Page 2 - Interviews

Want to become a 360 degree financial services company: Religare's Saluja

"These are to get into asset reconstruction business, alternative investment fund business, wealth management and similar synergistic business, which the existing management can start"

India team an incubator for Kyndryl's apps, data and AI: Nicolas Sekkaki

"Everything we think about, we can test in India, learn from it, and also help our domestic market to grow, because we have some new skills"

India was world's No. 1 in handling Covid: Apollo Hospitals founder

In a Q&A, Prathap Chandra Reddy talks about the need to focus on medical tourism and medical education to meet the demand of 18 million professionals in the sector by 2030

We are focused on our users, competitors on us: Ola Electric's Aggarwal

We have disrupted the traditional business model of OEMs and the traditional cosy business relations that this industry has had, says Bhavish Aggarwal, Ola, Co-Founder & CEO

It's a blank canvas now... will make up my mind: TCS CEO & MD Gopinathan

'You can always look at any number as a parameter and create a trend. It's more like horses for courses'

India likely to overtake America in 5G roll-out by year-end: Ericsson CEO

'We are the biggest contributor to the standards of O-RAN', said Börje Ekholm

Lenovo will end FY23 with over 5 mn made-in-India products: MD Katyal

'For smartphones, India became the second largest market in the world around five years ago'

India as a delivery hub is very significant for us: RWS Holdings CEO

"As a source of talent, both for linguists and technology talent, India is important"

Aiming to double India portfolio to $8 bn in 3-4 yrs: CapitaLand India CEO

In a Q&A, Gauri Shankar Nagabhushanam also dwells on his company's ESG focus and why there is a lot of interest India despite the global headwinds

We hope to capture 5% of the market by 2025: Skoda's Piyush Arora

We project an automotive growth of 6-7 per cent a year in the next decade and electrification growing between 15 and 25 per cent in that time

'We haven't seen much traction in foreign universities coming to India'

We are also building an international collaboration metric into our next edition of the QS World University Rankings, says Ben Sowter, Senior Vice President, Quacquarelli Symonds

No slowdown in FY24 tractor sales even if El Nino hits: John Deere's Jagtap

The India head of the US farm equipment firm feels overall tractor sales might see a slight dip in FY23, after a good FY22

We plan to capture just 4% of mkt in 4 yrs: Prestige Estates' Irfan Razack

'Currently, we are committed to building an annuity portfolio from the present Rs 460 crore in FY23 to Rs 3,000 crore by FY28'

We never stopped hiring in India, says IBM India MD Sandip Patel

While there are pockets of recessionary tendencies that we see in different parts of the world, I believe that India is in a good spot, says IBM India MD Sandip Patel

India is a key country for our regional strategy: Ivanhoe Cambridge MD

India is a key country for our regional strategy as we aim at steady growth in the Asia-Pacific region, says Chanakya Chakravarthi, MD, Ivanhoe Cambridge

Setting up green ammonia plant in India: Essar group's Prashant Ruia

"The project will be funded through both debt and equity and we will approach banks in India and abroad for debt"

We will look at a wider spectrum of Green economy companies: Renuka Ramnath

Consistent with that strategy, we feel that "clean mobility" is going to be a space that will create growth

Q3 results in line with expectations, banks only outliers: Anand Shah

'Banks were an exception, as they exceeded expectations on all fronts'

RIL will give us scale, can negotiate better with suppliers: METRO MD & CEO

The B2B model that METRO Cash and Carry is focussed on has a lot of opportunities in the Indian market, says METRO Cash & Carry MD & CEO Arvind Mediratta

FPI flows will get better only in medium to long term: Kotak AMC president

Looking from a medium-to-long term perspective, India is well positioned to deliver growth, both from the economy and equity market point of view