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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

Will the govt's agri reforms seed change for farmers?

The reforms aim to open up a nationwide market for farmers. But that's a far way off without supporting infrastructure and storage facilities

Low margins, lower demand

Industries with slender margins must move quickly on reducing their cost structures to reflect decreased demand

Homeopathy to fight the coronavirus? Think again

Homeopathy medicines such as Arsenicum album 30 and Camphora 1M are being mass distributed as 'preventives' for Covid-19. However, experts say, without enough evidence to support the claim, it is irresponsible to distribute or consume them

Meet Dr Arvind Lal, a newly minted billionaire thanks to Covid-19

In late March, as the coronavirus sent India into a nationwide lockdown, Dr Arvind Lal, 70, sprang into action. His Dr Lal PathLabs, one of India's largest diagnostic chains, quickly won regulatory approval to conduct Covid-19 tests, becoming one of the first private labs able to test the country's masses.

What's next in the Jio-Vodafone-Bharti Airtel rivalry?

A flurry of investments in RIL's Jio Platforms means the pace of evolution for all telecom players will rise multi-fold

Cover story: How Covid-19 has forced a clutch of startups to pivot

How companies like Delhivery, Clovia, Cars24 and JetSetGo have moved away from their core in the pandemic, or added to it

Beware the coming default deluge

The Covid-19 crisis is a risk that lenders never modelled for. Default rates could rise three times, says credit scoring platform CreditVidya

PHOTOS: Snapshots of life in quarantine in the midst of a pandemic

How an amateur golfer, a pilot, a landscape architect and others are dealing with isolation, to protect their loved ones from a possible coronavirus spread

'We are doubling our e-learning efforts': HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal

Pokhriyal on making India a global hub for education, building digital classrooms during Covid-19 and the new policy to grow into a knowledge superpower

EMI-linked products are getting popular. But can people repay?

Several companies are making attractive debt-financing offers during the lockdown, luring with loans

Personal finance: Understanding the new mutual fund paradigm

Why the pandemic-induced volatility is a wake-up call to ensure measured and diversified asset allocation, and relook portfolios

'Invest in multiple tranches': AMFI's Nilesh Shah

In an interview with Forbes India, Nilesh Shah, chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) and Kotak AMC managing director, speaks about the broader performance of the sector, growth in the number of mutual fund investors and on investing in uncertain times

CSR for Covid-19 is rising, but what about other causes?

Companies are channelising a big chunk of their CSR money towards the coronavirus response, leaving initiatives for other social causes scrambling to stay afloat

Sanitisers industry: The Davids versus Goliaths fight

Companies across sizes and sectors are tapping into the increasing demand for hand sanitisers, but survival in a crowded market will be an uphill task

Blue Sky Analytics: A Bloomberg for Green Data

Blue Sky Analytics collects and processes environmental data that can be used by governments and companies to help deal with situations arising out of climate change

Akshay Kumar again the only Indian on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list for 2020

While Kumar's rank went down from 33 to 52, check out how this year's top-earning stars turned the business of celebrity into $6.1 billion, $200 million shy of last year's haul

The man getting America back on track

As the world grapples with how to make travel safe in the age of coronavirus, private equity billionaire Wes Edens is betting $9 billion that America's transportation future is passenger rail

Covid-19: How optimism raked returns for this Scottish money manager

Baillie Gifford didn't see the pandemic coming, but a positive attitude toward the overpriced momentum stocks in its $245 billion portfolio turned out to be perfect for life under lockdown

Training customer reps to be better humans

Normally, humans train artificial-intelligence systems to replace them. ASAPP's software goes the other way

Dribble and Dunk

A pivot during Covid-19 could well start out as survival gambit but end up as a huge opportunity

Thoughts on business pivots