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The Morning Brief
To make sense of the week’s hottest stories in business, economy, politics and markets, journalists from the Economic Times chat with reporters and industry leaders in this thrice-weekly (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) podcast.
Episodes
The Morning BriefIndia's Banks Under Cyberattack: How AI Is Changing the Game
India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems…
The Morning BriefThe Cancer Drug Price Trap
Why does a cancer injection bought by a hospital for ₹11,000 end up costing a patient ₹1.3 lakh? India’s drug pricing system is under scrutiny as the…
The Morning BriefAI Agents Are Breaking the Internet’s Ad Model
When AI agents book your flights, buy your groceries and pick your hotels, no one is scrolling, and no one sees an ad. So how does the internet make money?…
The Morning BriefChina vs US: The New War Over Cancer Drugs and Biotech Supremacy | The Morning Brief Decode
China challenged America's dominance in manufacturing, technology and artificial intelligence. Now, it is threatening another American stronghold: the…
The Morning BriefDoes Slumping Smartphone Demand Spell a Gloomy Diwali?
India’s smartphone market is heading into Diwali on a sour note. Shipments fell sharply in the July–September quarter, with the sub-₹20,000 segment…
The Morning BriefThe $1.5 Billion Bet on a World Without Coders | Emergent’s Mukund Jha
What if you didn’t need a tech team, or any code, to build software? In this episode of Corner Office Conversation, Anirban Chowdhury sits down with…
The Morning BriefYes Bank AT1 Bonds: Why the Supreme Court Reversed the ₹8,415 Crore Write-Down
The Supreme Court has set aside Yes Bank’s 2020 write-down of ₹8,415 crore in AT1 bonds. Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Sugata Ghosh of The Economic Times…
The Morning BriefAI Agents Breach Indian Firms. Who Is Accountable?
AI agents undergoing tests accessed Indian organisations’ live systems and read confidential business records and personal data. The companies did not…
The Morning BriefWho Gets Left Behind by AI? Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim
As AI becomes more powerful, who gets to shape its direction—and share its benefits? ET’s tech editor Surabhi Agarwal speaks to Google…
The Morning BriefExplaining the RBI’s Rupee Rescue Mission
The rupee has bounced. So why does the RBI seem so worried? Unusually timed announcements, a special dollar window for oil companies and tougher currency…
The Morning BriefBlackstone’s Next $50 Billion: Why Jonathan Gray Is Betting on India
Blackstone wants to double its India investments to $100 billion in five years. What does Jonathan Gray see that nervous investors are missing? In this episode…
The Morning BriefIndia's Food Regulator Is Done Being Quiet
Misleading packaging, restaurant inspections and scrutiny of the kitchens behind your delivery apps: FSSAI is sharpening its enforcement. ET's FMCG editor…
The Morning BriefWhy Airfares Are Rising: The War, Costlier Fuel and Fewer Flights
Airfares are rising just as the festive travel season approaches. ATF prices have jumped sharply in recent months, while a weaker rupee is adding to…
The Morning BriefGST Council: Will Consumers Pay Less?
Ahead of the GST Council meeting, Bipin Sapra, Partner and Indirect Tax Policy Leader, EY India, explains to Anirban Chowdhury the proposed changes to input…
The Morning BriefFlydubai Incident: Can Aviation Security Stop the Threat From Within?
The Flydubai incident has raised a difficult question for aviation security: what happens when the threat comes from within the aircraft? As investigators work…
The Morning BriefFireflies’ Krish Ramineni on AI Teammates and the Future of Knowledge
AI is moving from experimental technology to an increasingly powerful part of everyday work. At The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Krish Ramineni, Founder…
The Morning BriefUS-China Thaw and India's Leverage:
Xi Jinping has sat across the table from both Narendra Modi and Donald Trump within two weeks. For years, a more assertive China pushed India closer to…
The Morning BriefECI: Who controls India's voter list?
The independence of India’s Election Commission rests on a constitutional framework that gives it wide powers — but questions remain over how that…
The Morning BriefSahil Wakode and IIT: Status, Strictures and Shortcuts”
The investigation into the death of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode is examining competing allegations and evidence. But beyond the immediate case lies a…
The Morning BriefMcKinsey’s Cheryl Lim on Asia’s New Leadership Model, AI and Talent
What makes some CEOs and founders successful? At The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Cheryl Lim, Partner at McKinsey & Company, joins ET’s Anirban…
The Morning BriefIndia’s Great IPO Rush: How Much Is Too Much?
