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$6B Exposure Threatens Collapse as Asset Sales and Tata Sons Shares Hang in Balance
THE SHAPOORJI PALLONJI (SP) GROUP, one of India's oldest conglomerates, is teetering on the edge of a financial abyss as it grapples with a staggering nearly $6 billion debt exposure, fuelled by a series of high-yield private credit deals and relentless asset disposals.
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May 31, 2025
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Of Kiwis and Flightless Birds
NEW ZEALAND IS A FASCINATING COUNTRY.
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May 31, 2025
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“India Must Aggressively Promote Homegrown Defence Tech”
ANKIT MEHTA, Co-founder and CEO, ideaForge, in this interview with BW Businessworld's Resham Suhail, shares insights on defence exports, deep-tech capital, policy gaps, growth plans, India's potential as a global drone powerhouse, and more. Excerpts
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May 31, 2025
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Localisation to Boost India's Drone Industry
Backed by war validation and rising investor confidence, India's drone sector is set to take off in a big way. But can it convert ambition into global leadership?
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May 31, 2025
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“COMVIVA 2.0 IS A TECH TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT”
RAJESH CHANDIRAMANI, CEO of Comviva, shares the company's three- pronged strategy to transform, accelerate, and expand in global telecom and digital markets By Team BW
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May 31, 2025
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Defence Tech Revolution: India's Path to Innovation Leadership
THE FOUNDATIONS of modern technology reveal a fascinating pattern—canned food, duct tape, microwave ovens, the internet, and virtually all modern-day electronics, trace their origins to research & development in the defence industry.
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May 31, 2025
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A HIGH VOLTAGE DIVERSIFICATION PLAY
JAKSON GROUP is firing on all cylinders in India's energy and infra space. Will this ambitious playbook be tempered with operational control and execution discipline?
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May 31, 2025
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"Providing Tax Benefits Can Attract More Investors To Deep Tech"
ANIL JOSHI, Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures, talks to Resham Suhail on how the time is ripe for startups in India's defence sector to flourish and even start attracting more capital. Excerpts
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May 31, 2025
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Exports Grow, But Imports Soar Further
INDIA'S TRADE DYNAMICS in April 2025 was a mixed bag — some wins, some warning signs.
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May 31, 2025
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THE POWER OF A DREAM THAT GREW BYTE BY BYTE
Brick By Brick — From Middle-Class Roots to Entrepreneurial Success — A Road Map to Dream, Build and Succeed is an autobiographical account of how author Manish Vij invaded the world of business, his roller-coaster ride in the newly emerging digital domains and the peaks he has conquered since. In telling his story, the Managing Partner of the venture capital fund, the Smile Group, inadvertently also maps the evolution of technology-driven enterprises in India, ending each chapter with 'Actionable Insights' for newcomers to the club of tech startups
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May 31, 2025
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AGREEING TO MIND THEIR DUTIES
Although it took long in coming, the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) endorses India's growing stature as a manufacturing and export powerhouse, while strengthening its position in the global supply chain
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May 31, 2025
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The Cost of War is a Fraction of the Price we Pay
IN 2025, UKRAINE'S reconstruction bill topped $600 billion, a staggering toll that dwarfs its pre-war GDP and will linger long after the guns have fallen silent. Peace comes at a price - but war bankrupts the future.
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May 31, 2025
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A Drone King In The Making
GARUDA AEROSPACE is energising India's evolving defencetech landscape with dual-use drones and global ambitions
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May 31, 2025
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India Halts Tours To Turkey, Azerbaijan
In a bold show of national solidarity, Indian travel giants have suspended tours to Turkey and Azerbaijan post-Pahalgam attack, turning a diplomatic standoff into a patriotic boycott that's reshaping outbound travel trends
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May 31, 2025
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INDIA'S SHADOWLANDS: MORE THAN JUST A FISCAL FOE
THE PARADOX is a labyrinth, a riddle veiled in plain sight: India, celebrated for its digital payment revolution, boasting billions of UPI transactions, simultaneously witnesses over 40 per cent of its gold and a substantial portion of its real estate changing hands in crisp, untraceable cash.
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May 31, 2025
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"INDIA'S DOMESTIC ECONOMY OFFERS GREAT OPPORTUNITIES"
In a conversation on the sidelines of SAP Now AI Tour in Mumbai, BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali spoke with SIMON DAVIES, who stepped into the role of SAP's Regional President for APAC in February. He shared his views on the company's newly integrated APAC leadership structure, India's role in accelerating AI adoption and more.
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May 31, 2025
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Will the Return to Roots Sustain Goafest's Relevance?
AFTER AN UNEXPECTED Mumbai sojourn last year, Goafest reclaimed its coastal heritage on 21 May 2025, with the 18th edition of South Asia’s flagship advertising festival at Taj Cidade de Goa Heritage and Horizon.
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May 31, 2025
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IMPROMPTU
I think marketing has really evolved in the last 20 years.
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May 31, 2025
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"BrahMos Has Proven India's Credibility as a Defence Partner"
Conceived in the early 1990s and formalised in 1998, the BrahMos missile project represents one of India's most ambitious and commercially viable defence collaborations.
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May 31, 2025
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IS AADHAAR STILL WORK-IN-PROGRESS?
ON 2 MARCH, 2025, as I was going to cast my vote for the local municipal elections, I looked at the voter slips dropped at home by some candidate’s staff and noticed that my age had been mentioned as 81 even though I had turned 84, last month.
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May 31, 2025
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Leica's Pocket RocketIs This 2025's Ultimate Camera Phone?
With Xiaomi pairing up with the German imaging house Leica, the gleaming new 15 Ultra is not just specifications loaded, it whispers of German engineering finesse. It is really more of a Leica you can also use as a phone. As part of Xiaomi HyperCore, AI is baked in at a system level. Annoyingly, though, you don't get a charger in the box.
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May 31, 2025
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Mumbai Tops Data Centre Landscape
GAUTAM SARAF of Cushman & Wakefield on Mumbai's booming data centres, logistics hubs, resilient commercial real estate market, and more
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May 31, 2025
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When AI, Not Ammunition, Will Win Wars
THE recent skirmishes between India and Pakistan have demonstrated the shift in modern warfare.
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May 31, 2025
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ECONOMIC NATIONALISM 2.0
From post-pandemic stimulus to strategic statecraft, India's pivot to self-reliance is reshaping global supply chains and tech ecosystems
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May 31, 2025
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WHY INVESTING IN WOMEN FOUNDERS IS A SMART BUSINESS MOVE
India’s startup ecosystem has evolved rapidly, but one area still holds untapped potential: funding women entrepreneurs.
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May 31, 2025
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What Leaders Should Avoid Doing
THE ANALYST STANDS CONFIDENTLY, presenting a crisp slide deck to the Leader, who sits across the table, arms folded, listening.
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May 31, 2025
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Retirement: Reflections and Ruminations
A PART FROM THE INDO-PAK ceasefire and the \"hot\" border, the big breaking news story amidst mid-May heat was Virat Kohli's retirement from Test cricket.
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May 31, 2025
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A Strategic Shift
Operation Sindoor signals a fundamental shift in India's approach to terrorism, its defence doctrine, nuclear deterrence and regional diplomacy By Sangeet Kumar Sanu
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May 31, 2025
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When Life Happens to You, What Do You Do with It?
LET'S PAUSE FOR A MO-MENT - not to plan or to solve - but to reflect.
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May 31, 2025
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How AI Could Exacerbate the Skill Shortage Crisis
HUMANS CRAVE comfort and often more than we admit.
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