Manu Balachandran

3 weeks ago | forbesindia.com | Manu Balachandran

MG began retailing the car at less than ₹10 lakh, with a first-of-its-kind battery-as-a-service (BaaS) package, which allows customers to lease the battery for their EV instead of purchasing it, and paying a per-kilometre fee for usage.

3 weeks ago | forbesindia.com | Manu Balachandran

Aakesh Sharma likens building India’s two-wheeler electric vehicle (EV) market to hosting a Diwali party. “Sometimes you want to be the first one to throw a Diwali party and you want to do it by day after tomorrow,” says Sharma, the executive director at Bajaj Auto, who has been with the third largest two-wheeler maker in the country for almost 18 years.

3 weeks ago | forbesindia.com | Manu Balachandran

In 2017, Bhavish Aggarwal set up Ola Electric Mobility. By 2019, it had become a unicorn. In the four-wheeler category, Tata Motors was making strides with Tigor EV, and Blusmart entered the ride-hailing market with its all-electric fleet, boosting EV presence on Indian roads.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Manu Balachandran

It was a sight not many had anticipated. After all, the setting was the Indian government’s flagship defence exhibition, the Aero India 2025, being held at the Indian Air Force’s (IAF)premier transport base, Air Force Station Yelahanka, in Bengaluru. In attendance were the world’s biggest aerospace companies—from US-based Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to Dassault, Safran, and Thales from France, and the Russian government-owned Sukhoi.

1 month ago | forbesindia.com | Manu Balachandran

Q. What is the work being done out of India? I would say it is beyond GCC at this point. Many global capability centres for global companies are doing application management or IT work. India did not start with that work. India started supporting US-India defence collaboration. For example, on defence programmes, initially on structural and systems engineering related to those programmes and supporting India’s place in the US defence industrial base, which has been encouraged by both governments.