The heads that look like ours
Business Lineby N Nagaraj·8d ago
Read this sequence: Hat, hat, hat, risk, hat, hat, hat. What comes next? Most people say “risk”. The pattern is three of one word, one different word, three more of the first, and then the...
A delicious cuppa decided by electrochemistry
Business Lineby K Bharat Kumar·8d ago
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad can things be?” asked American author Cassandra Clare. And if you are a true connoisseur of the beverage, you would likely agree.
Fostering affordable and equitable biomedical innovation
Business Lineby Sanjay Sarin·8d ago
For decades India has been the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’. Now it is time for the country to become an innovation powerhouse, transforming scientific discoveries into medicines that address...
Missing women in the medicine map
Business Lineby Team BL·8d ago
By the year end, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will develop a regulatory roadmap to drive a decisive change in how women’s health is considered across medicines development and regulation.
Enabling breast cancer screening in remote settings
Business Lineby PT Jyothi Datta·8d ago
Come October, iconic buildings around the world are lit up in pink to spread awareness on breast cancer.
Delivering festival season’s joys
Business Lineby Rohan Das·8d ago
With the festival season in full swing, bargain hunters are on the prowl on e-commerce apps, chasing down the best deals and the lowest prices.
Shouldn’t CIAL stop collecting user fees?
Business Lineby Paul Antony·8d ago
The year 2025–26 seems to have been good for Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), which made a record profit of ₹502 crore and, in another record, declared a dividend of 55 per cent.
Mission Samudra: Keralam eyes port-led economic rise
Business Lineby V Sajeev Kumar·8d ago
The Keralam government’s five-year Mission Samudra initiative seeks to transform the State into a global maritime and economic hub through the development of an integrated logistics ecosystem...
Gen Z: Re-learning branding code for a fluid generation
Business Lineby Giraj Sharma·8d ago
Few would have imagined that student protests over a fragile examination system and paper leaks would escalate so dramatically.
Commerce-first brand launch playbook
Business Lineby Team BL·8d ago
WPP Media India has just launched ‘From Concept to Scale: The Commerce-First Launch Playbook for India’, a framework showing that the future of new product launches is no longer just...
How Mark Rothko beat the Instagram algorithm
Business Lineby Shubho Sengupta·8d ago
For the last few weeks, I have been trying to understand the social media algorithm. I have been reading Dan Koe on the attention economy and Kane Kallaway on virality.
businessline poll: MPC seen raising rates by 25 bps this week; majority expect 50-75 bps tightening by FY27
Business Lineby Ashokamithran T·8d ago
Bankers expect the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, with a majority also expecting the MPC to deliver a...
‘A true hero’: Modi, Trump, and Netanyahu hail Indian pilot Machchhar after in-flight attack
Business Lineby BL New Delhi Bureau·8d ago
Before Wednesday, Captain Smit Machchhar was like any other Indian commercial aviator operating for an international airline.
Shift from ‘annual review’ to ‘any time review’ of the defence budget: Rajnath Singh
Business Lineby BL New Delhi Bureau·8d ago
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday suggested to the Defence Accounts Department (DAD) to move away from ‘annual review’ to ‘any time review’ of the budget, with real-time data enabling...
Indian team emerges third at International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics with 4 golds and 1 silver
Business Lineby Sindhu Hariharan·8d ago
India put up a strong show at the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2026 held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 25 September to 05 October, 2026 as all five Indian students part...
AI-driven recruitment goes mainstream, expands into non-tech roles
Business Lineby Rohan Das·8d ago
AI-powered recruitment, while previously associated mostly with software development and other technology jobs, is now expanding its reach to other non-tech professions.
India’s first offshore wind farm prototype being planned off Thoothukudi in southern TN
Business Lineby T E Raja Simhan·8d ago
For decades, Tamil Nadu has been one of India’s biggest wind power hubs, with turbines spread across its plains and mountain passes.
A test for forward guidance in monetary policy
Business Lineby A Vasudevan·8d ago
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meetings in the first week of every second month pose difficulties because information sets are rarely up-to-date.
India’s resilience not accidental but outcome of broad and mutually reinforcing reforms, says Das
Business Lineby Shishir Sinha·8d ago
Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister on Sunday said India’s resilience is not accidental, rather it is the outcome of broad and mutually reinforcing reforms.
Kiro Beauty looks beyond lips as face, skincare emerge as growth engines
Business Lineby Aishwarya Kumar·8d ago
Mumbai-based beauty brand Kiro Beauty is looking to rebalance its business beyond its traditionally strong lip portfolio, with face products and skincare emerging as the next growth engines for the...
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