Solution to land boundary dispute with Bangladesh in sight; constitutional amendment Bill for it may be moved once Parliament session resumes

'Two state-owned insurers ready to cover Iran oil imports'

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Like everything else in India, the think tank ecosystem, too, is evolving fast, says the oil industry veteran

Lunch with BS: Vikram Mehta, Chairman, Brookings India

One thing that you can&rsquo;t accuse Sandeep Goyal of not having is ambition. And well, add to it a tendency to shoot straight, unmindful whether it&rsquo;s politically correct or not. For even after striking gold in the agency business &mdash; he sold his 26 per cent stake in ad agency Dentsu India back to its Japanese parent last year for a whopping, and yet unconfirmed, Rs 200 crore &mdash; Goyal apparently has no love lost for the industry he has often derided as shallow and petty.

Adman Turned Ad Entrepreneur

HCL Techâ€™s new CEO would rather build on the legacy of his star predecessor to take the IT firm into the league of global biggiesYou expect a chief executive officer (CEO) in his second month in office to be in a hurry to reorder things a bit â€” more so if heâ€™s stepping into big shoes of a star predecessor. But I sense none of it in 47-year-old Anant Gupta, the new CEO of $4.2 billion HCL Technologies, as we settle down for lunch at Taipan at The Oberoi, New Delhi, writes Shailesh Dobhal. Gupta says he is a light luncher, and we decide on some soup â€“ hot and sour chicken for him and clear vegetable for myself â€“ Bengal Bekti in black bean sauce, noodles and some sticky rice.So, when did he realise he may have made the cut for the top job? â€œFrom the timing perspective, I have no view, but from the way my portfolio has been growing, itâ€™s been going on for a while.â€ Beyond the infrastructure management vertical that Gupta help build into

Lunch with BS: Anant Gupta

Vineet Nayar kicks off the conversation with a reference to Carlos Ghosn, the legendary leader of the Renault-Nissan alliance, whom he met recently in France. &ldquo;Carlos sees himself not as the biggest, but with an aspiration to be the biggest.

Lunch with BS: Vineet Nayar

It happened quite serendipitously,&rdquo; quips Rahul Khosla when I ask how a dyed-in-the-wool multinational banker arrived at a promoter-driven, healthcare-to-insurance firm Max India.

Shailesh Dobhal

Shailesh Dobhal

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'Two state-owned insurers ready to cover Iran oil imports'

Lunch with BS: Vikram Mehta

Adman Turned Ad Entrepreneur

Lunch with BS: Anant Gupta

Lunch with BS: Vineet Nayar

Lunch with BS: Rahul Khosla