POLICY
Maharashtra FDA Suspends Blinkit's Akola Licence…
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Maharashtra FDA Suspends Blinkit's Akola Licence After Re-Inspection Found Faults Unfixed
A 12 August inspection produced an improvement notice. Blink Commerce filed a compliance report. The re-inspection found the problems still there.
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POLICY
Ola Electric's Market Share Rose In…
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Ola Electric's Market Share Rose In August Because Everyone Else Fell Harder
Electric two-wheeler registrations dropped 16.2 per cent to 1.72 lakh units, a second straight monthly fall. The purchase subsidy was halved this month, and the market noticed.
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FUNDING
Twenty More Hands Are About To…
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Twenty More Hands Are About To Allocate India's ₹1 Lakh Crore Deep-Tech Fund
Over twenty second-level fund managers are due to be appointed within weeks. The governance questions raised by the first ₹2,192 crore round have not been answered.
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POLICY
UPI Moved Less Money In August…
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UPI Moved Less Money In August Than July, On 850 Million More Transactions
Volume hit a record 24.51 billion while value slipped to ₹29.82 lakh crore. The average payment is shrinking, and the industry's revenue fix depends on the payments that are not.
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POLICY
Tim Cook's Last Day As Apple…
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Tim Cook's Last Day As Apple CEO Hands India's Manufacturing Bet To A Hardware Engineer
John Ternus takes over on 1 September. India expects its share of global iPhone output to reach 30-35 per cent within five years, on a strategy Cook negotiated personally.
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POLICY
India Took One Per Cent Of…
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India Took One Per Cent Of Global Venture Capital While The World's Deal Value Rose 161%
India's deal value grew 5 per cent in the first seven months while volumes fell 13 per cent. The gap is less about caution than about what this cycle funds.
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POLICY
Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Lands After Labor…
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Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Lands After Labor Day, Carrying A Bill For Its Own Red Lines
A listing in late September or early October would be the largest ever attempted. The prospectus must also explain what Anthropic's stated limits have already cost.
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POLICY
Nvidia Paused The Guarantee Funding The…
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Nvidia Paused The Guarantee Funding The AI Cloud Boom, Two Months After Offering It
The AI Compute Partnership let smaller cloud operators borrow against Nvidia's promise to rent unsold GPUs. Some deals are on hold after internal antitrust warnings.
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POLICY
Ola Electric's ₹95.8 Crore PLI Cheque…
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Ola Electric's ₹95.8 Crore PLI Cheque Arrives As Revenue Falls And Cash Keeps Burning
The heavy industries ministry has sanctioned a second straight year of auto PLI money for Ola Electric. Its June-quarter revenue was still 45 per cent below a year earlier.
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POLICY
India Could Make a Third of…
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India Could Make a Third of the World's iPhones as John Ternus Takes Over at Apple
Cook hands over on 1 September with India assembling one in four iPhones. The government thinks a hardware engineer in charge could push that toward a third.
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POLICY
Zee Falls 15% as Lenders Move…
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Zee Falls 15% as Lenders Move Against a ₹6.5 Crore Settlement of ₹22,006 Crore in Claims
The NCLT cleared a plan settling ₹22,006 crore of claims for ₹6.5 crore. Lenders now say the family entities that voted it through should never have voted.
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Hyderabad Police Book Meta India Head Arun Srinivas Over Morphed Content Featuring PM Modi
Hyderabad Cybercrime police have registered two cases naming Meta's India head alongside unidentified Facebook and Instagram account operators. Neither complaint alleges that Meta itself created the content.
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Infosys Fined €175,000 (₹2 Crore) by French Labour Authority Over Time-Tracking Gaps
France's labour regulator DRIEETS fined Infosys €175,000 over gaps in its working-hours tracking system. The company has not disclosed which employee categories were affected or whether the system needs an overhaul.
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Karnataka to Form Two AI Working Groups After Minister's Visit to Anthropic's Bengaluru Office
Two groups drawn from the Centre for e-Governance and the Home Department will identify where AI fits state services. No agreement has been signed and no terms disclosed.
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Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore
The clusters at Manallur and Pillapaikkam will provide land and shared infrastructure for electronics firms. The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a higher figure.
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Mitsubishi Explores Setting Up Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit in West Bengal
The Japanese conglomerate is exploring sites in Durgapur and Panagarh as the state government prepares a new industrial policy to attract advanced supply chains away from established western and southern hubs.
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TCS CEO K Krithivasan Says AI Will Not Reduce Overall Headcount Following Strong Q1 Hiring
Despite Chairman N Chandrasekaran recently predicting the deployment of half a million autonomous AI agents, the company's CEO insists the workforce will simply transition into prompt engineering and model management to service a $2.6 billion AI pipeline.
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West Bengal Government Announces Plan to Revive Calcutta Stock Exchange
After thirteen years of dormancy, the newly elected state government has proposed backing the historic regional exchange in its 2026-27 budget to decentralise India's financial ecosystem and unlock local public-sector value.
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Uber Board Sued by Shareholders Over Serial Compliance Failures and Abuse Claims
A Detroit pension fund is leading a derivative lawsuit against CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and other directors, alleging the ride-hailing giant sacrificed passenger safety and disabled access to accelerate growth.
