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Teaching tech to young: Kerala offers a solution to India’s jobs crisis in IT sector

State's young, technically skilled population and a vibrant startup ecosystem can counter India’s jobs crisis in times of AI and automation.

Angel investors must be spared India’s tax hell

Angel investors are helping create jobs while big corporates are reluctant to invest. Time the taxman realised that. About three years ago, Anup Kuruvilla left...

Byju’s acquires Osmo for $120 million in US education push

Osmo, a developer of learning games, will continue as a standalone brand once the deal is completed.

Angel tax makes a comeback, tax department defends notices to start-ups

Start-ups are in the process of making a representation to the government over notices from the Income Tax department.

Top angel investor & former IRS officer says civil servants throttling India startup scene

Venktesh Shukla, a leading angel investor, says India's civil services officers are the ‘worst’ to devise startup policies.

The problems with China’s $856 billion startup juggernaut

As China struggles to fund its technological ambitions and catch up to the US, its basic problem is that too much capital is chasing after too few startups.

Can India be the next space startup haven, or will China beat us to it?

India and China are competing in the world economy for many things, one of them being the private space industry. There have been over...

35-year-old unknown Chinese entrepreneur creates the world’s most valuable startup

Bytedance Ltd is on its way to a more than $75 billion valuation, a price tag that surpasses Uber Technologies Inc.

Meet the 24 year old who built a $5 billion hotel startup in five years

Ritesh Agarwal model combines a reservation site with a full stack of services for small hoteliers who want to up their game.

The US business whiz-kid is likely a 45-year-old, at least 15 years older than India’s

The founders of the fastest-growing American startups are well into their 40s, while the domestic landscape is dominated by youth.  

On Camera

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.