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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TVS Motor racing ahead in E3W – Automobile

The TVS King EV Max is equipped with a...

Hard options before RBI – Banking

Rhetoric has given way to reality. Preventing a slowdown...

Precision, Prevention & Progress – Apollo Digital – Smart CRL

Apollo Hospitals marked a significant milestone  with the inauguration...

From noodles to networks

One thing, however, is clear. He is passionate about...

Between hype and hard truths – Startups

The startup mahakumbh provided a platform for networking, pitching...

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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

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...

Staff-less banks and tech savvy customers…

Indian banking landscape has evolved over the years. Last few decades have brought in unprecedented developments, in the way a customer conducts financial transactions....

Sense and Sustainability… Pragya Panda, Financial Consultant

In the ever-evolving landscape of the banking sector, 2024 promises to be a revolutionary one. The sector faces ongoing challenges in managing asset quality,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Unifi Mutual launches hybrid fund

The scheme is ideally suitable for investors looking for low volatile, inflation-beating returns over an investment horizon of two years or more. The new fund...

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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...

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...

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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...