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Despite recessionary trends… we're talking about 7% growth: Hiranandani

The real estate sector will sustain its growth momentum in this festival season, said Niranjan Hiranandani

No more interested in plain vanilla solar or wind: Hero Future Energies CEO

In a Q&A, Srivatsan Iyer talks about his firm's expansion plans in new segments and what the equity investment by KKR means for the company

Luxury hotel rates in India lag other markets, says Accor's Mark Willis

India still needs to catch up with other markets in terms of the rates the hotels command. He also touches upon the expansion plans

We are open to innovative relationships that come our way: Madison CMD

Nothing is easy in today's world. Being an independent has its own set of challenges, said he

Only our India hub has SAP's full product portfolio: SAP Labs India MD

'SAP, it's about retaining talent because, being a product company, we cannot have people staying with us for just a year or so'

Massive growth in reels in past two years, says Meta's Ajit Mohan

Reels make up more than 20 per cent of the time people spend on Instagram, globally.

We have sold 50% of Mumbai inventory: Puravankara CEO Abhishek Kapoor

We are looking at launching about 16 million sq ft in the market and in the first phase, we will typically launch about six million

There's a sea change in public sector cloud in India: AWS' Rahul Sharma

Digital India's mindset acted as a catalyst to bring this transformation of citizen-facing services, says Rahul Sharma, Regional Head, AWS India

We've moved away from being a founder-run company: BharatPe's Suhail Sameer

In a Q&A, the firm's CEO asserts that the company is now professionally run and is focused on being IPO ready

India a key hub for rolling out products globally: Fiserv Global president

'We've done plenty of work around the largest e-tailer in world and partnered with oil and gas companies to integrate payments using voice-activated mobile apps in a frictionless and seamless manner'

Followed due process to get fair valuation for amalgamation: Tata Steel CFO

In a Q&A, Koushik Chatterjee, says the decision to merge seven group firms is a priority for Tata Steel and the entities involved. He adds that rupee depreciation will influence steel prices

Can Roche stay ahead of the competition in the next 125 years?

Pharma giant Roche believes, its ability to reinvent itself through innovation was behind its success. Business Standard's Sohini Das and Nivedita Mookerji spoke to the members of its founding family

India's Covid vaccination programme stunning: Roche's Hoffmann, Duschmale

'They (the next 125 years) look more challenging than the past 125 years. The world has changed. We have to make quicker decisions'

We should go public when the time is right: OYO Hotels' Steve Albrechts

'There are many factors and parameters that we are going to weigh', he said

After IL&FS & Covid, NBFCs have ceded space to pvt credit funds: N Dhedhi

Nilesh Dhedhi, head of structured credit, Avendus Finance explains the nuts and bolts of these investment vehicles which are aimed at sophisticated investors

PFC eyes new infra, net zero value chain: Chairman & MD R S Dhillon

'PFC and REC have sanctioned close to Rs 2 trillion covering 36 discoms', said Dhillon

AI has moved from experiment to adoption: IBM Research AI's Sriram Raghavan

Raghavan talks about how AI is evolving, its use by governments as well as bad elements, and the significance of IBM Labs India

We are being penalised far more than we should have been: Byju Raveendran

In growing fast, we would have overlooked a few things and that's why we are being penalised a lot more than we should have been

Want our protection segment to be in double digits: Kotak Life MD & CEO

'We believe there is a huge opportunity in the protection and annuity segments', said Balasubramanian

DIIs have been circumspect about market rally: Aditya Birla MF CIO

"Correlation of Indian markets with Chinese equities has fallen sharply in recent months", says Mahesh Patil