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Three decades is a long time. For those of us who were in journalism thirty years ago, the changes India has witnessed in the business and economic environment over the years have been nothing short of dramatic. I remember, as cub reporters on the st

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The pandemic has not only altered the country’s economic trajectory, it has also brought to the fore the need to focus on social infrastructure. For long, nature has been warning us to shift towards sustainable growth models. Government policy and di

India of 2021 is dramatically different from the India of early 2020, not just because of the massive health crisis that we’re facing globally, but equally because of a generational shift that has happened over the last one year as a result of an exp

The performance of India’s economy during the past few quarters has been good, despite the considerable uncertainty created by the second wave of Covid-19. Notwithstanding these continuing challenges, the country looks set to register impressive grow

I recently among webinar with a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Sitamarhi, Bihar. Instead of pursuing studies overseas or seeking a government or corporate job, this young entrepreneur established a start-up that provides a unique service. It helps oth

The onset of the pandemic had a devastating effect on the economy last year. The national lockdown, uncertainty over vaccine development and dealing with a completely unknown event which had no precedent in the modern era led to an understandable pes

After years of steady and gradual growth, global adoption of blockchain and crypto accelerated during the pandemic. Facing uncertainty in a turbulent world economy, more people than ever before turned to crypto for the first time. Last year, Bitcoin

“We are extremely proud of our achievers who took the path to be extraordinary and reached the top of the peak! Their success will encourage many other aspirants to unleash their potential and scale up the peak of success as TATA AIA Life continues i

Large-scale health catastrophes aren’t new. The world has already witnessed a series of epidemics, including SARS, MERS, Ebola and Zika. But Covid-19 is different, a pandemic that swarmed the planet at one go, leaving no place for us humans to take r

In a virtual international conference last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed India’s pharmaceutical industry as an asset not just for India but the entire world. From manufacturing generics to highly complex formulations to biosimilars and sp

Sameer Penakalapati, while working as a software programmer, got thinking about how a project’s success or failure depends on the team working on it. Welcome to ‘talent acquisition’! “I then realised that building teams and talent is something I want

To work in a post-Covid world is what psychologist Robin Hogarth called a wicked learning environment, one where the rules keep changing, players keep changing, patterns and relationships keep changing, goals keep changing and feedback is often inacc

The last eighteen months have been a peculiar time for Indian financial markets and its participants. We saw one of the most serious market corrections during this period followed by a strong unidirectional bull run. The way the markets have moved si

As a policy, the State strives to ensure faster adoption of sustainable and clean mobility solutions and transform Maharashtra into a leading statef9r EV adoption. Maharashtra envisions to be the leading manufacturing and investment hub for the EV ec

We were speaking about supply side incentives and demand side incentives, bringing out to the world the lucrative offers and incentives it holds for battery manufacturers, EV manufactures and for those who would buy and use an electric vehicle. This

Many have argued that India can still take a while before rolling out 5G. What’s your take on that? We are a little bit behind the curve in rolling out the 5G, but there has been significant progress. There is ample reason to be optimistic, as there

National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is a leader in fashion education, integrating knowledge, academic freedom, and creative thinking. NIFT, set up in 1986 under the aegis of Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, is an autonomous stat

While India is the largest consumer of silk and the second largest producer of silk, for years the country has depended on imports, mainly from China, to meet its domestic demand for international quality silk yarn. The estimated demand of internatio

The cluster approach adopted by the Haryana Government has yielded rich dividends. Several success stories emanating from this approach are doing the rounds. The Ambala Sheet Metal cluster is one of them. The Ambala Sheet Metal Cluster has about 800

India’s start-up ecosystem is a global success story where the synergies and active collaboration across geographies have contributed significantly. The country’s start-ups have even defied all odds brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many Indian te

Our Covid-19 vaccine shot is no less a supply-chain miracle than it is a medical one — moving billions of vials around the world, in the right ambient conditions, with complete track-and-trace, and the ability to match the ‘arm to the vial-code’. The

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” This quote by John W. Gardner — one of the giants of public service, philanthropy and education — came to mind when the Covid-19 pandemic forc

‘Digitising India’ is a deceptively pithy use of words that belies the incredible complexity of mapping onto technology the many disparate levers that work in concert to help a country of this size to run. That said, if this attempt isn’t the true ze

As Mirabai Chanu 21-year-old wait for the second Olympic medal in weightlifting, one can resonate with what writer and philosopher Sun Tzu famously said, “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” Resilience is an imperative, as nobody k

THE The consumption story of India will only become stronger moving forward. Aspirations are rapidly converging between urban and rural India due to the advent of the internet and smartphones that have significantly bridged the information divide bet

Choices are all around us. In the last 18 months, all of us have had to make choices beyond the ordinary. Personally, making choices and implementing them to revolutionise the future is a promising and endearing prospect. Going digital has gone from

India is set to witness a boom in the electricity sector. As things stand, India ranks third globally in both electricity production and consumption. However, our per-capita consumption is a shade over 1,200 kWh (kilowatt-hours), which is a third of

Ranita Gupta tried to log on to the new income tax portal to file her income tax return (ITR). She could not do so as she did not receive the OTP on her registered mobile number. Akhilesh Singh did manage to sign in and file the ITR. But the acknowle