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1

The great Indian bank locker shortage

2

Why Meta wants your CREDit score

3

And then there were two: The NSE IPO

4

RBI may have found a way to bring $50 billion into India

5

Why is India giving foreign investors a tax break?

6

Is the MSCI EM Index still an emerging markets index?

7

The Zepto IPO explained

8

Why you’re paying for flights you never took

9

Why E85 is here sooner than we thought

10

What does India need to do to catch up in the AI race?

11

Rajesh Exports' House of Cards?

12

How Wockhardt solved a problem Indian pharma couldn't

13

India's industrial growth explained

14

Can Google still sell your brand name to competitors?

15

Has the IPL hit a speed bump?

16

3 retail lessons from the father of Japan’s convenience store industry

17

Why India wants a pipeline to Oman

18

Can you trade rainfall?

19

How India is building its own Maritime Safety Net

20

Can India afford to stop exporting sugar?

21

The India-UK FTA just hit a steel wall

22

What are capital controls anyway?

23

Why Royal Enfield didn’t really leave Tamil Nadu

24

Why gold worries the Prime Minister

25

Why do state governments want data centres?

26

SEBI’s buyback overhaul explained

27

What is the appeal of orbital data centres?

28

What GameStop sees in eBay

29

India's FDI opens a small window for China

30

Is India betting on “Cleaner Coal” to solve its energy problem?

31

The 10-minute delivery promise is gone. What now?

32

The problem with lithium discoveries

33

What happens when India runs out of urea

34

If OPEC still matters, why is the UAE leaving?

35

Inside India’s response to the global helium shortage

36

India’s economy is growing. So why is its GDP rank slipping?

37

The missing piece in quantum computing

38

Do PSU stocks really rally because of elections?

39

EU wants better phones. But at what cost?

40

The India-South Korea Partnership Explained

41

India is in a dilemma over cabotage laws

42

Amazon’s next battle isn’t for customers

43

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2.0 explained

44

Has India cracked its nuclear endgame?

45

Why the world can’t agree on taxing the internet

46

The economics behind PNG

47

Ola Electric's comeback?

48

The Green Compliance loophole

49

Why are India’s airline CEOs stepping down?

50

The Draft IT Rules explained

51

The economics of space exploration

52

The private credit boom has a problem

53

Unilever just stepped back from food

54

The economics of stolen KitKats

55

Are Indian banks underestimating the unsecured loan problem?

56

Why Instagram, Facebook and YouTube got sued

57

Is it time to write the petrodollar’s obituary?

58

Why doesn't India have copper ETFs?

59

Why do apps get worse the more we use them?

60

Can India become the pharmacy for weight-loss drugs?

61

Why Microsoft and OpenAI are at odds

62

An exit at HDFC Bank without answers

63

The Metaverse just got a reality check

64

Has the plastic industry reached its breaking point?

65

What is an industry, anyway?

66

Are G Secs really risk free?

67

Bananas could go extinct. Wait... what?

68

Why do ships move slowly?

69

A slightly different explainer on the LPG conundrum

70

What does buying the dip really mean?

71

If UPI dominates, why is cash still growing?

72

The Draft Electricity Amendment Bill 2025 explained

73

Why cocoa farmers are abandoning chocolate

74

How did Dubai become the 'City of Gold'?

75

The cost of global trade

76

India’s Social Stock Exchange just got a hat-trick IPO

77

The race to regulate AI in warfare

78

Why the NSE wants investors to leave India

79

India's new GDP measurement explained

80

Life cycle funds explained

81

How can India become a global shipping superpower?

82

The end of forced selling at banks?

83

What would it take to bring F1 back to India?

84

A ₹590 crore fraud at IDFC First Bank!

85

Why US tariffs just got slower

86

Can we regulate attention?

87

Understanding the Gaudium IVF IPO

88

Why can’t the world replace China?

89

Can India get carbon credits right?

90

SEBI wants tighter ETF bands

91

India’s new CPI explained

92

Can India truly kill red tape?

93

SBI's best quarter ever?

94

Would you put your money in a 100-year bond?

95

Why is JLR building in India now

96

An explainer on Pax Silica

97

The AI crisis no one’s talking about

98

The Fractal Analytics IPO

99

A vegan cricket ball that lasts 50 overs?

100

The Canada–India Uranium Deal Explained

101

Gold Is Volatile. Demand Is Not.

102

The paradox of India's healthy finances

103

The Budget 2026 explained

104

The Economic Survey 2026 explained

105

The India-EU Free Trade Agreement explained

106

Why PVR INOX let 4700BC go

107

Breaking down the PhonePe DRHP

108

Part 2: What will happen if India gets a 500% tariff?

109

A CEO can't be Eternal

110

Why are Indians scared to invest in the stock market?

111

The DISCOM profit anomaly

112

The economics behind a common language

113

India is finally cracking down on hair transplants

114

The Shadowfax Technologies IPO

115

What will happen if India gets a 500% tariff?

116

The 10-minute delivery promise is gone. What now?

117

The Pesticide Management Bill explained

118

Should married couples be taxed together?

119

The Amagi Media Labs IPO Explained

120

Why SEBI wants trading academies to step back from live data

121

Why is every app trying to become a microfinance app?

122

The Devyani-Sapphire Foods merger explained

123

Why the world is turning back to Indian cardamom

124

The dark side of the sun

125

The MUFG–Shriram Finance Deal explained

126

What is going on at Ola Electric?

127

Aurionpro Solutions wins a shiny new deal! But...

128

The Insurance Bill 2025 Explained

129

Why India’s new Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules matter

130

Why Mexico wants to impose tariffs on India

131

Why India needs the Right to Disconnect

132

The Warner Bros–Netflix Saga Explained

133

Has IndiGo’s monopoly paralysed India’s aviation system?

