Tiruppur is rebounding from recent setbacks. February 2024 saw a 5.5 per cent increase in export turnover compared to Feb 2023. March 2024 is also expected to show further improvements. With 20,000 units in apparel production and ancillary units, Tiruppur employs 1 million, 65 per cent of them are women. K M Subramaniam, President, tiruppur Exporters Association, discusses future prospects with IE.
The corner office, khawa tea and conversations with Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala (AJ) are a true detox for both the mind and soul. Though several accolades including the Padmashri crowd his feathered hat, a thriving and major impact that he has created is the IITM Research Park (IITM RP). It enables several deep tech companies to create a similar effect on the society. And this interaction begins from his interesting looking shoe.
Arun Mahesh Babu M S, IAS (AM), MD, Gujarat Power Corporation and MD, Uttar Gujarat Vij has more than 14 years of experience in the government sector. His expertise ranges across project management, strategic planning and international exposure to implement development programmes. He has received several awards from the government of India, Gujarat and from recognised institutions for his work in skills development, programme implementation, education, health and digital governance.
Rajesh Subramaniam(RS) founded embedUR in 2004 and the company is known for its cutting edge products serving clients who are among the Fortune 500 network and telecom equipment providers.
Sankha Som (SS), Chief Innovation Evangelist, TCS, leads a team that takes TCS’ research and innovation to clients globally. He also oversees the insights, foresights and marketing functions for corporate research and innovation. He has more than 15 years of experience in R&D and innovation in the IT sector.
After finding a global voice and position, the youngest nation in the world has shifted its focus, rightly towards research and innovation. The interim union budget 2024-25 laid a strong foundation with the announcement of a corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore to bolster the research and innovation ecosystem of the country. But more needs to be done.
Insurance sector has been under the scrutiny of government agencies for some time now. First the GST authorities raised a huge demand running into tens of thousands of crores. Then the IT department scrutinized various transactions to verify tax evasion.
Cloobot Techlabs, a Chennai based tech company has developed a prompt based no-code workflow builder named Cloobot X, aimed to cut down development time and overcome limitations of current no-code applications.
