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Samsung facing taxing moments

PROBLEMS NEVER COME singly, it is often said. This South Korean electronics and smartphone major seems to be chased by problems of one kind...

PEs & VCs keep betting on Indian firms

THERE HAS BEEN an 8 per cent rise in investment by private equity-venture capital firms in Indian companies in the first three months of...

A close encounter with FM

ITC WELCOME HOTEL at Cathedral Road in Chennai saw top leaders of the business world congregate for a face-to-face meeting with the union finance...

Lux, a repository of productivity techniques

It was August 2005. I visited Davis, CA and was guest of Chithra and Dr Lux Lakshmanan of California Agriculture Consulting Services. Over the...

Turkey and Iran overtake India

When Dr V Sumantran, the renowned automotive and aerospace technologist, was a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he was shown an...

Good translation comes from good basic science…

An Interview with Dr G Padmanabhan, former Director IISc and Chancellor CUTN There is a faculty mindset of publication of a paper as the end...

Rehumanising the poor

Lazy. Desperate. Helpless. Resilient. Resourceful. Undeserving. All over the world, the ways in which our societies view the poor are mired with stereotypes. Those of...

End of dominance of fossil fuels?

World is going through an energy transition. The end of the dominance of fossil fuels is on the horizon. The role of oil in...

Continue CSR spend in higher learning and research…

If at least 25 per cent of the CSR spend by corporates is donated to institutions of higher learning and research, we can expect...

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Air India flies a socialistic path!

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