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Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan says that the Indian state remains committed to Adani's Vizhinam port project. Satheesan spoke exclusively to Bloomberg's Unni Krishnan on the state's upcoming investment opportunities, the silver economy and more.

India faces a critical question: should it invest in building its own, frontier AI models despite shortfalls in chips, infrastructure and funding? In the first episode of Bloomberg's Emerging podcast, Menaka Doshi dives into whether sovereignty, security, and long term competitiveness justify the push. She sits down in Mumbai with Srikanth Velamakanni, co founder of Fractal Analytics, India's first publicly listed pure-play AI company, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and a member of India's BharatGen AI taskforce.

India faces a critical question in artificial intelligence: should it invest in building frontier AI models despite gaps in chips, compute, and funding? This segment examines whether sovereignty, security, and long term competitiveness justify the push. As global AI power concentrates in a few countries, dependence on foreign systems raises risks for defense, data control, and economic resilience. Srikanth Velamakanni, Co founder of Fractal Analytics and NASSCOM Chairperson, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor at IIT Bombay and BharatGen member, speak with Menaka Doshi on Emerging.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to travel to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand this week. Bloomberg's Swati Pandey discusses the agenda for the leader's Indo-Pacific tour.

India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance held its seventh meeting on virtual digital assets, where the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it does not support granting legal status to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC).

Skilled immigrants who obtained an education and built careers in the US are increasingly wondering whether, amid restrictive US policies, opportunities they sought in America can be had elsewhere.

Abhay Agarwal, founder of GetBit, said India may revisit its cryptocurrency tax framework within two to four years as regulators gain greater visibility into the sector.

Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says she is confident that the company's investment and capacity expansion in Insulin will make the company the top hub for the drug in the next five years. She speaks in an exclusive conversation with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin.

The US is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners following an investigation into goods allegedly produced by forced labor, as President Donald Trump seeks to rebuild the sweeping tariff wall struck down by the US Supreme Court. Bloomberg's Ros Mathieson reports.

Russian airlines are circumventing US, European Union and UK sanctions by procuring aviation equipment via India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan, among others, a Bloomberg investigation shows. Some spare parts were tracked by serial numbers as they journeyed from Western suppliers to intermediaries to Russian companies. Bloomberg News contacted parties involved in such deals, and several said they would no longer do business with each other or with Russia. Bloomberg's Kate Duffy reports.