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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...

👑 Heatwaves alone might cost India 4.5 % of its GDP – Trupti Mishra, Professor, IIT Bombay

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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

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...

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...

KVB: the beautiful digital move of a small bank

Several small commercial banks in the private sector have been taking extensive recourse to technology and have come out with excellent results. The 102-year old...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PATI, PATNI AUR WOH

All bad things do not happen for a good reason. And they occur in an unplanned way. Who would have imagined Padma Bhushan Chanda...

HDFC Bank – Birth of a financial services conglomerate

HDFC, the largest Housing Finance institution, (started as a specialised mortgage company in 1977), fostered and nurtured and now handed over to HDFC Bank,...

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Productivity, People, Technology… – Balakumar T K, COO, Big Basket

IE: Can you brief the Big Basket story? Balakumar T K (TKB): Big Basket has been at the forefront of online grocery delivery for over...

Automobiles: The EV-olution

The automobile industry stands at an important juncture. For over two centuries it enjoyed unparalleled growth with the internal combustion engine (ICE). But now,...

Task force’s strategy for powering EV success – Thiru Srinivasan, Senior Advisor, EV Sector, FaMe TN

Thiru Srinivasan (TS) has over 30 years’ experience in the field of mechanical engineering. He had first hand witnessed how industries changed the landscape...

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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...