India’s ₹2.12 Lakh Crore Defence Push: Can Domestic Industry Deliver? India’s Defence Acquisition Council has granted in-principle approval for capital acquisition proposals worth approximately ₹2.12 lakh crore, covering military mobility, artillery, helicopters, air defence, drones and naval systems. With around 82% of the estimated value…

Diageo and United Spirits: How a Global Spirits Giant Rewired India’s Liquor Market Diageo’s acquisition of control in United Spirits transformed the relationship between a British multinational and India’s largest spirits business. More than a decade later, the deal offers a revealing case study in…

IMF–World Bank Meetings in Bangkok: Why the Global Economic Agenda Matters to Overseas Indians The IMF and World Bank Group will hold their 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok from 12 to 18 October, with jobs, investment, artificial intelligence and global development on the agenda. For…

Mahindra’s Global Journey: How an Indian Automaker Built — and Refined — Its International Portfolio From Italian automotive design and Turkish tractors to South Korean SUVs and Finnish harvesters, Mahindra’s overseas expansion has been an ambitious attempt to build a global mobility and farm-equipment business.…

Apollo Tyres and Vredestein: How an Indian Tyre Maker Built a European Manufacturing and Technology Footprint Apollo Tyres’ 2009 acquisition of Dutch tyre maker Vredestein was more than an Indian company buying a European brand. It gave Apollo access to premium tyre technology, European distribution…

India–Netherlands Farm Partnership: Can Dutch Innovation Help Indian Farmers Grow More with Less? India and the Netherlands are deepening agricultural cooperation through horticulture centres, seed-sector collaboration and advanced farming technology. The opportunity is significant, but the real test is whether these innovations can become affordable,…

From IIT Madras to AI Materials Discovery: How Akash Ramdas Wants to Help Build Cooler, More Efficient Chips Discovered Materials has raised…

Who Is Toshniwal? The Pant Project’s ₹109 Crore Bet on India’s Trouser Market The co-founder is taking a business built around better-fitting…

Blue Dart–India Post Partnership: Can India’s Small-Town Sellers Reach More Customers? A new agreement combines Blue Dart’s express logistics network with India…

When “South Indian art” means more than geography There is a danger in calling something a “South Indian art movement” too quickly. India’s contemporary art scene is too diverse for a single regional label to explain it. Kerala is not Tamil Nadu; Hyderabad is not Bengaluru; Chennai is not Kochi. Artists move between cities, institutions […] Read More…

India’s defence-export story is entering a more interesting phase. The latest signal is not another overseas order for an Indian-made weapon. It is a decision to manufacture Indian-designed autonomous drone technology on European soil. Bengaluru-based Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has signed an industrial partnership with Portugal’s Keydef, the defence and aerospace division of Portuguese technology company SketchPixel LDA, under which Keydef will invest an initial €6 million in FWDA’s technologies and the companies will establish production capabilities in Portugal for international markets. The agreement covers FWDA’s Kaal Bhairava autonomous UAV and YAMA interceptor drone, with the proposed Portuguese operation eventually intended to extend across the company’s wider portfolio of surveillance, air-defence and civilian systems. For India, that makes this more than a manufacturing announcement. It is an experiment in whether an Indian defence startup can move from exporting products to becoming part of an international defence-technology supply chain. From Bengaluru engineering to European manufacturing FWDA describes itself as a Bengaluru-based developer of autonomous aerial and AI-enabled defence systems. Its product portfolio includes the Kaalbhairav series and YAMA, alongside other UAV and civilian applications. The company’s own product information describes the Kaalbhairav Lite as an indigenous long-endurance UAV with

The Indian Talent Behind 205 Unicorns Abroad: What $560 Billion Really Says About the Global Diaspora Indian founders who grew up in India are behind 205 current and former unicorns outside the country, with about $560 billion in founder-share-attributed company value. The extraordinary number celebrates…