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Topic: Ritesh Agarwal

OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal’s father falls to death from Gurugram high-rise

ThePrint Team -
Agarwal, in a statement, said his ‘guiding light and strength’ had passed away.

‘Absolutely untrue’ – Oyo’s Ritesh Agarwarl denies bankruptcy claim after Rs 16 lakh claim

Saritha Rai -
Oyo, one of the larger startups in the SoftBank Group’s portfolio, was struggling to restructure and whittle down loss-making operations even before the pandemic obliterated travel.

Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo is facing major problems due to Masayoshi Son’s dramatic overreach

Pavel Alpeyev -
With its chaotic rush to expand in Japan, Oyo infuriated potential partners, alienated workers and jeopardised its reputation with local customers.

OYO was the big disruptor in India’s hotel industry, forcing even Tata to take note

Chitra Narayanan -
OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal was just 18 when he came up with the idea. Within just a few years, OYO surpassed the valuation of India’s oldest hotel company.

Oyo raises $1.5 billion at $10 billion valuation from founder Ritesh Agarwal, SoftBank

Saritha Rai -
Oyo founder 25-year-old Ritesh Agarwal will spend $700 million to buy new shares as a part of a $2 billion plan to triple his ownership stake.

Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal to invest $2 billion to increase stake in company

Saritha Rai -
The 25-year-old founder will buy shares from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia India, which will remain backers.

Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo to invest $300 million to expand in US

Patrick Clark -
Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo is adding hotels at the pace of one a day in the US, and aims to expand the offerings at five times that rate by the end of 2019.

OYO’s big expansion plans can put the entire business at risk

Tim Culpan -
There are enough anecdotes to suggest OYO’s management may be struggling to keep order among franchisees while maintaining focus on adding more.

24-year-old founder of Oyo Hotels raises $1 billion to expand overseas business

Saritha Rai -
Oyo has expanded beyond India into China, Malaysia, Nepal and Britain in the last 2 years.

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Opinion

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Ruchi Ghanashyam -
Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

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Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

Snehesh Alex Philip -
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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