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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Facebook cracks down on 'inauthentic behaviour'

But it may be a case of too little, too late

Disinvestment: Government inches past ₹80K crore target

Economists, however, question its intent to undertake disinvestment in its fair spirit

Under Armour makes retail debut in India

Sportswear company launches first store in the country; plans to open nine more, including one in Mumbai, before end of 2019

MG Motors on Indian roads with 'internet SUV'

It's the first time that a Chinese car maker will launch its vehicle in the country

Infosys gets European expertise

Bengaluru IT company acquires 75 percent stake in Stater NV

Indian aviation: From duopoly to monopoly

Experts say LCCs are protecting market share by artificially stimulating fares

Factchecks and balances in the age of fake news

Professionals are taking on the rising surge of misinformation and rumours in India, but remain limited by resources and reach

We need to charm people: Siddhartha Lal

Excerpts from two recent interactions with the London-based Eicher Motors CEO, when he was in India

Royal Enfield: Silver bullet

With five straight months of falling sales, Royal Enfield's decade-old dream run has come to a screeching halt. Here's how Siddhartha Lal plans to get the Bullet maker firing on all cylinders again

Slowdown: No wind in the sales

After powering economic growth for the last decade, Indian consumers are now holding tight to their purse strings

What UP's women want

From Saharanpur in the west to Varanasi in the east, Forbes India travels across India's most populous state to explore how women—going beyond entrenched caste dynamics—want to vote for everyday freedoms like education, expression and employment

Indian elections are too noisy and unpredictable: Milan Vaishnav

The author on the rise in political competition, why people vote for candidates with criminal backgrounds and the need for digital campaigning

V Resorts: Off the beaten track

How V Resorts has carved a niche in the cluttered travel space through its offbeat locations and experiential offerings

IPO slowdown: Two pre-IPO funds from 2017 wait for the tide to turn

Edelweiss Crossover Opportunities Fund and IIFL Special Opportunities Fund are the only two alternate investment funds in India, raised in 2017, to deploy capital in companies before their initial public offerings

Astarc Ventures: Founder's keepers

Mumbai-based venture capital fund goes the extra mile to help startups take off or stay afloat

Don't wait, innovate

Innovations are assumed to be non-incremental change or a breakthrough from the blue

India can have a vodka future despite a whisky past: Rodney Williams

The president and CEO of Polish premium vodka brand Belvedere Vodka speaks on the evolution of the alcohol industry and millennial preferences

There isn't, and there needn't be, such a thing as "Indian photography": Nathaniel Gaskell

Nathaniel Gaskell talks about the first book to document the history of photography in the country, and its significance to art history

How Goan food is getting a facelift

Forbes India explores the resurgence of the state's cuisine, as reimagined by chefs

Thoughts on innovation

How India's first unmanned, self-cleaning e-toilets work

Made by Kerala-based Eram Scientific Solutions, the toilets work on sensor-based technology and are maintained and monitored remotely using GPRS

EmpowerU: Using tech to monitor government schools in Jharkhand

The platform collects real-time data without the use of the Internet, and has helped spike teacher attendance and the number of mid-day meals being served

Biosense: Low-cost medical diagnostic devices, for rural doctors

The company targets doctors in Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns, and now has a range of nine products that quickly test blood, urine and other samples

S4S Technologies: Helping women farmers keep their produce fresh, sunny side up

Since women have traditionally used sun drying, the company targets them for their solar conduction dryer, which helps increase the shelf life of fruit and vegetables to about six months

Promethean Power: A chill pill for dairy farmers

The company's tank-based milk refrigeration system is an alternative to diesel options, bringing cooling costs down from 50 paisa per litre to just 18 paisa

Bionic Yantra: The robot giving patients a leg up

Bionic Yantra's exoskeleton provides a fall-safe method of rehabilitation for those unable to walk

World's witnessing a period of low-level creativity: Jeffrey Baumgartner

Author and innovation expert Jeffrey Baumgartner on anti-conventional thinking, and India as an interesting nation for creativity

Fresh off the (MIT Media) lab

MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise'

In India, constraints stir more creativity: Beth Comstock

Comstock, who headed business innovation at General Electric, speaks to Forbes India about her new book and why India has an edge in entrepreneurial innovation

The Bengaluru tech centre that's powering Walmart

A tech centre in Bengaluru is building software and solutions for the US retail giant's global network

I want to focus on both innovation and invention: Intel's Nivruti Rai

The 49-year-old on why AI is the most important technology today and 5G being a little evolutionary, but a lot revolutionary

How Techstars matches mentors with startups

The accelerator programme, now in India, facilitates a stringent 13-week programme for entrepreneurs to deconstruct their business, and reconstruct where necessary

How on-campus startup incubators work

Academic institutes provide fledgling startups with the money, knowhow and guidance they need to become world-ready

How Marygrace Sexton rescued her orange juice company

She sold Natalie's to a private equity firm, then watched it start to spoil. Here's the story of how she reclaimed--and rejuvenated--the clean beverage

Porsche 356's allure

Steve McQueen, Janis Joplin and one woman's quest to find the one that got away

Big money, little kids and a grand experiment

Can AltSchool, the ed-tech startup backed by $174 million from Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Laurene Powell Jobs, save itself from failure?