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Sanjay Dutt’s award-winning premium Scotch whisky, ‘The Glenwalk,’ is disrupting the Indian spirits market with stellar sales of over 1 million bottles nationwide in a short span of four months (April ‘25- August ‘25). This achievement marks a 5x growth in sales, a significant jump from over 0.2 million bottles sold last year during the same time period. The Glenwalk’s rapid ascent has been spearheaded by the expertise of Cartel Bros’ co-founders Mokksh Sani, Jitin Merani, Rohan Nihalani, and Manish Sani. Their bold market strategies and innovative offerings have been instrumental in the brand’s remarkable trajectory.

Gaining momentum on this accelerated growth, The Glenwalk is now available in Meghalaya. With a well-defined national expansion strategy, The Glenwalk is now available across 15 Indian states, including key markets such as Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. Its global footprint is equally impressive, with a presence in four international markets: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UAE. The brand is available at over 10,000 retail and bar outlets and featured in more than 24 duty-free stores worldwide, a rare accomplishment in the premium spirits category. 

In Meghalaya, The Glenwalk will be priced competitively at ₹1708, offering a premium yet affordable choice for discerning whisky enthusiasts. The brand aims to sell over 8000 cases in its first year, with a strong focus on establishing Meghalaya as one of its leading markets in Northeast India.

“The Glenwalk’s journey has been phenomenal, and our success is a direct result of our strategic vision and the immense market potential we identified. We’re excited to see what the future holds as we expand our presence across the nation,” stated Mokksh Sani, Founder of Living Liquidz, Mansionz, and Co-founder of Cartel Bros. Reflecting on the brand’s remarkable journey, Sanjay Dutt, celebrity brand ambassador and co-founder of The Glenwalk, said, “Witnessing The Glenwalk’s meteoric rise in such a short span has been genuinely inspiring. We’ve achieved in two years what takes many brands decades. Our success is a testament to the team’s relentless effort and the high-quality product we offer, and I’m excited for this next phase of growth.”

The Glenwalk has cemented its status as one of the fastest-growing Scotch whisky brands globally, with over 10 global whisky awards and 4 business recognitions. The brand is set to expand its portfolio with the launch of two new ranges in the coming months—a 5-Year-Old and a 7-Year-Old Expression. As it continues to evolve with consumer preferences, The Glenwalk is also gearing up for further expansion into 6 more Indian states and 5 international markets, including the USA, Hong Kong, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and regions across Africa.

About The Glenwalk

The Glenwalk Scotch Whisky, founded and owned by Cartel Bros, is a premium blend crafted with the finest Scotch malts and grains, aged for three years. Sanjay Dutt is the celebrity brand ambassador for The Glenwalk. Produced in Scotland by one of the top 3 manufacturers in the world, The Glenwalk offers exceptional quality at an attractive price point. Just over two years since its launch, The Glenwalk has expanded to 15 Indian states and four international markets, partnered with over 30 distributors, and is available in more than 10,000 outlets and 24 duty-free stores worldwide. With over 10 global whisky awards and multiple business recognitions, it stands among the fastest-growing Scotch whisky brands globally.

The future for cloud revenue powered by AI is looking optimistic, which is why investors are rushing to bet money on Oracle. On Wednesday (September 10, 2025), Oracle’s stock price skyrocketed by more than 32% in premarket trading. As these numbers seem to go up and up, the CEO, Safra Catz, draws a road map for OCI revenue. According to Oracle, its AI-powered cloud business could make $144 billion by 2030. Such a whopping number is a wild prediction. Are these predictions by the company mere bold statements, or do they hold any practicality in their future? Learn more. 

Big Revenue Prediction by Safra Catz

Oracle makes big predictions stating that an AI-powered cloud business could make up to $144 billion by 2030. And the CEO, Safra Catz, draws a growth road map for OCI revenue:

• 2026 fiscal year: $18 billion (77% growth)
• Next years: $32B → $73B → $114B → $144B

Interestingly, the company is expected to make less than $20 billion this fiscal year (2026). However, the stock is driving significant investment, all thanks to the promising growth of AI-powered Cloud Solutions.

