After being recognised as the e4m Influencer of the Year 2023, Inshorts Co-founder and CEO Deepit Purkayastha said, "Expect more innovations from us in 2025." He added, "We will continue testing and refining products, focusing on staying relevant in a rapidly evolving digital landscape." "It’s about constant experimentation," he further said.

After SolarSquare raised $40 million in its Series B funding round, Lightspeed Venture Partners' Rahul Taneja said the solar installation startup has emerged as the "most trusted residential solar brand in India". "We love...passion with which co-founders have built the brand, product and full stack experience," Taneja added. Notably, Taneja's firm led the startup's funding round.

Solar installation startup SolarSquare raised $40 million (over ₹330 crore) in its Series B funding round, making it largest venture capital raise in Indian solar space. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, which also saw participation from existing investor Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath’s Rainmatter. Capital raised will expand startup's presence from 20 to 50 cities in next two years.

The country's retail inflation, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), eased to 5.48% in November, marking a decrease from a 14-month high of 6.21% retail inflation rate in October. Meanwhile, the food inflation had eased to 9% in November compared with 10.9% in the previous month. Consumer prices have remained above 5% for a third consecutive month.

India's corporate sector delivered low single-digit income growth despite 4X growth in profits over last four years, a report prepared for government by FICCI and Quess Corp found. Compounded annual wage growth rate across six sectors between 2019 and 2023 ranged from 0.8% to 5.4%. Notably, retail inflation from 2019-20 till 2023-24 rose 4.8%, 6.2%, 5.5%, 6.7% and 5.4%, respectively.

Aakash Chaurasia in Madhya Pradesh uses sustainable farming technique of multilayer farming, which maximises the amount of land that is available, uses drip irrigation to save water, and applies organic manure to increase soil fertility. Chaurasia advocates the use of cow dung manure that increases production and fills the soil with organic carbon.

The ₹8,000-crore IPO of Vishal Mega Mart was fully subscribed on the second day of the share sale on Thursday. The company's maiden share sale received bids for 80.25 crore shares against 75.67 crore shares on offer, as per NSE data at 2:15 pm, Moneycontrol reported. The IPO with a share price range of ₹74-78 apiece closes on December 13.

Confusion has erupted over the distribution of the assets of late fashion designer Rohit Bal, who passed away at 63 last month. Bal's close friend and ex-model Lalit Tehlan claims he has Bal's will which says a "major chunk" of Bal's assets will go to him. However, Bal's brother Rajiv Bal claims their family also has a separate will.

India is poised to surpass the position of the world's third-largest economy by 2030, with its gross domestic product (GDP) expected to expand to $6.5-9 trillion, said Arvind Panagariya, the chairman of the 16th Finance Commission of India, on Thursday. "The fundamentals of the economy are absolutely solid. So, I expect us to return to at least about 7% economic growth," he added.

India's potential GDP growth is in the range of 6.5-7 per cent and the country should be able to achieve it on the back of things that done already in the last 10 years, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Monday. The Economic Survey projected India's GDP to grow at 6.5-7 per cent in 2024-25, down from a high of 8.2 per cent in the preceding financial year.