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Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful.
Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by some of India’s most experienced and talented business journalists.
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- India's jewellery makers are IPO-ing away to pay for gold · 13 min · Avsnitt 878Eight jewellery companies have listed on India’s main board this year. Many of them are the behind-the-scenes makers who supply to big brands like Malabar, Kalyan, and Senco…
- How the security deposit became a landlord’s free working capital · 11 min · Avsnitt 877This Diwali, gift The Ken! Tenants across India's six biggest metros have handed landlords Rs 1.26 trillion in security deposits, a new NoBroker study estimates. Around $15…
- A $12B R&D fund was meant to turbocharge startup funding. It did the opposite · 11 min · Avsnitt 876India's RDI fund of Rs. 1 lakh crore was launched to give patient capital to deep-tech startups. A year later the cash, is barely flowing. Out of 162 alternate investment funds…
- Why India’s airlines are flying less and charging you more · 16 min · Avsnitt 875“Don’t travel by air.” That was a Supreme Court judge’s response on Monday, when a petitioner asked for an urgent cap on airfares before Diwali, Bhai Dooj and Chhath. Airlines…
- At IITs, a long-brewing ‘culture war’ between engineering and humanities boils over · 14 min · Avsnitt 874At India's premier engineering schools, the humanities and social sciences or HSS have become a put-down. "Oh, you're being so HSS" is what students say to anyone seen as too…
- Gen Z wants to own a home. The math says inherit one · 9 min · Avsnitt 873India’s homes cost 11 times annual income, more than double the affordability benchmark, and real wages fell 4% between 2012 and 2024. For Gen Z, buying a house on a salary alone…
- Vodafone Idea’s losses are halving and its stores are buzzing. The hard part comes next · 12 min · Avsnitt 872For years, Vodafone Idea (Vi) kept losing subscribers. Since February, that’s stopped, and the company is now pushing hard with unlimited data, family plans and stacked offers…
- Sacred Games put Netflix India on the map. Roadies is how it plans to stay there · 16 min · Avsnitt 871Netflix paid 175 crore for the Hindi version of a single blockbuster. For a season of Roadies, the college-favourite reality show, it reportedly paid 18 and even agreed to share…
- How to ‘manufacture’ an Ivy League applicant · 14 min · Avsnitt 870Getting into a top American university has become a mountain of research papers, social projects and competitions. And wealthy Indian families are now starting the climb when…
- JioHotstar’s real overseas rival is a $10 per month pirate box · 25 min · Avsnitt 869JioStar has taken JioHotstar to the UK, Canada, Singapore and the Middle East. It's chasing roughly 37 million Indians living abroad, and their taste for content from back home…
- India's instant home help boom has a pricing problem · 11 min · Avsnitt 868Investors are calling India's home-services market quick commerce's next big moment. Instahelp, Snabbit, and Pronto are betting big on it. They're sending trained workers to your…
- Without a UPI, Africa pays a toll on cash. Airtel Money collects it · 11 min · Avsnitt 867Airtel Money is now trading in London, valued at about $7 billion. The African mobile-money company made $373 million in profit last financial year. It is based on a simple…
- Ajio wants to course-correct, but Reliance Retail’s shadow looms large · 12 min · Avsnitt 866Reliance has a lot to celebrate. The bidding for Jio IPO closed on Friday, more than 20 times subscribed, and with India's biggest valuation ever; the shares will list on…
- Dogs have a nose for cancer. An Indian startup is betting on them · 14 min · Avsnitt 865Less than 1% of Indians get tested for cancer, and with full body scans costing as much as Rs 25,000, it's not surprising. Dognosis, a Bengaluru startup, has a solution. It…
- India’s largest financial-sector FDI is coming. But what does the public get? · 11 min · Avsnitt 864On 14 October, the Cabinet approved selling nearly 61% of IDBI Bank to the Canadian firm Fairfax for nearly ₹53,000 crore. Once completed, it will be the largest FDI in India’s…
- Why your Diwali shopping is more important than MDR on UPI · 13 min · Avsnitt 863Around mid-September, shops in parts of Ghaziabad started putting up signs: carry cash, because UPI wouldn’t be accepted. They were protesting a new 0.4% merchant fee on UPI…
