Startup Leaders Envision A Fairer & Sustainable Future For App Stores At Phonepe’s Indus Appstore Launch Event
At the launch of PhonePe's Indus Appstore, a compelling panel discussion delved into the critical issue of sustainable business models for app stores.
March 04, 2024
No. Vijay Shekhar Sharma's Resignation Will Not Save Him
Having fallen out of favour with investors, shareholders and the Reserve Bank of India in recent months, the cause of Paytm’s current woes is the same that led to its initial quick rise—Vijay Shekhar Sharma. By giving up the chairman’s job at Paytm Payments Bank, he is attempting a Bond-like escape from the wrath of the banking regulator. Will he succeed?
Vinita Bhatia - February 29, 2024
Tapan Singhel on Transforming Insurance in the Era of Digital Revolution
Digitisation has touched all industries, and the insurance sector is not far behind. There have been many changes post-Covid, but it is time to understand the next step in this journey. Digitisation has touched all industries, and the insurance sector is not far behind. There have been many changes post-Covid, but it is time to understand the next step in this journey. Tapan Singhel, MD and CEO of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, speaks about how digitisation can enable the interchange of data to develop capabilities that can benefit customers and save millions of lives. Edited excerpts:
Nidhi Sinha - February 29, 2024
Love, Sex and Dhokha at Workplace
Not all office romances have a fairy-tale ending like the Obamas. In some cases, love turns sour and complications arise. No wonder HR honchos dread co-workers falling for each other and then falling apart
Ankita Mookherjee - March 01, 2024
A Nation Stuck Between Missing Jobs and Growth Ambitions
India grapples with a job crisis fuelled by factors including high youth unemployment, educational and skill imbalance and low female participation, among others. In their book, The Elephant Moves: India’s New Place in the World, Amitabh Kant and Amit Kapoor explore India’s economic evolution through the lens of competitiveness, stressing the need for, and challenges to, policy changes in its run to becoming a developed economy by 2047
March 01, 2024
How You End Up Paying for What Farmers are Demanding
Farmers are demanding a legal guarantee of MSP on crops. But MSP is not the silver bullet; over the past two decades, high food inflation has distorted not just the Indian economy but has also affected millions of poor, making India perform poorly on the global hunger index
Ayaan Kartik - February 29, 2024
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Launches PhonePe’s Indus Appstore, India Ka Appstore
Indus Appstore is a native Android-based mobile app store, designed to fulfill the localized and cultural needs of Indian consumers
February 23, 2024
A Deeper Alliance With Deepfake
While it has gained notoriety for its unethical use, deepfake technology has the ability to revolutionise businesses in areas like advertising, education and political campaigning. Regulatory support and greater inclusion in the formal IT sector can lend it the much-needed legitimacy
Nandini Keshari - February 01, 2024
CBAM Knots in India’s Textile Story
Months after the European Union launched the transitional phase of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the textile sector, though not yet included in the target sectors, in India finds itself highly unprepared for the impact. From challenges posed by environmental compliance demands to rivals’ growth and slow governance support, the industry faces a complex fabric of issues
Ankita Mookherjee - February 01, 2024
Wipro's No to Narayana Murthy: A Rejection That Changed Indian IT Sector’s Face
Before he set up what was to become one of Indian IT sector’s biggest success stories, Narayana Murthy was rejected by Wipro chairman Azim Premji. The Infosys chairman later found out that Premji considered this one of his gravest errors of judgement. In her latest book An Uncommon Love Story, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores little known facets of Murthy’s life and the influential role his wife Sudha played in it
February 01, 2024