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Keeping pace with Karthik Muralidharan, the 'Shinkansen' economist

Anjuli Bhargava races to keep pace with Muralidharan's breakneck speed train of thought on effective governance

We made significant progress in bolstering our balance sheet: Onkar Kanwar

The strategy going forward is really to sweat our assets and get our utilisation levels to reach 90-95% in all our plants, said Kanwar

Expect top-line growth to return from March quarter: N S Kannan

We were an 82 per cent ULIP company but today we are at 48 per cent. So, we have been able to transform the product mix, says ICICI Prudential Life Insurance's Kannan

Strong demat account addition is here to stay: Ravi Kumar of Upstox

In a Q&A, the Co-Founder and CEO of Upstox explains what has propelled the growth and the company's ambitious tie up with IPL

It's about time India put into law policy on data protection: Nader Henein

Businesses get help when local legislation aligns with standards set in European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, says the senior Gartner executive.

Queer at the workplace: Parmesh Shahani nudges companies to be inclusive

Shahani dreams of an India where being queer is a non-issue, says Chintan Girish Modi

50% of our revenues will come from next-gen technologies by 2025: HCL CEO

If you look at HCL's history, we come from a product engineering background and over the years have created thousands of products for our customers, says HCL CEO Vijayakumar

The focus for Spencer's Retail is profitable growth: Shashwat Goenka

We want to ensure that the new stores we open become profitable from the first year itself and add to the bottomline, said Goenka

Restructuring will make us stronger after Covid: Coca-Cola India chief

Sanket Ray talks about a massive global restructuring that Coca-Cola is undergoing amid Covid-induced disruptions

Scrapping policy will depend on integrity of fitness centres: R C Bhargava

The policy statement for the first time recognises that there is a need to ensure that vehicles are fit for continued use, says Bhargava

Expansion in newer business will reduce funding dependence: Coal India CMD

Competition from private players is not a worrying factor for CIL. Their role will be complementary to ours, said Pramod Agarwal

High demand in luxury car market will sustain: Mercedes India CEO Schwenk

We think these new products drove in customer confidence into the brand and our customers appreciated this momentum, said Schwenk

Govt should earmark 10% of CSR for skill development: L&T's A M Naik

Large industries do not have to collaborate with NSDC or government organisations because they have created training centres, says Naik

'We want to be the leading hybrid cloud, AI player in world': IBM India MD

Sandip Patel talks about rising importance of IBM India's research centre and other things related to the tech giant

ONGC wants to reduce cycle from discovery to production, says chairman

State-owned company will hand over 49 oil fields to private players and is discussing listing its foreign subsidiary, says Shashi Shanker.

Amalgamation has led to all-round gains for merged entity: Indian Bank MD

In a Q&A, Padmaja Chundru says issues like equal stature of Allahabad Bank and Indian Bank and retirement of 10 GMs were addressed fairly with continuous communication with staff and customers

Cloud Paks allow clients to easily move to the cloud: IBM's Natarajan

SUBRAM NATARAJAN, Director and CTO, Technical Sales, IBM Technology Sales, India/South Asia, tells Neha Alawadhi the broad contours of how Cloud Paks will help Indian enterprises

Outside of US, India one of the most critical markets for Zoom: Sameer Raje

With India being one of the most critical markets for Zoom outside of the US, Raje tells Samreen Ahmad the company has a continued focus on expansion

Interested in asset monetisation, next-gen road projects: IFC A-Pac head

"There are a very few countries in the world today like India which has decades of experience, through the PPP space, and having systematised, standardised contracts in the road, energy sector"

Teams will make sure it's a transparent auction: U Mumba's Ronnie Screwvala

The tender document has been divided into four divisions. You can bid for one of the parts or the total package