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Beyond truck loans and balance sheets, Shriram Group is chasing India’s retail investing boom. Can an 89-year-old founder's legacy and a high-touch ground network beat Silicon Valley-style discount apps? We take a deep dive into the conglomerate’s high-stakes bet.

Three post-pandemic consumer businesses show how founders are finding customers, developing products, building brands and scaling in a market where the barriers to entry have fallen.

Stagnant growth in India has cornered L’Oréal into a bold reset. From unleashing prestige icons to acquiring nimble homegrown brands, the French beauty titan is rewriting its playbook to conquer the country’s ingredient-obsessed, luxury-chasing consumers.

For over 30 years, Angel One has adapted to a changing brokerage landscape. Now, regulatory pressure and intensifying competition are forcing another reset. Where does Angel One go from here?

The Tata Group is scaling Air India Express at breakneck speed, but the balance sheet is cracking under the strain. Incoming Air India chief Tewolde Gebremariam won’t run the budget airline but he inherits a fragile framework.

The Tata scion left Bombay House believing Tata Sons had taken no decisions at last week’s crucial board meeting. Hours later, the board had reappointed N. Chandrasekaran as chair and moved towards RBI compliance.

For Assam’s flood-hit families, livestock is income, insurance and food. Some have learned to live with floodwater through knowledge inherited over generations, but rapid, unplanned development is eroding that resilience.

The indoor race, which combines eight 1-km runs with eight functional workouts, has turned fitness into a competition. Yoska Technology Solutions, the event’s organizer in India, is now trying to build a business around the format.

An agonizing 33 km/hr cross-state drive along National Highway 66 lays bare the choked roads, delayed projects, and debt trap threatening Keralam’s economic future.

As sugar output drops and prices rise following a record-breaking El Niño, the shock could ripple through ethanol and eventually animal feed. What could that mean for your chicken and egg prices?