The Morning Brief

India’s Great IPO Rush: How Much Is Too Much?

India’s IPO market has hit the accelerator. After just 27 mainboard IPOs in the first half of 2026, July-September alone is seeing 61 issues worth roughly ₹88,000 crore.

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Semiconductors, AI Risks and Techno-Legal Regulation

India is scaling its semiconductor ecosystem as AI development accelerates—and both are raising new questions around technology, investment and regulation. In this Corner

Meta Will Report CSAM to India, But Who Fixes the Feed?

Meta has agreed to report child sexual abuse material directly to Indian authorities, rather than routing alerts through America's NCMEC. But does reporting stop algorith

Sun Life’s Kevin Strain on FDI, Bancassurance and More

India has opened insurance to 100% foreign ownership. But Sun Life CEO Kevin Strain says ownership is less important than building the right business—and that the company

The Vanishing Footpath Economy

Every morning in Mahim, Vijay Raut sold cutting chai to taxi drivers, construction workers and bank staff, until the BMC's pavement drive took away his stall. Now he serv

Why Volkswagen Needs JSW

 Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest carmakers, yet has less than 2% of India’s passenger vehicle market. Its proposed partnership with JSW could mark a striking rev

UPI MDR Is Back: The Hidden Cost to You

UPI is no longer entirely free. From October 15, merchant payments above ₹2,000 will attract a 0.4% MDR, while smaller transactions and person-to-person transfers remain

Bain’s Manny Maceda on the End of Globalisation, India’s Opportunity and the AI Reset

The multinational is giving way to the multi-local, as tariffs, geopolitics and supply-chain risk force companies to rebuild around regional roots rather than one global

Bastar After The Gun

Chhattisgarh has declared an end to armed Maoism in Bastar, but the ground reality is far more complicated than a deadline. Over 1,000 surrendered cadres remain in rehabi

Why Are Banks' Corner Offices Suddenly Up For Grabs?

HDFC Bank's Shashidhar Jagdishan is stepping down, Kotak Mahindra is searching for Ashok Vaswani's successor, and ICICI's Sandeep Bakshi has taken just a two-year extensi

Publicis Sapient’s Nigel Vaz on AI, the Future of Work and India’s Opportunity

AI is reshaping how businesses work, but the biggest shift may be how humans and technology work together. At The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Nigel Vaz, CEO, Publ

India’s 7.8% GDP: The Number That Doesn’t Add Up

India’s latest GDP estimate shows the economy growing at 7.8%. Rajeswari Sengupta, associate professor of economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

J.P.Morgan’s Anu Aiyengar on Mega Deals, AI’s Banking Reset and the India Bet

ET opens its World Leaders Forum podcast series with Anu Aiyengar, global chair of investment banking, J.P.Morgan. In conversation with Anirban Chowdhury, she explains wh

ET Deep Dive: When Development Turns Disaster

Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and unpredictable. But are we making its consequences worse? Across the Himalayas and the Western Ghats, glaciers

Subrata Mitra on India’s VC Reset, the AI Capital Race and What Comes Next

What does one of India’s original venture capitalists see coming next? Accel’s Subrata Mitra speaks to Anirban Chowdhury about a funding market moving from exuberance to

HDFC Bank’s CEO Hunt

HDFC Bank is staring at an unusual leadership vacuum. CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan is set to leave in October, even as India’s largest private sector bank grapples with slowin

Subhash Chandra’s Insolvency Maths

Subhash Chandra’s latest insolvency battle has produced a startling equation: ₹22,006 crore in admitted claims against just ₹6.25 crore for creditors. But the headline hi

What It Really Takes To Vibe Code

ET’s Swathi Moorthy cannot code. Yet she has built four web applications using AI. That is the seductive promise of vibe coding: describe what you want and let the machin

From Insurgent to Establishment: The Trilegal Story

Trilegal began as an outsider in a legal industry dominated by closely held, family-run firms. More than two decades later, it has become one of India’s largest law firms

ET Deep Dive: Love, Inheritance & the Second Innings

Love can arrive at any age. But when it arrives after 60, it often comes with decades of accumulated wealth, grown-up children and expectations about inheritance. As more