134

What’s driving SSD and RAM stick prices to the moon

135

The Wakefit IPO explained

136

The economics of Pantone and its colours

137

The Meesho IPO explained

138

DroneAcharya Aerial Innovations has landed itself in SEBI’s bad books

139

What the Airbus scare tells us about modern infrastructure

140

Why Michael Burry is going short on AI

141

What's a smell trademark, anyway?

142

India’s new Labour Codes explained

143

When ORS didn’t mean ORS

144

Can LIC be India’s sovereign wealth fund?

145

Understanding the economics behind India’s egg prices

146

The battle for BYJU’s remains

147

Making sense of India's first ever LPG import deal with the US

148

Why Softbank sold its golden goose

149

The ₹150-crore prop-trading scam

150

How digital gold became India's favourite unregulated investment

151

What SEBI’s new AIF rules mean

152

India wants its own stablecoin?

153

The PhysicsWallah IPO explained

154

The Tata Trusts saga explained

155

What happened to all the T+0 excitement?

156

A breakthrough that might break the internet

157

Bankim Brahmbhatt and the $500 million lesson in lending against thin air

158

The Groww IPO explained

159

Why mutual funds will soon cost less

160

The Lenskart IPO explained

161

The Orkla India (MTR Foods) IPO

162

What you need to know about loans against silver

163

SEBI wants mutual funds to stop chasing pre-IPO deals

164

RBL’s ticket to the big leagues

165

How reliant is the Indian pharma industry on China?

166

What’s up with the new EPFO rules?

167

Can India really grow at 6.6% like the IMF says?

168

The CERC-IEX insider trading saga explained

169

Should you just 'index and chill'?

170

Why is everyone talking about the fall of Bira 91?

171

Why Ford just can’t let go of India

172

Why RBI is rewriting the liquidity rules

173

An influencer marketing company on the bourses!

174

Gold is cool, but what about Platinum?

175

Understanding confidential IPOs

176

The LG Electronics India IPO

177

Why UK manufacturing couldn’t afford a JLR on crutches

178

The Tata Capital IPO explained

179

How India quietly became a French fry powerhouse

180

The gold rush begins at home

181

Why a realty company is taking over Pepperfry

182

10% of Kutch for green energy and data centres = development?

183

President Trump dislikes quarterly results now?

184

The $100,000 H1-B visa shock

185

The Intel–Nvidia saga

186

The Anand Rathi Share and Stock Brokers IPO explained

187

FMCG giants want some chips at Balaji Wafers

188

Why Bengaluru has the most expensive metro

189

Why is Amazon late to the quick commerce party?

190

Why India needs a coin replacement policy

191

Are buybacks these days just kicking the can down the road?

192

What’s driving the Prime Focus re-run?

193

India’s Commonwealth Games gamble

194

Gold is the new treasury?

195

Why cancer care is becoming private hospitals’ biggest driver

196

How Mahindra became India’s 2nd biggest carmaker

197

Why Papa John's wants another slice of India

198

Mr. Powell says the good times are coming!

199

Why S&P finally raised India’s credit rating

200

Can China’s stock market ever deliver like India’s?

201

Will pharma help Kodak survive?

202

Can India become the world’s BPO for semiconductors?

203

India’s middle class journey: A post-Independence Day special

204

Why Jio wants to file your taxes

205

HUL spins out the cold stuff

206

What happens when EVs flood the used market?

207

The BlueStone Jewellery IPO

208

Are Indians buying more Bitcoin?

209

Can office lunches help fix Swiggy's finances?

210

The JSW Cement IPO. Can going green cement the gains?

211

Why does India spend less on education?

212

Will India binge on micro dramas?

213

Is this the end of the Indian IT Industry?

214

Are memes driving stocks higher?

215

The curious case of rising coconut oil prices

216

The NSDL IPO is here! Is the pioneer still the best in town?

217

Super apps aren’t that super in India... Just ask Adani

218

Jio wants to become an insurance company

219

The Brigade Hotel Ventures IPO

220

India's oil trick just hit an EU sanction wall

221

Coke’s new recipe might stir up America’s economy

222

How can India’s pharma companies survive under Trump’s uncertainty?

223

A real estate boom fuelled by a bus network in the sky?

224

How to make money from Real Estate?! Finshots Money Playbook - Episode 1!

225

Is India’s rooftop solar push going into the sunset?

226

Birla Opus puts Asian Paints in trouble

227

Should India turn surplus rice into ethanol?

228

Amazon wants a slice of India’s diagnostics pie

229

The BSE blip SEBI couldn’t ignore

230

Why is everyone excited about IndiaMART?

231

Why Iran can’t shut down the Strait of Hormuz

232

The Subtle Art of Dividend Investing

233

Are banks lying to us?

234

Understanding the HDB Financial Services IPO

235

Should Apple kill Siri?

236

Why Karnataka needs a bike taxi policy, and fast!

237

Is 'one nation, one AC temperature' a good idea?

238

Why doesn't India have its own Big 4?

239

Is NHAI selling the family silver to keep building roads?

240

Are COVID-era bills finally coming to bite us back?

241

Did India just cut global poverty?

242

Will India’s anti-drone tech fly on the global stage?

243

What’s the buzz around Apollo Micro Systems?

244

Can India become an aviation superpower?

245

India wants more lower denomination notes?

246

When rare earth magnets become auto industry’s weakest link

247

Are we ready to cure cancer?

248

The curious case of Indian prediction markets

249

Is India about to privatise atomic energy?

250

The Borana Weaves IPO

251

Understanding PLFS

252

Are Humanoids the next big leap for humankind?

253

Do government bailouts work?

254

Is Pepsi losing its pop?

255

The India-UK FTA explained

256

The Bhushan Power & Steel rewind no one asked for

257

Why are FMCG companies suddenly obsessed with protein?

258

Has the ONDC experiment failed?

