Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Market & Consumer Angle

Market & Consumer Angle

6 days ago

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, …

6 days ago

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

26 - 06 - 2026

Kalashnikov Expands Indian Footprint with Anti-Drone Weapons Pact

The deal, finalized at the India Homeland Security Expo, emphasizes Moscow’s intent to remain India’s primary hardware provider, even as New Delhi faces intense western pressure to diversify its defense procurement away from Russia

23 - 06 - 2026

Agriculture Must Become More Attractive to Draw Youth Back: Ex-Nestle CMD Suresh Narayanan

India’s food security will remain firmly rooted in its rural farms and cannot be sustained by urban centres, underscoring that transforming agriculture into an attractive, viable and technology-driven vocation for the next generation is a national imperative that extends well beyond the remit of government alone. In an interview with News Associate, BD Narayankar caught …

22 - 06 - 2026

Anthropic’s Fable 5 Blackout: US Export Controls Signal AI Sovereignty Shift

Washington blocks global access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, citing national security; India’s AI ambitions face similar curbs as U.S. tightens chip and model weight restrictions