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WELL, US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has pushed the entire world into a war of an unusual kind. It will take a while to comprehend...

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Dixon to make HP laptops in Tamil Nadu

AS THE WORLD is wobbling under the Trump-induced trade...

TRUMPetting Tariffs

WELL, US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has pushed the entire...

Rafiq’s Relentless Vision

THE REASONS AREN’T far to seek. The credit for...

Trust drives TSM…

ESTABLISHED WAY BACK in 1935, TSM is a testimony...

Fifth Avenue sees scope to expand in Tiruppur

CHAIRMAN PROMODH SHARMA (PS), a first division cricketer in...

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Turbocharging GCCs

GCCs are not a new phenomenon for India or...

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...

Banking

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,...

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...

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....

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...

RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points

The decision was made during the first Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of the financial year 2025-26, held from April 7-9.  In a parallel move...

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...

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,...

Profitability: A decade of decay

Litigation is a long-drawn process dampening the profitability of banks. For years to come, PSU banks may not be able to present strong balance...

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Fifth Avenue sees scope to expand in Tiruppur

CHAIRMAN PROMODH SHARMA (PS), a first division cricketer in the 1990s, had founded the company even before turning 30. This year, the firm is...

Will It All Come Trump-ling Down?

Behind the poetic chaos lies a very real disruption. On what he dubbed “Liberation Day,” the president of the world’s largest economy unveiled a...

Driving innovation and de-carbonisation

RP HAS BEEN the face of Danfoss in India. He has been with the company for 24 years and serves as the President now....

Education

When Left takes the Right

IT’S UNTHINKABLE. T h e Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Gov­ernment in Kerala has left the past behind. And, it has cho­sen to...

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...

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Samsung facing taxing moments

PROBLEMS NEVER COME singly, it is often said. This...

PEs & VCs keep betting on Indian firms

THERE HAS BEEN an 8 per cent rise in...

A close encounter with FM

ITC WELCOME HOTEL at Cathedral Road in Chennai saw...

When Left takes the Right

IT’S UNTHINKABLE. T h e Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Gov­ernment...

Air India flies a socialistic path!

IS IT AN egalitarian exercise? Or, is it simply...

When Left takes the Right

IT’S UNTHINKABLE. T h e Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Gov­ernment in Kerala has left the past behind. And, it has cho­sen to move towards the...