259

Mahindra boards the trucks and buses boom

260

Why’s Mastercard betting big on Stablecoins?

261

Why Reliance wants a bigger slice of quick commerce

262

Why everyone wants Google Chrome and who might get it

263

The economics of the Indus Waters Treaty explained

264

How the dinosaur fossil trade is hurting science

265

The MTNL story - Rescue, repeat, regret

266

Devyani wants a seat at the biryani banquet

267

Are investors really moving away from US assets?

268

Will appliance subscriptions work in India?

269

SEBI cracks the Gensol and Jagii web, Indian kirana stores vs quick commerce and more

270

How do you measure India’s happiness?

271

The quick commerce vs. kirana stores debate is back!

272

What's driving the sparkle in India's listed jewellers?

273

A simple explainer on tariffs and the new world order

274

Trent's dream run just hit a speed bump

275

Warren Buffett wanted you to buy this market dip

276

Goodbye apps, hello AI agents?

277

China did it. Can India?

278

Making sense of Aditya Birla's breakup with the paper business

279

Why all the helium might disappear into space forever

280

The economics of rising natural gas prices

281

BluSmart is knee-deep in trouble

282

Why Warren Buffett isn't a fan of gold

283

Decoding the Siemens Energy demerger

284

Risdiplam raises questions about pharma's ethics

285

OpenAI's new AI model just made everyone a designer overnight

286

UK’s waste tyres fueling a crisis in India?

287

Trump wants European eggs, but what about tariffs?

288

Why Adani and Birla are betting big on wires and cables

289

Will LIC change the health insurance market in India?

290

What keeps Coke out and Pepsi deep in the snacking market?

291

Who watches the watchdog?

292

Pakistan’s investment woes

293

When derivatives go wrong

294

India's Pickleball boom!

295

Punjab's Basmati conundrum

296

The US wants its stock market to crash

297

Do we need 24 hour stock markets?

298

Can Tether sustain its dominance?

299

The curious case of Gensol Engineering

300

Are Coca Cola, Nestle, L'Oréal fueling a war economy?

301

FIIs are upset. Should you be too?

302

Memecoin fraud just became easier

303

Can India’s IMEC trade corridor vision become a reality?

304

Has SpiceJet finally left its troubles behind?

305

FCC #7: The harsh truth about cryptos and where they're headed

306

Amtek Auto’s ₹27,000 crore bank loan fraud

307

Why Elon Musk and Trump want a Fort Knox gold audit

308

Bill Ackman wants to be Warren Buffett

309

Reliance, ONGC, and the missing unitisation agreement

310

Finshots Cracks Crypto #6: A simple guide to crypto trading, investing and taxes in India

311

Corruption Perceptions Index explained

312

A secret about the UK property market

313

Why CEOs and economists look at trucks

314

Can GIFT City take off as India’s aircraft leasing hub?

315

A beginner’s guide to understanding the new Income Tax Bill

316

Finshots Cracks Crypto #5: Web3, crypto, and the great internet reset

317

The Brightcom saga gets a final verdict!

318

The economic costs of Trump’s mass deportation move

319

A case that could reshape India’s auto industry

320

Finshots Cracks Crypto EP.4: Crypto’s big shift - DeFi, altcoins, and the changing economy

321

Understanding the USAID fiasco

322

Finshots Cracks Crypto Ep.3: Bitcoin and cryptos beyond money

323

Why Trump sent Canada and Mexico into a tariff panic

324

Why Indian Railways struggles with privatisation

325

The Economic Survey 2025 explained

326

The Budget simplified

327

Why is Netflix betting big on WWE LIVE events?

328

Are EV subsidies bad?

329

Are unlisted companies giving listed ones tough competition?

330

Finshots Cracks Crypto #2: What's Money?! From Barter to Bitcoin 🤯

331

What if India got back everything the UK stole?

332

Inside the Kirloskar family feud and SEBI's involvement

333

Why California wants Big Oil to pay for its wildfires?

334

Why is Meta giving up on fact checking?

335

The Stallion India Fluorochemicals IPO

336

Finshots Cracks Crypto #1: What are blockchain and cryptocurrency anyway?!

337

What raising the retirement age means for the economy

338

The economic costs of internet shutdowns

339

Why does Trump want to buy Greenland?

340

Is the London Stock Exchange losing its relevance?

341

The Barflex Polyfilms Ltd SME IPO

342

What’s cooking with Gold ETFs in India?

343

The truth about modified Green GDP

344

Is Kerala’s lottery system a masterstroke by the government?

345

How yen carry trades impact the markets

346

Carvana vs Hindenburg simplified

347

Decoding the ITC – ITC Hotels demerger

348

Can India fill the shoes of the top coffee-exporting nations?

349

Are H-1B Visa holders snatching American jobs?

350

The economics of the world's largest lottery

351

Nissan's troubles and the dawning of Chinese EVs

352

The Mishtann Foods debacle and lessons for investors

353

An explainer on SIFs

354

SEBI has an algo trading plan for retail investors

355

Is 100% electrification of Indian railways far-fetched?

356

Can rubber tyres really go green?

357

Can weight loss drugs reduce healthcare costs?

358

The International Gemmological Institute IPO

359

An explainer on STRIPS bonds

360

Why SEBI wants to change stock closing price rules

361

Is peer-to-peer lending set for a crash?

362

Why India needs more import duties on Aluminium

363

Are CEOs always to blame for a company's struggles?

364

Breaking down Raymond’s break up

365

Are MUDRA loans failing banks and the government?

366

Pakistan's solar frenzy has hidden costs and lessons, too

367

How Indian single malt whisky is taking over the world

368

Is India the perfect home for Global Capability Centres?

369

How Xinjiang cotton still haunts the fashion industry

370

Why is HDFC Bank selling its loan portfolios?

371

Will GQG help restore investor confidence in Adani businesses?

