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Fishermen from the Loop Road area are set to hold a black flag protest on Sunday, signalling renewed pressure on authorities over unresolved local grievances. The demonstration is expected to draw attention to livelihood concerns and the community’s demand for quicker government action.
Nifty’s near-term trajectory remains tied to the 22,600 support zone, according to Sudeep Shah of SBI Securities, who sees the index consolidating after recent volatility. In an interaction with ETMarkets, Shah outlined a selective approach for the coming week, highlighting PB Fintech, Infosys and TCS as stocks to watch ahead of the September-quarter earnings season.
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said at TechSparks 2026 that artificial intelligence could surpass 90% of coders within six months, but argued that software automation should not be treated as a crisis. He urged India to focus instead on technological ownership, hardware capability and reducing dependence on foreign intellectual property.
TechSparks 2026 opened with a forceful argument that India’s next technology leap will depend less on imported compute and more on ownership of core capabilities, from software stacks to space systems. Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge and a slate of spacetech founders used Day 1 to press a broader vision of distributed innovation, with Tech30 2026 also unveiled as a marker of the country’s emerging startup pipeline.
At the 17th edition of YourStory’s flagship TechSparks event, Zoho Corp co-founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu unveiled this year’s Tech30, a curated list of startups seen as shaping India’s next wave of innovation. The selection underscores a broader shift in the country’s startup ecosystem toward deeper technology, resilience, and long-term value creation, including in capital-intensive fields such as spacetech.
TechSparks 2026 opened with a forceful argument that India’s next technology leap will depend less on access to expensive compute and more on ownership of core technology, product depth and local innovation capacity. Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge and spacetech founders used Day 1 to push a broader, more distributed startup map for the country, while the Tech30 2026 list spotlighted the companies expected to define the year ahead.
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has argued that India should focus on infrastructure and foundational technologies rather than pouring billions into high-end GPUs to chase artificial intelligence capacity. His remarks underscore a broader debate in India’s startup and policy circles over whether the country should buy its way into the AI race or build durable technological independence from the ground up.
Day one of TechSparks 2026 in Bengaluru framed a sharper debate over where India’s next technology advantage will come from: not merely from access to capital or compute, but from ownership of core technology, deeper product capability and a wider geographic spread of innovation. Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu argued that Indian startups must build durable technical control rather than depend on imported infrastructure, while Karnataka IT minister Priyank Kharge renewed the push to take startup growth beyond Bengaluru. The event also unveiled the Tech30 2026 cohort, spotlighting the next wave of startups expected to shape the country’s venture landscape.
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