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In this issue

INDIA’S AMBITION to lead in emerging technologies is no longer in
doubt. How it gets there is the question. From building indigenous AI
models to scaling compute infrastructure, the country is attempting to
carve out a technology roadmap that addresses global relevance and
local realities in equal measure. A Nasscom report estimates India’s
technology industry, encompassing software services, hardware, AI,
quantum computing and digital platforms, to be worth $300 billion this
year. The sector holds immense potential to contribute meaningfully to
India’s larger vision of a $5 trillion economy, provided policy frameworks,
capital structures and scaling mechanisms evolve in time to support
innovation at scale.

The Biryani Vs Battery Battle

UNION COMMERCE Minister Piyush Goyal may not have dropped a real bomb, but his sharp remark at Startup Mahakumbh 2025 has sparked a major debate across India's startup ecosystem. Goyal said, \"What are India's startups doing today?

1 mins

STAGGERING BULLS SEEKING REHAB

IF STOCK MARKETS had a panic button, it’s safe to say someone's been leaning on it a little too hard. Around the world, equity indices are in free fall like interns after a Friday happy hour — dramatic, messy, and hard to watch.

1 mins

A BITTER PILL

Will Donald Trump's “but sometimes you need to take the medicine” statement prove a bitter pill for a world that is already on a slowdown mode?

2 mins

FROM TAKEOFF TO TURBULENCE: PERILS OF INDIA'S HALF-FINISHED REFORMS

IMAGINE A MARATHON runner, navigating a course riddled with unexpected hurdles and detours.

4 mins

Overcoming Consumer Behaviour Barriers

AS INDIA MOVES toward stricter fuel economy standards under the third and fourth phases of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations, debates about their economic and environmental impact persist.

4 mins

LANGUAGE FRACAS COULD BECOME TROUBLESOME

SCREAMING headlines in national dailies on 14 March, were enough to shake up sleepy heads in the capital - indeed anywhere in the country.

3 mins

Growing Generosity: Philanthropic Power?

INDIANS HAVE LONG BEEN generous givers.

2 mins

A Life Hack from Google Maps

OVER TWO BILLION PEOPLE around the world use Google Maps every month. Phew! That's a lot of people.

2 mins

How Colleges are Failing a Generation

THE SCENE is familiar across countless colleges and private university campuses in India.

3 mins

"Our CSR Is About Lasting Change"

DR. SUMAN MINDA, Chairperson of Suman Nirmal Minda Foundation (SNMF), Uno Minda Group, shares how Uno Minda Group is driving sustainable transformation across rural India through education, skill-building, women's empowerment, and community well-being Team BW

3 mins

TOUGH TIMES AHEAD

With 27 per cent US reciprocal tariffs in place, India's export loss may be limited, services exports remain unaffected, and lower tariffs offer a competitive edge. But global volatility is a big concern

5 mins

Make in India Meets Tariff Wall

INDIA’S ambitious drive to become a global technology manufacturing powerhouse is confronting a significant hurdle.

3 mins

SHEEN AMIDST

India's ceramics industry while showing strong growth potential faces headwinds in the form of volatile demand, rising costs, and policy hurdles. What needs to be done? By ASHISH SINHA

4 mins

Leadership Beyond Noise and Visibility

IN BOARDROOMS AND LEADERSHIP forums, it often seems that loud voices steal the show.

3 mins

An Alternative Approach To Delimitation

NO INDIAN politician has ever announced that the nation aims to be the most populous in the world. Nor has anyone proclaimed that we will beat everyone else with our population growth rate.

3 mins

MAKING AI FOR BHARAT

With the IndiaAl Mission and growing startup innovation, the country’s push to build sovereign, culturally aware Al is underway — but scale is still the ultimate test

5 mins

Building India's AI Future

In an interview with Rohit Chintapali, ABHISHEK SINGH, Additional Secretary at MeitY and CEO of IndiaAl Mission, discusses GOI-led artificial intelligence (AI) developments, covering various areas including foundational models, Al governance and indigenous GPUs. Excerpts

2 mins

"AI WILL DRIVE THE NEXT WAVE OF ENTERPRISE-WIDE TRANSFORMATION"

MOHIT JOSHI, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra, shares his thoughts on building scalable AI platforms, GCC innovation and India's emerging global AI leadership in this interview with BW Businessworld's Noor Fathima Warsia

4 mins

Pioneering AI For Social Good

In a chat with Rohit Chintapali, SHEKAR SIVASUBRAMANIAN, CEO at Wadhwani Al, discusses the need for responsible, multilingual Al tailored to India's diverse population, the growing but challenging investment landscape for Al-driven social impact initiatives, and much more. Excerpts

2 mins

Making GenAI For India Scale

In an interview with BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali, Sarvam AI Co-founder VIVEK RAGHAVAN discusses India's need for sovereign AI and the company's focus on colloquial voice AI. Excerpts

2 mins

SETTING BENCHMARKS

Fuelled by AI and driven by sustainability and innovation, LTTS is charging ahead in the global engineering R&D race By Deep Majumdar

4 mins

INSIDE ZOHO'S NEW ORDER & PLAYBOOK

How the disruption caused by DeepSeek in the AI landscape became a major trigger for Zoho Corp co-founder Sridhar Vembu to effect key leadership changes at the SaaS giant, including stepping down as its CEO to helm the focus on research and AI

5 mins

INDIA'S ROADMAP TO AN AI-POWERED INTELLIGENT FUTURE

Mankind and Al are like the two arms of a compass, pivoted together to draw out an intelligent future ahead

2 mins

EMBRACING A BOLD NEW ERA IN DATA AND AF CHARTING INDIA INC.'S DIGITAL SUCCESS

Breaking data silos and embracing Al-driven integration is key to unlocking transformative insights, boosting productivity, and powering the next era of growth for India Inc.

