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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

Vaccine-shaped recovery

India's population, their movement and density make containing Covid a challenge

Is FM Sitharaman's growth pill good enough?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has addressed supply side issues with ₹20 lakh crore package, but there is little to boost demand. Experts say these are just support measures in the absence of direct cash infusions

'Lockdown extension tested patience of migrant workers'

Subodh C Dixit, executive director, Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering & Construction, on the impending shortage of labour in the coming months and why construction companies are staring at huge financial losses

The race to make a Covid-19 vaccine in India

Companies in India are using diverse technologies to develop a coronavirus vaccine, but even as they race against time, the road to an efficacious solution is neither straight nor short

#Wanderlost? What the future of travel will look like

How the coronavirus will cause the travel bug to mutate

Restarting India: How Mumbai can get back on track

Three of India's leading business cities continue to register spikes in coronavirus cases. In a three-part series, we look at what they can do to set their wheels of socio-economic activity back in motion

How the pandemic is reimagining education

With students locked out of schools and colleges, different organisations are reinventing ways to continue the teaching and learning processes

Restarting India: Fighting the fear to resume work in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad is a hub of big, midsized and small pharmaceutical companies and the government has asked companies to operate with 30 percent manpower

Inside Marico's pandemic plan

How Marico planned early to prepare for a changed consumer and business reality in the post-virus world

Restarting India: Bringing New Delhi back to life

Is Delhi ready to get back to work and live with Covid-19?

Restarting India: Nagpur waits for the orange signal

As Nagpur continues to be a red zone, industries struggle with labour, finances, supply and demand even after restrictions are partly lifted

Kirana stores: Going digital, fighting ecommerce

Several startups and larger players are racing to help kirana stores digitise their operations. Will the market see consolidation going forward?

Foreign education faces bleak future

As universities worldwide close their campuses, the future that a foreign education promised is suddenly looking grim

India needs to focus on water to fight Covid-19

Public health during the coronavirus pandemic depends on access to clean water for all, and as the summer intensifies, India needs to refocus on measures for long-term, sustainable water security

Airlines in India face debt trap

Research reports show that domestic airlines face a bleak future due to poor liquidity

Rohan Bopanna to PV Sindhu: How athletes are taking a time out in lockdown

For many Indian athletes, especially Olympians, 2020 would have been a crucial year. But with tournaments cancelled, they're learning to cope

Home alone: How international athletes are keeping fit indoors

Using home remedies, furniture and ingenuity, here's how sportspeople are keeping themselves going in lockdown

The tiny battery powering Airpods built a $1.9 bn fortune

Thirteen years ago, no one wanted to buy a money-losing hearing-aid battery maker. No one but Michael Tojner. Against all odds, Austria's 'Mr 300 percent' turned that $40 million investment into a $1.9 billion fortune (thank you, Apple!). Now he has to fend off the copycats

The oil man and the sea

Kjell Inge Rokke amassed a $1.7 billion fortune by stripping the oceans of oil and fish. Now he says he wants to clean up the mess—from the deck of the world's largest superyacht. Meet the biggest contradiction on water

Quibi: The billionaire's startup

The world is awash in streaming services, and Meg Whitman already had her fortune—but then Jeffrey Katzenberg came calling with a mobile-focussed startup. With nearly $1.8 billion raised and America on lockdown, consumers may have no choice but to try Quibi

Winning by not losing

Even before the pandemic sent markets tumbling, Advent Capital's Tracy Maitland was prepared for the mayhem. In good times, his portfolio tracks the market, but during downturns it's a refuge from the storm

Meet the Indian startup that seers

By providing data and insights to both startups and venture funds, RedSeer Consulting has emerged as one of the top homegrown consulting firms in India

IAN: When Angels wear Prada

How Indian Angel Network has balanced the devil's appetite for risk with an angel's benevolence to emerge as a major early-stage investment platform

India is not a Single Market: Havwoods' Dominiek Frees

Dominiek Frees, the top honcho at UK-based wood flooring brand Havwoods, on lessons learnt from the Indian market ahead of a country-wide expansion

Finovate Capital: A bridge to finance post-lockdown

Supply chain financier Finovate Capital is looking to tap into the demand for funds by small businesses when work swings back

Thoughts on vaccines and antidotes