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To make sense of the week’s hottest stories in business, economy, politics and markets, journalists from the Economic Times chat with reporters and industry leaders in this thrice-weekly (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) podcast.
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India Opens the Door to China Investments…a Little
Five years after slamming the door on Chinese investments, India has quietly amended Press Note 3. With FDI stagnating, institutional investors pullin...
SPRs to LPG: How Far Will History’s Biggest Oil Shock Reverberate?
A once-in-a-generation oil shock is unfolding. Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with Amrita Sen, Founder of Energy Aspects, Bob McNally, founder of Rapid...
Banned But Booming: How The Money Gaming Crackdown Created an Offshore Goldmine
Despite a sweeping government crackdown, India's offshore real money gaming industry is not just surviving, it's booming. Offshore platforms like Pari...
Women Bank Better, Still Remain a $700 Billion Blind Spot
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, joins host Anirban Chowdhury to explore five decades of progress and persistent ga...
Wendy Hall: One Woman's Voice in a Room Full of AI Tech Bros
She shares rooms and stages with the gods of AI...and is often the only woman there. Dame Wendy Hall, pioneering computer scientist and co-founder of...
What the Iran War Means for Indians’ Money, Jobs and Homes in the UAE
Dubai's "safe haven" image took a direct hit this week as missile debris fell near the Burj Al Arab and Palm Jumeirah following military escalations i...
US–Israel vs Iran: The War That Could Ignite the Middle East
From January’s protests in Iran to coordinated US–Israel strikes and widening retaliation, this episode maps how internal unrest morphed into a geopol...
AI Has Entered the Classroom. And Your Child's Mind.
What if AI companions are inserting themselves between children and the very people meant to guide them? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host An...
Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Could Make us Irrelevant, then Extinct
The existential alignment problem sits at the heart of the AI revolution — and the consequences of getting it wrong could be irreversible. What happen...
Arvind Krishna: Cutting Through the AI Noise
In a wide-ranging conversation with host Surabhi Agarwal, IBM's chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna addresses the questions every technology le...
Court Says No. Trump Says Watch This. What Should India Do?
The US Supreme Court just handed Trump a legal defeat and it barely slowed him down. In a landmark ruling, the court struck down tariffs imposed under...
Corner Office Conversation with Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman of Sun Pharma and Glenn Saldanha, Managing Director at Glenmark Pharma
In a candid, unscripted exchange, India’s pharma titans peeled back the mythology of overnight success to reveal a harder truth: conviction compounded...
India AI Impact Summit: Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch on Decentralizing AI Power
Artificial intelligence is concentrating power, profits and infrastructure in the hands of a few. Mistral AI's co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch stands...
India AI Impact Summit: Palo Alto Network's Nikesh Arora on Why Your AI Firewall isn't Ready Yet
As AI agents begin to outnumber humans 80 to one, who's truly accountable when things go wrong? In this episode, Host Suraksha P talks to Palo Alto Ne...
India AI Impact Summit: Vinod Khosla on Why 2047 Could Free Every Indian from Survival Work
What if every Indian had a personal doctor, a PhD agronomist, and a world-class tutor all free, all AI-powered, available tomorrow? Hosts Surabhi Agar...
India AI Impact Summit: Microsoft’s Brad Smith on Sovereignty, Scale and Skills
Can a $17 billion bet prevent India from repeating the Global South's century-long technology lag? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Surabhi...
Anthropic’s India Play
Is Anthropic late to India's AI party—or perfectly timed? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with ET’s Disha Acharya...
AI Impact Summit: Amazon's Bet on India's AI Future
Infrastructure or applications where should India place its AI bets? And does Amazon, with $75 billion committed across data centers, logistics, and c...
A Climate Leader Working on India’s Most Serious Power Problems
Can India become the blueprint for the world's clean energy transition?
In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks wit...
Corner office Conversation with T Krishnakumar, Director of Reliance Consumer Products
In a market long dominated by premium playbooks, Director of Reliance Consumer Products, T Krishnakumar is scripting a different FMCG story. Handpicke...