- After making a fortune at the dock, Adani's next bet is a fleet of 100 ships going offshore · 9 min · Avsnitt 862In October last year, a ship owned by Adani Ports slowed to less than one knot near Malta. It held that position for over seven days, directly above the cables linking Malta to…
- Air India needs saving. Singapore Airlines is playing saviour · 14 min · Avsnitt 861Air India's recent losses nearly doubled to 22,000 cr rs, and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran keeps showing up at its Delhi Headquarters. Singapore Airlines, which owns over…
- What happens when you put Indian business on a 2x2? · 1 h 19 min · Avsnitt 860In this Daybreak x Two by Two crossover, host Snigdha Sharna turns the tables on Praveen Gopal Krishnan to look beyond individual companies and industries, and at the bigger…
- India’s food inflation has layers. The onion is only the first · 10 min · Avsnitt 859On October 12, government data showed India’s food inflation rose to 7.7% in September, led by onion prices that more than doubled from a year earlier. Back in May, onion growers…
- 7-Eleven promised "Everything essential". It still lost to India's corner shops · 15 min · Avsnitt 858“Mile har cheez zaruri.” Everything essential, right here. That was the promise on the signs inside India’s first 7-Eleven, which opened in Mumbai five years ago, with India’s…
- Karnataka can’t fix its potholes. So it’s building an AI city · 14 min · Avsnitt 857Every morning, a senior official in Mysuru’s city corporation swerves past the same potholes on his way to the office responsible for fixing them. Over three years, the money…
- Bollywood wants to offend nobody. AI is happy to help · 13 min · Avsnitt 856In India, even the phantom of the censor board is enough to make filmmakers rewrite scenese at the very last minute, including those making shows for streaming platforms the…
- Why your next IIT, IIM reunion will feel like a sales pitch · 22 min · Avsnitt 855What happens when India's top institutes start treating reunions as fundraisers? The Ken's Santhom and Mutasim, both from IITs themselves, write about how one batch of alumni…
- Apple and Google's app stores are the next battleground for protests · 16 min · Avsnitt 854On October 3, Jack Dorsey's Bitchat disappeared from Apple's App Store in India after the IT ministry demanded its removal. It vanished from Google Play too. Bitchat lets phones…
- Nike needs India’s sneaker heads. But do they need Nike? · 19 min · Avsnitt 853When the NBA complained about Micheal Jordan's black and red shoes, Nike turned the complaint into an ad, and sneakers ended up becoming a symbol of style and rebellion. In…
- Delhi built a ‘safe’ surveillance city. It can now locate anyone in seconds · 21 min · Avsnitt 852Your face caught on a camera, your vehicle number plate, a voter ID, a driving licence, even a police-clearance certificate—any of these can become part of a vast web of data…
- How Flipkart Minutes became the company's redemption arc · 15 min · Avsnitt 851For years, Flipkart has tried and struggled to scale the vertical it began to sell groceries. But as quick commerce platforms started becoming successful, the e-commerce giant…
- Adani’s think tank flexes its muscles in Delhi · 11 min · Avsnitt 850A two-year-old think tank backed by Adani just got 14 of its suggestions, some of them word for word, written into a law passed by Parliament. That law opened India's nuclear…
- India is burning through its coal buffer · 10 min · Avsnitt 849This September was supposed to give India's power grid a break. Instead, on some nights, the gap between the electricity people wanted and what the grid could supply reached…
- Ekta Kapoor built her own OTT app. Now she's betting on YouTube · 15 min · Avsnitt 848In the 2000s, Ekta Kapoor's serials ruled Indian TV every night on weekdays. Then as, audiences moved from TV screens to smaller ones and streaming, her company, Balaji Telefilms…
- Can India build a ‘UPI’ for your cows and your gold? · 13 min · Avsnitt 847Earlier this month, at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India's regulators and industry leaders rallied around one idea: tokenisation, which turns assets like bonds, gold and…
- AI is Bollywood's cheapest new hire · 16 min · Avsnitt 846Bollywood has been seeing tough times since Covid. Theatre footfall still haven't recovered, even as box office numbers soar, and budgets for filmmakers are only getting tighter…
