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Tata Power will be net zero-carbon by 2050, says CEO Praveer Sinha

We have now both urban and rural consumers. Our whole business philosophy is towards renewable, said Sinha

SBI Life profit nearly flat in Q4, net premium income jumps to Rs 15,556 cr

Total income in January-March 2021 jumped multi-fold to Rs 20,897 crore

We want to reimagine mobility, be the leader: KPIT Chairman Ravi Pandit

In this interview, Pandit talks about the shift the auto sector is seeing due to the pandemic, the rising demand for autonomous vehicles, and KPIT's trajectory on global automakers' digital road map

Mindtree co-founder Subroto Bagchi has his eye on the big picture

Tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist and public servant, Bagchi talks to Pavan Lall about learnings from corporate existence and why Covid-19 planning needed more attention and foresight

Industrial wheel still turning amid second Covid wave: Hindustan Zinc CEO

In a Q&A, Arun Mishra talks about the company's focus lowering cost of production amid the ongoing pandemic and likely impact on demand

Covid 2nd wave severity will determine pace of growth: FT's Radhakrishnan

Faster-than-expected recovery in the US economy and the resultant tapering of stimulus by the US Federal Reserve could potentially affect risk sentiment and impact flows to emerging markets like India

We are producing 210 tonnes of oxygen per day: AM/NS India CEO Dilip Oommen

Oommen says major customers have indicated the current surge in Covid cases may have a limited impact on demand, but the situation is being closely monitored

Demand remains robust despite second Covid-19 wave: HCL Technologies CEO

HCL Tech CEO C Vijayakumar spoke to Neha Alawadhi about the firm's plans for the year and the impact of the pandemic

Coffee with BS: How 'free thinker' Sal Khan is pushing all boundaries

Anjuli Bhargava writes how Khan is bringing every student on the planet into his fold

Artist Jitish Kallat's search for an interesting space called the ordinary

In this extraordinary time, Kallat tells Pavan Lall about the interesting space called ordinary that he's fiercely in search of

Surojit Chatterjee: Ex-Google exec's 2020 move to Coinbase worth Rs 5k cr

The chief product officer, an IIT Kharagpur graduate, has been with Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, for just 15 months

How can we get India invested in our culture? Feroze Gujral explains

Gujral speaks to Veenu Sandhu on the urgent need to get India invested in its culture

Digitalisation has become amplified after Covid-19: Mahesh Palashikar of GE

In a Q&A, the president of GE South Asia says decision making cycle for new projects got pushed by a few months because of the pandemic

Numerology helped close Byju's deal: Aakash Educational's J C Chaudhry

JC Chaudhry, the chairman, and MD of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) who is also a motivational speaker and numerologist said that he did the deal with Byju's based on numerology

AstraZeneca has sent us legal notice for vaccine supply delay: Poonawalla

For the next one or two months, we will be prioritising supplies only to India based on the request of the government and also depending on the needs of our people, said Poonawalla

Cleanliness is becoming a big part of the fabric of life: HUL's Narasimhan

In a Q&A, Prabha Narasimhan, ED & VP-Home Care, South Asia, Hindustan Unilever, says while Indians have adopted the new habit of sanitising, the hygiene story in the country is still evolving

Covid-19 or not, show must go on, says Future Group founder Kishore Biyani

We are launching an FMCG brand called Smartsters, which will focus on packaging and product innovations, says Biyani

Primary focus on scaling up existing units: M&M MD & CEO Anish Shah

Anish Shah says the exercise of exiting loss-making international subsidiaries is almost done

Keeping pace with Karthik Muralidharan, the 'Shinkansen' economist

Anjuli Bhargava races to keep pace with Muralidharan's breakneck speed train of thought on effective governance

We made significant progress in bolstering our balance sheet: Onkar Kanwar

The strategy going forward is really to sweat our assets and get our utilisation levels to reach 90-95% in all our plants, said Kanwar