Take One: Big story of the day
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Delivery is on: Can Pizza Hut grab a bigger slice?
Twenty-five years in India and the world's biggest pizza player is still a distant No 2 to Domino's. Can Pizza Hut's latest brand positioning—Dil khol ke delivering—help it deliver a sucker punch?
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How Venkat Viswanathan built LatentView Analytics into India's IPO blockbuster
The 15-year-old data analytics company has taken the conventional road to growth and profitability by focussing on global clients and Indian talent
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How NoBroker turned house-hunting on its head
The proptech company recently became India's first unicorn in the space by directly connecting property owners with property seekers. But can real estate brokers, ubiquitous in India, really be eliminated from deal-making?
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Competing with each other about who has more in the bank is becoming less cool today: Nikhil Kamath
The Zerodha co-founder talks about his initiative to encourage philanthropy among youngsters, and the shift in the way the wealthy have been thinking about giving back to society
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Decoding Uni's Pay 1/3rd Card
The fintech startup promises a customer-friendly credit experience to solve short-term liquidity woes, but does it really stand out in India's competitive buy now pay later space?
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Slam Dunk: Can Rajan Bajaj grab a big slice of the fintech pie?
New unicorn Slice is fast becoming a darling of millennials, Gen Z, and Tiger Global. Can the credit card challenger live up to its billing?
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Entrepreneur at 49, billionaire at 58: How Falguni Nayar built success with Nykaa
Investment banker Falguni Nayar launched beauty and fashion ecommerce platform Nykaa from her father's office when she was 49. Almost a decade later, after her IPO was oversubscribed nearly 82.5 times, India's richest self-made woman billionaire says she is only getting started
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Devastation in the Western Ghats in the name of unplanned development
Activities like rampant stone quarrying, construction of infrastructure in fragile areas and deforestation for commercial plantation have led to massive changes in the Ghats, causing landslides, floods, droughts and other events in which hundreds have died
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CSK and Dhoni: Beyond the crown
Chennai Super Kings' unlisted stock and valuations continue to climb, with a unicorn status not too far away. The expansion of the IPL—with two new teams in 2022—and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni building CSK's core for upcoming seasons, point towards a stronger franchise, with or without the cricketing icon
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Tech companies price offerings aggressively, but non-tech issues more reasonable
Recent IPO investors would have done better buying a basket of stocks in old economy companies
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Blanket ban unlikely, keep calm and crypto on
India's policymakers sent local crypto trade into a spin with reports of a proposed bill to ban private cryptocurrencies. Trade has stabilised and so have intermediaries, but the uncertainty on the road ahead