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In the fast lane: Meet Vikram Chopra, Co-founder and CEO, Cars24

With his pre-owned cars business having almost doubled in valuation and expanding into newer areas, Chopra takes Pavan Lall through his life's journey, which has been 'bleisure' all the way

We saw zero losses through two waves of Covid: Alteria's Vinod Murali

Alteria Capital is on track to commit over $200 mn of venture debt this year

Next quarter onwards, hope to see positive growth: PNB Housing Finance CEO

On the retail side, for eight quarters, our portfolio shrank, but this quarter has witnessed flat growth, said CEO Prasad

Chip shortage has given big boost to our used-car biz: BMW Group India CEO

BMW Group India had planned to launch 28 products this year: 15 BMW; five MINI; and eight Motorrad, said CEO Pawah

Trust is essential to adoption of AI: Gargi Dasgupta of IBM Research India

In a Q&A, the firm's director dwells on the impact of climate change on business output and how her company's Environmental Intelligence Suite aims to reduce this risk

We've distributed Rs 4,800 cr over past 10 quarters: Embassy REIT Dy CEO

In a Q&A, Vikaash Khdloya talks about how demand is reviving in the office space segment as it comes out of the pandemic hit

Sir Ronald Cohen: Saving humanity in his autumn years

A peek into the life and times of Sir Ronald Cohen, author of bestselling book 'Impact'

East or west, we can now raise money from anywhere: Paytm's Vijay Sharma

In conversation with Deepsekhar Choudhury and Neha Alawadhi, Sharma speaks about his journey and the road ahead

We have learnt to live with attrition: Rajesh Nambiar of Cognizant India

In a Q&A, the company's CMD also dwells on retention mechanisms and growth drivers in a firm that beat Q3CY21 estimates despite 33% attrition

Serum Alliance will give revenue stream from H2FY23: Biocon Biologics exec

In a Q&A, Shreehas Tambe talks about the road ahead for the firm's biosimilars business and how its alliance with Serum is projected to pan out

The market has become a lot more real of late: PB Fintech's Dahiya, Bansal

The company is looking to raise Rs 5,700 crore at a Rs 44,000-crore valuation

We're building incentive warchest to curb attrition: Tech Mahindra leaders

In a Q&A, MD-CEO C P Gurnani and marketing head Harshvendra Soin talk about growth drivers, managing supply side constraints and how acquisition is aiding access to key talent

We entered an otherwise hard market with Suburban deal: Dr Lal Pathlabs MD

In a Q&A, Om Manchanda says the firm is now growing organically in the Southern market, but is open to inorganic opportunities there

'The approach to credit underwriting has to change', says Lendingkart CEO

'Lendingkart has always focussed on leveraging the available technological tools to build capabilities that will be required in scaling up operations', says Harshvardhan Lunia

May have to absorb some of last quarter's severe cost hike: JSW Steel Jt MD

In a Q&A, Seshagiri Rao, who is also group CFO, says the firm could introduce a surcharge to pass on the spike, but may still absorb $90-100 cost per tonne of coking coal in Q3

'Expect things to get normal for multiplexes by Q4FY22,' says PVR MD

Ajay Bijli tells Business Standard multiplexes will thrive by Q4 if 100% capacity is restored and third Covid wave doesn't happen

Metaverse exceeds current virtual reality simulations tenfold: Sinha, Kumar

The metaverse is yet to become a reality but many industry leaders are obsessed with the idea

We hired 1,200 freshers last quarter, will hire 2,000 more: L&T Tech chief

In a Q&A, the CEO and Managing Director of L&T Technology Services, Amit Chadham spoke about attrition, the way forward and the Covid impact on business

Vaccine working on new variants next challenge: SII CEO Adar Poonawalla

'We are delivering 220 million doses a month, and almost everything is being consumed', said Poonawalla

Not looking at big-bang buys, just small tuck-ins: HCL Tech MD & CEO

C Vijayakumar speaks about the way forward and the demand scenario for HCL Tech's business