Making smalltalk

If you hold a smallcase with a Tata Group company in it, you may have noticed something unusual on 12 August 2026. It wasn’t one stock moving on its own news. It was almost all of them, at once, in the same direction.

Here’s what happened, and what it does and doesn’t mean.

N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, informed t...

In July 2026, about one in eight vehicles sold in India was electric. This number shows a change that has taken years to build, not a sudden jump, but the result of steady policy efforts finally matching what consumers want.

India’s EV retail sales hit a record high of about 3.3 lakh units in July 2026, rising more than 66% fr...

₹84,084 crore mission. 60 deepwater wells. And a govt willing to bear 50% of the costs.

India is turning its attention to what’s beneath the ocean floor. Samudra Manthan, a deep-sea exploration scheme, aims to find more oil and gas under Indian waters, so the country depends a little less on expensive and risky imports.

But there is more than just oi...

Pharmaceutical companies rarely make headlines the way tech startups do, but some of the most interesting business stories in India are quietly playing out in this sector. Emcure Pharmaceuticals is one of them, a company that started as a domestic branded generics player in 1981 and has spent the last decade turning itself into a genuinely international pharma business. Here’...

July was the month earnings did the heavy lifting. Geopolitical tension didn’t ease this time; it built, with crude oil climbing steadily through the month. But strong Q1 FY27 results from financials, IT, and infrastructure companies, paired with a Fed that stayed on hold for a fifth straight meeting, were enough to push Indian equities higher anyway. The rupee stayed remarka...