As part of the businessline podcast – year-ender series, Sandeep Chordia, Chief Operating Officer of Kotak Securities, outlines SEBI’s priorities in the capital markets. The discussion looks at enforcement trends, settlement cycles, derivatives regulation, SME listings, and the regulator’s outlook for the year ahead.

Gold and silver hogged the limelight in 2025, hitting record highs amid global economic slowdown, geopolitical tensions, and currency fluctuations.

In this episode of the Year-end podcast on commodities, Subramani Ra Mancombu speaks with Anindya Banerjee, Head of Currency and Commodity Research at Kotak Securities, to unpack the reasons behind this surge and explore what 2026 holds for precious metals. Will silver outshine gold again?

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In this year-end special, businessline’s Chitra Narayanan speaks with Dheeraj Sinha, Group CEO , FCB India (Now McCann), on the dramatic shifts reshaping advertising, from fragmented media and fading attention to influencer fatigue, consolidation, and changing ideas of creativity as 2026 nears. 

Sinha unpacks why big-budget campaigns struggle to stand out, what brands misunderstand about a hyper-connected yet lonely Gen Z, and how the industry is moving through a phase of “storming, forming and norming” toward its next chapter. 

(Host: Chitra Narayanan, Producer: Prethicshaa Gurumoorthy) 

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India’s oil and gas sector saw slower consumption growth, increased reliance on imported crude, pressure on gas infrastructure returns, and policy moves like the unified gas tariff in 2025. As part of the BusinessLine Podcast – Year-Ender Series, Rishi Ranjan Kala speaks to Prashant Vasisht, ICRA Vice President & Co-Group Head (Corporate Ratings) on sectoral challenges, recent achievements, and the road ahead for 2026.

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2025 has been a turning point for AI and tech policy in India. In this year end podcast, businessline's Sindhu Hariharan speaks with Suraj Amonkar, Chief AI Research & Platforms Officer, Fractal Analytics, about how the IndiaAI Mission has accelerated the ecosystem — from GPU access and sovereign model development to AI governance and the rollout of the DPDP Act.

Suraj reflects on why this year marks an inflection point for AI in India, and how Fractal has built on years of deep research to advance foundation models, reasoning systems, diffusion models and agentic AI. He also discusses the company’s growing presence at top global AI conferences, its open-source work — including the Fathom model series and Kaleido diffusion models.

The conversation looks ahead to 2026, examining how the IndiaAI Mission could enable larger, more ambitious models and what that means for India’s role in global AI research and deployment.

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In this episode of the BL year-end podcast on clean tech, Businessline’s M Ramesh speaks to Disha Agarwal, senior programme lead at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), and Dr Vaibhav Chaturvedi, senior fellow at CEEW, on India’s climate and energy story in 2025. They discuss record renewable energy additions, falling costs, and the growing role of battery storage, alongside persistent challenges related to land, grids, and transmission. The conversation also examines India’s national adaptation plan, the development of domestic compliance carbon markets, and the implications of Europe’s carbon border tax for Indian firms, providing a grounded assessment of India’s climate action and its future direction. Here’s what they had to say.