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What Serum Institute's persistence on Oxford vaccine trials means for India

The company is going ahead regardless of AsraZeneca pausing trials in UK after an adverse impact was reported

Investors can look at dynamic asset allocation funds: DSP Mutual Fund Prez

'Markets have generally been more expensive than the historical averages for some time now', said Parekh

We are never shy of raising tariffs: Vodafone Idea CEO Ravinder Takkar

In a Q&A session with journalists, Takkar says the two independent brands Vodafone and Idea will be phased out, and the legacy of the two companies will reflect in the common brand

Content from Bollywood, other regional languages in pipeline: Cinepolis MD

Javier Sotomayor, managing director, Asia and Middle East spoke to Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on how Cinepolis plans to get back on its feet in India

Confident of achieving debt resolution numbers: IL&FS MD C S Rajan

Edited excerpts from an email interview with C S Rajan, managing director, IL&FS:

Writer, literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil on being Muslim in modern India

Jalil shares her thoughts on interfaith sensitivity versus appeasement politics, the onus of secularism, a gender-just nikahnama and more

Will focus more on insurance and govt digitisation projects: IBM's Patel

IBM'S SANDIP PATEL tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra & Sai Ishwar that India's relevance is only going to increase in the new scheme of things

We'll be profitable again by end of the year: Karan Virwani of WeWork India

In a Q&A, the CEO of the global co-working space company says his firm has been flexible on terms and has also reached out to bigger clients

Physical offices won't disappear anytime soon, says Happiest Minds' Soota

The IT industry veteran said that physical offices would not become a thing of the past despite emergence of 'work from home' and gig-based working models

Double-digit growth in 2020-21 still possible: General Mills V-P & MD

Radhakrishnan shares with Arnab Dutta his views on a range of topics - from GM food to the resurgence of kiranas

Unacademy is like the Netflix for live education: CEO Gaurav Munjal

In an interview with Samreen Ahmad and Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy says the Covid-19 pandemic may have shortened the time the company has taken to achieve $1.45 billion valuation

Affordability a key aspect in India as far as food is concerned: GCMMF MD

We plan to touch Rs 1 trillion of Amul brand's turnover in next five years, says GCMMF MD R S Sodhi

Had to press re-set button to prune fixed, variable costs: Marriott's Govil

Neeraj Govil, senior vice-president, South Asia, Marriott International, tells Shally Seth Mohile that these ancillary businesses helped the firm deepen its engagement with stakeholders

Buying Tata products on super app to fetch benefits, says MD Sunil D'Souza

Sunil D'Souza tells Pavan Lall that the company, with market cap of Rs 51,000 crore, will use a bolt-on engine to reach 'deep rural' markets and sell its products on Tata Group's new 'Super App'

How IndiGo CEO sees aviation shaping up amid worst crisis in history

Dutta is convinced that no matter where we find ourselves today, one cannot go wrong with the Indian aviation market

Edelweiss 'looks to do an HDFC--scale up and list': Group chief Shah

This financial year will be a washout; businesses are keeping an eye on what happens post March 2021: Rashesh Shah, chairman and CEO of Edelweiss group.

Expect biz to hit pre-Covid levels by next summer, says MMT's Rajesh Magow

In June, domestic flight bookings were 5-7 per cent of the pre-Covid-19 levels and now that has gone up to to 25-27 per cent, Magow said

We've grown 2-3 times faster than India's GDP: Honeywell India chief

In a Q&A, Akshay Bellare, the president of Honeywell India, says Covid-19 has come as an opportunity and that he expects double-digit growth in the country over the next five years

No material changes planned in strategy, vision: Sudhir Singh, NIIT Tech

We believe that we will see a very significant uptick in both revenues and margins on a sequential basis, says CEO SIngh

Madhav Chavan on challenges to education in Covid-19, and doable solutions

Undaunted by the challenges the pandemic has posed for education, Chavan offers radical - but doable - solutions to Anjuli Bhargava