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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Air India sale slow to take off

Terms imposed by the government prove to be a roadblock

5 Questions that stumped Zuckerberg

Fiscal deficit glide path under threat?

Kill Bill: Five major chemical attacks

Barbaric acts since the past century that preceded Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's assault on his citizens early April

Why the world's better than you (probably) think

A stormy affair at Axis Bank

Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma's exit has been as stormy as her entry. It also signals a strong message by the RBI to the banking industry

MapmyIndia 2.0: Battling for supremacy

Indian online navigation system is changing tack and focusing on the consumer to beat Google at its own game

Thumby Aviation: A leap of mobility

With its city-to-airport helicopter shuttle service in Bengaluru, the startup is giving a new meaning to taxi hailing

Saket Modi: Hacking for the greater good

With Lucideus Labs, he is securing the IT networks of companies, ring-fencing their data and weeding out threats

Gramophone: Farm doctors at your service

The Indore-based startup is leveraging technology to make farming more predictable and profitable for farmers in Madhya Pradesh

Harshwardhansinh Zala: Drone maker at 15

The teenager has developed a drone that detects and detonates landmines. His EAGLE A7 is among the many Indian innovations grabbing global attention

Reverse innovation: Made in India, for the world

Multinational giants like GE, Siemens and Bosch are mastering reverse engineering to take made-for-India products global

Indian companies must capture value: Rishikesha T Krishnan

Copying the rest of the world won't work, India needs its own innovations to prosper, says the director of IIM-Indore and author of From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation

Gush of health science at IISc

IISc has also become a cradle of sorts for health care startups

Ideas in full bloom at AIIMS

The School of International Biodesign at AIIMS believes in the philosophy that innovation must not be left to chance, but to design

The frugal innovators at IIT-Bombay

Housed in a small shed at IIT-B, the Biomedical Engineering and Technology (incubation) Centre, or BETiC, is nurturing medtech innovators to create low cost, yet high quality medical devices

There are two kinds of academia: Ashok Jhunjhunwala

The IIT-Madras veteran says that most academia, happy so far to not go beyond lab demos, are slowly warming up to industry tie-ups

Digibank: Riding the digital wave

India's first fully digital bank, DBS India, continues to innovate, both with technology and products

We need to accept failure to progress: Samuel West

The founder of Sweden's Museum of Failure on highlighting the ideas that didn't make it and the merits of seeing the big boys fail

Biotech's unlikely hero: The government

The department of biotechnology has funded and supported critical research and startups, while engaging with private industry

Most innovations are scouted by volunteers: Anil K Gupta

The founder of Honey Bee Network talks about supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations

Ideas Inc: How India fares on the innovation index

The country lags behind compared with other nations

IIT-Madras: Indian Institute of Innovation

With incubators for deep tech startups, funding for students and support for corporate R&D, the institute is fostering an entire ecosystem of cutting-edge ideas

Health care innovations: Designed to save lives

From infant warmers to contraceptive insertion devices, design firms are improving health care delivery with affordable, portable innovations

For these wonder kids, the sky is not the limit

The young minds behind KalamSat, the smallest satellite ever built, are not bound by the earth's orbit

Get the idea: India, a land of innovations

Besides being home to a tribe of inventive startups, India is now also a reverse-innovation base for MNCs like GE

Book review: Master Opportunity and Make it Big

Lessons from marquee businessmen

Sculpted pen and stylish timepieces

A pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious that money can buy

Theatre festivals: A nascent stage

They play a crucial role in the ecosystem, but are still a work-in-progress in India

Reinventing the rosogolla

Bengali sweetmakers are heralding a new wave of innovation with global flavours and favourites

Weavers of wellness: Wearing ayurveda

The handloom weavers of Balaramapuram near Thiruvananthapuram have given a fresh lease of life to the ancient science of ayurvastra—a branch of ayurveda. In ayurvastra, yarn or fabric is treated with dyes prepared from over 1,200 herbs, like holy basil and turmeric. Some of these herbs grow wild around the brick building, out of which functions the Handloom Weavers Development Society. Ayurvastra garments are said to aid in the treatment of skin infections, diabetes and hypertension. International design houses like Lecoanet Hemant source fabric from the society.