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We're building a newsroom that's not afraid to play with tech: Kalli Purie

A digital persona can do funny hours. If I could have an anchor in the studio when the newsroom has woken up to a big event like an earthquake, it can be fed in, says Purie

M&M rejigs leadership team as Mahindra Logistics CEO Ram Swaminathan quits

Hemant Sikka to head Mahindra Logistics, Veejay Nakra to head farm biz, R Veluswamy to head auto division

Gensol's Jaggi brothers: The rise and fall of serial entrepreneurs

The web of companies they created has now come to haunt them, especially when their latest creation BluSmart was just catching the public eye and the Jaggis were walking into stardom

Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar's annual pay up 11% at $16.1 million in 2024

The board said it has full faith in its chief executive as he tries to steer the company from years of underperformance to his stated goal of becoming one of the top four IT services players by 2027

HDFC Life will keep margins range bound at 25-26%: MD & CEO Vibha Padalkar

Padalkar spoke about how the company bucked the industry trend in terms of growth during Q4 of FY25 while outlining the strategy for FY26

'I am the victim': Ashneer Grover on BluSmart crisis, Sebi crackdown

Entrepreneur and investor Ashneer Grover calls himself a 'victim' in Gensol-BluSmart fiasco, says he invested ₹1.75 cr; denies any operational role, offers to make tax, bank records public

Ananya Birla launches LOVETC to tap premium cosmetics market in India

"This strategic expansion follows Birla Cosmetics' launch of Contraband earlier this year," the company said in a release

India is the powerhouse helping businesses around the world: Freelancer CEO

We're actually huge in India, it is the number one demographic for us, says Barrie

Clients are in risk-management mode, says Citigroup's Jason Rekate

Rekate talks on uncertainties due to global tariff wars, how Indian companies are navigating these challenges, and why India continues to be an important market for the American lender

Reaching $50 bn revenue goal by 2030 still a possibility: TCS CEO & MD

We also secured large deals - not necessarily AI deals, but deals powered by AI, says TCS CEO

Focused on becoming clear number 2 brand in NCR: Max Estates' Sahil Vachani

We have a current rental income of ₹150 crore which is expected to cross ₹700 crore on annuity basis in the coming three to five years, says Vachani

'Chance to get Tata Steel Netherlands back to being a benchmark in Europe'

The Netherlands operation is structurally one of the most competitive assets in the steel industry across peers in Europe

We will not use GenAI in Daimler trucks anytime soon: Raghavendra Vaidya

We have created a bunch of tools to automatically analyse what is going inside the truck and predict which part fails when. That makes our warranty business more profitable, says Vaidya

Madhur Bajaj, former vice chairman of Bajaj Auto, passes away at 73

At the time of stepping down, he had said, "I believe now is the time for me to pursue my other interests and commitments"

TCS appoints Aarthi Subramanian as executive director-president & COO

The appointment is for a term of five years, commencing from May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2030

Myntra's chief product & technology officer Raghu Krishnananda to step down

As CPTO, he has led his teams to ensure that Myntra's tech and product strategy remains agile, scalable and closely aligned with business goals, according to the internal mail sent to employees by CEO

Crazy not to enter India if you're operating in Asia: Kopi Kenangan

In India, we'll price our beverages starting at ₹99 for an espresso and ₹129 for an Americano, going up to ₹329, said Sanjay Mohta, vice-president and general manager, India, Kenangan Coffee

We're focused on AI-robotics partnerships, says B Capital's Karan Mohla

India's strength lies in software engineering and development. Historically, the country did not have much success in robotics. But that has started to change

Federal Bank's Shalini Warrier resigns to explore new opportunity

Warrier, who joined the bank as the chief operating officer (COO) in 2015, took on the additional responsibility of business head of retail banking products in 2019

Our content library is much bigger than that of Netflix: JioStar's Mani

JioHotstar was born on February 14 this year. We have averaged over 300 million active users and are sitting at well over 100 million plus subscribers: Kiran Mani, CEO, JioStar