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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.
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Sun–Organon: The scope, risks, and future of India's biggest pharma deal
India's largest drugmaker, Sun Pharma, has announced the acquisition of US-based Organon in a landmark $11.75 billion all-cash deal, the biggest overs...
Polls On My Pod: Fish, Faith & the SIR Fear: Can Mamata Hold Bengal?
West Bengal's 2026 elections should be a contest of ideas but on the ground, something far darker is unfolding. What emerges from ground reporting is...
ET Deep Dive: Swipe Left on Reality
Online dating has always been a grueling hustle, but a new, invisible third wheel has entered the chat: Artificial Intelligence. In this episode of ET...
Polls On My Pod: TN and the Thalapathy Factor
Tamil Nadu heads to the polls with its familiar two-party battle DMK vs AIADMK facing an unprecedented challenge. Actor-turned-politician Vijay and hi...
India's Medical Tourism Slips Off the Table
India's medical tourism industry is in a quiet downturn. Foreign patient arrivals have fallen roughly a third since 2019 from nearly 700,000 visitors...
ET Deep Dive: The Van That Ate the SUV
India's wealthy are quietly trading flash for function. The luxury MPV — long dismissed as a hotel shuttle or family hauler — has become the unlikely...
The Delimitation Trap
The government has just hit the ultimate political reset button, and the electoral math is ruthless. By tethering the historic 33% Women’s Reservation...
Quantum Leap: India’s Amaravati Bet
Quantum computing is here — and it's reshaping the global technology order faster than most realise. India is making its boldest move yet with a dedic...
Indian Aviation’s Biggest CEO Shake-Up
In a single month, India's two largest airlines lost their CEOs. Pieter Elbers was pushed out of IndiGo following a catastrophic December 2025 meltdow...
ET Deep Dive: The Menopause Reckoning
For generations, Indian women moved through perimenopause and menopause in silence — misdiagnosed, dismissed, or simply left to figure it out alone. T...
India wants manufacturing at 25% of GDP — will AI in factories help?
What does it take to move India's manufacturing from 16% to 25% of GDP? Two industry heavyweights, Vinod Kumar, Partner & Leader – Manufacturing, PwC...
For India’s Exporters, It’s One Battle After Another
As global tensions ripple through trade, Indian exporters are beginning to feel the strain. In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhu...
Two Women Fought to Change India's Maternity Laws...and Succeeded
When Hamsaanandini Nanduri brought home two siblings — aged two and five — in 2017, she had six weeks of maternity leave, and a few of those were alre...
Polls On My Pod: Himanta's Assam - But For How Long?
A decades-old rivalry simmers beneath Assam's 2026 elections. When Himanta Biswa Sarma, once a loyalist, walked out of Congress after being sidelined...
Pharma's AI Reckoning
Is AI in pharma just hype or a full-blown revolution? In this episode, ET's pharma editor Vikas Dandekar sits down with three industry heavyweights Su...
Deep Dive: Ageing, Upgraded
India is ageing faster than it can care for itself — and the cracks are already showing. From missed diagnoses to absent support systems, the silver e...
Cricket & Corporate Leadership
What does it take to lead when the stakes are high and everyone's watching? In this episode, Vikas Dandekar sits down with Sanjiv Navangul, MD & CEO o...
Polls On My Pod: Pinarayi vs Pinarayi in Kerala
As the electoral bugle sounds across Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, the nation braces itself for a whirlwind of political intrigue and up...
Tanay Kothari Wants To Kill The Keyboard
Tanay Kothari has been building at the intersection of voice and AI since he was a teenager. His latest company, Wispr Flow, is a voice dictation tool...
Can India Truly End Naxalism?
As India approaches its self-imposed deadline to end Left Wing Extremism, host Nidhi Sharma speaks with ET’s internal security editor Rahul Tripathi,...
