Astranova Mobility, India’s fastest-growing EV financing and asset-management platform, has announced that its lending subsidiary, NovaFusion Capital, has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). Secured within just 90 days, the licence marks a significant step in Astranova’s evolution towards building a dedicated climate-financing platform. […]
What if an old pair of jeans could stay out of a landfill—and help a woman earn a livelihood? That is the idea driving 21-year-old Maharashtra innovator Yogeeta Kishore, who has spent the past year-and-a-half working to turn denim waste into opportunity. Her initiative, Indiejeanous, transforms discarded denim and textile scraps into lifestyle products while […]
A physics professor himself, and someone who has previously served as Dean of Research and Development, Prof. Rao speaks candidly about the state of research funding in Andhra Pradesh, the effort to decentralise lab access beyond Amaravati, the persistent struggle to fund young and mid-career researchers, and — perhaps most passionately — why he believes the fear surrounding subjects like physics has less to do with the subject itself, and everything to do with how it's taught.