- UPI is the trojan horse taking small banks into HDFC, Axis's credit-card empire · 15 min · Avsnitt 845After two years of slow adoption, Credit-Line-on-UPI is finally taking off, but not with the big banks. Small banks and fintechs are leading the charge, while the big incumbents…
- How India's rich are finding returns in the country's court backlog · 14 min · Avsnitt 844Make The Ken's Daybreak X First Principles Autumn Playlist here. India has roughly 54 million cases stuck in its courts. Inside many of them is money someone is owed but can't…
- Amazon’s quick-commerce win will be less about speed and more about Prime · 16 min · Avsnitt 843Make The Ken's Daybreak X First Principles Autumn Playlist here. Amazon Now just crossed $1 billion in annualised gross sales, faster than Zepto did. But it's still miles behind…
- One year of GST 2.0. Who's it working for? · 16 min · Avsnitt 842Tap here to help us make The Ken's Daybreak X First principles Autumn Playlist One year ago, GST 2.0 rewrote the tax on almost everything Indians buy — from soap to cars. It…
- A cancelled peptide party, and the questions it raised that Indian sellers still can't answer · 17 min · Avsnitt 841India was about to have its first-ever peptide party with fifty guests, a mystery venue marketed only as "not a hospital," and a menu of collagen, glutathione, and copper…
- Why Indigo went budget and premium at once · 10 min · Avsnitt 840For two decades, an Indian air ticket told you what kind of airline you were flying. Low-cost meant cheap and bare. Full-service meant meals and baggage folded into the fare…
- India's newest iPhone prices hurt the people selling them, buying them and even taxing them · 16 min · Avsnitt 839Apple's newest iPhones landed in India with price hikes as high as 41%. And for the first time in years, there was no discount on older models to go along with it. The memes…
- 7.8% growth. So why doesn't India feel richer? · 13 min · Avsnitt 838In February this year, India announced a sweeping overhaul of how it calculates GDP, fixing a measurement system the IMF had flagged as outdated just last November. It includes a…
- Your kids might be looting your bank account in the guise of gaming · 12 min · Avsnitt 837Kids all over India are spending real money inside mobile games. And most of the time, they slip by the notice of the adults, until the bill or bank alert eventually arrives…
- India's data law has HDFC Bank, Amazon, Paytm, and others shopping for consent · 12 min · Avsnitt 836India’s new data protection law is reshaping how companies talk to customers on WhatsApp. Messages that once felt routine now carry legal weight and are tied to consent…
- This week in AI: activist robots, doom-laden researchers — so who's the good guy? · 13 min · Avsnitt 835This week, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic warning AI could "kill us all," and the company's own safety lead agreed. Meanwhile, OpenAI says it cracked a 200-year-old math…
- India has more tourists than ever. So why is tourism in trouble? · 16 min · Avsnitt 834India's foreign tourist arrivals slipped by about 8% from the year before to about 9 million in 2025, and a wave of recent reporting has finally made it a talking point. If you…
- The Government sold Air India to escape its problems. The fix is to buy back in · 18 min · Avsnitt 833In 1967, Air India paid Salvador Dalí for a custom ashtray with a live baby elephant, flown all the way to Spain. (Yes, really! Here's the proof.) That was the airline. Flush…
- Nykaa cracked fashion at last. Myntra sees no reason to panic · 9 min · Avsnitt 832After years of struggling to grow, Nykaa Fashion has finally found its footing. The past year brought a real resurgence. For a long time, the platform bet on building its own…
- Rapido broke the ride-hailing duopoly. Now it's coming for Zomato and Swiggy · 15 min · Avsnitt 831For over a year, India's restaurant association couldn't get Swiggy to return its calls. Then Rapido launched a food delivery app that charges restaurants zero commission — and…
- India's call centres are using AI to make agents sound American · 23 min · Avsnitt 830When you call an Indian call centre these days, the person answering might sound American — even if they've never left India. A new kind of AI can change an agent's accent in…
- Meta's $18 billion child-safety settlement has India looking for the wrong answer · 10 min · Avsnitt 829Last week, Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle American lawsuits over how Instagram and Facebook treat children. The app will now be rebuilt around American teenagers…
