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Hosur powered India’s EV boom. So why are companies heading to Sambhajinagar?

Ather Energy, Toyota Kirloskar, and JSW Group are driving a shift as higher costs and scarce land begin to slow expansion and strain component supply

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Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma’s ‘comeback’ is made in India. And powered by China

An expected 25X jump in revenue masks the dependency behind the maker of a once-dominant smartphone brand

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Lenskart turned its ‘1+1’ offer into a potent weapon—and its customers into sceptics

Lenskart’s Rs 1,000 glasses are a product of plastic lenses and acetate frames, moulded together in a vertically-integrated business—but the pitfall of lower prices is lower quality

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How Dubai suddenly became Indian manufacturers’ China alternative

As trade between India and the UAE crosses $100 billion, the Gulf country could well overtake China to become India’s second-largest trade partner

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Why is Genus up 300% when India’s smart-meter rollout is stuck at 5%?

India’s target of 250 million smart meters by 2025 has been plagued by slow execution, delays in subsidy disbursals, and a general lack of will on the part of discoms

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Tata Electronics took a painful bet on the iPhone. Luck is doing the rest

The Tata company is bleeding for scale, but its iPhone bet has turned into a geopolitical win—despite high worker churn, rising automation costs, and profit still being far off

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Inspired by Nokia, a $3B manufacturer charts a path through Trump’s tariff turmoil

Faced with a fresh wave of trade turbulence, Zetwerk is scattering factories across borders, blending supply chains, and betting that predictability will trump price in the new manufacturing order

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Kaynes and others want to do for electronics what TCS and Infosys did for IT

Electronics manufacturers need skilled talent, and now. So, a couple of them are taking charge and saving recruiters’ time and resources

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India lost the solar race to China. Ohmium thinks green hydrogen will be different

The six-year-old American firm saw an opportunity when the US batted for clean energy. But when the tables turned, Ohmium turned to India’s $2 billion PLI and Europe’s clean-tech policies

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India’s Foxconn has a dilemma: what happens when Dixon with PLI becomes Dixon without it?

A chunk of the contract manufacturer’s revenue comes from making smartphones, but its exports are scanty. If government incentives were to dry up, it doesn’t leave much for Dixon to stay afloat

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Summer is coming. For India’s AC makers, winter is coming

Demand is soaring, but supply is still mostly imported. Factories are running, but compressors are missing. And until the industry makes all the parts it needs, every summer will be a race against shortages

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India wants a thriving semiconductor industry. If only it could keep chip designers happy

A fabless company needs at least US$10 million to build a basic chip; that’s far above the limit usually made available for them

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The Acer brand and Dixon’s factories: Indkal’s rise as the electronics maker that manufactures nothing

Six-year-old Indkal Technologies scaled without factories, piggybacking on a couple of global giants. Now, it has to show that the low-capex, high-licensing model can thrive in India’s high-octane electronics market

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Vegrow takes on Ninjacart and Dehaat with two fruits. Just two

In an agritech landscape where startups try to be everything to everyone, the four-year-old startup proves that mastering pomegranates and bananas could be more profitable than juggling the entire produce

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Zetwerk is the $3 billion supplier of factories that no one saw coming

The six-year-old startup is a messiah to small firms with unused factories, and a reliable ally to those needing round-the-year work

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The Make in India paradox: how Kaynes Tech hit a $4.3B valuation by hiring fewer workers

The initiative is aimed at manufacturing locally and creating millions of jobs. But companies like Kaynes, an electronics maker, are happy doing one without the other

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‘2 million interns a year?’ PM’s scheme makes corporate India anxious

Even as corporate India faces a skill deficiency in talent, they seem confused as to what to make of the 10 million youths expected to join them as interns in the next five years

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Tata’s iPhone factory dorms are fully charged. But the talent it wants is out of coverage area

The US$155-billion Indian tech-manufacturing industry needs skilled talent and high productivity—something companies can’t find closer to their factories

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Bengaluru’s EV battery-making hopes are draining fast—without ever being fully charged

Foxconn CEO’s India visit sends states scrambling for manufacturing dominance, but Karnataka’s battery ambitions are stuck in low gear, battling a sluggish start and mounting hurdles

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Meet the ex-Tata CEO with a plan to make up for India’s lost time in chipmaking

After more than 40 years in the chip industry, Raja Manickam has founded a company and devised a business model which, he believes, is the only way to scale semicon products in India

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Why did Vinfast double its 2024 EV-sales target after missing the 2023 goal?

The Vietnamese carmaker's billionaire founder is keen on pushing the EV narrative, but it's mostly his own companies on board

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Chennai makes a pitch to bring back multinationals’ offshore centres. If only it had the talent

Tamil Nadu made early moves to lure large companies into setting up their global capability centres in its capital city, but has lost ground to nearby tech hubs

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Forget Taiwan’s Foxconn and Pegatron. India’s Dixon is the world’s hottest electronics maker

Why investors give the US$3.8 billion-worth producer of phones and TVs the kind of premium global peers can only dream of

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India’s plan to be a global electronics-repair hub is ready, but Indian firms aren’t

With a pilot project launched in May, India wants to see if it can repair electronics for the world. Regulations are also in place. But companies must align their services

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Once a textile hub, Vietnam woos high-tech firms pushing former allies to new frontiers

Known as a global hub for labour-intensive textile manufacturing, Vietnam is now closing its doors on many companies to attract more high-tech foreign-investment projects. For giants like Texhong, this creates opportunity elsewhere

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Vocal for local: $2.7bn Zetwerk goes from marketplace to manufacturer

With a 6X jump in revenue, the Sequoia-backed startup is riding India’s localisation efforts by setting up its own factory for wearables and acquiring companies in defence and oil and gas

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Not open and shut: India’s gigafactory ambitions have three doors to get through

The Indian government is on the cusp of announcing an ambitious plan to put India firmly on the global gigafactory map by 2024. But lacking key raw material, tech, and equipment, India will struggle to climb the ranks of Asia’s most powerful economies

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Morbi’s race against time

As collective reliance on traditional timepieces wanes, Morbi, the town that birthed India's unorganised clock industry, is swallowing its pride and morphing into India's ceramics hub

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Apple needs India. Does India want Apple?

With its China market share falling, Apple is majorly upping its focus on India. But success won’t be easy

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