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Lock, stock and barrel: Meet Jamshyd N Godrej, chairman and MD, G&B

Godrej speaks with Pavan Lall about future-proofing, why his companies are private and the reason he's a hands-off manager

Broadcasting as a public good

The latest auction, which fetched more a thousand crore rupees in potential revenues, saw a further refinement of the methodology to insulate agai­nst likely cartelisation

Govt seeks to fill up posts with hires from non-IAS pool, sparks debate

The decision to extend the application date for head of the competition watchdog underlines the old debate over reserving regulatory heads exclusively for administrative service officers

PNB raises Rs 974 cr via AT1 bonds against indicative amount of Rs 2,000 cr

Hardening yields drives decision to raise lower amounts; Bond market sources said coupon was firmed up at 8.75%

Licensing dispute: Zee Music hits' exit no music to Spotify ears

Though Spotify had 500 million monthly active users globally (as of February 2023), there is no clarity on its India user base

Ford's upcoming electric pickup truck will drive itself, says CEO

Ford Motor Co. plans to make driver-assistance features central to the next electric F-Series pickup - so much so that you might be able to take a snooze at 60 miles per hour

Cabinet clears 4% hike in dearness allowance for central govt employees

Cabinet decided to increase dearness allowance from 38% to 42% today for central government employees and pensioners

Donald Trump predicts 'death and destruction,' attacks Manhattan DA

New York City police officers put up security barricades outside Manhattan Criminal Court and Bragg's office earlier this week, but so far, protests have been minimal

Accenture: History of a Fortune500 firm that's laying off 2.5% of its staff

The world's largest consulting firm by head count in 2022 acquired its present name when it extricated itself from parent Arthur Andersen

World TB Day: PM Modi launches initiatives to eliminate disease by 2025

PM Modi launched the TB-Mukt Panchayat initiative, a pan-India rollout of a shorter TB Preventive Treatment (TPT) and a family-centric care model for tuberculosis

Over 1,000 students benefited from DU's fee waiver scheme so far: Official

The DU announced the fee-waiver scheme in November last year. The waiver includes all components of the fees paid by the students barring those for examination and hostel

Validity of FCRA licence of NGOs extended till September 30: MHA notice

Officials said between 2018 and 2022, the FCRA registration of 1,827 associations were cancelled due to violation of its provisions and rules

Private hospitals to clock 10-11% revenue growth in FY23, FY24: Report

Sethi further noted that occupancy dipped only once during this period to 53 per cent due to lockdown enforced during the first phase of the pandemic

Edtech firm Byju's likely to close $250 mn equity fund raise in April

The company retrenched 2,500 employees under the plan and hired 10,000 teachers for India and overseas

Asian Development Bank to provide Rs 754 cr loan to SAEL Industries

The company aims to grow its portfolio to 3.5 GW over the next four years by adding 100 MW of new biomass and 600 MW of new solar capacity annually

70 projects worth Rs 2,856 cr sanctioned under Sagarmala Programme: Govt

Under the Sagarmala Programme, 70 projects worth Rs 2,856 crore have been sanctioned for the development of coastal berths, roll-on, roll-off, passenger jetties etc

Gujarat to host disaster management meet from March 30 as part of G20

Union Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan will be attend the event, Khandhar, who is principal secretary in the state Finance department, said

No proposal to establish new defence industrial corridor in country: Govt

The government, in its budget for 2018-19, announced setting up of two defence industrial corridors (DICs) to develop a holistic defence manufacturing ecosystem in the country, he said

Expect action, not assurances on vandalism incident at Indian missions: MEA

Indian missions in London, British Columbia, and San Francisco were vandalised recently, allegedly by pro-Khalistan activists following the police action against radical preacher Amritpal in Punjab

Pathaan has brought our zest back: Yash Raj Films CEO Akshaye Widhani

'Our primary source of income is film - whether we get it through theatrical, catalogue licensing, music income - it is all film'