In March 2025, Shiv Nadar transferred 47% of his stake in HCL Corporation to his daughter, placing control of a $55 billion empire in her hands. A year later, Roshni Nadar Malhotra is not just India's richest CEO—she is the third-wealthiest individual in the country. The era of quiet succession is over. The era of influence is just beginning.
L'Oréal just acquired a majority stake in Innovist — the parent company of Bare Anatomy and Chemist at Play — in a deal valued at around ₹4,000 crore, making it the largest acquisition ever in India's beauty and personal care startup space. The French beauty giant is finally admitting it can't win the Indian beauty war alone.
Mental health startup Lissun raised ₹2.77 crore from Zerodha-backed Rainmatter at a 40% higher valuation of ₹101 crore — delivering 35,000+ therapy sessions across 40+ cities and acquiring US-based AI tech to power child behavioral healthcare. Investors are finally taking mental wellness as seriousl
"If you want to get promoted, you've got to do the things that we do to operate Accenture," Julie Sweet says. Her message is unequivocal: AI fluency is no longer optional for career advancement. But for women, who often have less access to technical training and face systemic barriers to leadership, the mandate raises a critical question: Is this a lever for equality or another hurdle in a system that isn't built for them?
For decades, the India-France relationship was defined by what France sold to India: Rafale jets, Scorpene submarines, nuclear technology. Bharat Innovates 2026 marked a turning point. India arrived not with a requirements list, but with IP, manufacturing capacity, and technologies that Europe needs.
After years of regulatory delays, NSE has finally filed its DRHP for a ₹30,000 crore IPO — potentially India's largest ever. Zepto has followed with its updated DRHP for an ₹8,010 crore fresh issue, eyeing a July listing. The Indian IPO pipeline is finally waking up.,
India has added four new unicorns in 2026 — Skyroot Aerospace (first space-tech unicorn, $1.1B), Sarvam AI ($1.5B), KreditBee, Neysa, and Juspay — taking the total to 131. The billion-dollar club is no longer an anomaly
The Karnataka High Court declared the ED's arrest of Gameskraft founders illegal, ordering their immediate release. The ruling is a major legal win for India's real‑money gaming industry — and a stinging rebuke to the agency's tactics
The trigger was a seemingly minor revision—Accenture lowering its FY26 revenue growth guidance from 3-5% to 3-4%. But the message was devastating for Indian IT: if the world's largest consulting firm cannot find growth, neither can the companies that built their business on the same clients. The Nifty IT crashed 6% to a 52-week low, and ₹1.35 lakh crore vanished from TCS, Infosys, and their peers in hours.
Sensex crashed 732 points on June 19 as Accenture's cautious outlook triggered an IT bloodbath — Infosys fell 8%, TCS dropped 6%, Nifty IT hit a three-year low, and nearly ₹2 lakh crore in investor wealth was wiped out. The five-day bull run on Dalal Street is over.