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The Daily Brief — 97 episodes

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How India's elder-care industry works

2

Is America’s $40 trillion debt a problem?

3

Why is India paying more for floating solar?

4

SECI wants to make India’s industries electric

5

When AI starts spending your money

6

The logic behind ISRO and DRDO’s tech transfers

7

Indian homebuyers get a much needed painkiller

8

Why governments are suing Meta for $18 billion

9

A self-purge inside the world’s largest nickel player

10

What is eating into Indian QSR’s lunch?

11

What a government audit found in India’s EV subsidy scheme?

12

How do you manufacture a medicine that keeps changing?

13

The split personalities of Indian FMCG

14

SEBI finds fraud in the cloud

15

India can’t find a sweet spot for its sugar policy

16

Can a “miracle drug” change how we work?

17

The areca nut with an identity crisis

18

Indian auto: an export boom and a supply crunch

19

Indian urea makers will make lesser money now

20

A 40-year old battle over India’s minerals hits a climax

21

How does the Indian government buy stuff?

22

India’s data fortress is a maze of conflicts

23

What is happening with the 86-year-old drug law?

24

Why Bengaluru's Metro takes forever?

25

Indian cement meets both new bridges and broken roads

26

India’s private banks are growing again, but at a cost

27

Swiggy and Eternal pick different fights

28

How is natural gas traded in India?

29

Why is America bailing out the yen?

30

Who gets the spare space on India's power grid?

31

SEBI finds another plot-hole in the Zee script

32

What does it mean to close a mine?

33

Inside Manipal Health IPO

34

India’s airlines try to fix their radar

35

Is China slowly changing how it finances itself?

36

Fresh year, no fresh start for India’s largest IT firms

37

What does it take to dig underground tunnels?

38

Reliance opens the year on the front foot

39

Is the moat of the FMCG industry changing?

40

No More Critical Minerals for the World?

41

Is the third time the charm for Oyo?

42

A knockout at the XBOX-ing ring of death

43

The three bodies that couldn’t kill Airtel

44

Birla buys a renewable firm from Shell for $1.8 billion

45

Full charge, no power: the software behind EVs

46

SBI Funds is going public

47

Cult.fit’s IPO promises to lift heavier weights, but can it?

48

The world’s investment outlook gets bigger and gloomier

49

The coordination puzzle staring at India’s EV ambitions

50

Brexit and the price of friction

51

India’s bullet train: kickstarts and standstills

52

Amazon goes for the quick commerce pie

53

The long con behind a fake “Zerodha” SMS

54

Indian midcap IT bulks up for a heavyweight fight

55

Connecting rural India to the internet

56

A deep dive into the textile industry

57

India’s data centres look to the salty seas

58

India might change how it sells its airports

59

India's batteries are getting longer, not just bigger

60

A Dhan Dhana Dhan IPO for Jio

61

There’s nothing straight about Hormuz

62

The company behind every trade in India is going public

63

Japan discovers the price of money

64

The price of a Wavin’ Flag

65

India’s maritime makeover

66

When price caps on pharma drugs fail

67

A 10-minute parcel comes for Dalal Street

68

Between income and distributions

69

A lending boom with fewer borrowers

70

We're measuring rooftop solar by the wrong number

71

SEBI finds glitters of ₹15 lakh crore that aren’t gold

72

How the rupee grounded Indigo’s profits

73

India’s fuel-blending machine enters its next costly phase

74

Do ATMs still make sense?

75

What SEBI found in Suzlon's books?

76

The changing shape of energy security

77

Real estate’s three measures of success

78

Indian pharma: lofty aims in the midst of chaos

79

SpaceX: A valuation built on miracles

80

Gold, securitised

81

An inventory high before a pricing hangover

82

India’s two-wheelers drift through a collision of forces

83

The Indian EMS industry moves up and sideways

84

Margin crush in a gold rush

85

How Big Bazaar fell through the cracks

86

A record year for public-sector banks meets a turning point

87

India’s grid must match its solar ambitions

88

Decoding the Vedanta Demerger

89

A new chapter in the delivery wars

90

India's great health bargain is falling apart

91

Indian IT sees some clarity in the unknown

92

India’s banks trade old fears for new ones

93

2020: A space odyssey

94

Beneath the Bagmane REIT IPO

95

The cost of Building Your Dreams, Part II

96

The OPEC’s worst ever defection

97

SIPs, slumps and the AMC machine