But Oracle’s Current Earnings Were Weak

According to the Q1 results for fiscal year 2026 (reported by Oracle):

• The revenue is $14.9B (now this number is slightly lower than Wall Street’s $15B expectation).
• And the earnings per share would be $1.47 (it is also slightly below $1.48 expected).
• Generally, such a weak revenue performance should hurt the stock (because it missed expectations). But the future outlook changed the game for Oracle. \

Big AI Customers of Oracle

According to Oracle, it has signed major cloud contracts with tech giants like:

• OpenAI
• xAI (Elon Musk’s company)
• Meta

Now, this is important for investors as it shows how big companies trust in Oracle.

Contract Backlog (Future Revenue Promised)

Oracle highlighted RPO, meaning the value of all customer contracts Oracle has signed but not delivered yet. This is significant because Oracle signed four multibillion-dollar contracts with three customers in Q1.

Now, what does this mean? It means Oracle has several guaranteed business opportunities in the pipeline (over the coming years). This also pushed RPO up 359% to $455B. The company is expecting RPO to cross $500B soon. 

Oracle Will Bet This Money On? (Infrastructure & Chips)

To reach such a bold revenue goal, Oracle needs to invest money in AI, such as:

• Buying tons of Nvidia GPUs (they are AI chips).
• Plus, renting them through its cloud service (OCI), competing with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud.

For the same reason, the company is pouring big money into capital expenditure (meaning spending on data centers and infrastructure):

• In 2025: $21B
• By 2026 (previous outlook showed): $25B
• By 2026 (the new outlook shows): $35B

Cost Cutting

• Recently, Oracle has been in the news for laying off people.
• Plus, the company also cut the cash raises and bonuses for its employees. All these cash changes are tightening Oracle’s pockets only to fund its AI plans. 

Stock Performance

Oracle’s AI momentum is paying off for the company well, because its stock has soared more than 70% in the past year.

The $30B OpenAI Deal (Speculation Only)

Well, Oracle revealed that it’s in contract with a customer paying $30B/year starting in 2028.

Many media reports speculate that this high-paying customer could be OpenAI. However, neither of them confirmed the matter.

As it was making news, the investors were hoping for an official confirmation, although Oracle remained silent at the moment.

Oracle’s Big Bet on Stargate AI Project

Stargate is a huge 500B AI infrastructure project by Oracle, OpenAI, SoftBank, and President Donald Trump. The project came to light to build big AI data centers, including one in Abilene, Texas.

Status on the Project:

• According to OpenAI, certain parts of the project are up and running.
• SoftBank admits to delays in the project.

CEO Safra Catz said, “Stargate is not formed yet… but some of our business with OpenAI is part of our future.”

At the moment, the investors have no idea about how big Oracle’s role in Stargate will be. 

Adani Power’s share price is up by about 7.7% in just two days (ending at ₹648.3 on the BSE on Tuesday and ₹637.50 today). The share price hike came to light after the Bhutan project announcement. Furthermore, this sudden pull-up is also a result of another significant development at Adani Power. So, what are these big happenings? And what is the impact of them on Adani Power internationally in the future? Learn more.

What Is Happening at Adani Power?

As the share price surged, Adani Power is experiencing enhanced market cap growth. The stock price went up by 7.7% in just two days. Currently, the price is around ₹637.50. However, the company itself will not directly earn the cash. The benefit of this hike is more indirect, like:

• Higher valuation
• Easier fund-raising
• Stronger reputation (internationally)
• More investor confidence.

Why Did the Share Price of Adani Power Go Up?

As mentioned above, there are two major reasons for it:

1. A New International Project in Bhutan

• Adani Power signed an agreement with Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) in May 2025. DGPC is a government-owned company.
• This partnership is going to build a 570 megawatt hydroelectric project at Wangchhu, Bhutan.
• To swiftly handle the project, both will form a new public company in Bhutan together.