Iran War: India’s Macros Under Strain
As the Iran war enters its fourth week, global markets are scrambling to price in shocks. The impact is rapidly deepening for India. Goldman Sachs has...
Markets May Be Misreading This War: UBS’ Chief Strategist
A deepening geopolitical conflict in the Middle East is forcing markets to confront a far more structural shock than recent crises. Host and ET market...
HDFC’s Governance Ghost: What Triggered Atanu Chakraborty’s Exit?
HDFC Bank, long seen as India’s gold standard in banking, is facing rare questions on governance. The sudden exit of chairman Atanu Chakraborty—backed...
Corner Office Conversation with G.V. Prasad, Co-Chairman and Managing Director Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd
G.V. Prasad has spent over thirty years at the helm of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories — long enough to know where the opportunities were missed and where th...
From Doer to Director: The LinkedIn Playbook for the AI Age
A billion professionals. Eighteen years of data. And a skills gap that's widening as AI tools multiply. Mohak Shroff has watched LinkedIn evolve from...
Semaglutide Goes Generic: Big Pharma’s Moat Breaks
India's semaglutide moment has arrived. As Novo Nordisk's patent expires on March 20th, over fifty generic brands are poised to flood the market poten...
Who Controls AI in an Age of War?
Anthropic refused the Pentagon unrestricted access to its Claude AI, and the fallout reshaped the tech-defense landscape overnight. OpenAI rushed in t...
India Opens the Door to China Investments…a Little
Five years after slamming the door on Chinese investments, India has quietly amended Press Note 3. With FDI stagnating, institutional investors pullin...
SPRs to LPG: How Far Will History’s Biggest Oil Shock Reverberate?
A once-in-a-generation oil shock is unfolding. Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with Amrita Sen, Founder of Energy Aspects, Bob McNally, founder of Rapid...
Banned But Booming: How The Money Gaming Crackdown Created an Offshore Goldmine
Despite a sweeping government crackdown, India's offshore real money gaming industry is not just surviving, it's booming. Offshore platforms like Pari...
Women Bank Better, Still Remain a $700 Billion Blind Spot
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, joins host Anirban Chowdhury to explore five decades of progress and persistent ga...
Wendy Hall: One Woman's Voice in a Room Full of AI Tech Bros
She shares rooms and stages with the gods of AI...and is often the only woman there. Dame Wendy Hall, pioneering computer scientist and co-founder of...
What the Iran War Means for Indians’ Money, Jobs and Homes in the UAE
Dubai's "safe haven" image took a direct hit this week as missile debris fell near the Burj Al Arab and Palm Jumeirah following military escalations i...
US–Israel vs Iran: The War That Could Ignite the Middle East
From January’s protests in Iran to coordinated US–Israel strikes and widening retaliation, this episode maps how internal unrest morphed into a geopol...
AI Has Entered the Classroom. And Your Child's Mind.
What if AI companions are inserting themselves between children and the very people meant to guide them? In this episode of The Morning Brief, host An...
Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio on Why AI Could Make us Irrelevant, then Extinct
The existential alignment problem sits at the heart of the AI revolution — and the consequences of getting it wrong could be irreversible. What happen...
Arvind Krishna: Cutting Through the AI Noise
In a wide-ranging conversation with host Surabhi Agarwal, IBM's chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna addresses the questions every technology le...
Court Says No. Trump Says Watch This. What Should India Do?
The US Supreme Court just handed Trump a legal defeat and it barely slowed him down. In a landmark ruling, the court struck down tariffs imposed under...
Corner Office Conversation with Dilip Shanghvi, Chairman of Sun Pharma and Glenn Saldanha, Managing Director at Glenmark Pharma
In a candid, unscripted exchange, India’s pharma titans peeled back the mythology of overnight success to reveal a harder truth: conviction compounded...
India AI Impact Summit: Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch on Decentralizing AI Power
Artificial intelligence is concentrating power, profits and infrastructure in the hands of a few. Mistral AI's co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch stands...