Bagchi moved to ICICI Prudential Life Insurance in June 2023, weeks after he stepped down as chairman of the group's asset management company. The insurer is a listed company and one of India's largest private life insurers
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UPI has made payments easier for consumers and cheaper for merchants. But with a new MDR on some transactions above ₹2,000, the cost of accepting UPI, cards and cash is set to look different for businesses
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Tata and Hero face different challenges but raise a shared question: as companies grow, where should power sit and who should be accountable?
Harshavardhan Chitale spearheads two-wheeler king Hero MotoCorp’s quest to conquer new territories and defend its market leadership
Harshavardhan Chitale, chief executive, Hero MotoCorp, talks to Yuthika Bhargava and Fazal Rahim about the two-wheeler maker's growth strategy—multi-brand electric vehicle (EV) bets via Vida and Ather, the push into premium motorcycles and scooters
Deloitte India's Rajat Mahajan and Atul Jairaj say that for legacy automakers, success will depend on converting core capabilities into new sources of competitive advantage
A boardroom rift at Tata Sons exposes tensions around leadership, control and a potential listing, putting its unusual ownership and governance model under scrutiny
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Foreign selling, elevated US bond yields, high crude prices and a weak rupee have battered large-caps, even as domestic liquidity keeps mid- and small-caps relatively resilient
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Pronab Sen, in an interview with Outlook Business, says the bigger concern with the new GDP series is not just the sharp downward revision to past growth estimates but the lack of transparency over the data and methodology behind it
Inflation risks are rising because of a confluence of food, fuel and imported price pressures, and testing monetary policy’s ability to engineer a soft landing
