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It's natural for JSW Paints, AkzoNobel India to merge ops: Parth Jindal

Parth Jindal says JSW Paints' acquisition of AkzoNobel India will strengthen decorative and industrial paint segments; Dulux, tech tie-up key to long-term strategy

Housing.com parent company REA India appoints Praveen Sharma as CEO

Sharma had earlier worked in Paytm and Google. He has an experience of 25 years in senior management roles across technology, digital, media and advertising in India and Asia Pacific

Ganesh Mani to take charge as Switch India CEO, effective September 1

The company said that its current CEO, S Mahesh Babu, has decided to step down from his position to pursue opportunities outside the group, effective August 31, 2025

Evolving from being online learning platform to AI-powered one: Udemy CEO

Udemy CEO Hugo Sarrazin about AI in learning, and how significant a market India is for the company

Nasscom aims to turn India into a product nation: Sindhu Gangadharan

Tariffs are not impacting our industry directly in the sense that they impact goods and services, says Gangadharan

We want to be a people-first organisation: Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti

Engineers need to think about the problem first and not the solution, says Argenti

Decision on merger with Biocon Biologics soon, says Siddharth Mittal

We are talking about the GLP-1 opportunity and our strong franchise in insulins. There is a huge demand in the global diabetes-obesity segment, said Siddharth Mittal

Clients should see growth through AI in the next few years: Rafee Tarafdar

Tarafdar spoke about Agentic Foundry, which develops AI agents for enterprises

Our model is built on recruiting consumers into our products: Krishnakumar

We have been trying out all the categories that are possible in consumer business, be it food, beverages, impulse foods and home and personal care, said T Krishnakumar, director at RCPL

Chalet Hotels may consider own brand in long term: MD & CEO Sanjay Sethi

Sanjay Sethi says that bulk of the company's growth will come from its existing pipeline taking the total keys to over 5,000 on the back of the domestic hospitality boom till 2030

Happy as NBFC unless there's glide path to becoming a bank: Umesh Revankar

Microfinance can never be a sunshine sector because every 5-6 years it gets into some kind of challenges, says Revankar

Lenovo will double output of Make-in-India devices in 2 years: Katyal

We assembled 6.4 million Made-in-India devices across segments in 2023-24. We doubled it in FY25, Shailendra Katyal, Lenovo India vice-president and managing director said

Swiggy names Saurav Goyal SVP to head Driver and Delivery Organisation

Goyal, who led business finance and contributed to Swiggy's IPO, will now oversee delivery operations and drive partner empowerment as part of leadership transition

Bata Group names Panos Mytaros global CEO, replacing Sandeep Kataria

Mytaros, former ECCO CEO, to join Bata on 15 September as global chief executive, as Sandeep Kataria steps down after leading the firm through a key transition

Aim is to produce two-thirds of 1 bt coal from 3 states by FY29: P M Prasad

To improve the coal supply chain, the remaining 55 of 92 FMC projects will be operationalised by FY29

Sandeep Kataria, first Indian global CEO of Bata, steps down after 5 years

An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur, Sandeep Kataria joined Bata in 2017 and headed Bata India for three years before taking on the role of global CEO in 2020

PLI auto scheme for e2Ws needs to be revisited: Ather Energy cofounder

PLI should've been directed at startups - the real pushers of innovation, Tarun Mehta said

Will be present across India over next 3-5 years: Namma Yatri's Shan M S

Namma Yatri recently crossed 100 million rides but the traction is largely from Bengaluru and some Southern and Eastern regions

Sunjay Kapur obit: Polo enthusiast who galvanised Sona Comstar's fortunes

Kapur was playing polo when reportedly a bee flew into his mouth triggering complications that led to a cardiac arrest and his death

India will be among our top 3 markets in 3 years: Agoda's global CEO

Morgenshtern noted that India is not only the company's top market for growing it's tech workforce but also one of the only three countries where it advertises