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Kerala Allocates ₹50 Crore for Gen-Z Startups and ₹10 Crore for Malayalam AI
Chief Minister V D Satheesan’s revised 2026-27 budget marks a definitive policy shift, attempting to retain young talent by funding indigenous artificial intelligence datasets and deep-tech innovation hubs.
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India Blocks Telegram Until June 22 Ahead of NEET Re-Exam
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has invoked Section 69A to temporarily suspend the messaging app and disable its edit function, establishing a severe new precedent for platform compliance during national examinations.
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L&T Signs Rs 18,600 Crore MoU With Tamil Nadu to Create 8,200 Direct Jobs
L&T Chairman and MD SN Subrahmanyan met Tamil Nadu CM C Joseph Vijay at the Chennai Secretariat on June 4 to formalise an investment that spans three projects and promises over eight thousand direct jobs.
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Bengaluru CA Details 10-Year Salary Progression from ₹1.92 Lakh Articleship to ₹57.8 Lakh KPMG Sweden Manager Role
Anirudh Rapole's decade-long compensation breakdown highlights the massive financial upside of corporate global mobility channels while shifting the conversation around domestic versus international purchasing power.
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27-Year-Old Startup Founder Relocates to Dubai Citing Systemic Burnout in Bengaluru
The viral departure of tech entrepreneur Mehul Mohan has ignited a fierce debate over whether India’s complex regulatory environment and failing urban infrastructure are actively pushing top-tier talent out of the country.
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Startup Leader Sparks Controversy by Defending Seven-Day Salary Delay Following Missed Team Targets
A viral social media post defending delayed compensation due to underperforming business quarters has reignited an intense workplace debate over fundamental employer obligations versus executive financial pressure.
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Bajaj Finserv to Deploy ₹2,000 Crore Over Next Five Years Through Finserv Intelligence to Back Early-Stage Startups
By committing massive domestic balance-sheet capital into early-stage fintech and enterprise technology, the financial services conglomerate is bypassing traditional venture fund models to institutionalize corporate pipeline access.
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Amul to Invest ₹650 Crore in First West Bengal Dairy Plant and ₹150 Crore in Assam Project
By establishing its first fully owned manufacturing footprint in West Bengal, the dairy cooperative is capitalizing on fresh regional political dynamics to build a localized, high-volume collection ecosystem.
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Sikkim Officially Declared a Fully Literate State Following Long-Term Human Development Campaign
Achieving complete baseline literacy positions the Himalayan state as a high-potential hub for digital services, formal employment, and structured economic expansion.
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Keralam Government Creates India's First Cabinet-Level AI Ministry Under P.K. Kunhalikutty
By integrating Artificial Intelligence into its core governance and industrial structure, the newly elected state government aims to proactively manage disruption and accelerate tech-driven investments.
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Ola, Uber, and Rapido Face Massive Supply Disruption as Delhi-NCR Drivers Strike Over Fuel Costs
As fuel costs surge and base fares remain stagnant, the upcoming three-day strike threatens to cripple mobility platforms while exposing the structural flaws in the aggregator business model
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Over 1.2 Million Chemists and Pharma Distributors Call National Strike on May 20 Against E-Pharmacies
As highlighted in 82761.png, more than 12.40 lakh traditional retailers are pausing operations to protest what they claim is predatory pricing and regulatory non-compliance by digital medicine platforms
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PwC India Restricts Employee Travel to 'Clear Business Need' Following Prime Minister's WFH Advisory
The global consulting major is tightening its operational expenses by restricting domestic and international movement, signaling a broader industry shift toward optimized remote engagements.
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Armory Secures ₹100 Crore Contract From Ministry of Defence to Deploy SURGE Counter-Drone System
By bringing a field-ready, AI-driven counter-drone system to market in just 14 months, Gurugram-based Armory has bypassed legacy contractors to set a new benchmark for sovereign defence procurement.
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US Authorities Return 657 Stolen Indian Antiquities Valued at $14 Million
The restitution of 657 artifacts, overlapping with remarks by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Kohinoor diamond, highlights a broader international crackdown on cultural smuggling networks.
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Kolkata Police Busts Piracy App 'Vedu' With 2 Million Downloads Following JioStar Complaint
Acting on a complaint linked to JioStar, authorities have shut down the 'Vedu' application, exposing the lucrative, ad-funded mechanics of unauthorized premium streaming.
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Government Pushes 30-Day Telecom Recharge Plans Following Raghav Chadha's Parliamentary Intervention
After AAP MP Raghav Chadha explicitly called out the 28-day billing cycle in Parliament as a mathematical trick to extract a 13th month of revenue, the government is leaning on telecom giants to enforce true monthly plans.
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UP Government Cancels ₹25,000 Crore MoU With Puch AI Over Financial Due Diligence Failure
Invest UP unilaterally terminated the massive artificial intelligence infrastructure agreement, citing the startup's critical lack of net worth and failure to establish credible financial linkages.
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AAP MP Raghav Chadha Urges Government to Crack Down on FMCG Brands Selling Sugar Syrup as Fruit Juice
The AAP MP raised critical questions in the Rajya Sabha, demanding stricter front-of-pack warning labels for high-sugar drinks currently masquerading as healthy fruit juices.
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