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Want to become a regional corporate giant: Milky Mist's T Sathish Kumar

It is a myth that a firm needs a corporate office in a high-rise in a major city like Chennai or Bengaluru, Kumar says. The Milky Mist corporate office sits directly above factory in a rural setting

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 10:50 PM IST

Tracking the outliers: 10 stocks zoom ahead amid weak and volatile markets

Just about 38% of BSE 500 stocks have delivered positive returns in the past year

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 10:13 PM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Durable growth is rarely built on a narrow base

Today's Best of BS Opinion weighs GCC expansion, liquor prohibition, jobs and growth, corporate India, and India's economic roadmap

Updated On: 29 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Adjusting to a new equilibrium before reality bites

Even geopolitical orders survive in the habits of people long after the world around them has changed. The difficult part is recognising the shift early enough to manage it

Updated On: 28 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

'In 1991, we faced both an economic as well as external relations crisis'

Saran says that India must shore up relations in its neighbourhood before it can aim for global leadership and that it must not succumb to pressure from the United States

Updated On: 26 Sep 2026 | 12:09 AM IST

Setting up NSE was the biggest reform in the capital mkts: Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal, cofounder and chairman of Motilal Oswal Financial Services talks about how reforms changed the equity culture in India

Updated On: 24 Sep 2026 | 3:35 PM IST

India Inc failed to ramp up R&D spends despite '90s economic reform push

Cumulative spending on R&D was just $7.2 bn in FY26, against $61 bn spent by Alphabet alone in 2025

Updated On: 22 Sep 2026 | 11:59 PM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Constraints can help sharpen strategy

Constraints force priorities, expose weak assumptions and reward systems that learn to work within limits rather than pretend those limits do not exist

Updated On: 22 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Power is not the same as control

Leverage is rarely absolute. Markets adjust, institutions push back, capabilities matter, and pressure can produce resistance instead of compliance

Updated On: 21 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

The economic reforms paradox: A few states dominate FDI inflows

Just seven states accounted for nearly 82% of all FDI equity inflows to India from January 2000 to March 2026

Updated On: 18 Sep 2026 | 11:09 PM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Maturity lies in managing risks that progress creates

The real test is not whether a system can reach the next milestone. It is whether it can manage what comes after

Updated On: 15 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

Bluechip valuation slump offers value bets amid weak investor sentiment

The BSE Sensex has fallen 6.8% since the end of September 2025, with its trailing P/E multiple down 10.8%

Updated On: 14 Sep 2026 | 11:11 PM IST

Best of BS Opinion: A test of how power becomes credible

Power lasts only when the underlying institutions are credible

Updated On: 14 Sep 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

Wholesale changes have not happened in civil services: M Veerappa Moily

There is a pronounced tendency to centralise now… Centralisation will not take the country forward, either socially or economically, he said

Updated On: 14 Sep 2026 | 12:05 AM IST

The word control had become anathema for us in 1991: Sudha Pillai

Pillai tells that the CCI could have done more to curb concentration, and social protection should have featured more prominently in the reforms

Updated On: 12 Sep 2026 | 12:27 AM IST

Bengal Beckons: West Bengal FM Swapan Dasgupta's 'look east' policy

West Bengal finance minister calls for respecting relative differences of eastern states but acknowledging their commonality

Updated On: 08 Sep 2026 | 7:03 PM IST

Restaurants need ease of doing business ecosystem: Anjan Chatterjee

Speciality Restaurants founder Anjan Chatterjee talks about his entrepreneurial journey, changing dining habits, food safety and his ambition to take Bengali cuisine global

Updated On: 08 Sep 2026 | 7:02 PM IST

Fruits of reforms are often reaped by later governments: Shankar Acharya

Shankar Acharya says that structural constraints need to be addressed for India to become an advanced economy by 2047

Updated On: 08 Sep 2026 | 5:12 PM IST

Big business and policy push key to breaking Bengal's investment jinx

Business leaders and economists called for competitive incentives, easier land acquisition and stronger industrial ecosystems to attract investment and help MSMEs scale up

Updated On: 07 Sep 2026 | 11:54 PM IST

Power tariffs and building norms top reforms agenda: West Bengal FM

Power sector reform, he reckoned, was a "low-hanging fruit", with an "Open Access" policy under consideration to help lower electricity prices in the state

Updated On: 07 Sep 2026 | 11:23 PM IST