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InvAscent invests Rs 110 crore in Geri Care to pick up minority stake

Founded in 2018 by renowned geriatrician, Dr Lakshmipathy Ramesh,...

AI – The double-edged sword

Efficiency Vs Mass employment The Survey points to the rising...

Corporate Corner August 2024

Be-Rite enters Chennai markets Gemini Edibles and Fats(GEF India) has...

Insurance: Focus on customer and their rights…

GST clarification-a relief for insurers The GST Council took a...

Corporate Corner – July 2024

BIG Tech breaks ground  US-based Corning Incorporated has partnered with...

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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

Unifi Mutual launches hybrid fund

The scheme is ideally suitable for investors looking for low volatile, inflation-beating returns over an investment horizon of two years or more. The new fund...

United Forum of Bank Unions serves one-day strike notice

Ostensibly, the strike move is to demand, among other things, the following. * Adequate recruitment in all cadres. * Regularisation of all temporary employees. * Implementation of a 5-day...

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...

FTX bites the dust, but it isn’t curtains yet for crypto

The cryptocurrency did not fail the business but lack of regulation and transparency of investor’s money did. The latest to fall in the crypto world...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Will work only if there are synergies…

A merger of banks may not merely be an arithmetic sum of the strengths of both banks. In some cases, it may be the...

Cover Story

Evervan Kothari Footwear signs MoU with TN to set up units in Karur and Perambalur

Once fully commissioned, these projects are expected to generate employment opportunities for 50,000 people. The MoU was signed on Wednesday (i.e. February 26) in the presence...

An era set to end at Saint-Gobain India as Santhanam retires on May 5

"I am filled with a sense of gratitude to my colleagues on whose shoulders I have grown, my sponsors who have nurtured me, the...

RBI revises norms for pre-closure charges on certain loans

The apex bank has sought comments on the draft guidelines. "Availability of easy and affordable financing to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) is of paramount importance....

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...