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Knitting together a strong future – K M Subramaniam, President, Tiruppur Exporters Association

Tiruppur is rebounding from recent setbacks. February 2024 saw...

R&D – Focussing on tier-2 and 3 cities is necessary…

Rajesh Subramaniam(RS) founded embedUR in 2004 and the company...

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...

Triumph, turmoil and the tumultuous tumble

As of November 2023, WeWork had 4400 employees, which...

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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

PSUs – Stem the rot before mergers

Another clutch of 197 banks, known as Regional Rural Banks, promoted jointly by the Central government, the state governments and the lead banks in...

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...

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....

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,...

Aadhaar, niraadhaar and banking

Aadhaar is a 12 digit number issued to all citizens in India by the Unique Identification Authority of India. UIDAI claims 93 per cent...

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,...

Profitability: A decade of decay

Litigation is a long-drawn process dampening the profitability of banks. For years to come, PSU banks may not be able to present strong balance...

Mergers: Do we need bigger banks?

Government of India is considering the merger least four public sector banks: Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and Central Bank...

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...

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Imperative need to ramp up R&D

After finding a global voice and position, the youngest nation in the world has shifted its focus, rightly towards research and innovation. The interim...

Interim Budget 2024-25: Identifying thrust areas for Viksit Bharat

Even with the elections just around the corner, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman curtailed doling out special schemes but definitely set a road map to...

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 to be the...

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...