Business Standard Dialogue Webinars

As part of the festival series, the 25th episode of Business Standard Dialogue will discuss real estate from various perspectives. Will this festival season be better than the previous year in home sales and the overall real estate sentiment? We have already seen the luxury category dominating demand in the recent past. Will that trend continue through Diwali and year-end? Is there hope for any discount during festivals? Which geographical areas will grab the headlines if there’s a buying frenzy? How’s the foreign institutional investment flow been, and what impact does it have on commercial real estate? What about the offtake in retail and warehousing?

 

The expert panelists at the webinar will answer all these questions and more on October 8. Do tune in at 2 pm.

It was more than a decade ago when Flipkart made online festival sales a mega event with its first Big Billion Day offers. Amazon followed with its Great Indian Festival. The photograph of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, flashing a billion dollar note, symbolic of the company's India investment then, from a truck had gone viral then. Now, the online sales during the festival season are not restricted to just the flagship events of the major e-commerce firms. It's the season to cash in on for small and big businesses alike.

 

How does the 2026 festival look like? Will records be made in how much was bought and sold? And what does the trend mean for the economy on the whole? The 24th episode of Business Standard Dialogue will answer all those questions.

In the season of the Tata boardroom battle, revisiting the Companies Bill 2026 may help unlock answers to many questions related to corporate governance, while offering a fresh perspective on the rules and responsibilities linked to independent directors and auditors. The Bill promises reforms, but how will they play out in the corporate landscape? Are there any takeaways for dealing with a boardroom crisis? How is technology reshaping corporate governance?   

 

Do watch the webinar for deeper insights into the subject.

The sugar industry in the country has been in the midst of shifting policies on import and export, with sudden spurts of demand-supply mismatch in the backdrop. The steep rise in retail sugar prices following market chatter on empty pipelines, fall in output, untimely exports and diversion of ethanol came together to trigger a crisis.

 

How will these challenges impact the festival season? What should be the roadmap for sugar in terms of policy? What will take for the sugar crisis to blow over? Business Standard Dialogue will discuss this and more at the webinar.

Esports, also referred to as competitive gaming, has been in the midst of skill and chance battle, tax controversies and landmark court verdicts. As India’s esports delegation gears up for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 23 to October 2, Business Standard Dialogue will take you through the journey of gaming that has caught the imagination of millions.

 

In a series of reports and interviews through the past one month, Business Standard has brought out the nuances and finer points of the economic reforms unleashed 35 years ago. We have had top bureaucrats of the time as well as noted businessmen recall the transformation that 1991 brought about. The newspaper also reported extensively on some of the key sectors that turned around post-liberalisation.

 

On July 30, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, a principal architect of the reform, and Naushad Forbes, an eminent industrialist, shared their memories of that era at the Business Standard webinar. Now we will have our writers and reporters share their experiences while working on this long series.

The announcement by N Chandrasekaran that he won’t offer himself for a third term as Tata Sons chairman has come in the midst of long-drawn leadership uncertainty at the salt-to-software conglomerate. The turbulence between the holding company of the group and its principal shareholder, Tata Trusts, has played out strongly after the passing of Ratan Tata in October 2024. This comes exactly 10 years after the ouster of Cyrus Mistry as Tata Sons chairman.  

 

How did things get out of hand? Is it a family versus professional management clash? Where did corporate governance fail? Why is listing of Tata Sons important? As the selection process for the next chairman begins, all these questions will resonate more than ever. Episode 19 of Business Standard Dialogue will discuss all these points and more.

The enabling provision to remove the zero-MDR regime on UPI transactions has sparked a hotly contested debate in the country. The questions are many after the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, was passed in Parliament recently: What the merchant discount rate (MDR) implies, why it is being explored, who should pay it and how much and whether it would impact the unified payments interface (UPI) stream. And, is this the right way forward?

 

To find answers to all these questions, we have lined up a strong panel with sharp views. This 18th episode of Business Standard Dialogue will be a must-watch for those who are tracking this development and also those who are new to the club.

Soon after a month-long students' agitation at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar against paper leaks in various exams, a Bill was passed in Parliament to address issues in the examination system, mainly for entry into medical and engineering courses. The government also set up a high-level committee headed by Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys, to reform the exam system.  

 

The 17th episode of the Business Standard Dialogue will discuss whether the government steps are enough to reform the education system in India, or if there's a need for a total reset. What is the solution? What will create employment?