Explaining the new Income Tax Rules
India's 2026 income tax overhaul marks a pivotal transformation from compliance heavy bureaucracy to trust based governance. The dramatic cut in unexp...
Space as Strategy: America, India, and the New Transnational Frontier
From Sputnik’s shock to Silicon Valley’s surge, the space race has been reborn, this time driven not just by governments, but by agile startups and bo...
The Return to Analog
From twin bell alarm clocks to vinyl records, why are Millennials and Gen Z ditching screens for tactile experiences? In this episode of The Morning B...
Corner Office Conversation with Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Peak XV & Surge
India's AI revolution demands strategic vision beyond enthusiasm. Host Anirban Chowdhury talks to Rajan Anand, Managing Director of Peak XV and Surge...
Indo-US Trade Deal: Strategy or Surrender?
On February 2nd, Trump announced a trade deal with India via a social media post, with no signed agreement, no formal text. Trump says India has commi...
Tamil Nadu 2026: Can Stardom Trump Strategy?
Tamil Nadu's 234-seat assembly election hinges on an unprecedented question: can superstar Vijay's TVK disrupt the established DMK-AIADMK duopoly? Hos...
Why Are Labour Laws Denting Corporate Profits?
India's new labor codes just cost three companies in corporate India over ₹4,373 crore in a single quarter. TCS, Infosys, and HCLTech are reeling from...
Capital Pains: Budget 2026's Loud Silences
No big changes—but does that hide the biggest shifts?
Budget 2026 surprised few with bold moves, yet its quiet continuity may reshape how India...
Fast, Not Furious: DTDC’s Case Against the 10-Minute Delivery Rush
As India’s quick-commerce frenzy collides with labour unrest and tightening economics, the race for ever-faster deliveries is being forced to slow dow...
Why are Music Labels Buying Into Film Companies?
Are music labels about to dictate the terms of Indian cinema? What began as strategic investments—Saregama's ₹325 crore stake in Sanjay Leela Bhansali...
Gold Crosses $5,000, Silver Doubles:What Investors Need to Know
India's precious metals explosion defies gravity as equities stumble. While the Nifty crawls at 10.5% and bleeds 4% this year, gold has rocketed from...
Corner Office Conversation With Prashant Warier, Ankit Modi and Preetham Putha of Qure.ai
Qure.ai is transforming routine medical imaging into early disease detection at unprecedented scale. Processing nearly 1,000 patients per hour across...
ET@Davos: Demis Hassabis on China, Apple and AGI
In this episode of ET@Davos, ET’s Sruthijith KK speaks to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Laureate 2024, on the future of AI. The che...
ET@Davos: Andrew Ng on Why Millions Are Already Unhireable
In this episode, ET's Executive Editor Sruthijith KK sits down with AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, for a critical conversation on I...
What Went Wrong With India's Most Reliable Rocket?
India's most trusted rocket, the PSLV, has experienced something unprecedented: back-to-back failures in May 2025 and January 2026, both involving mys...
Iran On The Edge
Iran's current crisis isn't just another protest cycle, it's a convergence of systemic failures. A decades-old illusion of invincibility crumbled when...
BRICS at the Helm: India’s Moment, and Its Multilateral Test
India assumes the BRICS chair amid profound contradiction. What began as an emerging economies coalition has become an unwieldy 10-nation bloc includi...
ET in the Valley: Apoorva Pandhi, MD at Zetta Venture Partners
Silicon Valley is experiencing its biggest platform shift in decades, but beneath the frenzy lies a brutal correction in progress. An early-stage AI i...
India's Mega QSR Merger
India's quick service restaurant sector witnessed a seismic shift as Devyani International and Sapphire Foods merged to create the country's largest l...
Corner Office Conversation with Girish Tanti, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Suzlon
Suzlon Energy controls a third of India's wind market, but co-founder and vice chairman Girish Tanti isn't celebrating. In this conversation with host...