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TeamLease EdTech’s HY2 2026 report puts fresher hiring intent at 75%, as employers increasingly favour practical skills and digital readiness.

Updated : Nov 6, 2026

Hiring for capability, not credentials: What the next MBA hire needs

The winning employability stack will be broader: business fundamentals + AI and data fluency + communication + judgement + work exposure + demonstrated execution.

In 2025–26, equity derivatives generated approximately 12.5 times as much revenue as cash trading.

Updated : Nov 2, 2026

NSE at BSE: The celebrity tenant and its modest rent cheque

NSE’s high-profile listing brings visibility and additional trading revenue to BSE. But the fees are modest. The real engine of BSE’s revenue remains its own derivatives business.

Financial statements are generally due within 30 days of a company's annual general meeting (AGM), and annual returns within 60 days.

Updated : Oct 30, 2026

MCA21 at 20: Filing extensions cannot become the new normal

Two decades after MCA21 began, recurring deadline extensions expose the need for a more reliable filing system, clearer rules and greater accountability.

Noel Tata opposed N. Chandrasekaran’s reappointment beyond February 2027, citing procedural lapses in the manner in which the resolution was presented to the board.

Updated : Oct 27, 2026

Tata Trusts vs Tata Sons: Let the Tape Speak

The recording of the September 17 Tata Sons board meeting is the best test of whether its chairman's reappointment met what the Articles demand.

A deployed AI system is not a model. It is an assembly of datasets, checkpoints, adapters, prompt templates, retrieval indexes, guardrail policies, quantisation toolchains and serving stacks

Updated : Oct 23, 2026

AI’s Weakest Link: Securing the Supply Chain Nobody Sees

From hidden dependencies and compromised components to silent model drift, AI supply chain risks demand a new approach to security. Network science can help organisations pinpoint critical vulnerabilities, prioritise controls and protect the systems — and people — that depend on AI.

Human-in-the-loop cannot compensate for weak system design

Updated : Oct 20, 2026

The most underrated AI investment: Building the humans in the loop

Why effective AI oversight is a talent strategy and not just a sign-off step.

Samsung held 88% of India’s foldable segment in 2025, a near-monopoly. Apple's iPhone Duo starts at $1,999, roughly $1,100 more in India than in the US.

Updated : Oct 19, 2026

Does Apple's Price Shock Give Samsung a Rare Opening in India?

As iPhone prices climb sharply, Samsung has a chance to turn its Galaxy portfolio into the "smart value" alternative, but winning over Apple's customers will take more than a discount.

Fr Antony R Uvari, SJ, Director, XLRI Delhi-NCR

Updated : Oct 16, 2026

The MBA at an inflection point: How AI, skills and employability are reshaping management education

As technology transforms the workplace, business schools must equip graduates with digital fluency, practical skills and the ethical judgment to lead in a changing world.

Sovereign intelligence is not about India building everything on its own. It is about having the capability to build, adapt and govern AI in ways that reflect India's priorities.

Updated : Oct 3, 2026

India's next strategic asset: Sovereign intelligence

Data sovereignty provides the foundation for something broader: India's ability to create, govern and benefit from the intelligence derived from its data.

The future of residential schools is not a departure from their past

Updated : Sep 18, 2026

What endures: The residential school in a changing world

Residential schools have always understood that education extends beyond formal instruction that the capabilities most needed for the future are developed precisely outside the classroom: communication, collaboration, empathy, conflict resolution and cultural awareness, learned through participation, not textbooks.

Vinod Kumar said the regulatory system must focus on improving compliance rather than simply increasing enforcement.

Updated : Sep 16, 2026

Food safety enforcement must protect consumers, without breaking MSMEs

Food safety enforcement is essential to protect consumers, but a one-size-fits-all approach can burden India’s micro and small enterprises. The focus should be on stronger compliance, transparent enforcement and practical support for MSMEs.

CAS pools all eligible buy and sell orders together and matches them at a single equilibrium price

Updated : Sep 2, 2026

Why India’s new closing auction is a reform worth backing

A month after replacing the 30-minute VWAP close for F&O stocks, CAS has passed its first major test, handling record institutional flows on the MSCI rebalancing day and signalling that India’s shift to global closing-auction standards is here to stay.

Sanjay Kathuria, Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress and Co-Founder, Trade Sentinel

Updated : Aug 25, 2026

'Bulk of decent jobs in the next two decades will need to come from manufacturing'

Sanjay Kathuria says India has not missed the bus on becoming a global manufacturing hub.

Paints is an industry that makes this logic unusually clear

Updated : Aug 13, 2026

Profitable growth in a price war: Why margin discipline matters more than market share in the paints sector

There is an emerging narrative which posits that the relevant moats in paints have already been broken, and against which margin discipline is held to offer little protection, but this reading is partially correct and largely incomplete.

An exam leak is rarely the work of a lone genius defeating an impregnable system

Updated : Aug 5, 2026

The great Indian examination heist

Authorities should examine unusual score clusters, identical answer patterns, geographical concentrations and links between candidates—while ensuring that analytics trigger investigation rather than automatic guilt.

Anne Le Guennec, CEO, Water Tech Zone, Veolia (PC: Milind Shelte)

Updated : Jul 28, 2026

Why Veolia Water Tech’s Global CEO Anne Le Guennec thinks India is a new place for manufacturers

French environmental services firm Veolia’s Anne Le Guennec and Gopal Madabhushi on how the company is combining tech with all their solutions and services.

Despite 3 million places of worship, 43 UNESCO sites and over 7,500 km of coastline, India gets less than 10 million foreign tourist arrivals while a city like Paris alone gets 25 million.

Updated : Jul 20, 2026

Incredible India, invaluable economics

As India aspires to become one of the world’s leading tourism economies, the focus must shift from attracting visitors alone to transforming into a structural contributor of broad-based growth.

In just the first five months of 2026, foreign portfolio investors pulled out ₹2.3 lakh crore from Indian equities

Updated : Jul 16, 2026

When capital leaves and conscience stays: Can Ahimsa bring foreign capital back to India?

As FPIs exit Indian equities for AI-led Asian markets, India’s new Ahimsa and Saatvik indices could offer a values-based route to global capital.

Sandeep Kohli, Chief Executive Officer, Indriya

Updated : Jul 6, 2026

'Seen demand come back quite strongly in last few weeks': Indriya CEO, Sandeep Kohli

Sandeep Kohli, Chief Executive Officer, Indriya, on gold demand, recycling of gold, and more

In a world of elevated geopolitical tensions, sharp risk-on/risk-off swings and rapid automation, global investors are shifting from a “growth story” lens to an “execution story” lens.

Updated : Jun 19, 2026

Beyond the growth story: India’s next market leap is about reliability

India today offers a combination that global allocators value: relative geopolitical stability, a strong demographic dividend, and a regulatory environment that is structured and broadly predictable, at a time when uncertainty is being repriced across markets.

One of the largest opportunities to accelerate this transition exists within government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) that operate extensive vehicle fleets.