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70% CEOs ramping up tech investments to improve biz in next 1 year: Report

EY's CEO Outlook Pulse Survey 2024 said that 80 per cent of the CEOs surveyed were optimistic regarding their companies' revenue prospects

LinkedIn integrates AI to help jobseekers attract potential employers

LinkedIn said it is bringing the AI-powered job experience to all premium subscribers, starting in English worldwide. Moreover, it plans to add more enhancements based on users' feedback

Harsh Pati Singhania elected 1st vice-chair of world business organisation

Harsh Pati Singhania of JK Paper Ltd. has been named First Vice-Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, representing over 45 million businesses globally

Ficci appoints Jyoti Vij as new director general with immediate effect

In another development, Shailesh Pathak, secretary general, Ficci has resigned citing personal reasons

Sebi forms panel to review ownership, economic structure of clearing corps

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday said it has set up a committee to review the ownership and economic structure of clearing corporations and suggest measures to ensure that clearing corporations function as resilient, independent, and neutral risk managers. The ad-hoc committee would be chaired by Usha Thorat, former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The decision has been taken in the wake of the substantial growth of Indian securities markets in recent years and the importance of clearing corporations as central risk management institutions. In a statement, Sebi said that the committee has been entrusted with the task of reviewing ownership structure as well as finances of clearing corporations. With regards to ownership structure, the committee will examine the feasibility, and broadening the list of eligible investors, who are allowed to take shareholding in a clearing corporation and suggest categories of investors who can acquire stakes in such ...

AI-intensive sectors show surge in workers' productivity, says PwC

The data suggested that the rise of artificial intelligence could help countries to break out of a rut of low productivity growth which would boost economic growth, wages and living standards

DB Investment Partners beefs up Asia team, cites region's growth potential

DB Investment sees some of the best Asian opportunities in areas such as healthcare, digital infrastructure, and energy transition, Meghji said

LS polls: Chandni Chowk to Connaught Place, weak demand worries businesses

Even as the manifestos cutting across party lines have made promises galore, traders, mainly at mithai shops in Chandni Chowk, are already looking at June 4 - the result day for LS polls

Want to be market leader in Business AI by 2025: SAP's Manish Prasad

'From a fiscal prudence point of view, the transparency provided by SAP systems enhances investor confidence and subsequently, market valuation'

Centre begins early preparations for new World Bank Business index

Interministerial meetings underway with DPIIT to get a head start on B-Ready, due for 2026

Change and future-readiness

Profits and growth are the oxygen of business. It is possible to get 'too much' and damage the enterprise irreparably

TCS sets up Pace Port in London to promote business, tech collaboration

Seventh such international facility the Indian IT services company has set up

Deloitte's 'biggest reorganisation in decade' to simplify business: Report

Accounting and consultancy giant's main business units will be trimmed to four from five

National Case Challenge on Religare vs Dabur

How corporate governance, compliance, finance and corporate strategy can come into play!

Majority of working women keen on becoming entrepreneurs, start biz: Survey

A large number of working women are keen to become entrepreneurs and start their own businesses, finds a survey. A survey among more than 10,000 working women aged 24-55 across the metros, tier 1 and 2 cities has found that as many as 76 per cent of them expressed a desire to start their own businesses, according to Indialends, which is an online marketplace to provide data on personal loans and credit cards. As much as 86 per cent of the working women surveyed expressed a desire to learn and upskill themselves in areas like budgeting, investing, saving and other financial instruments. The survey also reveals stories of women entrepreneurs taking charge and 68 per cent of the women entrepreneurs surveyed said they manage their company accounts independently, and only 32 per cent of them are dependent on their professionals/ husbands/family members for this. When it comes to their investing behaviour, it has been found that 68.7 per cent of businesswomen/entrepreneurs invest their .

Who is Radhika Merchant? Know everything about Ambani family's new member

Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani are going to tie the knot in July 2024. Here is all you need to know about Radhika Merchant

Highlights: INLD Haryana Prez Nafe Singh, associate shot dead in Jhajjar

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Delhi biz hit due to farmers' march, buyers' footfall from NCR down by 75%

Delhi's business affected by farmers' movement is witnessing 75 per cent reduction in customers coming from NCR regions, according to a statement by Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI). The CTI said that every day around three lakh people come from NCR for shopping. Due to farmers' movement, less than one lakh people are coming. According to Brijesh Goyal, chairman of CTI and president Subhash Khandelwal, the leading organisation of traders, the number of customers in Delhi markets has declined by 75 per cent, with more than 15,000 commercial vehicles have been stopped from entering the city and more than 25,000 commercial vehicles stuck in Delhi. Around three lakh buyers from NCR cities -- Sonipat, Panipat, Rewari, Bahadurgarh, Narnaul, Gurgaon, Bawal, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad etc -- visit the markets of Delhi every day, the statement said. On Wednesday, on Basant Panchami, there are about 40,000 marriages scheduled to take place in Delhi but due to the farmers' movement, guest

The power of neeyat in enterprise

Neeyat is not a new management jargon to replace vision and mission, nor is it an attempt to nativise an Anglo-American concept in Bhartiya hues, but it is relevant for all businesses, big or small

Who's who from business, cinema, politics, sports attend Ram temple event

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, business tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi N Mittal, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar were among India's crme de la crme who attended the grand consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Monday. While the list of invitees included about 8,000 names, the select list featured 506 A-listers, including prominent politicians, leading industrialists, top film stars, sportspersons, diplomats, judges and high priests. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his family, steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal, telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal, Reliance Group head Anil Ambani, and Aditya Birla group chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla and his daughter Ananya Birla were among some of India Inc.'s prominent faces that attended the ceremony. Bachchan flew into Ayodhya in a private chartered plane for the consecration of the 51-inch Ram Lalla idol. He was accompanied by his actor son Abhishek Bachchan. Actor Kangana Ranaut, who reached Ayodhya on Saturday, hailed the