Katya Naidu

With 274 million users and lowest-cost logistics, Meesho is defending its value commerce crown against giants like Amazon and Flipkart.

Mumbai's smaller homes under 500 sq ft are declining due to redevelopment and rising property prices, with municipal authorities considering a sewage tax to recover lost revenues.

To beat the sales blues, jewellers are taking an off-beat track - inching up fabrication of lower carat jewellery in a market that's dominated by 22 carat gold jewellery.

While mutual funds pool funds and invest, SIFs too follow the same path at a much higher rate of specialization and play over a wider set of hedging products. However, PMS provides segregated accounts of investors with around 18-20 products.

Zepto and Swiggy seem to be keen on improving margins by selling more to their existing customer base - breaking them away from the new challengers as well as Zomato.

Reduced imports, the government hoped, could tame the country's gold import bill, which stood at $71.98 billion in FY26. It went up 24% year-on-year, largely owing to gold price increase.

Until now, there is a large section of interest in pre-IPO deals. It has become a sweet spot as they can invest into companies with earnings visibility and a path to the public market, and more importantly have demonstrated scale.

When a product fails in the South, few FMCG majors would ever go ahead with it, industry experts say.

In some sectors, hiring checks are moving beyond qualifications and experience. A lesser-known metric is increasingly appearing in recruitment processes — raising questions about privacy and fairness.

India's public sector companies hold vast real estate assets — much of it underutilised. A new Budget proposal could move these properties into dedicated REITs, turning idle land and buildings into income-generating, market-valued assets. Here's what that could mean.

The exit picture for fintechs brightened exponentially in the last two years with 12 IPOs in 2024 and 2025.

Most Indian startups are trying to solve unique problems that are sector-specific; and not trying to become the next ChatGPT but building specific products using these large platforms.

Ola and Uber maintained an almost duopoly at one point in time, but Rapido's lightning-fast growth made Ola concede its market share, which is down to 30%.

The gap between meal delivery and other snack items like coffee and more such exists – as Zepto has pointed out – and others are scaling fast.

A growing number of NRIs are packing up years of life abroad and choosing to return home — even when they have green cards, stable jobs and long-term prospects overseas.

Disillusioned by jobs and vanishing careers, freelancers tie ambitions, lifestyles and anxieties with investments.

Personal luxury to see fastest growth as aspirational buyers bring buzz to the market.

Chennai's supply addition has just started to pick up with the market moving towards luxury.

Half of lower middle class respondents say they’d stop UPI if fee is introduced.

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