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Blinkit, Hyperpure & now Paytm, how Zomato’s strategy to build ‘super brands’ has paid off

It started as a side hustle of posting restaurant menus & reviews. 14 yrs later, Zomato, now synonymous with food delivery, also boasts quick commerce, going out, and B2B supply arms.

US-China ties hang between Biden and next president. Recent trips show a lot is on the line

Despite raging wars in Europe and West Asia, multiple US govt agencies have made it clear that China’s rise in the Indo-Pacific poses the most significant challenge to America’s global primacy.

‘Buying the dips’ & faster recoveries. Why this market rally is not like mid-2000s’ ‘mother of bull runs’

The current market rally, which has seen Sensex more than triple since COVID crash, did see some corrections. Unlike in the previous bull run, these dips have been shallow & short-lived.

Punjab’s Canada visa obsession is wilting. Study abroad & travel shops running near empty

Where mustard fields once displayed hoardings from travel consultants, and school children would dream of reaching Canada like their siblings, bitterness has set in.

‘Thalapathy’ Vijay is busy reading Ambedkar as his party plans to lean Left of Centre. Right’s a no go

The Tamil film star is set to declare his party’s ideology & vision to the public at a conference later this month, likely to be guided by Ambedkar, Periyar & Kamarajar’s works.

Faridabad gau rakshak now ‘regrets’ killing a Brahmin. ‘Sad we killed our brother’

The father of Aryan Mishra, a Class 12 student killed by cow vigilantes in Faridabad, said the illegality in the name of gau raksha must stop. 'I don't endorse it,’ he said after meeting the accused Anil Kaushik.

Netflix’s ‘IC 814’ is an expensive PR job for the ISI—shows R&AW torturing civilians

Nobody involved with the show seems to have any idea of how the intelligence agencies or the Government of India function. Or, for that matter, newspaper offices.

Heroic journalists who worked to keep Ajmer 1992 gangrape case alive—in public memory, courts

After 32 years, a POCSO court in Ajmer sentenced six accused to life imprisonment and fined them ₹5 lakh last week, marking a passive, lukewarm end to a case that had shaken the city to its core.

Ancient Indian medical system had an image crisis. A new name fixed it

Ayurvedic texts have evidence that the leaders of the medical profession were trying to clean up their image and get rid of the charlatans among them.

Indian investors don’t need a coddling nanny. Let them make mistakes and learn

There is a difference between protecting an investor from unscrupulous external action, and protecting them from themselves. The former is necessary, but the latter should be avoided.

On Camera

India’s non-profits are in a regulatory hell—state surveillance to confiscation of assets

Concerns around law and order or anxieties over religious conversion must be weighed against the developmental reality that the State cannot, on its own, meet the scale of India’s needs.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.