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The Ken

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Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful.Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by some of India’s most experienced and talented business journalists.

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Episodes (701)

In India’s IPO market, this small city in Gujarat calls the shots. Just look at...

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Can the designer who made your mobile phone addictive also make you use your pho...

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Nov 3, 20249:43pending

Daybreak Special: What do women really want? A 'f*** off fund'

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Oct 31, 202436:40pending

Why Apple and HDFC Bank decided to break up their exclusive relationship

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Oct 30, 20249:15pending

Rapido is taking on the Ola-Uber duopoly by being everything they are not

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Oct 29, 202412:49pending

From luxury cars to lunch with celebs — wealth managers are going all out to woo...

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Oct 28, 202411:18pending

Is Zomato declaring war in the quick commerce space?

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Oct 28, 20249:33pending

Successful women are freezing their eggs. And that’s on men

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Truecaller beat Trai to the punch with spam-call fix

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Oct 24, 202425:28pending

How NRI quota became the golden ticket to med school for rich Indians

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Why the RBI's two-year-old Innovation Hub is intimidating fintechs

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Oct 22, 202411:54pending

What makes Cred an 'unusual' fintech?

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Oct 21, 20249:56pending

You don't need a prescription to buy an i-pill. What if that changed?

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Theobroma's dilemma: how to continue scaling while staying true to the 'artisana...

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Oct 16, 202420:48pending

Are two struggling denim brands enough to build a poor man's Reliance brands?

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Oct 15, 202412:12pending

Zomato is on a collision course with India's largest ticketing platform — Bookmy...

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Oct 14, 202411:45pending

Why the PM's internship scheme is stressing out corporate India

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Oct 14, 202410:09pending

Is turning into a B-school the natural next step for liberal arts pioneer Ashoka...

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Oct 10, 202421:54pending

Reliance wants to combine Hotstar and JioCinema into one mega app. Is it really...

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Oct 10, 202424:03pending

Guess who is helping the government keep drug prices in check

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Oct 8, 202412:20pending

Why Doon School and Mayo College are no longer the obvious choices for India's e...

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Oct 7, 20249:47pending

All you need to know about India's most-hyped GenAI company

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Oct 7, 202411:49pending

Can cheap seats come with extra legroom? We ask the man behind India’s first bud...

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Oct 4, 202430:10pending

India's largest non-bank is a prisoner of its own growth

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Oct 3, 202412:00pending

How Birkenstocks went from being a clunky, orthopaedic sandal to the new it-shoe

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Oct 2, 202411:12pending

Meet the unlikely winners of India's quick commerce boom. Local brokers.

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Sep 30, 202412:19pending

Why half of India's young doctors are drowning in debt

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Sep 29, 202412:44pending

Daybreak News Wrap: Musk vs Brazil; why we can't trust online news; and Meta's c...

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Sep 27, 202431:20pending

Why replicating China's iPhone city model in India is a short-term fix for a lon...

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Sep 26, 202425:10pending

Is Flipkart bringing a knife to the fintech gun fight with Super.money?

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Sep 24, 202411:03pending

You can buy an EV in China. But can you afford to insure it?

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Sep 23, 202410:49pending

Inside Flipkart: a high-pressure workplace thanks to its IPO dreams. And Walmart

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Sep 23, 202410:21pending

How a cab driver from Hyderabad became the face of India’s 8 million gig workers

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Sep 19, 202426:06pending

A new Indian startup is ditching the sportswear playbook to score a Puma-sized w...

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Sep 18, 202427:42pending

Bajaj Finserv wanted to make waves in healthcare. So, it bought a wobbly ship.

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Sep 18, 202413:22pending

Subway is slowly doing away with what makes it Subway. Choice.

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Sep 16, 202413:01pending

Why the Big Billion Days sale can make or break Flipkart's quick-commerce dreams

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Sep 16, 202410:59pending

What happens when you sell education like shampoo? Byju's knows

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Sep 12, 202442:25pending

Sky-high real estate prices in Delhi NCR are making even the well-off feel broke

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Sep 11, 202421:19pending

How do you get JEE aspirants to stay in school? Hire 200 IITians.

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Sep 11, 202412:53pending

What has two wheels, runs on electricity, and is Ola Electric's next big bet?

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Sep 10, 202413:31pending

India's newest unicorn, Rapido, is betting on a subscription model

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Sep 8, 202412:46pending

Red tape and lawsuits: Big tech has a big problem

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Sep 6, 202448:58pending

What happened to Dunzo?

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Sep 4, 202427:37pending

It made perfect sense for Zomato to go down the fintech route. Until it didn’t.

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Sep 4, 20249:14pending

Health fintechs have cracked the 'cashless insurance' dream. How long before the...

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Sep 3, 202410:34pending

How Meesho is making India’s second-biggest logistics player's biggest fear come...

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Sep 1, 202414:08pending

Daybreak Special: Despite what Ola Electric may claim, China is driving the glob...

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Aug 29, 202445:29pending

Are you a good, bad, or an ugly customer? Myntra knows

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Aug 29, 202424:47pending

Why Rentomojo & Furlenco need to refurbish their strategy

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