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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Gone are the days of ramshackle buses and spotty schedules. Startups now offer a viable alternative to rail and air travel. But the real test lies ahead as they are only getting started.
Picture this. Of the 260-odd buses available between Delhi and Dehradun—a distance spanning 290 km—on a travel aggregator’s platform, nearly 85% are air-conditioned and 46% have sleeper berth options. For the 530-km-long journey between Delhi and Lucknow, there are some 450 buses available, of which 68% are air-conditioned and 57% are sleepers. On the nearly 900-km Pune-Bengaluru route, nearly all buses are air-conditioned and sleepers.
In 2024-25, more than 72,000 new intercity bus routes were added in India and around 6,400 new buses launched to create an additional 265,000 daily seats, according to redBus’s India BusTrack report. Between January …
The contrasting approaches are driven by two very different strategies. One wants to capture more markets; the other is focused on discipline and profits.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
