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In this photo essay, we showcase highlights from the Echoes of Earth music festival, and curator insights on the next Sixth Sense festival.

On learning platform Kruu, students from Class 6 to 12 dont sit through lectures. They work on projects that stretch over weeks, guided by faculty from Oxford, IIT Madras, NYU, and the National University of Singapore, among others.

For comparison, In the quick commerce market during the JulySeptember 2025 quarter (Q2 FY26), Blinkit maintained its lead with approximately 2.4 million to 2.5 million daily orders, while Swiggy Instamart handled about 1.1 million to 1.3 million daily orders.

Piyush Goyal said the government is looking to create a separate startup pathway under the Rs 25,060 crore Export Promotion Mission, with plans to include all DPIIT-registered startups in global trade exhibitions.

Venture capital funding into Indian startups saw a revival with the presence of a few reasonably sized transactions

Speaking at the Startup India event, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal highlighted the ecosystem's growth from 400 startups in 2016 to over 2 lakh DPIIT-registered startups generating an estimated 21 lakh jobs.

Bharat Forge has won Rs 300 crore in contracts to deliver indigenous drone platformsOmega One, Omega Nine, Bayonet, and Cleaverto the Indian Army and Navy, marking a significant milestone in India's defence self-reliance efforts.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, January 16, 2026.

Minister M B Patil announced that Karnataka converted 46% of its Rs 10.27 lakh crore GIM commitments into realised investments worth Rs 4.71 lakh crore, with manufacturing achieving a 58% success rate.

In a landmark ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court of India ruled that Tiger Global is liable to pay capital gains tax on its 2018 exit from Flipkart. YourStory breaks down what it means and how it can impact past investments made from tax friendly jurisdictions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated National Startup Day marking 10 years of Startup India initiative, praising youth entrepreneurs for driving innovation and building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat through ventures in space, defense, and emerging sectors.

At an Oracle roundtable during TechSparks 2025, CTOs and tech leaders moved beyond the AI hype to confront harder truths about data privacy, error tolerance, and the need to look beyond immediate gains.

Indias revived initial public offering market is emerging as a key engagement driver for, India's largest brokerage, Groww as it it breaks free from a broader market slowdown. In 2025 11%

Harish, a resident of Bijnor district, did not set out to become an entrepreneur. Until a few months ago, he was working at a factory manufacturing

Ankit Sharma was in the middle of his CA articleship when the idea of starting something of his own began to take shape, not as a sudden leap

Some of the worlds most influential companies were not born from perfect planning or flawless foresight. Instead, they emerged from errors

In 2026, artificial intelligence isnt just a buzzword its a productivity powerhouse transforming how we work, create, automate and innovate.

Strap:Anil Srinivasan built a career dragging pianos into Carnatic concerts. Now he's dragging Ivy League professors into classrooms across India, one project at a time. Story: On his deathbed, Anil Srinivasan got the idea for his next startup. It was 2021, and the pandemic was at its peak. But

Consumer watchdog CCPA found over 16,970 non-compliant product listings across 13 ecommerce platforms, and has imposed penalties totaling Rs 44 lakh on eight such platforms.

The fund, which has a target corpus of Rs 150 crore, with an additional Rs 50 crore in green shoe option, has raised 60% of the corpus in its first close.

This National Startup Day, a growing set of startups from Bharat is proving that scale today depends less on pin codes and more on proximity to real problems, disciplined execution, and access to national markets.

The company noted that it is on track to report over Rs 750 crore in adjusted net revenue in the second half of FY26.

Speaking of ChatGPT, the high-stakes world of AI has seen another shift in its talent landscape, as three researchers depart Mira Murati-founded Thinking Machines Lab to return to Sam Altman-led OpenAI.

Indias startups look at a defining phase as technology, funding behaviour, and talent dynamics reshape how companies are built, scaled, and measured for success.

The Filter Coffee treats its restaurants like factory floors and its manufacturing facility like a tech lab. From AI-powered manufacturing to multi-format expansion and a new FMCG vertical, the company is rewriting the South Indian darshini experience.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, January 15, 2026.

CyLnr is using neuroscience to help robots see, adapt and make decisions, transforming rigid factory automation into intelligent, flexible manufacturing.

D2C founders call for fast, not frantic delivery models at industry roundtable Over the last few years, delivery speed has become one of the loudest talking points in India's D2C and retail story. Ten-minute delivery has moved from novelty to expectation in some categories, and from competitiv

According to a report by VC firm Orios Venture Partners, Indian startups are reaching IPO-ready stages in increasingly shorter spans as the online ecosystem matures and consumer demand in marketplaces rises.

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Under this agreement, Microsoft will help set up 18 biochar reactors across Indias cotton belt with these reactors helping remove a total projected volume of over 2 million tonnes of CO2 over the projects lifetime.

YourStorys flagship developer summit DevSparks is returning to Pune with second edition in the city.

Discover how Shiprocket became the backbone of Indian ecommerce by solving execution challenges like shipping, COD, returns, and scale. Amrita Ghosh When Shopify launched in the US, American merchants already had access to couriers, digital payments, and reliable infrastructure. What they lacke

In everyday conversation, people often say they will xerox a document, fasten something with velcro, or apply a band-aid to a cut.

For Premchan Saini, the idea of running his own medical store did not arrive overnight. It grew slowly, shaped by years of work, uncertainty

In an age defined by constant connection, the idea of solitude often feels uncomfortable. Yet in Japanese philosophy, being alone is not something to fear.

Speaking of South Korean sensations, K-pop band BTS is back! The K-pop group will start on its 2026-27 world tour in April, after nearly four-year hiatus due to all seven members needing to complete the countrys mandatory military service.

Emversity will use the fresh capital to scale its campus presence to over 200 locations, deepen its presence in healthcare and hospitality skilling, and expand into new verticals.

Truva will use a portion of the funds to strengthen its real estate valuation and liquidity intelligence engine, TruIQ, and also to support inventory-linked working capital.

The in-house manufactured cells can be used across automotive, humanoids, drones, and portable medical equipment, Ola Electric said.

The US-based asset managers' entry follows a similar move by rival BlackRock, which formed a joint venture with Jio Financial Services Ltd. to tap into Indias asset management sector.

Groww posted a PAT of Rs 546.93 crore for Q3 FY26, down from Rs 757.11 crore in the same period a year ago, according to its financial statements.

The funding round includes a mix of primary capital and secondary share sales, allowing some early investors to partially exit, while providing growth capital for the business.

Days after upGrad called off the deal with Unacademy, the edtech company is transitioning its offline centres to a franchise model to cut burn and slowly phase out the offline business, which it started with much fanfare in 2022.

The consolidated revenue from operations of PayU increased by about 23% to Rs 5,562.98 crore in FY25.

About 50% of global retail payment transactions are done in India but, in terms of the number of digital transactions per person, it has to catch up with many advanced economies.

Mumbai-based ChrysCapital is acquiring stakes through its three affiliates, ChrysCapital Fund X, Two Infinity Partners and Blue Wave Investments Ltd.

The exit from Raise Financial Services realised about 65% in internal rate of return for the venture capital firm.

Shadowfax's offering will include a fresh issue of shares worth Rs 1,000 crore and an offer-for-sale of Rs 907.3 crore.

As the founder of Arise Ventures, Ankita Vashisht has backed over 520 founders, all while quietly building the infrastructure to change who gets funded in Indian tech.