India’s IPO market has hit the accelerator. After just 27 mainboard IPOs in the first half of 2026, July-September alone is seeing 61 issues worth…
The Morning BriefAshwini Vaishnaw on Semiconductors, AI Risks and Techno-Legal Regulation
India is scaling its semiconductor ecosystem as AI development accelerates—and both are raising new questions around technology, investment and…
The Morning BriefMeta Will Report CSAM to India, But Who Fixes the Feed?
Meta has agreed to report child sexual abuse material directly to Indian authorities, rather than routing alerts through America's NCMEC. But does reporting…
The Morning BriefSun Life’s Kevin Strain on FDI, Bancassurance and More
India has opened insurance to 100% foreign ownership. But Sun Life CEO Kevin Strain says ownership is less important than building the right business—and…
The Morning BriefThe Vanishing Footpath Economy
Every morning in Mahim, Vijay Raut sold cutting chai to taxi drivers, construction workers and bank staff, until the BMC's pavement drive took away his stall…
The Morning BriefWhy Volkswagen Needs JSW
Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest carmakers, yet has less than 2% of India’s passenger vehicle market. Its proposed partnership with JSW…
The Morning BriefUPI MDR Is Back: The Hidden Cost to You
UPI is no longer entirely free. From October 15, merchant payments above ₹2,000 will attract a 0.4% MDR, while smaller transactions and person-to-person…
The Morning BriefBain’s Manny Maceda on the End of Globalisation, India’s Opportunity and the AI Reset
The multinational is giving way to the multi-local, as tariffs, geopolitics and supply-chain risk force companies to rebuild around regional roots rather than…
The Morning BriefBastar After The Gun
Chhattisgarh has declared an end to armed Maoism in Bastar, but the ground reality is far more complicated than a deadline. Over 1,000 surrendered cadres…
The Morning BriefWhy Are Banks' Corner Offices Suddenly Up For Grabs?
HDFC Bank's Shashidhar Jagdishan is stepping down, Kotak Mahindra is searching for Ashok Vaswani's successor, and ICICI's Sandeep Bakshi has taken just a…
The Morning BriefPublicis Sapient’s Nigel Vaz on AI, the Future of Work and India’s Opportunity
AI is reshaping how businesses work, but the biggest shift may be how humans and technology work together. At The Economic Times World Leaders Forum, Nigel…
The Morning BriefIndia’s 7.8% GDP: The Number That Doesn’t Add Up
India’s latest GDP estimate shows the economy growing at 7.8%. Rajeswari Sengupta, associate professor of economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of…
The Morning BriefJ.P.Morgan’s Anu Aiyengar on Mega Deals, AI’s Banking Reset and the India Bet
ET opens its World Leaders Forum podcast series with Anu Aiyengar, global chair of investment banking, J.P.Morgan. In conversation with Anirban Chowdhury, she…
The Morning BriefET Deep Dive: When Development Turns Disaster
Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and unpredictable. But are we making its consequences worse? Across the Himalayas and the Western Ghats…
The Morning BriefSubrata Mitra on India’s VC Reset, the AI Capital Race and What Comes Next
What does one of India’s original venture capitalists see coming next? Accel’s Subrata Mitra speaks to Anirban Chowdhury about a funding market…
The Morning BriefHDFC Bank’s CEO Hunt
HDFC Bank is staring at an unusual leadership vacuum. CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan is set to leave in October, even as India’s largest private sector bank…
The Morning BriefSubhash Chandra’s Insolvency Maths
Subhash Chandra’s latest insolvency battle has produced a startling equation: ₹22,006 crore in admitted claims against just ₹6.25 crore for creditors…
The Morning BriefWhat It Really Takes To Vibe Code
ET’s Swathi Moorthy cannot code. Yet she has built four web applications using AI. That is the seductive promise of vibe coding: describe what you want…
The Morning BriefFrom Insurgent to Establishment: The Trilegal Story
Trilegal began as an outsider in a legal industry dominated by closely held, family-run firms. More than two decades later, it has become one of India’s…
The Morning BriefET Deep Dive: Love, Inheritance & the Second Innings
Love can arrive at any age. But when it arrives after 60, it often comes with decades of accumulated wealth, grown-up children and expectations about…
The Morning BriefIndia’s Costly Crude Problem
Brent above $90 doesn’t tell the full story of India’s oil bill. Tight physical supplies have pushed some Gulf crude to a hefty premium, while the…
The Morning BriefWho Must File Their ITR by August 31?
