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IMF Outlook April – The world looks in order, for near term

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Building economic resilience through technology

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Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services – Mired in suspected fraud

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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

Lighting a lamp

Since nationalisation, banks were directed to function not merely as deposit collectors and lenders, but much more. This add-on was required to change the...

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...

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...

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...

Will ‘bad banks’ create good banks?

The bad bank is a differentiated bank, dealing only with NPAs. No, it’s not a bank that is evil. India’s bad loan problem has become...

Kerala floods threaten to drown banking

Nature’s fury has destroyed Kerala’s wealth substantially, both financially and physically. Assets, more particularly private assets, built over the years have been wiped out....

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...

Guide banks to absorb and adopt technology

There is a growing public perception that all NPAs are the result of fraudulent practices. This is not true. Mortality is part of enterprise....

Will work only if there are synergies…

A merger of banks may not merely be an arithmetic sum of the strengths of both banks. In some cases, it may be the...

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

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...

Potential to upscale Indian R&D

Sankha Som (SS), Chief Innovation Evangelist, TCS, leads a team that takes TCS’ research and innovation to clients globally. He also oversees the insights,...

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...

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...