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Exclusive: Catching up with India's star TT player ahead of the Paris Paralympics
Bhavina Patel has been on crutches since she was diagnosed with polio at one year old. That didn't stop her creating history, by winning India's first silver medal in her category at the Tokyo Paralympics. As she sets her sights on the Paris Paralympics, the table tennis athlete, who is known for her smashes, speaks exclusively to Forbes India. She talks to Naandika Tripathi about the need for government support, mental health issues, and how things have changed for para-athletes, or sportspersons who are differently abled, over the years in India
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Kolkata rape-murder: Can this central law change the lives of doctors?
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appealed to protesting doctors to resume work, in a suo moto hearing on Tuesday. Doctors, however, say they won't let up protests until a Central Protection Act is passed. What is this act, and why is it important? Find out in this explainer
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Budget 2024: Has Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman done enough?
Watch our expert panel decode the Finance Minister's proposals for FY25, as stock markets fall. Joining Forbes India deputy editor Salil Panchal are Rajiv Anand, deputy MD, Axis Bank, and Mousami Nagarsenkar, partner, Deloitte India
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Budget 2024: What do women want?
Forbes India spoke with a range of women who hope that the Union Budget 2024 will pave the way for better credit opportunities, last-mile connectivity, skill development, and reforms that allow women to join (and rejoin) the workforce. Watch what they have to say
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The emotional cost of the NEET scam
Due to a paper leak before the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET exam this year, a scam of a massive scale, which resulted in inflated ranks and a high-cut off score, medical students are worried about not being able to secure a seat in any decent government college. As aspirants await the Supreme Court's decision on ReNEET, the uncertainty surrounding it has left them with no motivation to pursue their dreams or the momentum to study again. Here's their story, straight from India's coaching capital, Kota
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Budget 2024: What do stock market investors want?
The probability of markets falling increases by 80 percent if markets have gone up in the month before the Budget. Interestingly, the stock market has been in the green both before and after a Budget only twice in the past three decades. What do retail investors expect from the Union Budget 2024? Forbes India's Neha Bothra takes you to Dalal Street to find out
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Budget 2024: What do students want?
How important is the Union Budget for college students? How do they rank social welfare vs infrastructure? In part 1 of a series on Budget expectations, Neha Bothra speaks to Gen-Z about what's on their wishlist from the government. The Union Budget 2024-2025 will be announced on July 23
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'I gave everything to politics...but my heart was with cricket': Gautam Gambhir
The frontrunner for the Team India coach position, former cricketer and politician Gautam Gambhir has a freewheeling chat about cricket, leadership and his tryst with politics
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Indians travelling to Sri Lanka can now make payments using UPI. Here's how
On May 15, PhonePe launched cross-border UPI payments in collaboration with Sri Lanka's national payment network, LankaPay. This will enable quick payments without carrying cash or calculating currency conversions. In conversation with Forbes India, Ritesh Pai, CEO of international payments at PhonePe, takes us through this new development, how it will work, PhonePe's success rate in other countries, and more
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'Singed but not burnt': See Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam's art and activism in Mumbai
Shahidul Alam spent 107 days in jail for being a critic of the government; he was Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2018. In a new solo exhibition, his work is being showcased at the Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai, until May 22. Curator Ina Puri gives Forbes India a walk-through
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The inner workings of Asia's largest data centre, in Navi Mumbai
Forbes India got a chance to take a tour of Yotta's datacenter park in Navi Mumbai, which currently has 7,200 server racks powered by almost 60 megawatts of power. In this video, co-founder Sunil Gupta, who is also known as the Data Centre Man of India, takes us through the use cases of these AI chips, the current data centre boom, the importance of data localization, and much more