Small ones, Big crisis: The vanishing entry car…

Small cars are increasingly slipping out of reach for the average Indian household. R C Bhargava, Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, and a...

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KICL’s gesture towards differently-abled persons

These six are given employment in one of its units...

A strong comeback

Like Indian Bank, this, too, is an iconic name....

Where institutions survive …

Chennai is a fascinating city. Comeback stories of remarkable...

Indian Bank Hits New Highs

The fiscal year ending 31 March 2025 marked a...

TAFE Pulls A Surprise On AGCO, Gives Up Board Position

In the fast-evolving environment, the winning strategy is defined...

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India must play active role on world stage: Tirumurti

He began by outlining how the international order built...

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...

Banking

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...

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...

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...

RBI bats for growth, cuts Repo rate

Repo rate is the interest rate at which banks borrow money from the RBI. It is also known as the repurchase agreement rate. The Repo...

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...

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,...

Triveni Sangam: lipstick on a pig?

Want to rescue a sick bank? Well, merge it with a healthy one. There is a convincing case for the merger of Indian banks...

Indian Bank Hits New Highs

The fiscal year ending 31 March 2025 marked a milestone in the history of Chennai-headquartered public sector lender Indian Bank, as it reported a...

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Investing in villages, the Venu Srinivasan way

HOW TO REHABILITATE the village ecosystem? Once Venu Srinivasan found an answer to this, he went on a mission mode. It is now three...

Brand CSK does a star act in small towns

THE INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE (IPL) is in its 18th year. The longevity speaks for its popularity. Ever since the advent of IPL, the sporting...

Trust drives TSM…

ESTABLISHED WAY BACK in 1935, TSM is a testimony to the entrepreneurial spirit of the business world in Tamil Nadu. Significantly enough, it also...

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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Playing a rescue act

This one has almost gone into oblivion. But a...

Giving up a passion

Courage, thy name is N Srinivasan. A fighter to...

Going national

This group almost ran the risk of collapse when...

Where institutions survive …

Chennai is a fascinating city. Comeback stories of remarkable...

Samsung facing taxing moments

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

Where institutions survive …

Chennai is a fascinating city. Comeback stories of remarkable kinds are countless in this capital city of Tamil Nadu. In a way, these speak...