Awareness, Guidance Key to Retirement Planning: V. Vaidyanathan
IDFC First Bank has seen remarkable success in 2023, riding on impressive financial performance, with deposits growing at 40% thanks to customer-friendly banking initiatives and tools. In an exclusive interview, V. Vaidyanathan, managing director and chief executive officer of IDFC First Bank, speaks about the importance of retirement planning early in life, the emotions of those concerned and the tools for retirement planning which can provide financial security and peace of mind
Suchetana Ray - February 29, 2024
The Nowhere Men & Women: How India Abandoned 14 Crore Citizens on a Policy Paper
The government of India runs the world’s biggest food security scheme, which provides free ration to more than 80 crore people. The scheme has won Prime Minister Narendra Modi accolades. But what if we realise that there are over 14 crore people who have been omitted from the benefit of this scheme because the government has not counted Indian citizens in over a decade? Can its intransigence break the welfare structure of governance?
Rajat Mishra - August 28, 2023
Who Cares for Workers Inside Dark Indian Factories?
Small and medium manufacturing establishments offer little physical or social security to their teeming workforce. They rarely followed the welfare provisions of old laws. With new labour codes in place, there is a mismatch between the government’s ambition to make India a manufacturing hub and the material condition of its workers
Rajat Mishra - May 30, 2023
India's Millet Metrics
Millets are being hailed as the answer to food and nutrition insecurity as well as climate concerns. With the UN announcing 2023 as the International Year of Millets, they are getting the long-due attention, but to realise their actual potential, they will need more
Naina Gautam - May 30, 2023
Providing Identity And Security
The company helps enterprise and government build an innovative future using RFID to manage their business. It has come a long way in ensuring that people, places, assets and things have a secure identity.
August 13, 2022
Borders of Metaverse
The space between real and virtual worlds is set to get murkier with national and municipal governance bodies gearing up to enter metaverse. But will the promising virtual world be a borderless state or replicate the hostilities and excessive regulation of the real world?
Harsh Kumar - May 31, 2022
Shades Of New Energy
As the world searches for new forms of clean energy to meet carbon emission cut targets, India does not want to miss the green hydrogen bus. Its two richest industrialists want to create independent ecosystems to produce the new fuel. What does this mean for India’s energy security and net-zero targets?
Suchetana Ray - May 28, 2022
Cyber Net Of Crypto Criminals
Criminals are perpetually on the lookout for gullible victims—who are lax with cybersecurity—and view the crypto sector as the new golden goose
Jeevan Prakash Sharma - February 27, 2022
How Energy Secured Are We?
Ballooning fuel prices, low oil & gas production, GST woes and over estimation of green power. Result: India’s energy security remains a distant dream. Is anyone listening?
Neeraj Thakur - October 31, 2021
Digital offices layered with hacker-resistant security are selling like hot cakes
Vendors, big and small, are tweaking their products and adding layers of security to haul in gold from the WFH rush
Anishaa Kumar - November 20, 2020