372

The battle for the 6GHz band and what’s at stake for India

373

Why is ending plastic pollution so hard for countries?

374

Is India's rise to the 4th largest economy overhyped?

375

A $6 million banana?!

376

Who's fueling India's EV ambitions?

377

Is global inequality a deliberate choice?

378

The secret behind Shaktikanta Das’ unmatched RBI streak

379

India wants more ships and it’s got a plan!

380

Is Elon Musk’s Starlink risky for India?

381

Why is Volkswagen having a rough ride?

382

Falling rupee, rising dollar - Who benefits and who loses?

383

Will Trump take Bitcoin to the moon?

384

Why are Indian lakes drying up?

385

China's hidden problem

386

Is Ireland’s economic success sustainable?

387

Why is SEBI after the Embassy REIT CEO?

388

The Niva Bupa Health Insurance IPO

389

Why Trump likes tariffs

390

Who benefits from farm loan waivers?

391

India’s got a hardware import problem – and an opportunity within!

392

Will the space economy drive global growth?

393

Should RBI let the rupee fall?

394

Is India's priciest stock worth the money?

395

Is this the end of super shoes?

396

Can diamonds cool the earth?

397

Could BRICS change the world order?

398

Are the southern states running out of babies?

399

New SEBI rules to rock the F&O world?

400

What happened to Netflix's gaming ambitions?

401

What the heck is a free economy?

402

Is the Global Hunger Index flawed?

403

What is Big Tech's rush to nuclear power telling us?

404

What's happening to our water?

405

Are QIPs driving India’s realty sector?

406

Is India’s stock market riding too high?

407

Why the Nobel Prize in Economics went to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson

408

Is India 6G ready?

409

Hollywood and Bollywood's carbon footprint problem!

410

The problem with AP’s new liquor policy

411

Is India’s steel sector sinking or gearing for a comeback?

412

What's up with AI and the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize?

413

Can Ola Electric regain consumer confidence?

414

France is in a debt dilemma

415

Is the Unified Pension Scheme any better?

416

Why is the RBI cracking down on gold loans?

417

Unpacking the Swiggy IPO

418

Is SEBI’s new asset class for you?

419

What’s the gold rally telling us?

420

Could we be heading back to the pre-antibiotic era soon?

421

Can UP save India’s Mango exports?

422

Will Trent and Bajaj Finserv move the Sensex?

423

Is Big Tech really carbon neutral?

424

Why should the Oscars matter to 'Laapataa Ladies', anyway?

425

The Coldplay and BookMyShow Ticketing Frenzy!

426

Is Starbucks leaving India?

427

Will renewable energy replace oil?

428

Everyone's excited about the NTPC Green Energy IPO!

429

Why should you care about the US Fed rate cut?

430

The snake venom industry is facing a fatal bite!

431

Jio’s free storage to beat Google and Apple?

432

Is the world running out of coffee?

433

Indian road safety screams for help

434

Is A2 milk a marketing gimmick?

435

The secret behind India’s luxury watch boom

436

The economic cost of toxic workplaces

437

Can we avoid another WazirX-style hack?

438

Should India rethink joining RCEP?

439

Why does IKEA sell food?

440

Why is America's blood plasma trade rising?

441

Can new battery tech boost silver’s fortunes?

442

Can the Care Economy boost women’s workforce participation?

443

NSE cracks down on shady SME IPOs

444

Why India can't afford a delayed Census anymore

445

What happens to the economy with fewer men?

446

Are e-commerce giants really the boon they seem to be?

447

Why did SEBI bar Anil Ambani from stock markets?

448

The economics of India-Nepal power trade

449

How to tackle stubborn inflation

450

Why climate change might hamper your fish consumption

451

Why are SGBs giving the government second thoughts?

452

Why are companies rushing for buybacks before October?

453

Monkey Business - A short explainer

454

The contrasting lives of Khadi: A Post Independence Day Special

455

Akasa Air hits a milestone. But are there reasons to celebrate?

456

The search engine wars are intensifying!

457

Can the Indian garment sector bounce back?

458

Why the AI boom won't burst like the dot com bubble

459

India's internship conundrum

460

Can brands survive a surrogate advertising ban?

461

Why telcos hate TRAI's new rules FEAT. Bonus Episode on the OLA Electric IPO

462

What drives us to sites of tragedy

463

Inside Paris' insane effort behind the Seine

464

Can India avoid the middle-income trap?

465

The Jewelry retail market has a new competitor

466

The mineral tax dispute is over. Or is it?

467

Why is India borrowing in Japanese Yen

468

The great Indian Chinese conundrum

469

The escalating K-Pop crisis

470

The Budget 2024 explained

471

The Economic Survey 2024 Explained

472

Should the EU face a historical polluter tax?

473

Does reserving jobs for locals make sense?

474

How to get fined by SEBI if you're an Investment Advisor

475

Makhana wants an MSP

476

Can a Bill empower Karnataka's gig workers?

477

The Big 4 problem in China

478

Could SEBI's new proposal unintentionally favour BSE over NSE?

479

Why is RBI concerned over microfinance credit growth in UP and Bihar?

480

The glittering allure ― Why gold smugglers like India

481

Is the IMF responsible for Kenya's tax hike protests?

482

A postmortem of Koo

483

The Adani Hindenburg saga just got a Kotak twist

484

How Rishi Shah pulled off a billion-dollar pharma advertising scheme

485

Will Gabriel Zucman's billionaire tax work?

486

SEBI's new move cheers up holding company stock prices

487

Why is Hyundai India looking to go public?

488

Does the market need to worry about P-Notes?

489

Why is SEBI after Religare's Rashmi Saluja?

490

Why is this year's spectrum auction a dud?

491

Why GST may not make fuel cheaper

492

Why is there an ATM crunch in the country?

493

The biggest crypto scam in history?

