Billionaire innovator and technology evangelist Neha Narkhede owes her success and fame to Kafka. Not the German-speaking Bohemian novelist Franz Kafka, but Apache Kafka, a software she co-created and handles data in motion. The success of Kafka catapulted Pune-born Neha Narkhede into the hall of fame and today she is hailed as a technology entrepreneur,…
by Rajesh Ravi - August 10, 2022Pink Gin VI is not an ordinary yacht. She is the largest carbon composite sloop-rigged sailing yacht in the world at 46 meters with a hot pink sail that sets her apart from other sailing vessels. But then, her owner, Hans Georg Nader, is not an ordinary man. Scion of German artificial limb maker Ottobock,…
by Rajesh Ravi - August 8, 2022Key Highlights India is the global leader in the supply of DPT, BCG, measles, and COVID vaccines. Indian companies are setting up facilities for nearly 5.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The procurement cost by the GAVI alliance for COVID-19 the vaccine will be INR 250 ($3) per dose. At that rate Indian companies will…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 28, 2022Agonizing wait for essential groceries when you are in the mood for cooking can be a mood spoiler. Not anymore, according to Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, who are working on the mission to deliver essential groceries in under ten minutes. They have so far managed thousands of deliveries in a median delivery time of…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 23, 2022Home buyers across China are refusing to pay the mortgages of undelivered homes and rattling the world’s second-largest economy. The unprecedented and defiant move by the home buyers some months after the Evergrande crisis indicates a deeper malaise in the sector which accounts for 25 to 30 percent of China’s GDP. The problems could snowball…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 22, 2022Kanika Gupta Shori dons many hats, and she has a habit of excelling in each role. Co-founder and COO of India’s largest tech-led brokerage and mortgage marketplace Square Yards, she is also a certified scuba diver among many other achievements. Surprisingly, Kanika turned into an entrepreneur only six months after the birth of her second…
by Meera V Nair - July 21, 2022Box office revenues are slowly getting back to normalcy in India largely due to South Indian and Hollywood films doing well at the theatres. Screen owners are elated to see cine-goers finally returning to the big screen after the pandemic despite strong competition from OTT players. However, star power alone is failing to pull audiences…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 12, 2022Venture capital firm Sequoia has everything going right with its bets in the Indian start-up ecosystem. The Menlo-based firm has stakes in 39 start-ups that could turn Unicorn in 2-4 years, according to ASK Private Wealth Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2022. In its sixteenth year of operation in India, Sequoia has some blockbusters in…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 11, 2022The death of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan and the longest-serving leader of the country will be a big loss for India as geopolitical tensions rise in Asia. Aged 67, he was assassinated on Friday in Nara, Japan while campaigning for the parliamentary election. Japan is a nation known as one of the…
by Rajesh Ravi - July 8, 2022Cutting water consumption by 5% per year Reducing fresh water intake by 40% at Belagavi refinery The company’s goal is to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge status by FY 2024-25. Hindalco Industries, the world’s largest aluminium rolling and recycling company, has big plans for water conservation. The company has identified that it has to reduce water…
by Meera V Nair - July 7, 2022