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Friday, January 2, 2026
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Topic: startups

A Pune startup is transforming radiology screening with AI. How it could fill crucial gap in healthcare

DeepTek’s AI-driven radiology platforms are reshaping chest screening, speeding up diagnoses and increasing their accuracy.

Meesho’s big bang market debut: From small social commerce experiment to 79x IPO

Investors placed bids for 221 crore shares against the 27.79 crore shares on offer as Meesho joins a long list of series of tech IPOs capitalising on a thriving primary market.

How startups are falling into lenders’ debt traps

Increasingly, lenders have stepped in where equity funding has slowed amid global market volatility. But instead of helping startups, they end up extracting a pound of flesh that outlasts the crisis itself.

Startups to govt policies—India wants to lead the lab-grown meat revolution

Once limited to science fiction films like Star Trek, cultivated meat is on the brink of hitting restaurant plates and grocery stores.

Bengaluru billionaires are changing Indian philanthropy. Old-style CSR is out

A new Bengaluru wave of first-generation science and tech billionaires is quietly changing the grammar of giving. It’s a shift that’s mirroring the nation’s expanding aspirations.

Bengaluru startups gear up for a sky full of drones—indigenous chips, OS to traffic management

What has given entrepreneurs and engineers the impetus is the collective realisation that India cannot be solely dependent on other countries for drone technology.

Govt ropes in innovators & startups to fight antimicrobial resistance. How the initiative will work

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms Thursday launched a ‘One Health AMR Challenge 2025’ in Bengaluru to support technologies tackling AMR.

Make in India is a startup graveyard

Simplify compliance. Repair regulatory logjams. Provide transparent and equitable access to credit. Above all, change the culture—to one that celebrates effort.

Let’s talk about red tape, cash flow, say Indian startup founders

As Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, calls out startups for focusing on food and grocery delivery, founders say it's because the govt takes a toll on their functioning.

Students assess faculty, a startup is born every 3rd day. At IIT-Madras, revolution’s no dinner party

In 2023, the number of patents granted rose to 300 from 156 in 2022. More than 370 startups have emerged from its incubation cell since 2013, with market valuation of Rs 47,000 cr.

On Camera

Dalit dating in India is a choice between dignity and loneliness

Dating apps promised to disrupt the casteist marriage market. Instead, they’ve merely translated social biases into digital language.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.