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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

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...

Small finance banks offer high interest rates

Several small banks offer higher interest rates to build their resource base. It has a cost implication. Recently, the Reserve Bank of India has given...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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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....

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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...