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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

PAT FOR REPAT

R S Isabella is Managing Director of Repco Bank and Repco Micro Finance Ltd and a Director in Repco Home Finance Ltd. This socially...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Scandal: YES Bank with NO Kapoor

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has bared its teeth again. Its axe fell on the captain of Yes Bank. As a watchdog of Indian...

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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...

R&D to solve public health problem – Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is greater appreciation about the drivers and determinants of our health. To achieve the sustainable development...

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...