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India's chip dream was derailed in 1989. In 2026, it's roaring back
Three years before TSMC existed, India was already making chips. In 2026, with live shipments and Semicon 2.0, it's rebuilding what the 1989 fire broke.
Shradha Sharma
India's chip dream was derailed in 1989. In 2026, it's roaring back
Three years before TSMC existed, India was already making chips. In 2026, with live shipments and Semicon 2.0, it's rebuilding what the 1989 fire broke.
Shradha Sharma
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Are you India's next big thing? Apply for Marico Innovation Foundation's Indian Innovation Icons 2027 to find out
Applications are open for the 11th edition of one of India's most prestigious innovation platforms, offering winners mentorship from Marico's Founder and Chairperson, Harsh Mariwala, national visibility, and access to capital.
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From payments to appointments: The next phase of SMB digitization
Indian SMBs have digitized payments, customer communication, and online discovery. Appointment scheduling, however, remains one of the few remaining processes that still relies on manual effort. But, that's beginning to change.
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The Passport Hotel, Nasher Miles, and Rippl bring creators together for a sharing circle on trust and genuine recommendations in Goa
At a creator staycation in Goa, Rippl hosted its first Sharing Circle, where the conversation was not about follower counts but about the recommendations that do not always make it to social media.
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No code, no developer, no waiting: How AI is rewriting the rules for India's MSMEs
For small business owners across India, getting online used to mean months of effort and money they didn't have. AI has changed the math entirely.
Gayatri Guha
Are you India's next big thing? Apply for Marico Innovation Foundation's Indian Innovation Icons 2027 to find out
Applications are open for the 11th edition of one of India's most prestigious innovation platforms, offering winners mentorship from Marico's Founder and Chairperson, Harsh Mariwala, national visibility, and access to capital.
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From battery waste to industrial metals: Inside Metastable Materials' Bengaluru refinery
Metastable Materials believes India's growing battery waste isn’t really waste. The Bengaluru startup extracts lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminium from spent batteries and sells them as refined commodity metals.
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From battery waste to industrial metals: Inside Metastable Materials' Bengaluru refinery
Metastable Materials believes India's growing battery waste isn’t really waste. The Bengaluru startup extracts lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminium from spent batteries and sells them as refined commodity metals.
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From almost nothing to a global pharma empire: The untold Lupin story
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From almost nothing to a global pharma empire: The untold Lupin story
In a system that was oppressive to business, Desh Bandhu Gupta (DBG) built a company and enabled an industry that now supplies medicines to the world. His biographer, Manish Sabharwal, shares the story of DBG and Indian pharma.
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