494

An HUL decision is creating jitters across Asia

495

Why is the UK paying Tata Steel £500 million?

496

Elon Musk is overpaid. But who cares?

497

What's in a state's special category status?

498

A daring heist in Dadar

499

SEBI unlocks the CDS market for Mutual Funds

500

Russia is now the fourth largest economy. But how?

501

McDonald's doesn't own the Big Mac anymore

502

Why is India expediting visa applications from China?

503

Do Indian elections care about climate change?

504

Can Zimbabwe's new currency help tackle its hyperinflation?

505

The real reason why RBI stores its gold in London

506

How is Amazon buying MX Player for dirt cheap?

507

Are flex fuel hybrid EVs the future?

508

Why is LIC so late to the health insurance party?

509

Does Reliance want to take on Airtel in Africa?

510

SEBI's crackdown on fantasy stock gaming explained

511

2.1 Lakh Crore Bonanza for the government - Breaking down RBI's record transfer

512

Is the Buffett Indicator foolproof?

513

Why are tax authorities running after PepsiCo's advertising spends?

514

Why investors hate royalties that Indian subsidiaries pay foreign MNCs

515

India's ambitious journey to becoming a global semiconductor powerhouse

516

Single screen cinemas are dying... Can we revive them?

517

The Guardians of the AI Revolution

518

Saudi Arabia is hell bent on building futuristic cities... Will it succeed?

519

The fastest, cheapest, bestest path to Central Asia and beyond

520

How Varanium Cloud rigged its own SME IPO

521

How to bet on the Chinese stock market rally?

522

Another RBI rule is freaking banks out

523

The life and death of an Indian shopping mall

524

Goobye potholes, hello self-healing roads?

525

The Red Sea is still a no-go zone

526

The UK's climate plan is unlawful!

527

Horlicks and Bournvita no longer health drinks?

528

Do ATMs need a pay rise?

529

How safe are your masalas?

530

Dal-onomics

531

Let's talk about inheritance tax

532

Vi’s happiness is Indus Towers’ happiness

533

Who owns a hedge fund’s algorithm?

534

The economics of modifying the weather

535

Lloyd cooked the books?

536

Did Amazon spy on Flipkart and others?

537

NASA has a budget problem

538

Should DMart sell gold?

539

Golden Passports and Visas are losing their shine

540

Why an India-Mauritius tax amendment triggered a stock market slide

541

Can Tamil Nadu expand its ‘Detroit of India’ tag to EVs?

542

Can India recharge Tesla?

543

How greenhouse gases are being smuggled into Europe

544

How a bird expanded a fundamental right

545

Why is Kerala in a financial crisis?

546

Why is India leasing out its petroleum reserves?

547

What is Reverse Innovation?

548

Disney’s billion-dollar Boardroom Battle

549

A Landmark moment for Mercedes-Benz?

550

RBI’s crackdown on currency trading?

551

What the heck is AI Washing?

552

Did Amber Dalal run a Ponzi scheme?

553

Why the Visa and Mastercard antitrust case isn't over

554

Chocolate Chaos

555

Goodbye, ICICI Securities…

556

Daniel Kahneman’s Prospect Theory

557

An explainer on Bima Sugam

558

America sues Apple

559

Can a living wage replace the minimum wage?

560

Much to cheer about India’s PMI!

561

Has the rally of Oil Marketing Companies run out of fuel?

562

Can Delhi clear its garbage dumps?

563

The Soho House frenzy explained

564

Can Fly91 fly where others couldn’t?

565

What’s a Revolving Door Incentive?

566

Gold Rush

567

What if the world's coral reefs disappeared?

568

Why is Bengaluru facing a water crisis?

569

What's the Digital Competition Bill anyway?

570

Will we see a Tata Sons IPO?

571

Is the newspaper industry fighting an endless battle?

572

The Gopal Snacks IPO

573

An explainer on IPO financing

574

Price transparency puts hospitals in trouble

575

Is India getting unhealthy by the day?

576

A V-Marc stock rigging scandal?

577

Why did Google kick Indian apps off the Play Store?

578

Will the advertising ban on Patanjali shake things up?

579

Will paints be Birla's Magnum Opus?

580

A ULIP in Mutual Fund clothing!

581

Finshots Money Milestones — Buy or Rent?

582

A new regulator for nutraceuticals?

583

An explainer on the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey

584

KYC is getting a makeover. But why?

585

What’s a forest, anyway?

586

Can the BRICS have a common currency?

587

Do investors love Byju’s again?

588

The Indian Railways just got a bigger electricity bill!

589

An explainer on MSP and the farmers' protest

590

Can Nirma make the jump from suds to pills?

591

Another RBI crackdown on fintechs?

592

Why is Karnataka protesting against the Central Government?

593

The rise and rise of GIFT City

594

Will RBI make money dance to its tunes?

595

How stock experts minted money from TV shows

596

Trent’s dream run continues…thanks to Zudio!

597

Can China save its stock market from India?

598

A new dawn for Tata Motors’ JLR?

599

Who pays for damages in Ukraine?

600

The downfall of 23andMe?

601

The unholy relationship between Art and Big Oil

602

Goodbye, Paytm Payments Bank?

603

Interim Budget explained

604

The mystery of disappearing languages

605

SEBI cracks the whip on an agri-investment startup?

606

VC firms play musical chairs

607

Google’s cookie is crumbling. Finally.

608

A Diamond Chip on Haldiram’s Shelf?

609

The ‘1 crore’ solar home dream!

610

The rise of CAT bonds

611

Coaching Centre Crackdown?!

612

An explainer on Multidimensional Poverty

613

HDFC is in trouble — Has the elephant forgotten how to dance?

614

Is the RBI targeting banking executives?

615

How to bring back Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi

616

The rise of India’s affluent class?

617

Is jet fuel from human poop actually sustainable?

