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Google has pending competition cases, not just in India but in other jurisdictions like the EU. Some start-ups have expressed concern about the tech giant’s in-house billing system. The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) filed a plea against Google’s user choice billing system (UCB) in the Delhi High Court. The court today asked the Competition Commission of India to look into ADIF’s comp...

The golden boy of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, turns 50 this week.  The master blaster seems to be entering the 50s club in great style with his brand valuation soaring, even though it is ten years since he retired. But how about those in the corporate world? Where do they find themselves as they hit the 50s? Is there anxiety and thoughts about retirement? Or is the golden age the best time a...

After gain comes pain. Thats the tale of the investors in the IT sector today. Post the rip roaring rally of 2020 and 2021, the sector has been in a deep bear market with the Nifty IT index down 32 per cent from its peak a little over a year back. Recent Infosys results have added salt to the wounds. What is happening and what lies ahead? Parvatha Vardhini and Hari Viswanath discuss the fundamenta...

Depositors’ paradise? Will FY24 favour depositors as the fight for liquidity gets real? Karthik Srinivasan, group head, financial sector ratings, ICRA has the answers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Capital gains tax is again in the news. It is because of a news published in a foreign news agency which says that the government is working on a mechanism to tweak the tax. However, later the Finance Ministry denied the presence of any such regulation. The impact, however, was clearly visible in the stock market and among investors. What exactly is the capital gains tax? How will it affect invest...

The web is an ever changing world and what you learnt yesterday is no longer relevant today. Take videos. Formats keep changing.  Just as you learn reels something else will come along. In this episode of Digital Gadfly, which explores all things digital from the lens of marketers,  host Shubho Sengupta speaks to Ankoor Dasguupta, Vice President, Content, Social and Creative, Arm Worldwide to lear...

Be it a child’s education or marriage, every parent dreams of creating a corpus to fulfill such goals. While options such as Public Provident Fund, Fixed Deposits and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana are popular for such needs, mutual funds too offer children’s funds, which are marketed as a good product fit for such purposes. Children’s funds, along with retirement funds, are sub-categories of solution-o...

Start-ups and sustainability are topics that everyone is talking about these days. Can start-ups help promote sustainability? And, how do we go about it? That is a question that even the Indian government is focussing on. The government has set up a panel to discuss the matter at the G20 summit. This task force is called the “G20 Start Up 20 Engagement Group Task Force on Sustainability” and it is...

What are the different types of instruments that banks have a dispensation with respect to how they can play around with investments? One of the reasons why the investment book of a bank came to limelight was whatever happened globally. In India, do you ever foresee a situation where possibly the investment losses of a bank can wipe out the net profits at all? how aligned is Indian accounting stan...

In this interview, Ravindra Sannareddy, Founder & MD, Sri City Pvt Ltd, talks about where Sri City stands today in terms of the multinational firms and home-grown majors it has attracted to invest in the private integrated business city, the pains, and pangs of developing a city from scratch, and how he had to pivot in the early years due to the 2008 financial crises, to move from being an export...

Markets interest rates are ruling high and for senior citizens, low risk no longer means low returns. Rates on some small savings schemes were revised upwards recently for the April -June 2023 quarter, opening up some attractive choices. These schemes carry zero risk of default. Bank FDs too are second to none, offering good returns now across tenures and being covered under deposit insurance. Par...

In a recent development, the NPCI introduced interchange fees of up to 1.1 per cent on merchant UPI transactions done using prepaid payment instruments and said that this would be applicable from April 1. How will this affect business? Anshika Kayastha, Principal Correspondent, explains. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

We all know Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is considered to be a popular route of investing in mutual funds due to the benefit of the rupee cost averaging that it provides. Selecting a particular mutual fund scheme suitable to your goals and risk appetite can be a tough task. However, things don’t end here. You also need to make several other decisions while investing through SIP such as how to...

Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) banks and private banks are in a much better shape now than before. Therefore, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised banks to set aside specific provisioning towards their exposure to top 20 business conglomerates of India. The move is to lean on the side of caution and should not be construed as any ‘warning signal’ from the regulator, said a source on anonym...

China and India have steadily increased their energy imports from Russia since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war even though the West has imposed restrictions. In a recent report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was worried that India’s Russian oil imports could be undermining the G7’s price cap. It said that the imports could be “heading into uncomfortable territory”. What does this mean...

The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2023 on March 24. It was passed with various amendments. One is the taxation of investments in debt mutual funds as short-term capital gains. Suresh P Iyengar, Deputy Editor, discusses the recent capital gains tax amendment and its impact on mutual fund investors in this podcast. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/b...

Tune in to the second of our two-part podcast series with PN Vasudevan, MD & CEO, of Equitas Small Finance Bank. He narrates his journey from a professional to a promoter and what went through when he was building Equitas, as a Microfinance company and subsequently as a bank. Listen to Part 1 here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

The Indian Patents Office on Thursday rejected an application of global pharma major Johnson and Johnson seeking an extension of its patent on anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drug Bedaquiline beyond July 2023, when it is set to expire. Why is this significant? Will it help TB patients in India? The Hindu businessline's Senior Deputy Editor G Naga Sridhar explains in this episode of News Explained. Tune in...

Prof Lakshmi Kumar of IFMR Graduate School of Business at Krea University on keeping apace with changing trends, B-school placements, revamping curriculum, and upcoming courses. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

As FY2023 draws to an end, it is time to review what went right for the Indian economy in the year and what policymakers can do to improve the economy in the coming financial year. This exercise could not have come at a time – the Indian economy is coming out of the impact of the Covid–19 pandemic and is starting to gather steam even though the global economy is facing a downturn. Given that India...

The brand-new Verna sedan from Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) has been released, with prices ranging from ₹10.90 lakhs to ₹ 17.38 crore. (ex-showroom, introductory prices). According to the manufacturer, young people are significant buyers of vehicles like the Verna because of their cutting-edge designs and technologically advanced features. Tarun Garg, Chief Operating Officer, Hyundai Motor India sha...

Purpose is not an altruistic pursuit. It is a unifying idea of the problems you want to profitably solve, says Prof Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration and author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, in conversation with Vinay Kamath. (Produced by Darshan Sanghvi) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s...

India has always had a rich legacy of maritime trade, but right now, we have fallen behind other maritime hubs when it comes to key aspects like ship finance, acquisitions, and leasing.  But, that's set to change. Tune in to find out!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Online scams are becoming extremely common. Whether you're a marketer who grapples with this reality on a day-to-day basis or a consumer targeted by these scamsters – you’ll benefit from a better understanding of the tell-tale signs of these online scams. On this episode of Digital gadfly, hosted by Shubho Sengupta, Kavitha Kanaparthi, a Web 3 specialist and entrepreneur, offers tips you can imple...

Deepak Subramanian, Executive Director of Home Care at Hindustan Unilever Ltd, discusses the brand’s journey, the many inflection points, the different innovation cycles, and how it took on competition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message