TN plans modern city near Chennai

Besides proposing a 2,000-acre modern city near Chennai with IT parks, Fin-Tech zones, R&D centres and residential complexes, Thangam Thennarasu also announced in his...

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InvAscent invests Rs 110 crore in Geri Care to pick up minority stake

Founded in 2018 by renowned geriatrician, Dr Lakshmipathy Ramesh,...

AI – The double-edged sword

Efficiency Vs Mass employment The Survey points to the rising...

Corporate Corner August 2024

Be-Rite enters Chennai markets Gemini Edibles and Fats(GEF India) has...

Insurance: Focus on customer and their rights…

GST clarification-a relief for insurers The GST Council took a...

Corporate Corner – July 2024

BIG Tech breaks ground  US-based Corning Incorporated has partnered with...

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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

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,...

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...

Can a SVB type bank failure happen in India?

After the 2008 global financial crisis, bank failures have become common. Since then, central banks have swung into action to strengthen the regulatory mechanism...

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...

Mighty resolutions, measly recoveries

Banks have got accustomed to swallowing the bitter pill in bad loan cases. With every other IBC resolution popping out of the NCLT, the...

Do Banks Count their Numbers?

KYC is a mandatory database required while opening a bank account. PAN and Aadhaar are the two most important elements. However, banks have been...

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...

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...

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...

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City Union Bank in pact with Chennai Super Kings for co-branded credit card ahead of IPL

The co-branded credit card will have exclusive features  such as CSK-themed design, special CSK merchandise offers, reward programmes and robust security. The yellow coloured co-branded...

Trump 2.0 & H-1B Visa Dilemma: A Political Tightrope

In one of the campaign speeches, Trump had indicated that the international students who come to do their master’s and PhD in science and...

Time to talk turkey! Tin the tax audit!

The biggest bounty, the one that made a marked difference to the fortunes of the practicing professionals, came exactly four decades back when tax audit...

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...