618

An explainer on the Carta scandal

619

Should we blame immigration for Canada’s economic woes?

620

Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

621

Is there a problem with India's Metro Rail?

622

Titan's Gold Rush

623

Finshots is a stock-picking genius. But…

624

Why is everyone talking about Bitcoin ETFs?

625

How do Japan's businesses survive disasters?

626

Why can't continents be single markets like the EU?

627

What the heck is eSoil?

628

Does Tata ‘own’ Jamshedpur?

629

Christmas Special ― A tale of Christmas trees

630

Is the Apple Watch just a sly copycat?

631

RBI exposes a dirty NBFC secret!!!

632

The Suez Canal boycott?!

633

Indian companies have an innovation problem

634

Will Disney lose Mickey Mouse?

635

Is Inox’s IPO a frozen asset with hot potential?

636

The F-Word stirs up COP28!

637

A fresh coat of paint for India's corporate bond market?

638

What is happening at Wipro?

639

What went wrong with Doubtnut?

640

Why are people worried about the new Broadcasting Bill?

641

Why did Paytm crash by 20%?!

642

India stands up to the WTO on agricultural subsidies

643

Can we survive without animal drug testing?

644

Why is the RBI going after Cooperative Banks?

645

Is Apollo Hospitals running a ‘cash for kidneys’ scam?

646

Decoding India’s 7.6% GDP

647

Flair pens a successful IPO story

648

Will TikTok finally beat Amazon at e-commerce?

649

Byju’s owes Indian cricket ₹160 crores?

650

Did copy-paste really cost TCS $200 million?

651

India is stepping on the ‘Bio’gas

652

SEBI wants to make ‘insider' trading easier?

653

CDSL is rich thanks to the stock market boom!

654

A beginner's guide to stubble burning

655

Will Argentina trash the Peso?

656

RBI hikes interest rates without hiking interest rates!

657

Succession: Exploring the many theories behind Sam Altman’s OpenAI Exit

658

The mystery of Sahara’s ₹25,000 crores

659

Tata Technologies drives into an IPO

660

Can an EV power your home?

661

What’s going on at Dunzo?

662

Will Tata’s Apple ambitions hit a roadblock?

663

When will India's firecracker industry celebrate Diwali?

664

Warren Buffett’s secret life?

665

Dabur has a war chest to rewrite its script

666

The great Indian IPO boom

667

What's this Global South, anyway?

668

Why did South Korea ban short-selling?

669

The hidden cost of free foodgrains

670

Indian companies get a foreign stock exchange visa

671

Maruti Suzuki’s fighting back. Again.

672

SEBI’s commodity trading ban enters Year 3!

673

The government wants money from PSUs?

674

Tata vs West Bengal: The Nano Story

675

Baap of Chart gets a call from SEBI

676

Delhi GRAPples with air pollution

677

The Mamaearth IPO. Finally.

678

Dear Bill — should we worry about inflation or a recession?

679

Are Indians struggling to pay bills?

680

Telcos are in a tax soup

681

Subscribe to PVR Inox?!

682

Jindal vs Adani in a battle of the ports?

683

The Ghost of RBI’s Past?

684

When a CEO moonlighted as a DJ

685

Will India’s new mining rules be a gamechanger?

686

Bank of Baroda is involved in fraud?

687

Adani versus Financial Times?

688

Vedanta takes a U-Turn

689

What ails LIC?

690

An explainer on the Israel-Palestine conflict

691

Why Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics

692

Is Airbnb broken?

693

Can a tax solve Bengaluru’s traffic woes?

694

The tussle between bankrupt airlines and lessors is over. Almost.

695

An Apple Search Engine?

696

Can Kashmir end the English monopoly?

697

A story about MS Swaminathan and India’s Green Revolution

698

Is India introducing fractional shares?

699

Will Affordable Housing Finance Companies stage a recovery?

700

An explainer on Tourism Tax

701

A simple explainer on India's inclusion into JPMorgan's Global Bond Index

702

Is the US Government shutting down?!

703

The impact of long notice periods

704

Why do creditors misuse the Insolvency Code?

705

India wants a bigger bite of the MICE tourism pie

706

An explainer on Off-Budget Borrowings

707

How brands can reverse nature loss

708

CCI is getting a makeover. But…

709

Do we need a Global Biofuel Alliance?

710

The Zaggle IPO — a unique fintech + SaaS?

711

What is Net Neutrality?

712

India cracks down on dark patterns

713

What’s the G20, anyway?

714

Is the RBI defending the Rupee?

715

SEBI says, “Get your shares in 1 hour!”

716

Is Biocon making a comeback?

717

An explainer on financial inclusion in India

718

Can Zerodha disrupt the mutual fund industry?

719

Finshots Special: Do we really need central banks???

720

Forget GDP. Look at ICOR.

721

The index fund attack on Jio Financial Services is over. Almost.

722

Do you like Airports?

723

The economics of protecting endangered animals

724

The secret article on Tiger Global?

725

The rise and fall of Subway

726

More BRICS in the wall?

727

Chess has cracked the algorithm

728

CaratLane's extraordinary exit

729

Getting over the summer of lost luggage

730

The rise of municipal bonds

731

How an imposter has been threatening the champagne of teas

732

India doesn't want to share onions

733

Is Indian craft beer fizzing out?

734

Can Adidas breathe new life into Bata?

735

Is this China's 'Japanification' moment?

736

RBI is firefighting cash

737

3 brands and their Partition story: A post-Independence Day Finshots Special

738

WeWork is bankrupt?

739

A TVS IPO after 29 years and an NSDL IPO that could be coming soon!

740

Why glamourise film incentives?

741

3 things about the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill

742

PC Jeweller: From shining star to insolvency?

743

What's 'Direct-To-Mobile' that everyone's talking about?

