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IndiaAI’s RegTech Challenge: A Deal Only A Desperate Start-up Would Sign
India's financial watchdog is drowning in paper. The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), the body responsible for overseeing India’s financial audit quality and reporting, receives thousands of filings every year and checks them by hand. Human reviewers, manual checklists, and not nearly enough of either. The obvious fix: an AI engine...
A Billion-Dollar Deadlock: Why Tata Sons Is Deferring Its Leadership Vote
The Tata group, India’s most storied conglomerate, finds itself at a defining moment. At stake is not just the extension of Natarajan Chandrasekaran’s leadership at Tata Sons, but the very structure of how the $149‑billion empire will be governed in the years ahead. With Noel Tata now chairing Tata Trusts — the holding company that controls 66% of...
Gridlock On The Green Path: Transmission Delays Trigger Massive Power Waste
India may be trying to achieve ambitious renewable energy targets, but the infrastructure to carry that power is still struggling to keep pace. After a decade where Rajasthan and Gujarat emerged as the nation's solar powerhouses, the industry is now grappling with the technical reality of curtailment, or the forced idling of power plants.In the...
Gulf Conflict Reignites Global Anxiety
For those of us old enough to remember the 1990 Gulf War, the current moment feels eerily familiar. That conflict was the first true television war, beaming graphic images of guided missiles and live trench coverage straight into our living rooms. It began when Iraq, then ruled by Saddam Hussein, invaded and occupied neighboring Kuwait. A...
Flights Go Off Grid: West Asia Chaos Costs India’s Airlines Rs 220 Cr in 48 Hours
Indian airlines have taken a combined hit of up to Rs 220 crore in just 48 hours as severe West Asia airspace disruptions force a wave of cancellations and costly reroutes to Western destinations.Across Air India, IndiGo and Akasa, disruptions over 48 hours have triggered an estimated Rs 180-220 crore hit, driven by last‑minute long‑haul scrubs,...
Opinion: Why Dubai’s Real Estate Isn't Flinching
If you were tracking the global news this weekend, you’d probably assume I was taking cover in a bunker. The reality? I spent my weekend doing what I always do: walking my poodle, Rufus. Our morning and evening rounds went on exactly as usual. My phone, however, was a different story. Friends, family, and anxious clients from India were calling...
India’s Mis-Selling Problem Can't Be Solved By Banks Alone
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently hogged headlines in India’s financial newspapers as she admonished banks, asking them to focus on their core business and “stop mis-selling”. The warning came on the back of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), releasing draft guidelines on its website on the mis-selling of insurance...
AI Hopes Soar, India Pushes Asset Monetisation, Trump Spins Growth Story
NVIDIA’s better-than-expected results announced Wednesday have served to assuage market concerns over an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble. This is illogical. If NVIDIA continues to receive strong orders for its chips, it only shows that people continue to put up data centres, not that these data centres and the AI they deliver will find...
