🇮🇳 India Episodes

This week, shares of Dilip Buildcon hit new highs (in over two years) after the company announced that it bagged projects worth Rs. 2,200 crores. The rally went into overdrive soon after the management vouched to double its revenues in five years. So considering there have been so many developments, we thought we could review the company’s journey so far.

In today's episode we talk about Haryana's decision to reserve jobs for locals in the private sector.

The US government borrows a lot of money. Currently, they owe roughly $29 trillion—roughly 100% of their GDP.  And a big chunk of this—Almost $7 trillion comes from other foreign countries. But here’s the interesting bit. Even India features on this list and as it stands, the US owes us about $216 Billion. So the question is simple — Why are the likes of India lending money to the US and why isn’t anybody talking about it?

In today's episode, we talk about the blue economy policy and see how the country could benefit from oceans.

A few days back Mike Winkelmann (who goes by the name of Beeple online) sold multiple editions of three digital artworks and 21 unique pieces at prices well above $100,000. All in all, he raked in a cool $3.5 million over a single weekend by selling what most people call crypto-art. So in today's episode, we take a quick look at the changing landscape of art and culture and see where crypto art fits in.

Two days ago Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced that it was opening two new mobile manufacturing plants in India after partnering with BYD and DBG India. And if you don’t know who they are, here’s an excerpt from an article in Tech Crunch to help you out — “BYD is China’s largest electric carmaker with a long history of making electronics parts, while DBG has been a major supplier to Chinese telecom firms including Huawei.” Both vendors will be manufacturing in India. And it seems as if Chinese smartphone makers are increasingly looking to source and produce parts locally. But the real questions still remain — “What are we really making in India and how’s the progress been so far?”

We talk of some absurd news from the week gone by from Aryvarta. This week, we talk of the Antilla letter, Bhagwat and Biplab's grand Akhand Bharat plans and Kangana's love for physics and constants.

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', host Anupam Gupta is in conversation with Jayanth Nanjappa, Investment Strategist at 90-10 Financial Planners Pvt Ltd. & Co-Founder of 'The Econormist Podcast'. Anupam and Jayanth talk about the future of

In today's episode, we talk about Jet Airways, a potential revival for the company and what may lie ahead for the beleaguered airline.

In today's episode, we talk about the great copper bull run.

In today's episode, we talk about how the UK Supreme court might fundamentally change the way the likes of Uber works.

In today's episode we talk about the Cairn arbitration award that's making a lot of people nervous.

In this episode of the BJPod, we discuss the absurd events of the week gone by -- the pinnacle of Indian innovation Koo, the legend of Dr.D.D.Who and the spilling over of New India to Indian cricket.

In today's episode, we talk about the ambitious plan to stream data using satellites.

In this week's episode of 'Paisa Vaisa', host Anupam Gupta is in conversation with Erik Hon, Managing Director of iFAST Financial India Pvt Ltd. iFAST Corporation is one of Asia's largest wealth management fintech platform.

In today's Finhots Special, we tell you why there was an urgent need to revamp our policy on education. If you want to read the first part of this story, you can read it here.

Tata Consumer Products Ltd. — It’s one of those companies that’s making a lot of noise and since so many of you have asked us to talk about it, we thought we could review their journey so far.

Many people have asked us to cover this story. And honestly, we aren’t looking forward to this story one bit. Because there’s nothing new happening right now. We knew all this 2 months ago. And we know pretty much the same things now. Global crude oil prices are increasing, the taxes are crippling us and the government has no recourse. That’s the story. But if you still want the long version, here goes…

A few months back, Citibank accidentally transferred nearly $900 million dollars to a group of lenders. And now, a New York Court has ruled that the lenders are under no obligation to return the money. So in today's episode, we discuss the greatest blunder of 2020.

Companies are now ignoring the traditional IPO route and opting to go public via SPACs. Star investors like Chamath Palihapitiya are batting for SPACs. News media has been covering SPACs rather incessantly for the past few months. And we know it’s time we joined in on the bandwagon. So in today’s episode, we will finally cover SPACs and more.