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Indian leaders are moving with confidence and urgency to integrate AI across their organisations, with 93% of those surveyed intending to use AI agents to extend workforce capabilities over the next 12-18 months, according to Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index.Outlining the country-specific findings from the index, Microsoft said that India’s most forward-looking organisations—what the company calls “frontier firms”—are leading the charge in reimagining work.”These firms are not just adopting AI; they’re redesigning operations around human-agent collaboration,” the company said in a release.With 59% of leaders already using AI agents to automate work-streams or business processes across entire teams, the shift…

With the startup landscape evolving rapidly, founders today need more than just funding and product-market fit – they need clarity of voice and presence. DBS Bank India, in partnership with YourStory, hosted the fourth edition of DBS BusinessClass foundED in Bengaluru, focusing on the role of personal branding in leadership and sparking real conversations around visibility, credibility, and long-term influence. The event brought together a mix of early- and growth-stage entrepreneurs alongside seasoned investors.Building trustKicking off the evening was a fireside chat titled ‘Founder to Flagbearer: Own Your Narrative’ with Ahana Gautam, Founder and CEO of Open Secret. Gautam shared…

Billionaire Elon Musk-led Starlink will use Aadhaar authentication for customer verification in the country before onboarding them, an official statement said on Wednesday.The government has given approval to Starlink to start providing satellite-based broadband services in the country.”The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has onboarded satellite-based internet provider Starlink Satellite Communication Pvt Ltd. Starlink will use Aadhaar Authentication for customer verification, which will make the entire process smooth, secure and very easy,” the statement said.Starlink can onboard around 20 lakh customers in India at present capacity, according to an official estimate.”Starlink’s onboarding with Aadhaar authentication signifies a powerful synergy:…

Are you nearing retirement age?Career resources platform Resume Genius released a new report this week, the 10 Best Jobs for Older People in 2025, which reveals the 10 best-paying jobs for adults aged 55 and older, based on high salaries, low physical labor demands, and high job growth.The company used data from the BLS’s Labor Force Statistics Current Population Survey, O*NET Online, and the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook to create the report using several parameters, including removing jobs with salaries lower than $49,500 and roles that require education higher than a Bachelor’s degree. The occupations listed also had to have…

A crucial meeting of the GoM of state finance ministers on GST rate rationalisation began on Thursday as they started deliberation on the Centre’s proposal to reduce tax slabs to 5 and 18%.The 6-member Group of Ministers (GoM) on rate rationalisation is chaired by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary.The other members are Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, Rajasthan Health Minister Gajendra Singh, West Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda and Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal.The Centre has proposed reforms in GST by reducing the number of slabs under Goods and Services…

The Payments Council of India (PCI) has reappointed Vishwas Patel, Managing Director of Infibeam Avenues Ltd as chairperson for the 2025–27 term. The industry body also named MN Srinivasu, Co-founder and Director of BillDesk, and Nalin Bansal, Chief of Corporate Fintech Relationships & Key Initiatives at National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), as co-chairpersons.“India’s digital payments industry is entering a decisive phase where the focus will shift from scale to sustainable value creation,” Patel said in a statement. “Our collective effort must ensure that payments remain not only seamless, but also a driver of economic growth and financial empowerment for…

As Brandon Bailey, founder and CEO of TutorD, built his career in software engineering, he came face-to-face with the “lack of diversity and inclusion” in tech — and he wanted to do something about it.Image Credit: Courtesy of TutorD. Brandon Bailey. Bailey worked at a consultancy in Chicago at the time, and as co-lead for one of the firm’s employee resource groups, he partnered with a couple of community-based organizations. One partnership was with a middle school in Bronzeville.The school was located about 15 minutes from Bailey’s home, but the students “had a totally different lived experience,” the founder recalls.…

A tough-to-get-into Big Four firm is completely changing its hiring process — by making it more difficult for recent graduates to land entry-level positions.PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the Big Four accounting and auditing firms offering services in tax, audit, and consulting, told Business Insider on Thursday that it was “decreasing” its campus hiring targets.BI saw an internal slideshow stating that the firm wanted to cut entry-level hiring by one-third in the U.S. over the next three years. PwC’s hiring goals for junior-level associates dropped from 3,242 employees in the fiscal year ending in June to a projected 2,197 associates in…

The markets regulator, SEBI, may introduce a regulated platform where pre-IPO (initial public offering) companies can trade after making certain disclosures, its chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Thursday.This initiative would be on a pilot basis, he said.Speaking at an event organised by FICCI, Pandey said pre-listing information is often not enough for investors to make an investment decision.He hinted at an initiative “on a pilot basis for a regulated venue where pre-IPO companies can choose to trade subject to certain disclosures.”This initiative is expected to eliminate unnecessary processes and pain points that cause avoidable friction in fundraising, disclosures and…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you ask a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to solve your customers’ pain points, it will give you an answer based on the easiest-to-verify information. That often includes published articles, consistent founder commentaries, structured product pages and other third-party references. If those answers do not include your brand, these learning models default to featuring your competitors.That’s the practical risk facing every founder today. As more work is automated and teams are expected to deliver more with less, clarity and credibility become the real leverage. Thought leadership is…