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CCD crisis: Without failure, you can't have big success, says Vinod Khosla

He says that there are a lot of start-ups in India now than five years ago

Author Manu Pillai on finding balance in 'conflicted landscape of history'

Indian history is as much about asking questions as it is about sanctified thought, he says

Commercial realty will remain an important area for CPPIB: Senior MD

We are here for the long term and India is an attractive market, says Alain Carrier, CPPIB's senior managing director

Invesco deal better as it meets my timelines: ZEEL's Punit Goenka

We would have liked it to be Comcast too but this is a better deal because it was meeting my timelines, says Punit Goenka

Trying to democratise opportunity for all: Flipkart CEO on 'Samarth'

Flipkart Samarth has been designed to support artisans in their e-commerce journey from onboarding till they get familiar to selling products online, says the CEO

Trust continues to be deterrent in smaller markets: 1-India Family Mart CEO

Consumers from tier-II/III/IV geographies still prefer making planned purchases that are affordable, says the CEO

Our aim is to be a global leader in biosimilars biz: Biocon Biologics CEO

Margins of biologics stood at 38% in Q1 as compared to 33% in the preceding quarter

We expect L&T's Isro business to grow at least sixfold: J D Patil

Isro is going to ask private players to assemble small rockets right away, says the senior executive vice-president of L&T's defence segment

Priyanka Chopra-Jonas on business, Bumble and not caring for online trolls

How did a girl from the East find her groove in the West, or perhaps more appropriately, manage to keep her feet in both?

No reason to fret, market will bounce back, says HUL's Sanjiv Mehta

The government is taking necessary steps to revive economic growth. We remain optimistic that the second half of the current financial year will be better

If something is not worth paying for, is it worth doing, asks FT CEO

The £383-million media house, The Financial Times, has been on a roll ever since the Japanese Nikkei acquired it in 2015

The family will remain in control of Apollo Hospitals: AHEL's Suneeta Reddy

We have created a lot of digital content in the medical education space; we are looking to grow, she said

Divestment is very much at the top of our agenda, says Tata Power CEO

We will divest all non-core assets. If debt is not able to be serviced, we will have a problem, he said

The family will remain in control of Apollo Hospitals: AHEL's Sunita Reddy

'If we get a good strategic investor for PCR Investments, we will look at it,' says AHEL's MD Sunita Reddy

Business is never just about the deal, says Morgan Stanley's de Sequeira

"Grow the business, expand the pie and connect with the client for the long term because it's never about a one-off"

Divestment is at the top of Tata Power's agenda: CEO Praveer Sinha

We are eyeing growth in emerging areas prevailing in European and American countries, says Sinha

We have done right investments for sustained growth, says Infosys CEO

The clients are positive with us and we have seen some level of stability. So, from a business perspective, we feel comfortable where we are going and first-quarter growth is testimony to that

It's continuity and change at Wipro with Rishad Premji at helm: CEO

Rishad has all the values of Azim Premji and Wipro, and he's also been part of Wipro for almost 12 years now, says CEO Abidali Neemuchwala

Guidance in line with client connect, demand: Infosys CEO Salil Parekh

The momentum on the digital side gives us confidence as well, says Salil Parekh

Selling Air India is not going to solve its problems, says Derek O'Brien

O'Brien has tried to fill the breach left by the near demise of the Left parties and the ongoing crisis in the Congress