Ownership Split of the Project Company

• Adani Power will own → 49%
• DGPC will ow → 51%

How are they starting the project off?

• Adani Power will get about 4.9 million shares.
• And DGPC will get about 5.1 million shares.
• And each of these share prices is BTN 100 (Bhutanese currency).

What Does the Management Look Like?

• Each of the companies can appoint 3 directors to the board with equal say.
• And let’s say more money is needed for the project to do better, each will have to pour in the funds in the ratio of (49:51).

It is now clear that Adani Power is moving into clean energy (hydropower). This is an excellent development for Adani Power, as it is expanding beyond India, and investors like such growth and diversification. 

2. Stock Split

• Just last week, Adani Power’s shareholders agreed on a stock split.
• Currently, 1 share = ₹10 face value.
• But after the split, the share will be divided into 5 smaller shares, meaning each one will have a ₹2 face value.
• For instance, you have 1 (of ₹10) share with you, and right after the split, it becomes 5 shares of ₹2 each.
• The total value remains the same; however, making the share a cheaper unit makes it easier for small investors to buy Adani Power shares.

Why? Well, most companies follow the same because: 

• It makes shares more affordable.
• Increases liquidity (more trading activity).
• Helps to expand the number of shareholders.

In Short for Investors in Future

• For investors, the value of the share is the same, but they also benefit from the higher demand due to the stock split + the growth from the Bhutan project.
• The company will now welcome the new investors (as the shares are now affordable) + more liquidity, + a chance to invest in the company that is expanding into clean energy (on an international level).
• And more importantly, the returns will all depend on how well Adani Power executes the project. 

Change is inevitable, and so is laying off employees for AI in 2025. The year is about to end (it’s already September), but layoffs don’t seem to rest at all. Oracle joins the list as more than 100 have already lost their jobs in India offices. The number is expected to go up by a few hundred people in the upcoming days. The company began letting go of its employees starting from the first week of September 2025. And what exactly is happening at Oracle? Is the company suffering from the same old AI fever as everyone else, or is there more? Is the company doing something for the employees, or just goodbyes for now? Well, learn more details below.

Why Is Oracle Laying Off?

The company said goodbye to about 100 employees, and these cuts are happening in different departments, including its Cloud Team. It’s tragic that employees with more than 15–20 years at Oracle also lost their jobs suddenly.

And Why Is Oracle Doing It Now?

To focus on AI – Just like other companies in the corporate world, Oracle is also shifting its focus to Artificial Intelligence. And also have big plans to invest more in AI. According to an article on AI CERTs, the company announced to invest about $3 billion ($1 billion in Germany and $2 billion in the Netherlands) to build data centers and AI-ready computing environments.

Cost-cutting – According to Oracle’s News Page published on June 11, 2025, their revenues in “Total quarterly revenues were up 11% year-over-year in USD and constant currency to $15.9 billion.” And now, Oracle wants to go profit-centric and improve those numbers by cutting down on its expenditure. And so the layoffs are happening now.

Reorganisation – And some regular restructuring within the team is also a reason.

What Did Employees of Oracle Get After Getting Fired?

Oracle is trying to be generous towards its employees, and so is continuing some of the incentives (or a severance package) like:

• 15 days’ salary for every year that the employee has worked at Oracle.
• Medical insurance for up to one year.
• Some got garden leave, meaning they get paid and also don’t have to work for the notice period.

Global Situation for Oracle

What is interesting is that Oracle has about 30,000 employees in India in total. And India alone got the company about ₹20,459 crore revenue in FY 2024, which was 20% higher than the previous year. And yet Indian offices were the victims of layoffs. Well, the layoff situation with Oracle is not just limited to the Indian offices, it seems. Last week, Oracle also laid off over 3,000 employees globally. 

