Older, savvier, and more ambitious
Business Lineby K Ram Kumar; Mahesh Ravidas Nayak·30 Aug 2026
Remaining India’s No. 1 life insurer 70 years since inception and 26 years after the insurance sector was opened to private and foreign players is a remarkable achievement in itself, says R...
Editorial. Right prescription
Business Line·30 Aug 2026
Drugmaker Sun Pharma’s “voluntary withdrawal” of 11 eye drop brands has exposed gaps in the domestic medicine recall process.
Below the line
Business Lineby Our Bureaus·30 Aug 2026
Not-so-sweet standoff The surge in sugar prices has created a divide between manufacturers and traders. The manufacturers seem to be pinning the blame on traders for the commodity’s soaring prices.
LIC may raise NSE stake, targets presence in every panchayat
Business Lineby K Ram Kumar; Mahesh Ravidas Nayak·30 Aug 2026
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), one of the largest shareholders in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) with a 10.72 per cent stake, may consider increasing its stake in the bourse once the...
Atlassian bets big on India as AI changes software development
Business Lineby Sanjana B·30 Aug 2026
Atlassian is positioning its India development centre as a strategic R&D hub as the company expands its use of AI agents and builds products around its Teamwork Graph technology, said Vikram Rao...
Nepal floods: Over 500 remain unaccounted for at hydropower projects as tunnel rescue efforts intensify
Business Lineby PTI·30 Aug 2026
As many as 537 workers and employees remained unaccounted for at nine hydropower projects in Nepal’s flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, with rescue teams intensifying efforts to reach people...
Nepal floods leave thousands in temporary shelters as displaced families confront a new ordeal
Business Lineby PTI·30 Aug 2026
For thousands of people who escaped Nepal's devastating floods, the emergency has not ended. They are now living in temporary shelters, often without medicines and basic necessities they had before...
Behind the curtains
Business Lineby Naveen Chandra·30 Aug 2026
How do you walk the tightrope between flying with a Bollywood star in his private jet, spending many nights at the actor’s house with biryani and beer flowing, attending the actor’s wedding and...
Turkey’s authoritarian turn
Business Lineby Atul K Thakur·30 Aug 2026
Brave New World, a 1932 dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley was set in a futuristic world state, whose citizens were environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social...
Tukaram Mundhe and lessons on leadership
Business Lineby Aastha Tripathi·30 Aug 2026
In a country where bureaucracy is often associated with files, procedures and institutional inertia, Tukaram Mundhe has acquired an unusual reputation: that of an officer who walks into a system...
Technology spending by governments and businesses across the Middle East remains robust, and continues to be robust growth opportunities for Bahwan CyberTek
Business Lineby Sindhu Hariharan·30 Aug 2026
Despite continuing geopolitical uncertainty, technology spending by governments and businesses across the Middle East remains robust, and continues to be robust growth opportunities for IT...
Think tank GTRI calls for review of quality control orders
Business Lineby PTI·30 Aug 2026
Economic think tank GTRI on Sunday called for review of quality control orders (QCOs) to ensure that these norms protect consumers without becoming import restrictions or licensing barriers.
Air India B787 engine shutdown: GE expanded inspections after 2023 incident, DGCA tells CIC
Business Lineby PTI·30 Aug 2026
The 2023 in-flight shutdown of an engine on an Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft prompted manufacturer GE Aerospace to expand borescope inspection requirements for affected engines, the Directorate...
SpaceX launches NASA’s dark energy-hunting space telescope
Business Lineby Bloomberg·30 Aug 2026
NASA’s $4.3 billion telescope launched to space on Sunday, marking the beginning of a five- to 10-year mission designed to observe the universe’s most exotic phenomena.
Kashmir dig probes ancient network linking India, Gandhara and Central Asia
Business Lineby Gulzar Bhat·30 Aug 2026
The second phase of excavation at the Zehanpora archaeological site in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district will examine whether the ancient settlement formed part of a wider Buddhist cultural and...
Government broadens a nationwide digital platform that tracks fertilizer from production to retail sale
Business Lineby PTI·30 Aug 2026
The government on Sunday said it is broadening a nationwide digital platform that tracks fertilizer from production to retail sale, adding tools to link purchases with individual farmers' land...
Bengaluru’s commercial projects hit approval roadblocks, squeezing new supply
Business Lineby Aishwarya Kumar·30 Aug 2026
Bengaluru’s commercial real estate market is facing a growing approval challenge, with developers reporting significant delays between securing statutory clearances and commencing construction.
Gnani.ai launches Gnani Artha, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack for Indian enterprises and public institutions
Business Lineby S Ronendra Singh·30 Aug 2026
One of the oldest artificial intelligence (AI) firms of the country, Gnani.ai has recently launched Gnani Artha, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack for Indian enterprises and public institutions...
AP CM Naidu to inaugurate Veligonda irrigation project on August 31
Business Lineby BL Hyderabad Bureau·30 Aug 2026
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will inaugurate Phase-I of the long-awaited Veligonda irrigation project on August 31, 2026 and release Krishna waters into the drought-prone...
When age matters
Business Lineby Venkatesh Bangaruswamy·30 Aug 2026
In recent times, several stocks have traded at prices that offer good dividend yield. This leads to the question: Are individuals interested in earning a dividend income?
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