Finance
How can fintech startups meet the payments needs of rural India?
A large part of India’s population still doesn’t have access to banking services despite the government's efforts to boost financial ......
Healthcare
Cipla to acquire South African drugmaker Mirren for $33 mn
Cipla Ltd, India's second-largest drugmaker by market value, has agreed to acquire South Africa's Mirren (Pty) Ltd to strengthen its ......
Finance
Temasek's changing investment strategy in three charts
Singapore state investment firm Temasek has pushed the envelope further to retune its portfolio mix for the year ended March ......
TMT
Tata Motors unit picks up 26% stake in freight aggregator TruckEasy
Tata Motors Finance Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd, has picked up a 26% stake in online freight ......
TMT
Does India lag behind in digital payments despite high level of innovation?
India has emerged as a large fintech hub in recent years and new-age entrepreneurs are coming up with varied solutions ......
Consumer
Reliance Industries buys into fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore's firm
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd has purchased a 12.5% stake in a company set up by fashion designer Raghavendra ......
TMT
Times Group, HT Media-backed Koovs to sell minority stake to Future Lifestyle
Kishore Biyani-led Future Group will acquire more than a fourth of fashion e-commerce firm Koovs Plc, as the brick-and-mortar retail ......
TMT
These Indian-origin entrepreneurs founded Silicon Valley unicorns
Many Indian-origin entrepreneurs have hogged the limelight in Silicon Valley with their companies raising large funding rounds and turning into ......
People
Kotak Mahindra Bank's Deepak Sharma on how AI will impact payments sector
Artificial intelligence startups in India lag behind China and the US in receiving funding. But they have an important role ......
Finance
Warburg-backed Capital First to buy minority stake in Village Financial
Non-banking financial company Capital First Ltd, part-owned by US private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has agreed to buy a 7.03% ......