Daybreak

BharOS is being launched at a time when the tech giant Google is under the government's scrutiny for adopting anti-competitive practices as the market leader in India.

But this is not the first time India is trying to develop an indigenous operating system, both for mobile and computer devices. 

The failure of the OS projects in the past may hold some important lessons for anyone making a future attempt.

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The edtech industry in India is facing a host of challenges from all directions, from a decline in funding to the emergence of formidable competition.

One that stands out, however, is the allegation of mis-selling and fraudulent loans. According to the Advertising Standards Council of India, 33% of the complaints filed with it in FY21-22 were related to the education sector. 

And one of the reasons for this is the overly aggressive sales playbook. Byju's mastered it so successfully that many of its its peers followed suit.

But now with the government expressing concerns over these allegations, edtechs including Byju's need to rethink their sales pitch. 

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Despite winning the 'pharmacy of the world,' two out of five cancer patients in India have to borrow money and sell their assets to get treatment. 

The price of many innovative patented oncology drugs in India are as high as in developed countries making them inaccessible for a large section of patients.

Where are Indian cancer patients turning to for cheaper cancer medicines?

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Unclaimed funds at the government-run Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) are  likely to have risen to Rs 50,000 crore ($6 billion) by now. 

But for an average investor, the settlement process is almost designed to discourage investors from claiming what's theirs.

Now, after the Supreme Court took notice post the filing of a petition, the IEPF Authority has asked all stakeholders for suggestions to make the entire process more efficient.

Tune in to find out why an average Indian investor finds it so difficult to recover their money from the IEPF.

For Mahindra Finance, the RBI directive against it couldn't have come at a worse time. 

The rural financier had barely recovered from the effects of the lockdown since it had higher bad loans than its rivals. Add to that the dent on its reputation.

How did the NBFC deal with the RBI's restriction on using third party agents for repossession? 

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With the funding crunch and slow growth, edtechs like Unacademy and Vedantu are giving teachers monthly targets to sell online courses to students.

Not meeting sales targets is reason enough for edtechs to fire teachers as part of cost-cutting exercises. 

Tune in to find out how teachers are being forced to become the new sales force in some edtech companies.

In May 2020, McDonald's decided to launch the McSpicy Fried Chicken in the southern states of India where majority of the population consumes meat.

Two year later, the shares of McDonald’s India franchisee, Westlife Foodworld, shot up by 40%.

Tune in to find out how fried chicken was one of the key drivers behind the fast-food chain becoming a the top-choice among public-market investors.

Last year, the CCI found Google guilty in two of the four antitrust cases against the tech giant. 

In one of the cases that involves Google's dominance in the Android OS market, the CCI has asked it to pay a fine of $161 million dollars.

Google approached the NCLAT contesting CCI's order, asking the tribunal to squash it but NCLAT declined. Now, Google has moved the country's top court.

What is the Android OS case all about?

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PVR, the country’s largest multiplex chain, made up for the pandemic-induced revenue loss by raising the prices of tickets and food and beverages.

But it saw its occupancy fall to the lowest levels in a decade even after movie theatres reopened at full capacity.

What is keeping India's theatres empty?

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ZestMoney, the BNPL platform, is in the final stages of being acquired by online-payments giant PhonePe. 

But ZestMoney has been unable to get enough scale online. Even after going offline, it failed to manage risks. It saw its losses shoot up by 3X in the last financial year.

PhonePe, meanwhile, has ambitions to expand by venturing into lending.

Can ZestMoney's loss be PhonePe's gain?

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