Technology is now in everyone’s hands: kids, young adults, and the elderly, too. Emphasising the elderly, they often prefer reading in their native language for emotional connection, cultural identity, and better understanding. And how often do you hear your parents talk to Google or YouTube (audio search) for recipes or tips in your language?

Most likely, and wouldn’t it be helpful to get responses in the same language as well? Of course, it would. Hindi is a widely spoken language in India (according to the 2011 Census of India, about 43.63% of the Indian population speaks Hindi). For that matter, and because of the buzz around AI, Google is now expanding its AI mode in search to include Hindi. How does that work? Will you have to change any settings? Well, learn.

What Is Google’s AI Mode in Search?

When you search for something on Google, you’ll find the “AI Mode” on the very top left. The AI mode will give you the gist of the concept that you are looking for (in a very personalized way). So, you don’t have to go through all the links in the search to know what it is. Google introduced this feature in March 2024, but only in English. This feature was an experimental one just to compete with big AI platforms like ChatGPT Search and Perplexity AI. And now (on 9 September 2025), with this new advancement, you can search for anything in Hindi on the AI Mode.

Expansion to Hindi & More Languages

Well, this update is powered by Google’s Gemini 2.5 model. And Google is primarily expanding it in five new languages, including:

• Hindi
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Brazilian Portuguese.

How Is It Different From a Normal Search?

Normal Search →

• You’ll have to type a query (and the query should be short to get the most relevant answer).
• Then you’ll get a big list of links.
• Go manually through the links (click multiple times to find your answer).

AI Mode →

• You can ask any question as long as you want (complex and detailed questions).
• Now, the question runs through AI. It understands all the layers of your question.
• It breaks it down to be simple for you.
• Give you the most relevant, personalised answer in one go.
• And the best part, you can interact with AI in any mode you want, let’s say typing, speaking, or even uploading a picture.

Example: List Shah Rukh Khan’s new movies, their release dates, and where I can watch them, and OTT platforms they might stream on. Do You Have To Change The Settings? No, you just need to naturally type (or speak) in your query in Romanized Hindi or actually Hindi. And you’ll get the search in Hindi.

Why Is This Important for Hindi Speakers?

One might think that it is easy to use translation or change the Google language settings to Hindi. However, they are merely word-for-word translations and lack cultural understanding or naturalness. With this new feature, Google has worked on local culture, knowledge, and context as well.

In short, the AI is becoming ‘Desi.’

More New Google AI Capabilities (Rolling Out Slowly)

Just last month, Google added an agentic feature, allowing the AI to take actions on your behalf. What kind? Let’s say:

• Making restaurant reservations
• And coming soon: booking local service appointments and event tickets.

However, these features at the moment are only available for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S.

What Is Google Saying About Hindi AI Mode?

Hema Budhraju, VP of Product Management for Search, said, “AI is transforming Search to make it more useful and easier than ever to ask Google anything. We’re excited to bring AI mode to Hindi and look forward to seeing how people use it.” 

In a powerful demonstration of social responsibility and national unity, Sudarshan News has launched a large-scale humanitarian initiative aimed at extending vital support to communities in Punjab. This mission, driven by empathy and patriotism, is focused on delivering essential food supplies, daily necessities, and emotional solidarity to individuals and families in need across the state.

With the spirit of Seva at its core, the initiative is not merely about aid—but about restoring hope, reinforcing courage, and reaffirming a sense of national togetherness during challenging times.

“At Sudarshan News, we believe journalism goes beyond reporting—it must serve the nation in action,” said Suresh Chavhanke , Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan News. “Punjab has always been the pride of India. Today, as the people of Punjab face hardship, it is our duty to stand beside them—not just with words, but with meaningful support.”

The relief campaign involves the organized distribution of:

• Nutritional food items (including grains, pulses, oils, and fresh produce)
• Personal care and hygiene products
• Clothing, blankets, and other essential goods
• Handwritten letters and messages of solidarity from across the country

These supplies are being mobilized through a robust on-ground network in coordination with local NGOs, community leaders, and volunteers to ensure timely and respectful delivery to those most in need.

