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At a dinner that she hosted for financial journalists, post the presentation of Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman explained one of the reasons behind the government's decision to issue foreign currency debt. Given the tight liquidity

Q. The biggest challenge you faced in your career A. The biggest challenge was also the biggest opportunity for me. I was entrusted with transforming the company to Sify 3.0. So, I had to play four roles at the same time. First, it was plumbing, whic

A decade after the Lehman Brothers crash, which triggered off a global financial contagion, central bankers and governments around the world are well aware of how quickly panic and tight liquidity can spread and threaten the entire economy. The gov

The revolutionary Samsung Galaxy Fold is finally ready for a release after screen troubles had disrupted its launch earlier this year. Samsung said that it was conducting final product tests to make Galaxy Fold available to consumers starting from Se

1) The Founders Kundan Shahi, Mahendra Singh, Syed Asif Iqbal and Himanshu Kesari; all of them are from diverse backgrounds such as law, insurance, technology and consultancy. 2) The Concept In 2016, the co founders launched their first start up call

What is common between Pankaj Patel, Chairman of India's fourth largest drug firm Cadila Healthcare (also known as Zydus Cadila), and other doyens of India's drug industry like erstwhile Ranbaxy's late Parvinder Singh, Dr Reddy's founder late Dr Anji

IF Facebook social media 1.0 was about connecting with friends and family, new social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram social media 2.0 attracted content creators, influencers and followers. Now the social network is moving to ve

There was more than usual interest among Indian diplomats in the deliberations of the US Senate in the first week of July. Amendments to the US's National Defence Authorisation Act were being debated, one of which would put India, from the US perspec

After giving a mighty push to the less cash economy, digital governance seems to be the next big thing on the current government's agenda, going by what Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. The finance minister told Parliament "the existing

How much do coffee growers make from a cup coffee that costs $4 on streets of New York or London?" asks Srivatsa Krishna, Chairman and CEO, Coffee Board of India. Based on street shopping experience, I say 50 cents. He asks me to take another guess.

The government is considering a Rs 74,000 crore package for revival of sick state run BSNL and MTNL. A Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Home Minister Amit Shah, is reportedly deliberating on ways to monetise assets. The bailout package, say report

For the past 26 years, K. Munisamy, 50, has been following a routine. Every morning, in a blue shirt and trousers, he starts work at one of the milling units of an auto parts maker in Chennai. He clocks in eight hours before going home. "During good

Mumbai based Rajni Thakur is an economist working for RBL Bank. She spends 40 per cent of her work time interacting with clients hailing from automotive, start up, software, textiles and other sectors, and every week helps 150 odd clients take calls

Jennifer Salke joined as head of Amazon Prime Video over a year ago. Since last year, the former NBC president has been positioning Amazon Prime Video as a global home for high quality content. She has spent the last few months strengthening not just

Mental health has always been the proverbial elephant in the room Indian corporate houses would never acknowledge that their people's well being and productivity could be affected by mental health issues. Worse still, mental illnesses could affect

For years now, we have come across bulky MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines, those enormous and somewhat intimidating chunks of infrastructure which would often make us panicky. Still astonishing is their ability to capture detailed images of

Do we still trust tech giants after the massive privacy violation on Facebook? Virtual assistants are already under fire as the likes of Alexa have been eavesdropping on us all the while. And the latest threat seems to come from Google. Its parent co

Published some time ago, Privacy 3.0 is three books thoughtfully packaged into one. However, not much has been written about it for a couple of reasons the complex techno legal nature of the topic and the raging controversies over data privacy issu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a visit to Japan for the 13th annual bilateral summit in October 2018, was hosted by his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe for a private dinner at Abe's ancestral home in Yamanashi. It was the first such reception for a

India's economic engagement with the world may have begun in right earnest after the liberalisation of the economy in 1991 but the country's ties with Japan go further back. India is considered a difficult market for outsiders but in consumer centric

NASSCOM, the apex trade association of companies that offer information technology (IT) services from India, is getting ready to take a 20 member delegation of Indian start up firms to Tokyo on a fund raising mission in August. The number of applican

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the government body that coordinates the official development assistance (ODA) given by Japan to other nations, has an illustrative map to provide a glimpse of projects in India that it is supporting. On

One of the policy priorities of the current Narendra Modi government is the continuation of high economic growth. Further vitalisation of economic activity is essential to become a $5 trillion economy by 2025 and grow into one of the largest economie