creator is closing his online education platform, acknowledging that AI has structurally broken the economics of basic digital learning.
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Sabyasachi Chandra — Built an intercity delivery startup from a Tier 3 town during college. → Founder of StartupFox, a startup media platform that has reached 11M+ content engagements across LinkedIn, Threads, Instagram and web.
Built an intercity delivery startup from a Tier 3 town during college. → Founder of StartupFox, a startup media platform that has reached 11M+ content engagements across LinkedIn, Threads, Instagram and web.
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Mamaearth Founders Join Deepinder Goyal's Temple Pilot, Wearing the Experimental Brain Tracker
Varun and Ghazal Alagh are among the earliest adopters of Deepinder Goyal's controversial new health-tech wearable, Temple, a device aiming to track cerebral blood flow.
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Kamalini Paul — A 19-year-old student returning from the UK to a family business near bankruptcy and the loss of her father. → Managing Director of Hotel De Sovrani, an iconic Kolkata landmark ranked #1 on TripAdvisor with 10,000+ peak guests.
A 19-year-old student returning from the UK to a family business near bankruptcy and the loss of her father. → Managing Director of Hotel De Sovrani, an iconic Kolkata landmark ranked #1 on TripAdvisor with 10,000+ peak guests.
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Bikaji Foods Founder Shiv Ratan Agarwal Passes Away at 74
Shiv Ratan Agarwal, the visionary who separated from the Haldiram family to create the global snack mammoth Bikaji, passed away following a heart attack, leaving behind a legacy that fundamentally structured India's traditional packaged foods market.
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Kabeer Biswas’ New AI Startup M Raises ₹102 Cr Seed Round Led by Peak XV
Valued at ₹300 crore, the newly incorporated venture seeks to move beyond traditional quick commerce by using artificial intelligence to automate and execute everyday household tasks without heavy operational logistics.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Steps Down After 15 Years; Hardware Chief John Ternus Named Successor
After driving a staggering $3.6 trillion in value creation over 15 years, Tim Cook transitions to Executive Chairman as Apple relies on its hardware veteran to navigate an increasingly complex AI and regulatory environment.
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Veteran Journalist Palki Sharma Launches Digital-First Global News Platform 'India Global Review'
Following her exit from Network18, the veteran journalist is building an independent, digital-first newsroom designed to challenge Western media narratives with a distinctly Indian lens.
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Vineeta Singh — Turned down ₹1 Crore salary at 23. 2 failed startups. Zero cosmetics experience. → Built Sugar Cosmetics into a ₹4,100 Crore brand across 45,000+ retail outlets.
Turned down ₹1 Crore salary at 23. 2 failed startups. Zero cosmetics experience. → Built Sugar Cosmetics into a ₹4,100 Crore brand across 45,000+ retail outlets.
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Vijaypat Singhania, Former Chairman of Raymond Group, Passes Away at 87
The Padma Bhushan awardee and legendary aviator turned a modest woollen mill into a retail powerhouse, establishing 'The Complete Man' as an iconic staple of Indian corporate history.
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Anil Agarwal — Left Patna at 19. A tiffin box. A ₹50,000 bank loan. 9 failed businesses. → $4.2 Billion global mining empire. Listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Left Patna at 19. A tiffin box. A ₹50,000 bank loan. 9 failed businesses. → $4.2 Billion global mining empire. Listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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