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Educated overseas, educating less advantaged or underpriviledged at home

Mistri tells Anjuli Bhargava how her experiences and influences as a teenager and young adult shaped the unconventional path she decided to take later on

Minor metals will drive value generation, going forward: Hindustan Zinc CEO

As per World Silver Survey 2019 by The Silver Institute, Hindustan Zinc is now the ninth-largest producer of the metal in the world, placing India among the top 10 silver producing countries.

Strategic privatisation can fund fiscal needs for 15-20 yrs: Chhaochharia

The value of a strategic privatisation could easily be two to three times these companies' typical valuation

Creation phase over, Future now looking to become a cost leader: CEO Biyani

We have to become a cost leader in whatever we do. And derive more from less, says Kishore Biyani

We intend to be more aggressive: Thomas Archer Bata

He says if the tax rate is kept above 20% it will be a very big hit

India important for New York Times, visiting to understand it better: CEO

We are not tying up with anyone in India, nor are we looking at distribution or investment, says CEO Mark Thompson

India is critical for Telstra's technology innovations, says CEO & MD Penn

Telstra is looking at co-innovating with Indian startups in emerging technology areas, says CEO Andrew Penn

Cashe may become a digital bank in five years, says CEO Ketan Patel

Patel on how the fintech company plans to build its business, get a small finance bank licence

We are more of a specialty product company: DuPont South Asia President

'Strategically, we are looking at what are the major trends in India', said Anupam Jaiswal

Home prices will remain flattish for another year, says Pirojsha Godrej

Real estate is a cyclical industry and adjusting the supply of projects is not very easy, unlike in manufacturing, says Godrej

Creative continuum: Nair narrates a journey that shaped Indian media market

Nair tells how various industries - devices, payments, telecom - have created the perfect storm in the media business

Will invest $2-3 billion a year in India, says IFC country head Zhang

Jun Zhang speaks to Business Standard on how IFC views India's growth story. He says the institution will invest $2-3 billion in the country every year in the next few years

We take 50 planes a year, but I still think we need more: IndiGo CEO

'Our plans for the A321 XLR are similar to our current single-aisle, all economy', said Ronojoy Dutta

Broking industry has moved from pricing to product offering: Zerodha CEO

Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath says not being answerable to anyone is the best part of his life, so the company is not looking for a funding

Fable is working to improve cognitive fitness, says CEO Padmasree Warrior

The application of AI and blockchain is going to reshape the financial services sector. Health tech is going to be reshaped too, says Warrior

Share of digital in our revenues will grow to 20% in 5 years: Viacom18 MD

'We don't want further changes to the new tariff order', said Sudhanshu Vats

Moody's rating action unwarranted; things in India not so bad: Mark Mobius

The founder of Mobius Capital Partners LLP suggests India should invest more in building infrastructure to return to the high-growth path

Years after selling UTV, Screwvala explains his shift to online education

Over a fish and salad lunch, Screwvala talks to Pavan Lall about why he's betting big on online education, how a crocodile disrupted his charitable work and what India needs to do to fix the economy

WhatsApp snooping: Castro stresses need for good cybersecurity policies

He says the government needs to come up with good policies to encourage digital literacy and collaborate with research institutes to identify various vulnerabilities

Trying to address some of BSNL's legacy issues through VRS, says CMD Purwar

For any organisation that is too big, becoming an outcome-oriented organisation is challenging, says BSNL CMD