744

An explainer on Worldcoin

745

A profitable Zomato is finally here...but for how long?

746

PLI for Paytm soundboxes?

747

Byju needs Aakash

748

A cold war between the RBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank?

749

Finshots Special: A tax jam that shook India's F1 circuit

750

Is undoing the Biodiversity Act for good, bad?

751

The rise and stall of Xiaomi India

752

Tata Motors is killing its DVR shares!

753

India’s solar module manufacturing ambitions

754

An explainer on India’s rice ban

755

SEBI's investor protection tool is annoying small companies

756

Sheela Foam Kurls On Furlenco’s Bed

757

Why is everyone dunking on Shark Tank India?

758

Will Disney breakup with Star India?

759

Does Nirma want to be a pharma company?

760

To the moon!

761

Kashmir’s saffron farmers are smiling again

762

Will Reliance disrupt the world of money?

763

45 years later, HDFC bids goodbye to Dalal Street

764

Did the government just kill online gaming?

765

Did Reliance really cheat its shareholders?

766

RBI's magical mileage for RuPay?

767

Tomato trouble

768

Hero and Bajaj are racing after Royal Enfield

769

Why Threads is unlikely to kill Twitter…

770

Is India’s twin balance sheet problem over?

771

An explainer on Time-of-Day electricity tariff

772

Goodbye SGX Nifty. Hello GIFT Nifty.

773

The mad rise of adventure tourism

774

MCX is in a complicated relationship with 63 Moons

775

Is Apple's credit card coming to India?

776

What is Modern Portfolio Theory?

777

YouTube has a controversial newspaper ad

778

Why did SEBI ban IIFL Securities?

779

ideaForge is ready to fly drones over Dalal Street!

780

Taylor Swift and the Baumol Effect

781

HDFC bids farewell to its ₹10,000 crore education loan company

782

The hidden problem in Indian startups

783

How affordable commodities fuel climate change

784

India wants a credit rating upgrade!

785

MRF hits ₹1,00,000. So???

786

How to (almost) get away with fraud?

787

Is Reddit digging its own grave?

788

The great Indian electric dream ― Cooking without fire

789

Is Saudi Arabia 'sportswashing'?

790

WhatTheFLDG?

791

Is RateGain behind fluctuating airline and hotel prices?

792

India's $1 trillion 'e-Conomy'?

793

Byju's refuses to repay its $1.2 billion loan

794

Tata is building a giga factory to fuel its EV dreams

795

Rahul Yadav's house of cards

796

Understanding the debate about the PLI scheme for mobile phones

797

Is Wonderla finally making a splash?

798

Is the Japanese sun finally rising?

799

How does the RBI make money?

800

Snowball effect — is this India’s decade?

801

Your EV could be hurting the world. And your pocket.

802

NVIDIA is an AI company now

803

Maybe Delhivery should buy Gati?

804

Can the EU save our forests?

805

When Adidas met Team India

806

Should India regulate beedis?

807

What’s the shoe leather cost of ₹2000?

808

India’s diamond woes

809

The Story of Symphony

810

TCS on international credit card spends - Why your holidays just got more expensive?

811

Can OSOP give artisans a new lease of life?

812

ZestMoney, where did it go wrong?

813

Will Google kill ChatGPT?

814

Is India’s semiconductor dream under threat?

815

India’s first retail REIT is here!

816

The ONDC Infatuation: Food Wars Edition

817

The Hollywood TV Strike

818

The Indian Shrimp Story

819

What the RBI* thinks about climate change

820

Hard truths about India’s population

821

Godrej has a new playbook

822

Whales! A climate solution no one is talking about

823

Go First joins India’s airline graveyard?

824

What is de-dollarization, anyway?

825

Is a controversial subsidy scheme setting India's EV dreams on fire?

826

Why is India’s public bus system in a mess?

827

Riding the Titagarh ‘Band’Wagon

828

How to solve the US debt crisis!

829

Can PhonePe topple Google Play?

830

Are flying taxis the future?

831

Is it time for a mutual fund shakeup?

832

India’s sand mafia menace

833

Can Thrive knock out Zomato and Swiggy?

834

Explaining Mankind Pharma's IPO

835

The Great Nicobar Trade-Off

836

Is Premiumization the new Sachetization?

837

Cadbury’s Streisand Moment?

838

Gotcha Zhong! Bitcoins have an anonymity problem

839

Breaking down ITC’s businesses

840

Is the 4-day workweek a fantasy?

841

Tupperware’s Party is over

842

The big bad world of antiquities smuggling

843

Understanding India’s $300 billion services exports

844

All roads lead to UPI

845

The Rise and Fall of 8K Miles Software aka SecureKloud

846

An explainer on Rajasthan’s Right to Health

847

OPEC’s oil price manipulation?

848

Can Namma Yatri disrupt Ola and Uber?

849

An explainer on the National List of Essential Medicines

850

Time for KGF to shine again?

851

Why SEBI doesn't like rumours

852

Is Air India's pilot shortage a sign of things to come?

853

India’s biggest startup scam ever?!

854

Why don’t women athletes get equal pay?

855

Amul, Cola and Atta???

856

1-minute silence for debt mutual funds?

857

Are Indian banks out of trouble?

858

Why did top Bollywood songs disappear from Spotify?

859

India's post harvest loss problem

860

An explainer on the Black Sea Grain Initiative

861

A story about artificially ripening real fruits

862

Baba Ramdev can't sell his Patanjali shares?

863

Who controls the computer in your car?

864

An explainer on the High Seas Treaty

865

Why is WWE wrestling with regulators?

866

India’s pension problem

867

The Swiss knife cutting through Toblerone

868

The Death of Silicon Valley Bank

869

India’s love for fried chicken?

870

The Yield Curve is Scaring Everyone

871

The Jan Aushadhi Revolution?

872

What if women were paid for daily chores?

