India

Three Indian teenagers have built a salt-powered fridge to help bring vaccines and medical supplies to rural areas and won the $12,500 Earth Prize 2025.

Mehul Choksi has been arrested in Belgium. He is charged with an alleged involvement in the Rs 12,636 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam.

The Indian Railways has raked in an additional revenue of Rs 8,913 crore in five years since the pandemic by withdrawing concessions for senior citizens.

Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India is developing 25 chipsets with indigenous IP to fight cyberattacks, in high-risk areas like surveillance and Wi-Fi access.

Speaking in Bengaluru, Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia said the lack of real innovation in the Indian startup space is instant gratification.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani bashes fellow founder and columnist Suhel Seth for his comment that 80% of the startups in the country are "nothing but a racket".

Vivek Wadhwa remarked that Indian entrepreneurs focus too much on food delivery and gig work instead of using technology to solve real, pressing problems.

Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk plans for an early launch of Wegovy in India to compete with rival Eli Lilly's launch of obesity drug Mounjaro last month.

Aman Gupta supported Piyush Goyal’s advice for Indian startups to move beyond consumer-centric businesses and focus on building deep-tech startups.

The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for non-semiconductor electronics components of Rs 22,919 crore.