Saturday, 12 September 2026

Market & Consumer Angle

Market & Consumer Angle

4 days ago

India’s Space Industry Enters the Scaling Race as Capital, Customers and Capacity Emerge as Critical Hurdles

Industry leaders at a CII panel say India’s next space-sector challenge is no longer proving technology, but building manufacturing depth, launch cadence, growth capital and global demand to compete at scale.

04 - 09 - 2026

ISRO Set to Launch GISAT-1A, Advanced GEO Earth-Observation Satellite

GSLV-F17 mission will place EOS-05 into geosynchronous orbit, enabling persistent, wide-area monitoring of the Indian subcontinent

06 - 08 - 2026

How Bambrew Is Turning Bamboo Into a Plastic Alternative

The company’s growth reflects a larger shift in the packaging industry, where sustainability is moving from being a corporate responsibility initiative to a business necessity

02 - 08 - 2026

Can Microalgae Clean Up India’s Transport Economy?

Unlike first-generation biofuels derived from food crops such as sugarcane and corn—which provoke severe food-versus-fuel dilemmas and heavy water consumption—algal biomass offers unmatched yield efficiency per hectare

31 - 07 - 2026

Emerson NI Unveils AI-First Vision for Engineering, Deepens India Bet with L&T Tech Services Partnership

Emerson is betting that the future of test and measurement will be built not only on smarter tools, but also on stronger partnerships and a growing innovation ecosystem anchored in India.

30 - 07 - 2026

Why India’s Chip Dream Needs More Engineers Than Factories

For India, the next frontier in the semiconductor race is no longer simply attracting billion-dollar investments or persuading global companies to set up fabrication plants. It is finding enough people with the skills to design, manufacture and package the chips that those factories will produce. That challenge has quietly become central to New Delhi’s semiconductor …

22 - 07 - 2026

AI’s Next Act: Wealth Management, Logistics, Kitchens and Power Grids

Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into corners of the economy where consumers may never notice it. At a startup showcase hosted by venture capital firm Antler India on Tuesday, five young companies presented technologies that use artificial intelligence and deep engineering not to generate text or images, but to solve problems in banking, …

22 - 07 - 2026

Why India’s AI Startups are Chasing US Customers First

Founders increasingly see artificial intelligence as a borderless business and the United States as the world’s largest customer base rather than a distant expansion market

18 - 07 - 2026

India Flexes Industrial Muscle in Shinkansen Standoff

Tokyo’s concessionary lending was explicitly tied to the procurement of Japanese industrial exports: their rolling stock, their proprietary signaling architectures, and critically, their pricing mechanisms on their own terms

02 - 07 - 2026

From trash to Tesla: How plastic bottles could solve the graphite bottleneck

By combining shredded PET waste with minuscule quantities of graphene oxide, researchers have developed a chemical upcycling method that converts everyday plastic waste into highly ordered synthetic graphite