India’s tax calendar looks different this year. While most salaried taxpayers wrapped up their returns by July 31, taxpayers with certain business or…
The Morning BriefEB-1A, Explained: The Green Card Route That's Closing on Indians
For Indian professionals chasing a US green card, even the fast lane is getting harder. Approval rates for EB-1A — the category reserved for people with…
The Morning Brief75 Days in a War Zone
For 75 days, an Indian oil tanker captain and his 23-member crew were stranded in the Strait of Hormuz as war raged around them. Missiles flew overhead…
The Morning BriefWhat Chandra Leaves for Tata’s Next Chairman
N Chandrasekaran’s decision not to seek another term as Tata Sons chairman brings an extraordinary year of tensions inside the Tata Group to a head…
The Morning BriefSarvam AI on NVIDIA's Investment, Voice AI Economics, and India's AI Strategy
Sarvam AI began with an ambitious proposition: build foundational AI models in India. It must now prove that those models can support a viable business…
The Morning BriefIndia’s Export Traffic Jam
Indian exporters are facing a fresh shipping squeeze. Congestion at major transhipment hubs such as Singapore and Colombo is delaying cargo, disrupting…
The Morning BriefLinkedIn CEO on AI Jobs, Agentic Hiring and the AI Slop Problem
LinkedIn CEO Dan Shapero says the platform’s data points to a more complicated story. In this Corner Office Conversation, Shapero joins Anirban Chowdhury…
The Morning BriefET Deep Dive: The Auto’s Electric Makeover
India’s humble autorickshaw is getting its biggest reinvention in decades. Electric three-wheelers are surging because the economics work: lower running…
The Morning BriefIT Secy on ISM 2.0, Social Media Regulation & India's AI Race
In this candid interview, ET's tech editor Surabhi Agarwal and Subhayan Chakraborty sit down with India's IT Secretary to discuss ISM 2.0, the government's $13…
The Morning BriefHow Prashant Kishor Shocked the BJP
Prashant Kishor has spent years shaping election victories for others. Now, he has delivered one of his own. In this episode of The Morning Brief, Nidhi Sharma…
The Morning BriefNo Place To Hide (Part 2): Why India’s Food Industry Is Cleaning Up Its Act
In the second part of the series, Ratna Bhushan, ET's FMCG Editor, brings in two industry voices to dissect the impact of FSSAI and Maharashtra FDA's…
The Morning BriefCognizant’s Surya Gummadi on How AI Can Deliver Returns
AI adoption is soaring, but where are the financial returns? Surya Gummadi, President, Americas at Cognizant, argues that enterprises are consuming tokens…
The Morning BriefThe New Kids' Table: Private Equity Goes to School
Private equity is expanding into India’s K-12 school sector, following the same playbook it used to reshape private hospitals. Since Indian schools must…
The Morning BriefNo Place to Hide: Inside Maharashtra’s Food & Drug Crackdown (Part 1)
Since late May 2026, Maharashtra has been in the middle of one of its most aggressive food and drug enforcement drives in years — adulterated prasad…
The Morning BriefGoogle Cloud CEO On $15B India Bet, Sovereign AI Push & More
In this conversation with ET's editor technology Surabhi Agarwal, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian discusses the company's expanding footprint in India…
The Morning BriefCockroaches, Courts & Committees: What Did India’s GenZ Really Win?
We look back at the Jantar Mantar protests through the lens of media, technology and youth agency. What began as a Chief Justice’s jibe calling…
The Morning BriefThe East’s Own Overdose
For decades, Northeast India was seen mainly as a corridor for drugs flowing out of Myanmar’s Golden Triangle. That has changed. The transit route is…
The Morning BriefGlenmark Chief on Cracking the Multi-Specific Code
Glenmark Chairman and Managing Director Glen Saldanha joins Vikas Dandekar and Rica Bhattacharyya to discuss the company’s 25-year innovation bet, and…
The Morning BriefISRO's Exodus: Space Crisis, Staff Crisis
ISRO is losing people faster than it can hire them. Around 100 scientists and engineers have resigned or taken voluntary retirement recently, with the bulk of…