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Hyderabad, India, October 12, 2026: Indian fintech company Viyona Fintech is planning to roll out its Tap & Pay platform in Zimbabwe, marking its proposed entry point into sub-Saharan Africa as it looks to expand its digital payments technology...

October 10, 2026: The announcement of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay offers a sharp, grounding corrective to that mindset. The startup ecosystem is chronically driven by the illusion of the quick win. So, between feeds saturated...

October 9, 2026: The 57th Goods and Services Tax Council meeting, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, introduced sweeping procedural overhauls designed to simplify tax compliance, protect small businesses, and unlock working capital. For founders, e-commerce entrepreneurs, and...

October 6, 2026: India’s deeptech ambitions are getting a new policy platform as Startup Policy Forum (SPF) launches DeepVerse, a centre aimed at bringing founders, investors, policymakers, technology companies and academia into the same conversation.The initiative comes at...

Hyderabad, October 5, 2026: Cygni Energy Private Limited and Indus Towers Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration on energy storage solutions for telecom infrastructure in India, with the proposed partnership envisaging Battery Energy Storage...

October 3, 2026: Rajeev Chandrasekhar has argued in his latest column has that India has made a start in building a domestic semiconductor industry, but the next phase will have to move beyond factories and conventional chip packaging if...

October 2, 2026: The Moscow Startup Summit ended this week with Indian startups leaving behind more than a showcase of products. Their participation pointed to a broader effort to build technology links between India and Russia, with robotics, agriculture...

New Delhi, September 30, 2026: The Union Cabinet has approved the third phase of India’s Green Energy Corridor, committing ₹1.86 lakh crore to strengthen state-level power transmission networks and deploy large-scale battery storage as the country prepares to absorb more renewable energy into the grid.The Green Energy Corridor Phase-III (GEC-III) scheme is designed to enable the evacuation...

BENGALURU: September 28, 2026: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged Indian technology startups to look beyond early- and late-stage fundraising as they scale, and consider public-market listings as part of their longer-term growth plans.Speaking at the IIT Madras...

September 23, 2026: Plastic alternatives are moving from stainability conversations into actual packaging decisions. In Kerala, Kochi-based Greenbio Products is working on one such shift with bottles made from polylactic acid, or PLA, a material derived from renewable sources such as corn starch, sugarcane and cassava.The startup has now found a customer in Hilly Aqua,...