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  • How to ‘manufacture’ an Ivy League applicant

    October 29, 2026 · 14 min

    Getting 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 kids are 14. In this episode, host Rachel Varghese reads out…

  • JioHotstar’s real overseas rival is a $10 per month pirate box

    October 28, 2026 · 25 min

    JioStar 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. But frustrated by geolocked content and a lack of…

  • India's instant home help boom has a pricing problem

    October 27, 2026 · 11 min

    Investors 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 door in under 10 minutes, at prices cheaper than a coffee…

  • Without a UPI, Africa pays a toll on cash. Airtel Money collects it

    October 26, 2026 · 11 min

    Airtel 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 model. Depositing cash is free. Customers pay mainly when they…

  • Ajio wants to course-correct, but Reliance Retail’s shadow looms large

    October 25, 2026 · 12 min

    Reliance 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 Wednesday. But the Ambani empire is bigger than just Jio, and not…

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  • Dogs have a nose for cancer. An Indian startup is betting on them

    October 22, 2026 · 14 min

    Less 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 trains dogs to sniff out cancer early, runs their responses…

  • India’s largest financial-sector FDI is coming. But what does the public get?

    October 21, 2026 · 11 min

    On 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 financial sector. But IDBI was rescued with public money…

  • Why your Diwali shopping is more important than MDR on UPI

    October 20, 2026 · 13 min

    Around 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 payments above 2,000 rupees, which was due to start on October…

  • After making a fortune at the dock, Adani's next bet is a fleet of 100 ships going offshore

    October 19, 2026 · 9 min

    In 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 Sicily. It was no accident. India’s largest private port…

  • Air India needs saving. Singapore Airlines is playing saviour

    October 18, 2026 · 14 min

    Air 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 25%, is inclined to put in more cash, but in return, it wants…

  • What happens when you put Indian business on a 2x2?

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    In 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 patterns connecting them.  From duopolies under attack and…

  • India’s food inflation has layers. The onion is only the first

    October 14, 2026 · 10 min

    On 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 in Nashik wore garlands of onions and tried to block the…

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About the show

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.