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From Capri Sports’ Jinisha Sharma's long-term plan to build a multi-sport ecosystem for women to Juspay’s $1.2 billion valuation after fresh funding, Yourstory brings you today’s headlines across sectors.Featured storiesUP Warriorz is just the beginning of Jinisha Sharma’s bigger play in women’s sportJinisha Sharma, Director of Capri Sports, which owns the UP Warriorz Women’s Premier League franchise. She leads the UP Warriorz franchise with the larger vision of investing in women’s cricket and creating purpose-led impact through sport. Backed by Capri Global Capital, she has led investments across cricket, kabaddi, and kho-kho, with a strong focus on grassroots development.Jinisha says the decision to back a WPL team with roots in Uttar Pradesh was deliberate, combining long-term commercial potential with social impact. She believes women’s sport in India is at an inflection point, with growing brand interest and digital-first sponsorships, and sees women’s football as the next major growth opportunity. Read more.Indian VCs call for policies to encourage deeper pools of domestic capital ahead of Union BudgetIndia—the third-largest startup ecosystem—stands on the shoulders of venture capital (VC) firms that make bold investments and back passionate founders to ring in the next startup success story. While the country has been reeling from a funding winter,…  ​Read More​YourStory RSS Feed

If the shoe fits, wear it. But if it doesn’t, don’t squeeze into it. And that’s what the founder of…

StartupTalky presents Recap'25, a series of exclusive interviews where we connect with founders and industry leaders to reflect on their journey in 2025 and...

India’s skies are crowded, but control is not. India’s airports are expanding, passenger numbers are rising, and demand for air travel continues to grow. On the surface, the aviation sector looks vibrant and competitive. But beneath that growth lies a striking reality.More than 90% of India’s domestic air travel is controlled by just two airline groups: IndiGo and the Air India Group. Every other airline combined operates at the margins.This is not the first time India’s aviation market has ended up here. The pattern has repeated itself for decades. New airlines launch with ambition, price wars follow, external shocks hit, weaker players collapse, and the survivors absorb routes, slots, and customers. What looks like repeated failure is actually the market finding its equilibrium.The numbers behind the duopolyIndia does not officially call this a monopoly. Functionally, however, it operates as a near duopoly. IndiGo controls roughly 64 to 65% of the domestic market. Air India Group holds around 26 to 27%. All other airlines combined account for less than 10%. Carriers like Akasa Air, SpiceJet, and regional airlines continue to operate, but they remain structurally constrained. The real question is not how this happened. The real question is why aviation in…  ​Read More​YourStory RSS Feed

Swati Verma runs Shivoham Yogshala in Moradabad district, a small yoga studio she set up after nearly a decade of personal practice. Yoga, she says, was never just a fitness routine for her but a gradual shift in how she understood health, discipline, and daily life. Before opening the studio, Verma had been practising yoga for around 10 years and had experienced significant personal changes through it, which eventually led her to consider turning that practice into a livelihood.‘'Shivoham Yogshala’' offers guided yoga sessions focused on breathing, posture, and relaxation to help participants build physical stability, also addressing mental strain. Verma explains that the studio is meant to provide a quiet space away from the fast pace of the city, where people can spend time working on their bodies and attention without pressure or competition.Training, hesitation, and the decision to startAlthough Verma had been practising yoga for years, she felt that running a centre required deeper training and clarity. She travelled to Rishikesh and explored multiple schools before completing formal training that helped her understand the foundational principles of yoga beyond routines and poses. That process, she says, gave her confidence in how to teach and structure sessions.The idea of starting a…  ​Read More​YourStory RSS Feed

Zoho, the Chennai-headquartered global Software as a Service (SaaS) company, on Friday launched its enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology platform, with a promise that it would be cost-effective and less cumbersome to implement.Further, Zoho’s ERP platform will see part of its product development and other activities driven out of Kumbakonam—a town located about 300 kms from the company’s headquarters, it said in a statement.Zoho's ERP is a made-in-India solution and will help businesses scale without rigid architecture or high costs typically associated with legacy ERP platforms. It would compete with global ERP companies such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft.Zoho CEO Shailesh DaveyAlso ReadZoho’s Arattai app goes viral with 100X increase in downloads“With Zoho ERP, we have built a powerful, compliance-ready platform that serves as a strong homegrown alternative to global ERP solutions. This product, requiring deeptech R&D, has been developed with the support of talent from Kumbakonam, and its future growth will also be driven from here. We have replicated our Tenkasi model successfully here,” said Shailesh Davey, CEO of Zoho.The SaaS major claimed that its low-code and no-code capabilities allow for easier implementation, support customisation without third-party dependencies, reducing complexity and total cost of ownership. This is in contrast…  ​Read More​YourStory RSS Feed

Zeba Rani, a resident of Shamsabad in Agra district, grew up around the routines of footwear work. Her father has spent about 25 years in the shoe line, moving between factory production and trading, and those daily processes formed the backdrop of her childhood. She watched cutting, fitting, finishing and packing not as a business plan but as regular work, learning informally how footwear moved from raw leather to a finished product.That familiarity became more structured when she later joined an ODOP centre, where she received training focused on leather and shoe manufacturing. There, she learned about different types of leather, the sequence of manufacturing steps, the machines required at each stage, and how those machines were operated and maintained. The training gave direction to what had earlier been scattered observations, and it helped her understand what would be required to run a unit independently.Turning experience into a unitAfter the training, Rani began considering starting something of her own. The decision was not abrupt. Her father’s existing business provided practical support and guidance, and she already had clarity on machinery, sourcing and basic production planning. Financial support, however, was necessary to move beyond small trading activity into manufacturing.She applied for assistance under the Mukhyamantri…  ​Read More​YourStory RSS Feed

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In connection with Yes Bank's 2022 share sale, SEBI has accused current and former officials at PwC and EY's Indian divisions of violating insider...