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Funding in climate-tech startups cools but VCs signal a greener future

Funding in India's climate-tech startups fell from $2.4 billion in 2022 to $1.5 billion in 2024, with capital needs, scale issues and slow adoption posing key challenges

RBI's cautious stance could cost growth, bold rate cuts need of the hour

Given the long lags in monetary policy's impact on the real economy, too much caution could prove unnecessarily costly

Bangladesh unrest cuts India's medical tourism revenue by up to 35%

India sees sharp fall in Bangladeshi medical tourists in FY25 as regime change and visa curbs hurt Apollo and Manipal revenues; recovery expected only by FY26

Art of giving: Bill Gates has reset billionaire philanthropy standards

The chosen year, 2045, is noteworthy. That is year his foundation plans to end operations. It is also year that Mr Gates will turn 90 and his personal wealth is expected to touch $200 bn

India-US trade deal hopes rise but the reliability part remains in doubt

While it is essential that the government do its best to avoid being hit with high tariffs, it should also keep in mind that any deal with the US is subject to the vagaries of its leadership

Adani Airports raises $750 mn from global banks to finance expansion

External commercial borrowings will be used to refinance debt and improve six airports as company seeks to triple passenger capacity by 2040

Classic Legends targets FY26 profitability with new launches, expansion

Classic Legends is betting big on product innovation, network expansion, and exports to achieve profit before tax (PBT)-level profitability by FY26, said a senior company executive

IndiaAI Mission: Large IT, AI firms may not get govt nod to make LLMs

Meity says these firms can obtain GPUs on their own

CA Basque loses right to nominate director on bank's board, says Yes Bank

Carlyle affiliate trims Yes Bank stake to 4.22% via ₹1,774.89 crore block deals and loses board nomination right; senior resignations and strategic restructuring continue

CAQM mandates only CNG, electric vehicles for e-commerce fleets in NCR

From January 2026, no petrol or diesel vehicles can be added to aggregator fleets in NCR, with CAQM pushing for faster transition to clean mobility options

Moody's review meet with govt to focus on global trade, Indo-Pak conflict

Moody's will meet Indian officials on Thursday in Delhi for its semi-annual review of India's sovereign rating amid rising geopolitical tension and trade disruption

Virat Kohli gets elusive silverware, IPL champion RCB bags brand title

RCB's first IPL title adds brand momentum but experts say Kohli's brand value remains unchanged while PBKS under Iyer emerge as a serious branding contender

Wipro pays out 90% quarterly variable pay to most of its employees

That is significantly higher than cross town rival Infosys whose variable pay for the same period was about 65 per cent due to a muted business environment

Snowflake to set up R&D centre in India, expand operations in Pune

Cloud data firm Snowflake plans to open an R&D centre in India alongside its Pune CoE as part of its larger push to grow local talent and enterprise technology capability

VC firm Seafund eyes up to 25 deep-tech investments, aims for follow-up too

The investments will be made over the next two to three years as part of the firm's second fund, a Category-II AIF (alternate investment fund)

Need to serve all asset classes across MMR: Keystone Realtors CMD

Boman Irani said that the company will launch a senior living project, get into data centers and will divest 3.35 per cent to meet Sebi norms to partially fund capex

Indian PC market to get a booster shot from Tamil Nadu's free laptop scheme

Industry experts say the million-unit tender is likely to give the personal computer market a good bump, but could push value down since the government will want a special prices for such a large orde

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Despite MMR demand dip, Rustomjee expects 2x growth in 3-4 years, backed by ₹40,000 cr pipeline in plots, townships, commercial, and core residential

Annapurna-I, in the footsteps of French mountaineer Maurice Herzog

Herzog has recorded his adventures in a very popular book titled "Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8,000-metre Peak"

Smallcap auto ancillary stock surges 49% in 1 week; up 119% from April low

Lumax Auto Technologies hit a new high of ₹992.20, rallied 49% in the past one week, after the company reported better than expected earnings for the quarter ended March 2025.