873

3 things from the Blume Ventures report

874

An explainer on El Niño

875

How to avoid a YouTube pump and dump

876

Axis Mutual Fund Saga: Why do some people cheat?

877

An export visa for Goan Feni?

878

The debate over stock buybacks

879

How FreeDish is killing Cable and DTH

880

Understanding Pakistan’s economic crisis

881

Why the government is unhappy with Hindustan Zinc

882

The quick death of quick commerce?

883

A court case that could change the internet forever?

884

An explainer on Transfer Pricing

885

Can forever chemicals last forever?

886

What's wrong with e-pharmacies?

887

How V-Guard stabilized India

888

No internet for digital payments? There’s a fix thanks to the RBI Sandbox

889

Want a FAB!O? Oops, we meant OREO?

890

Can India become a Lithium Superpower?

891

Thee problem with the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger

892

What tech companies don’t want you to know about layoffs

893

What ails Divi’s?

894

Phillips Curve Conundrum

895

Is the angel tax back?

896

Red Tape around Red Sanders

897

Elon Musk is Not Guilty!

898

It’s Millet Time!

899

ITC — The Budget Stock

900

Why we don't tax agricultural income

901

The Budget explained in 10 minutes?

902

The Silent crisis of Light pollution

903

Adani vs Hindenburg simplified

904

How an obscure Mauritian bank became the darling of Indian fintech

905

The ups and downs of being VIP

906

Amazon is a Logistics company

907

The Blockbuster-Netflix story you didn’t know

908

Is Yes Bank in trouble? Again??

909

Tax the rich?!

910

Why are tyres black?

911

GoMechanic: When ‘Fake it Till You Make It’ goes wrong

912

Reliance bets big on the IPL. The Women’s IPL

913

Sachetisation of cigarettes?

914

Superapps are Dead, Long live Superapps!

915

How a 30-year-old fintech founder fooled JPMorgan Chase

916

The untold story of Varun Beverages

917

An explainer on Sovereign Green Bonds

918

India’s sinking towns have a renewable energy problem

919

Why has PhonePe returned home?

920

Digital is Dying! Brick-and-Mortar is Alive!!!

921

Curb the Index

922

Dear Investor — Stay Still!

923

The mystery of India’s missing monuments

924

A $10 billion Indian call centre scam!

925

Demonetisation was legal! But was it economically sound?

926

SEBI's guide to saving you from a tech glitch

927

India is ready to lend big in 2023

928

Happy Holidays!

929

Will DFM Foods disappear from the stock market?

930

Can the Airbus-Boeing Duopoly be broken?

931

Economists hate Secret Santa!

932

Did Qatar waste money on the World Cup?

933

A brief history of divestments

934

The Ceiling Fan Revolution is here!

935

Brand names, family names, and royalties!

936

Can Nuclear Fusion help fight climate change?

937

Can Surety bonds revolutionize infrastructure?

938

The Chocolate Effect

939

Missing: $10 billion in imports!!!

940

Did Sula create a wine renaissance in India?

941

Infosys wants to buy back your shares for ₹9,300 crores

942

A new weapon in the fight against plastic?

943

India’s $100 billion remittance bonanza has a secret

944

Exposing a Pharma secret: Evergreening!

945

Can Rice last forever?

946

The Great Dharavi Makeover

947

Adani Wants Your Money: The Great Indian FPO!

948

What is the e₹ (e-Rupee)? - Simplified

949

Amazon’s experiment with Kirana stores has failed!

950

The Fashion Destruction

951

Why are India’s cities in such a mess?

952

The crazy and puzzling story of Bisleri!!!

953

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders - Building ships to defend India

954

How a crypto emperor shook charity

955

A star rating for Chips and Chocolates?

956

Is China's Zero-Covid strategy killing its economy?

957

An explainer on Carbon Border Tax

958

“Well, this is awkward,” said Budweiser to Qatar

959

Why is everyone talking about Nykaa?

960

Apple is an advertising giant. Almost.

961

8 billion people and the Simon–Ehrlich wager

962

The Clearing House Drama

963

Should Ambani buy Liverpool Football Club?

964

Where is Jet Airways?

965

Where have the ‘tech’ IPOs gone?

966

Why people are annoyed with the Draft Telecom Bill?

967

The FTX collapse explained

968

Who pays for climate change?

969

Shaking Hands with the UAE

970

Kashmir's apple trade is rotting

971

The economics of the Ivory Trade

972

When will the IDBI saga end?

973

Is it India's Kohinoor moment yet?

974

The birth of GM Mustard

975

An Explainer on the Ayushman Bharat Health Account

976

What went wrong at Dhanlaxmi Bank?

977

The Extraordinary Lives of Ants

978

CCI fines Google ₹2,274 crores in a week

979

An explainer on India’s battle with affordable housing

980

The Big Fine: Why CCI pulled up MakeMyTrip and OYO

981

Finshots Special: Simplifying Insurance with Shrehith (co-founder Finshots & Ditto)

982

Gold is dead. Long live Gold!

983

Is the Rupee sliding? Or is the Dollar soaring?

984

An explainer on Digital Banking Units (DBUs)

985

A story of the Magic Elixir - ORS

986

The fault in BNPL apps

987

RBI's fictional letter to the Government - on inflation

988

It’s All Gas

989

A stock exchange for Charities? What?

990

Fixing India’s Mid-Day Meal Scheme

991

Why Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig won the Nobel Prize in Economics

992

The Cough Syrup Debacle

993

Why did SEBI close down Brickwork Ratings?

994

The Extraordinary Manyavar & Mohey

995

The problem with Truecaller

996

The ₹4000 crore scam you never heard of

997

Will Credit Suisse trigger another global financial crisis?

998

Is China’s Trojan Horse dead?

999

How Relaxo monopolized the humble Chappal

1000

Can NavIC dethrone GPS?