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Vibrant Gujarat Summit- Investments worth Rs 26.33 lakh crore

The tenth edition of the three-day Vibrant Gujarat Summit...

TN GIM 2024 – Investments worth Rs 664,180 crore with job opportunities to more than 26 lakh

The Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet 2024 came to...

Biologics-based drugs at the fore – Supriya Kashikar, CEO, GeNext Genomics Pvt Ltd.

The biotech industry is witnessing unprecedented demand on many...

At COP28, climate fizzles out…

Over a two-week period, Dubai, the conference venue, witnessed...

👑 Can the elephant emulate the dragon?

The pandemic, various security concerns and the general mood...

Banking

Mergers Maze

IN 2019 THE NDA II government seemed well set to take up major reforms of the banking sector. The merger of ten public sector...

Lighting a lamp

Since nationalisation, banks were directed to function not merely as deposit collectors and lenders, but much more. This add-on was required to change the...

Do Banks Count their Numbers?

KYC is a mandatory database required while opening a bank account. PAN and Aadhaar are the two most important elements. However, banks have been...

Morphing post offices into banking access points

The Indian banking sector, during its long history of over a century, has grown in size and variety. We have commercial banks, regional rural banks,...

Will banks become obsolete?

Fintechs have made deep inroads into banking and financial services. There is a feeling that over the next few decades it would make traditional...

Aadhaar, niraadhaar and banking

Aadhaar is a 12 digit number issued to all citizens in India by the Unique Identification Authority of India. UIDAI claims 93 per cent...

Paytm Gate! Glaring Governance Gaps?

It appears that the latest is the culmination of the enquiries that have lasted many months and the bank had been warned of regulatory...

Nine more added

With the recent addition of nine, we have 99 cities listed ‘Smart.’ The diversities in the economic conditions of these cities are pronounced. For analysing...

How ‘secure’ are the secured loans?

While the big defaulters are the major causes of banks’ sickness, recoveries in small suits could be slowly denting their profitability as it is...

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Sense and Sustainability… Pragya Panda, Financial Consultant

In the ever-evolving landscape of the banking sector, 2024 promises to be a revolutionary one. The sector faces ongoing challenges in managing asset quality,...

Tech and sustainability will be differentiators

Benefitting from the China plus one, Atmanirbhar Bharat, Make in India and PLI schemes, Indian manufacturing is through a golden streak. With global companies...

Global Turmoil will shape insurance – KB Vijay Srinivas, retired director and holding joint additional charge as CMD of United India Insurance Company

Insurance mainly depends on the performance of trade and economy. World over, times have not been good. As the sector is tied with trade...

Education

TN GIM 2024 – Investments worth Rs 664,180 crore with job opportunities to more than 26 lakh

The Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet 2024 came to a close with MoUs worth Rs 664,180 crore signed, promising job opportunities...

Skills will define the future – V P Joy, Senior Executive Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited

With two-thirds of our population below the age of 35 and with India’s emergence as a digital technology powerhouse, our potential...

India should manufacture at world scale… – Dr K N Satyanarayana, Director, IIT Tirupati

Dr K N Satyanarayana (KNS), the Director of IIT Tirupati, is an alumnus of IIT Madras, where he completed his civil...

Byju’s – It all came tumbling down!

In the annals of India’s startup ecosystem, Byju’s once shone like a beacon of success. Back in June 2021, the company...

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Tesla, it is now real: it drives on its own!

My son Bala who, after pursuing higher studies and...

BJP consolidates

Despite winning the largest numbers in the 2019 state...

Rishi Sunak, a front-runner for PM’s post in Britain

So, after a tumultuous battle for few months Boris...

Remembering N Mahalingam (NM)…

The birth centenary of N Mahalingam (NM), founder of...

Rishi Sunak, a front-runner for PM’s post in Britain

So, after a tumultuous battle for few months Boris Johnson has resigned as the Prime Minister of Britain. In less than two decades he...