Page 7 - Q&a

Israel's Tower will have a 10-15% stake in venture: Next Orbit's Ajay Jalan

'Tower is fully committed to support the venture from the detailed project report stage and tech transfer to project execution', said Jalan

We need to ensure food access to prevent malnutrition crisis: Elizabeth Yee

In an interview with Vinay Umarji, Elizabeth Yee, executive vice-president, program strategy and chief of staff at The Rockefeller Foundation, talks about its endeavours on her maiden visit to India

'65 million PAN numbers have been linked to LIC policies', says M R Kumar

The investor interest has been quite good. It is especially good as far as the domestic investors are concerned: M R Kumar

Ours' is not a pay-and-spray business model: MoneyMantra.com MD

'We don't charge the customer anything; we are paid by the banks', said Raj Khosla

Don't see significant slowdown in retail flows: Tata AIA Life's Patil

Retail money is a factor in the lack of attractive alternate investment avenues among other asset classes: Patil

Economy to feel pinch of higher commodity prices: CEA V Anantha Nageswaran

'Employment generation is both a near-term and long-term priority', said Nageswaran

Ready to manage 10 mn concurrent users in IPL: Dream Sports CTO Amit Sharma

'We implemented data-driven engineering with ML, AI and analytics across all our brands at Dream Sports very early in our automation journey', said Sharma

Ruchi Soya has to dilute another 7% by December: CEO Sanjeev Asthana

In a Q&A, he says the 42% surge in the comppany's shares over the FPO puts additional responsibility on it to perform

'Working closely with SpiceJet on aircraft deliveries': Boeing India head

Latest outlook shows the global forecast is playing out largely as Boeing projected last year, says Salil Gupte.

India will be even more important in the new world: Rodolphe Belmer of Atos

In a Q&A, the CEO of the French IT behemoth talks about the transformation at Atos, the firm's growing business from cloud and digital, and India's role in this transformation

We plan to lease aircraft for short term to start US flights: Vistara CEO

In a Q&A, Vinod Kannan dwells on a range of issues including the impact of soaring ATF prices on his airline

Worst phase of selling is over for Indian equities: Devarsh Vakil, HDFC Sec

Systematic investment plans (SIPs) are a great tool to build long-term wealth and investors should stick to them, says Vakil.

Silicon Valley adage of fail fast not feasible in fintech: Zerodha CTO

In a Q&A, Kailash Nadh dwells on the complexities of building fintech products and ensuring engineers fit in culturally

We hope to have 3,000 operational beds in 2-3 yrs: Paras Hospitals founder

'Our Kanpur facility of around 400 beds will be in the investment range of Rs 200 crore', said Nagar

'PE/VC funds replacing global strategic investors', says Amit Chandra

PE/VC investments are dwarfing foreign institutional investor (FII) flows: Chandra

Aim to build entertainment pop culture marketplace at scale: V Subramaniam

'Over the next 2-3 years, the influencer marketing business alone could be around Rs 2,000-Rs 3,000 crore', said Subramaniam

India will get frictionless access to a major trading hub: Thani Al Zeyoudi

'The UAE welcomes a wider India-GCC trade deal', said Zeyoudi

People in Thoothukudi understand that they were misled: Sterlite Copper COO

'Copper is an important metal for the economy of the country', said Sumathi Angusamy

Our entire biz will be digital in coming yrs: Bajaj Finserv's Sanjiv Bajaj

"With digitisation, a less monolithic structure is relevant for the future. But at the same time, there is certain solidity to being a bank because of the regulatory regime", said Bajaj

MFIs' qualifying asset threshold has to be lowered, says Alok Misra

'MFIN has been pushing its members to do daily reporting to credit bureaus', said Misra