India's overseas direct investment data for January-March 2026 shows Singapore taking the top spot as a destination for Indian corporate capital, reflecting the city-state's continued role as India Inc.'s preferred base for regional and global expansion.
A data snapshot of the roughly 40,000 SMEs owned by Indian entrepreneurs in the UAE, and the remittance flows that connect the Gulf's largest expatriate community back to India.
An internal State Department memo confirms that online-presence screening — already mandatory for student, exchange and H-1B visa applicants — is being extended to cover foreign media representatives and additional nonimmigrant categories, part of a broader tightening of US visa vetting first introduced in 2025.
Washington has scrapped the decades-old 'Duration of Status' system for F, J and M visa holders, replacing it with fixed admission periods that take effect September 15, 2026 — a change that will require hundreds of thousands of Indian students to actively track and renew their status rather than rely on continuous enrolment.
Parliament has quietly opened the legal door to charging a Merchant Discount Rate on some UPI transactions, ending nearly a decade in which India's digital payments backbone has remained free for both consumers and merchants.
India's startup IPO pipeline has swelled to more than 50 companies at various stages of filing, but the latest update to the tracker shows a widening gap between issuers racing to list and those, like Zepto, choosing to wait out a tougher public market.
Indian American business leader Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Fortune 500 manufacturer Flex, and her husband Jeevan Mulgund have pledged a $1 million permanent scholarship endowment for economically disadvantaged women students at BITS Pilani, Advaithi's alma mater.
Maharashtra is drafting amendments to its Bike-Taxi Rules that would require food-delivery and quick-commerce platforms to run EV-only fleets, add GPS tracking and insurance, and contribute 2% of every fare to a driver welfare fund — bringing gig-economy regulation to India's largest state economy for the first time.
Flipkart's quick-commerce arm Minutes has launched a gourmet grocery range spanning imported cheese, specialty coffee and artisanal chocolates, alongside its own private label Pykd, joining Blinkit's Gourmet and Zepto's upcoming Select in the race for higher-value quick-commerce baskets.
Hector Beverages, the maker of Paper Boat, grew FY26 revenue 13.8% to ₹760 crore, but profit collapsed 96% to just ₹2 crore as the company's growing reliance on lower-margin traded goods and rising costs outpaced its topline expansion.