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It should be a better summer for us this year: Havells CMD Anil Rai Gupta

The growing rural market and the Lloyds portfolio are its key focus areas, says Havells chairman and managing director Anil Rai Gupta in an interview

No question of sacrificing margins for growth: TCS CFO V Ramakrishnan

'We are building skills to understand what it will mean for various industries', says V Ramakrishnan

My favourite campaign is 'Sorry, I spent it on myself': Vishnu Srivatsav

While the beauty and emotion behind gifting is all very well, there is another truth which is that we are all a bit selfish when it comes to giving something to people, says Srivatsav

Investments we are making now will pay off in coming years: Infosys CEO

Our investment in sales is already starting to show some impact, says Salil Parekh

Byju Raveendran's life lesson: The best offence is a good defence

Byju's learning app caters to school children in the fouth to 12th standard cohort

With Cred, we want to make credit cards more powerful: CEO Kunal Shah

Shah believes that Cred, which incentivises credit card payments with reward points, may just help card firms take on the wallets

Customers want intuitive solutions: DigitalOcean's Prabhakar Jayakumar

Developers should spend time in converting their ideas into life rather than doing heavy lifting on the infrastructure front, says Jayakumar

Will continue to put funds for firms that fit our strategy: NIIT Tech CEO

Day after private equity firm BPEA bought 30% stake in NIIT Technologies, CEO of the firm Sudhir Singh told Neha Alawadhi the consolidation with Hexaware would not happen for at least another 2 years

Open to bigger acquisitions, but that depends on quality: Emami director

We can't do everything on our own and hence we are partnering wherever we believe the promoters or entrepreneurs are capable and their ideas are good, says Harsha Agarwal, director at Emami

My favourite campaign is 'Tap Project' by David Droga: Anil S Nair

Communication has to change beliefs and behaviour and get some action done which this campaign did

Global CEOs back our stand against protectionism: Keshav Murugesh

It is exciting that the companies in the sector are focussed on creating innovative solutions to expand the market for our services

Prannoy Roy, Dorab Sopariwala explain why 2019 will be most important polls

If not the internet, how influential are opinion poll or forecasts, like the ones that Roy and Sopariwala do?

India is always a drama: Edelweiss Chairman Rashesh Shah

You have to take the profit and invest it back in the business, building scale in capability and competency, says Shah

RBI has room to nudge interest rates lower: Harshad Patil, Tata AIA Life

He says any change in stance from neutral to accommodative from the MPC over the next few monetary policies will act as a catalyst to further improve market sentiments

Wish Accor has 300 hotels in India soon, says CEO Sebastien Bazin

We need to continue to grow, and that is why I am in India

It is a decisive year for being in India: Tiktok director Helena Lersch

We are building and growing a bigger team in India

Naresh Gujral, MP who speaks straight and believes in grace in politics

Over kadhi chawal at home, Gujral tells Rahul Jacob & Archis Mohan that India must make it easier to fire workers and Parliament should pass a bill that ensures it works for 100 days a year

Mindtree prepared for a set of eventualities: Krishnakumar Natarajan

Natarajan tells Debasis Mohapatra & Bibhu Ranjan Mishra the focus is to ring-fence customers and staff

Audit continues to be considered a taboo, says Spatial Access's CEO

Advertisers and agencies do have a lot of data but in silos. This data is not talking to each other

We have created an entrepreneurial culture: Ashok Leyland's Vinod K Dasari

How Vinod K Dasari grew the company's revenue seven-fold during his tenure