Page 2 - Interviews

Won't allow sensitive issues to scuttle India-UK trade talks: Piyush Goyal

"With Canada, while they are also not much of a manufacturing base, we have to go into more details. With the UK, it's a manufacturing country on many products. So we have to do it very carefully"

Budget must focus on lowering fiscal deficit: EY India's Rajiv Memani

In an interview with Ruchika Chitravanshi, Rajiv Memani, Chairman and Managing Partner of EY India, said that there is a strong enabling environment for private sector investment

Budget should make infra projects investor friendly: IIFCL MD PR Jaishankar

In an interview with Nikesh Singh, IIFCL managing director PR Jaishankar talks about the way ahead for the key infra financier

India can't afford yet more disruptions to supply chains: Ficci President

'What is most unfortunate is that countries are looking to finance their transition to a green economy by taxing others'

We see trade with India growing two-fold in next 5 years: Ontario minister

In a Q&A, Victor Fedeli says several top Indian companies are continuing to build their presence in the Canadian province despite concerns of tighter global financial conditions

India has to compete to gain from 'China Plus One' strategy: Eswar Prasad

Companies, investors around the world looking at India's policy trajectory, says the professor of trade policy at Cornell University

Budget may not be right time to restructure capital gains tax: Revenue secy

There's no need for having so many buckets under the capital gains tax structure or so many different permutations and combinations, says Tarun Bajaj

India-UK FTA:'Mustn't hurriedly wrap negotiations with artificial deadline'

UK India Business Council MD lists four "Ps" to explains why he is confident the deal will happen

Everything shouldn't be hardcoded into data protection Bill: Vaishnaw

But it should provide the foundation over which you should be able to build any other regulation required for a particular sector, the minister said

Focus is to capture, not halt, carbon emissions: Coal min Pralhad Joshi

'Both domestic exploration and buying stake in overseas mineral mines is on the agenda'

What does Nobel laureate Douglas Diamond think of dominance of PSBs?

Business Standard's Veenu Sandhu & Manojit Saha speaks to Prof Douglas Diamond, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics, on how banks can brace themselves amidst concerns of a recession and more

Fintechs shadow banks of current time, are fragile: Douglas W Diamond

Professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Diamond received the prize along with Philip Dybvig and former Fed chair Ben Bernanke

Without science and technology, Indian agriculture cannot prosper: Pental

'We have been asked to go for coordinated trials to be conducted by ICAR'

What is leading economist Rakesh Mohan's view on inflation?

How will global slowdown affect India? When will RBI's steps to rein-in inflation start show results? Former RBI deputy governor Rakesh Mohan answer these in a conversation with Business Standard

Global economy facing disruptions, India can't be decoupled: Rakesh Mohan

Country has to tailor its actions in response to international crises, says economist and former deputy governor of RBI

Bottom-up approach required in fixing divestment target: DIPAM secretary

'If the geopolitical situation stabilises, we'll see whether we can relaunch the (BPCL) transaction', said Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Can't expect inflation to drop faster by raising rates: Jayanth R Varma

I think we can bring inflation down to 5 per cent in a couple of quarters, says MPC member Varma

What is the future course of action as per RBI MPC member Ashima Goyal?

Ashima Goyal was the only dissenting Monetary Policy Committee member who pitched for 35 basis point rate hike while RBI raised rates by 50 points. Business Standard's Bhaskar Dutta caught up with her

We want to build a consensus around many issues: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

'We will try and build India's narrative around digital transformation', said Kant

Inflation will not come below RBI's tolerance level in FY23: IMF's Choueiri

India relative bright spot in the world; 6.8 per cent growth rate 'really a good number': Senior executive