3 mins

A UNIFIED SECURITY STRATEGY: THE NEW BUSINESS IMPERATIVE

Organisations must shift from siloed security to a unified, intelligent approach that safeguards endpoints, applications, and infrastructure in real time

3 mins

GEO AI: MAPPING THE FUTURE WITH INTELLIGENCE

As AI redefines Geographic Information Systems, GeoAI is powering deeper insights, smarter decisions, and a new era of spatial intelligence across industries

2 mins

AI SHOULD BE FOR EVERYONE

Snapdragon X marks a new chapter in Qualcomm's India strategy, as Savi Soin, President of Qualcomm India and Senior Vice President at Qualcomm globally, lays out the vision to mainstream AI across devices and price points

4 mins

AI SUPERCHARGES THE CHIP REVOLUTION

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is transforming the semiconductor sector, revolutionising design, manufacturing, and innovation. AI-based innovations are driving efficiency, lowering costs, and optimising production processes, propelling the semiconductor industry to record new levels of growth.

2 mins

AI: THE TRANSFORMATION COMPANIES ARE ALREADY LIVING

From reshaping content to redefining education and powering India's space economy, industry leaders weigh in on how AI is rewriting the rules across sectors

3 mins

INDIA'S QUANTUM AMBITIONS TAKE SHAPE

India's National Quantum Mission, a 2023 initiative launched with the aim of developing intermediate-scale quantum computers, is progressing well. But going forward, it needs to address key challenges of limited skilled workforce, funding gaps, and a lack of industry participation By Rohit Chintapali

7 mins

The Compute Challenge

In the global race for technological supremacy, access to computing infrastructure has been a critical differentiator for nations maintaining status quo in terms of growth and strategic autonomy. For India, a country with 1.4 billion citizens, a growing tech ecosystem and digital transformation goals-the “compute challenge” represents both a hurdle and an unprecedented opportunity

6 mins

India's Data Don, Plugged & Playing

In an interview with BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali, NTT Data President and CEO ABHIJIT DUBEY discusses how AI efficiency gains are potentially driving greater demand and likely increasing overall power use. He also weighs in on US steel import tariffs and their impact on data centre costs. Excerpts

2 mins

Building India's AI Backbone

In an interview with BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali, SUNIL GUPTA, Co-founder, MD & CEO, Yotta Data Services, discusses India's current position in the global AI landscape and the explosive growth ahead in GPU demand and LLMs. Excerpts

2 mins

CAN AI HELP IN BUILDING GREENER CITIES AND SMARTER SPACES?

A CITY takes shape long before the first brick is laid. It begins with a vision of streets lined with trees, buildings that breathe, and transportation that flows seamlessly without harming the environment.

3 mins

AI CALLING: THE NEW DIAL TONE OF TELECOM

From network optimisation to personalised services, AI is redefining telecom’s core—making connectivity smarter, faster, and future-ready

2 mins

NARRATIVE VS REALITY

With regulators, rivals, and revenue models colliding, Apple is being compelled to reimagine the power dynamics of its digital marketplace

6 mins

THE FEATURE PHONE FIGHTS BACK

CONTRARY to wide-spread belief that the humble feature phone is an artefact of a bygone mobile era, its sales are experiencing a surprising resurgence in India.

3 mins

REINVENTING SOUND

Hubli-based Sonic Lamb is building a global premium audio brand, powered by haptics and a lot of hustle By Sahil Mohan Gupta

3 mins

POWERING MOBILITY

India-born NAGARRO is helping the world's biggest automakers rethink speed, supply chains, and customer experience—with AI at the wheel

3 mins

SAME SOUL, NEW POWER

With a sharper screen, faster performance, and a new wave of games, the Switch 2 is ready to change the game, again

3 mins

BUILT FOR SPEED

Armed with deep category expertise and a sharp product thesis, Lumio eyes challenging the status quo of sluggish smart TVs

3 mins

THE BEST LAPTOP GOT SMARTER - YOUR NEXT AI PC?

In the 13-inch APPLE M4 MACBOOK AIR, powerful M4 silicon meets clever AI and surprising gaming chops in Apple's beloved thin-and-light. Add epic battery life and better value and perhaps, this is the ultimate portable PC

3 mins

APPLE'S SERIOUSLY FUN POWERHOUSE THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK

The iPad Air M3 packs the ferocious M3 chipset offering you horsepower good for five years or more, practically for a song. A brilliant 500 nits 11-inch screen using trusty IPS technology, an 8-core CPU, a muscular 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine and up to 8GB of RAM, is all squeezed into a just 6.1mm thin chassis that weighs 462 grams. What's not to like?

3 mins

"Nearly 25 years on, we are proud to stay true to the principles we started with"

We spoke to MINAL VAZIRANI, President and Co-founder of Saffronart, about the auction house, its 25th anniversary sale, and the Indian art market

4 mins

Biohackinga DIY method for good health, or is it?

When one thinks of biohacking, Bryan Johnson, the millionaire tech entrepreneur comes to mind.

3 mins

Masayoshi Son-An Astrological Perspective

ON OCTOBER 31, 1999, in Beijing, a Korean investor took a leap of faith on the dream of a young Chinese entrepreneur who wanted to build a digital Yellow Pages for China.

4 mins

TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS

WHEN SANTOSH CHOUBEY graduated from Bhopal's Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology) in 1976, he did intend to tread the beaten track and pursue a steady job.

1 mins

Levelling The Playing Field

One of the things I would say — and it's not just true for women, but for anyone - is that AI and GenAI represent a new skillset to learn.

2 mins

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