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R&D – Focussing on tier-2 and 3 cities is necessary…

Rajesh Subramaniam(RS) founded embedUR in 2004 and the company...

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...

Triumph, turmoil and the tumultuous tumble

As of November 2023, WeWork had 4400 employees, which...

Tamil Nadu – Charging ahead an electric revolution

Tamil Nadu, already a frontrunner in the green energy...

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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

Mighty resolutions, measly recoveries

Banks have got accustomed to swallowing the bitter pill in bad loan cases. With every other IBC resolution popping out of the NCLT, the...

Less-known local area banks

One bank per state would be the norm. The winds of change will blow away the remaining local area banks. In India, three local area...

Guide banks to absorb and adopt technology

There is a growing public perception that all NPAs are the result of fraudulent practices. This is not true. Mortality is part of enterprise....

Payment banks have arrived

One crucial implication of payments and bank business would be the drastic decline in the footfalls at the branches. Even several ATMs may find...

Kerala floods threaten to drown banking

Nature’s fury has destroyed Kerala’s wealth substantially, both financially and physically. Assets, more particularly private assets, built over the years have been wiped out....

Triveni Sangam: lipstick on a pig?

Want to rescue a sick bank? Well, merge it with a healthy one. There is a convincing case for the merger of Indian banks...

Will ‘bad banks’ create good banks?

The bad bank is a differentiated bank, dealing only with NPAs. No, it’s not a bank that is evil. India’s bad loan problem has become...

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,...

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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R&D to solve public health problem – Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is greater appreciation about the drivers and determinants of our health. To achieve the sustainable development...

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

The biotech industry is witnessing unprecedented demand on many fronts. Change is taking place at the speed of light. AI and ML are revolutionising...

AI dawns – Dr. Srinivasa Kosiganti, Enterprise Architect, SBU ASV, Tech Mahindra

In 2024, AI and ML will revolutionise healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education and more. At the heart of this transformation is the ability...

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...