Key Objectives of the Initiative:

• To provide immediate material relief to affected families across Punjab
• To foster national unity by sending messages of love, strength, and courage
• To amplify awareness through responsible media coverage, inspiring others to join the cause

The initiative is being covered by Sudarshan News across its platforms, ensuring transparency, visibility, and a call-to-action for others to contribute.

“This is not charity—this is solidarity,” added Chavhanke. “We want every citizen of Punjab to know that the entire nation stands with them—with love, courage, and unwavering support.”

Sudarshan News invites all Indians—individuals, corporate partners, and civil society organizations—to join this mission and be part of a larger movement of compassion.

New Delhi, August 21, 2025 — CLICK 2025, India’s leading performance and growth marketing conference, organised by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), and held at Andaz, New Delhi, concluded on August 21, 2025. The conference, registering over 6000 footfall, brought together marketers, industry leaders, and innovators to discuss emerging trends and strategies in performance marketing. More than 100 speakers from the digital marketing ecosystem addressed over 20 sessions across two days, including 25+ masterclasses and case studies. 

Speaking at a session on high-performance new-age brands, Sidharth Shakdher, CMO & Business Head – Paytm commented, “High performance brands are able to build sustainable growth loops. They use data very effectively, whether deterministic or probabilistic, to learn consumer cohorts and intelligently drive the next step in growth.”

During his panel discussion, Rajiv Dubey, VP Marketing Experience at Dabur India Ltd., said, “Connected TV is going to be mainstream as every TV is turning into a smart TV and screens are only getting bigger. What’s lacking is a unified measurement system — we need a framework that brings TV and CTV together. But one thing is certain: If you continue to advertise, you will see results.”

“We’ve done early experiments to bring interactivity to CTV, because the next big play is about personalisation. Whether it’s contextual ads, QR code scans, or chatbot engagement during live matches, we are only scratching the surface”, commented Aakash Gupta, VP Product- Monetization & Creators at JioStar.

At another panel discussion, Vikar Shaikh, Head-Digital Strategy at Valueleaf, said “Q-commerce is reshaping consumer behaviour—what was once a monthly purchase cycle is now weekly, with apps being opened 4–5 times a week. While ROI is vital, brands must also set aside budgets for long-term brand building beyond pure performance.”

Among the major speakers at CLICK 2025 were Lee-Ann Johnstone – Founder, Affiverse; Rajiv Dubey – Vice President – Marketing, Dabur India; Sidharth Shakdher – CMO & Business Head, Paytm; Vikram Singh – Digital Marketing Head, ITC Hotels; Anchit Chandra – Digital Marketing Head & CRM, Muthoot Fincorp ONE; Dennis Yu – CEO, Blitz Metrics; Parul Bhargava – CEO, vCommission; Srikanth Bureddy – Co-founder, Valueleaf; Sanjay Sindhwani – CEO, Indian Express Digital; Meetu Mulchandani – Head, Brand Factory, Honasa Consumer; Prajakta Rathe – Deputy General Manager, Reliance Retail; Chanpreet Arora – Chief Business Officer, Wholsum Foods 

(Slurrpfarm & Mille); Simon Stanley – Head of Affiliates, Kaspersky; and Pankaj Sharma – CEO & Director, MGID.

The partners for CLICK 2025 are vCommission, Valueleaf, Singhtek, Apptrove by Trackier, Confluencr, MGID, Affise, GrabOn and Offer18. The conference is also supported by ONDC.

About Internet and Mobile Association of India  

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is a not-for-profit industry body with more than 600 members, including Indian and multinational corporations, as well as start-ups. IAMAI has been instrumental in shaping India’s digital economy. IAMAI advocates free and fair competition, and progressive and enabling laws for businesses as well as for consumers. The overarching objective of IAMAI is to ensure the progress of the internet and the digital economy. Its major areas of activities are public policy and advocacy, business to business conferences, research, promotion of start-ups and promotion of consumer trust and safety.