Author: Swati Pandey

India is no longer just interested in big world names or big chip plants when it comes to semiconductors. People often hear about big companies like Tata and Micron, but behind the scenes, a number of smaller Indian companies are building the country’s chip industry. These businesses deal with important things like high-purity gases, unique chemicals, and new materials. They are all working together to help India reach its goal of having a chip business worth about 10 lakh crore by the end of this decade. India is finding chances outside of chip factories as global supply chains change and…

In a significant achievement for Indian domestic cricket, the iconic Rohit Sharma has triumphantly answered the call of his long-lost friend – Vijay Hazare Trophy! There was an air of excitement at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur this morning when Mumbai took on Sikkim in their Elite Group C opener. He recently became centrally contracted again after missing out on a lucrative deal the last time, so when BCCI ordered it’s centrally contracted players to play and be available for domestic cricket, all attention was at the ‘Hitman’, ready to make that shift from international cricket back to domestic circuit in India.…

A change of guard requires LG India to maintain premium image; Initiate with HOLD In the most holistic analysis, Avendus Spark launches coverage on LG Electronics India Limited where “legacy titan” is at the cusp. Though the brand is an institution throughout much of the subcontinent, the report points to a changing industry where historical dominance by market leaders is under challenge from aggressive upstarts and changes in how people spend their money. The Power of a Legacy: Why LG is Still the King of the Hill Lg’s journey in India, that has lasted almost 30 years, amounts to a formidable moat few competitors…

It’s not often that you get to witness Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma at the domestic grind on the same morning for India. As the 2025-26 edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy begins today (December 24), fans are eagerly searching for an option to watch their favourites in action. The reality of the broadcasting, however, is a little more complicated, despite the presence of India’s biggest stars. Here’s your essential guide to watching the matches of the “Hitman” and the “King.” Stream on: The Broadcast Paradox Whereas the BCCI has super-charged the star power of the competition, making participation for centrally contracted players mandatory, the logistical infrastructure…

We have entered the most crucial phase of preparation as December nears its end and count down to CBSE Board Exams 2026 has already started. It’s what lots of students call the “panic window,” when you look at the syllabus and it seems impossible to climb, and time feels like sand sliding through your fingers. But here’s the truth: two months (which is about 60 days) could be a long time if you change from “hard work” to “smart work.” The CBSE pattern from 2026 will now see 50% weightage dedicated to competency-based questions, such as Case-Based Questions, Assertion-Reasoning Type and Source-Based Integrated Questions.…

In the fast-moving market of 2025, creating a startup is less about writing every line of code yourself and more about picking the right building blocks. For founders, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the connective fabric that enable you to run a complex business model while simultaneously outsourcing complex infrastructure such as global payments, user security, and generative AI so your team can focus on doing really dope shit.” When you distill your tech stack this year, here are the seven critical APIs that offer the best trade-off between scale, developer experience and cost. 1. OpenAI or Anthropic (The intelligence Layer) It is 2025,…

Apple has reportedly made a controversial change to its software update policy that has caused an uproar in the tech community. Apple’s latest decision now effectively prevents iPhone 11 and later users from remaining on iOS v18. Given the business has only just put out iOS 18.7.3 and this was a security release, it looks like this version is not being made available to any device that can run the latest major operating system: iOS 26.2. For millions of users, this concludes a “grace period” in which they have been able to keep a legacy version of iOS running yet still receive important…

In the high-stakes environment of institutional finance the “cost of doing business” has been transformed. For years, compliance was a defensive back-office operation — an infrastructure drag on agility and innovation. But as we approach 2026, a sea change is taking place. AI compliance is not a buzzword, it’s the new frontier. By transitioning from manual, rules based processes to one of agentic intelligence the financial services industry will turn compliance from a cost centre into a strategic powerhouse. The Collapse of Legacy Frameworks For years, banks and other financial firms used static, static “if-then” rules to indicate suspicious activity. The problem? Financial crime is a thousand…

At a time when more and more attention is being paid to the carbon footprint of our digital habits, a shocking new study has refocused the spotlight on another resource — one that’s significantly more tactile water. The world appears to have hit a cold hard wall in the form of an obscure academic paper by Dutch scholar Alex de Vries-Gao, which brings home new research published in December 2025 other than by journal Patterns. From ground zero, water used for artificial intelligence systems is projected to exceed the volume of bottled H2O all people worldwide drink in annually by end-2025. The Scale:…

The city, a Russian and European crossroad on the Black Sea that has been battered by war throughout its history, is serving as ground zero for a stark escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict just off-railed by two decades. In the past 72 hours, an unrelenting barrage of ballistic missiles and “kamikaze” drones has decimated the region’s key infrastructure, plunging the city into a state of emergency. What was a thriving seafaring city is now awash with fire crews and rescue workers, as Moscow steps up its campaign to cut off Ukraine’s “economic windpipe” in the dead of winter. The Latest Strikes’ Toll The violence…