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Quick Commerce – Your wish, is my command….

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

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

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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

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....

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...

Thirty more cities seek to become SMART

The banking sector has a crucial role to play in implementing the ambitious plan for developing smart cities. Providing adequate financial support for private investment...

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...

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...

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...

PSUs – Stem the rot before mergers

Another clutch of 197 banks, known as Regional Rural Banks, promoted jointly by the Central government, the state governments and the lead banks in...

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...

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,...

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R&D – Seeding a culture of research and innovation

The corner office, khawa tea and conversations with Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala (AJ) are a true detox for both the mind and soul. Though several...

Faster approvals and IP rights will foster R&D…

Arun Mahesh Babu M S, IAS (AM), MD, Gujarat Power Corporation and MD, Uttar Gujarat Vij has more than 14 years of experience in...

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

Rajesh Subramaniam(RS) founded embedUR in 2004 and the company is known for its cutting edge products serving clients who are among the Fortune 500...

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...