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The Bar Council of India’s recent announcement to allow foreign lawyers and foreign law firms to enter the Indian legal market paves way for them to advise Indian clients on international legal issues, including international arbitration. What are the new rules and, how will it impact the legal industry? More, importantly, can the new rules help India become a hub for international arbitration? bu...

Financial year will end in a few weeks. Along with the tax planning purposes, this time it is also important for your mutual fund investments. As per SEBI guidelines, you need to complete certain tasks before March 31, 2023 to avoid freezing of your mutual fund folios. Hence to have seamless mutual fund investment journey, tune in to the podcast to know about the tasks, and what you need to do. --...

Another day. Another bank crisis. This time it’s the almost 167-year-old Credit Suisse bank. On Wednesday, after Saudi National Bank, said that it would not provide fresh funding to Credit Suisse, shares of the Swiss bank plummeted to a record low of $1.40 per share. However, Saudi National Bank said that the panic around Credit Suisse is unwarranted. Meanwhile, to shore up its liquidity, Credit S...

Crude oil prices fell below $75 per barrel on Wednesday. This was the lowest it fell since 2021. What exactly happened? How will this impact India? Further, amid the ongoing geo-political scenario in the world, where does India stand in terms of its global oil dynamics? Richa Mishra, explains. Listen in! (Producer: Nabodita Ganguly; Edit:Siddharth MC) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster...

Artificial intelligence (AI), for one, has become intertwined with agriculture. All of us have studied pollination in school. It is basically the transfer of pollen from one plant to another. Insects are one of the most important pollinators of crops. AI has a new solution where it can track the insect pollinators that are essential to framing. How will this help farmers?   In this exclusive inter...

The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank has grabbed international headlines. By itself, the bank is quite small. It is a regional bank based out of California and it was the 16th largest bank in the US before the crash. The bank is a trendsetter – it funds start-ups and venture capitalists. This segment formed a big part of its loan portfolio -- in December 2022, 56 per cent of its loans were to V...

Tune in to the first 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 in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Pest attack, disease outbreaks, nutrient deficiencies are part of any crop cycle. Cashew is no different. Now the Directorate of Cashew Research (DCR) under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed an AI-based (artificial intelligence) app and a website for the identification of pests, diseases and nutrient deficiencies in cashew plants. In an interview to businessline, Moh...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a constant in our lives. The agricultural sector in India is no exception. In this exclusive interview, Nabodita Ganguly talks to  Shekar Sivasubramanian, CEO of Wadhwani AI, about how Indian farmers are using AI to solve some of their issues. Broadly, he touches upon the following points: How AI can increase productivity How is Wadhwani AI using AI to contr...

Companies have been trying to promote gender diversity in leadership positions and on their boards of directors. So, how committed are stock market-listed companies towards gender diversity in India? How has the representation of women on company boards been? Has the stock market rewarded firms that promote gender diversity? Kumar Shankar Roy, Senior Assistant Editor, helps decode these questions....

Amid the volatility of benchmark indices, there have been seen deep corrections in the small cap stocks in the last one year. This has brought to focus the importance of judicious stock picking in the small cap universe. Screening of small cap stocks while applying fundamental filters may provide us with financially sound companies in the space which may prove to be potential investment opportunit...

SEBI has proposed a few changes to the governance norms for listed entities that give more rights to shareholders, while increasing corporate disclosures on agreements binding them. These new norms proposed by SEBI is exected to give more power to the shareholders. SEBI has sought comments from stakeholders by March 7 . In this podcast, we are joined by KS Badri Narayanan who will give us context...

The government will release the latest quarterly GDP estimates for the Q3 (October-December, 2022) on the 28th of February. Will the country achieve the government's target of about 6 per cent? Will the RBI's continuous rate hike hurt the economy? In this episode of the businessline podcast, V Nivedita talks to Madhavi Arora, Lead, Economist at Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd to understand wha...

This conversation you’re about to hear is a part of businessline’s Table Talk series, conversations with leaders on their life and times, and their businesses. In this episode, businessline's Vinay Kamath speaks to Colgate-Palmolive India chief Prabha Narasimhan.  For the uninitiated, Prabha joined Colgate as MD & CEO in September 2022. She is a commerce graduate with an MBA from IIM Bangalore. Th...

How often have we heard excuses of ill health or personal problems for a delayed report or mediocre work? But the corporate manager does not have the luxury of replacing the employee reporting in sick frequently – unlike cricket, where you have standbys, and where excuses for poor performance just don’t wash. Jasprit Bumrah’s absence from the Indian squad or David Warner missing out on the rest of...

There has been an increased interest seen regarding investing in international stocks especially that of the US. This has been due to increasing financial awareness regarding diversification and investors also wanting to capitalise on innovative global tech themes. However, the Budget proposal of increase in Tax collection at source (TCS) on foreign remittances might be a dampener for some of thos...

After nearly two turbulent years the Microfinance segment is starting to post healthy demand for loans, and this is a trend it has sustained for several quarters now. Alok Misra, CEO & director, MFIN, joins in to decode some of the finer nuances of the sector and explains why the rebound in growth as a trend is here to stay. I've kept the description a little long this time on purpose so we can ma...

On January 20, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sent an email to Google employees where he announced the news to reduce the company’s workforce by 12,000. Google happens to be one of the main technology companies to announce massive layoffs in the recent past. Global layoffs have reached three-fourth of 2022 in the first 51 days of 2023. Listen in! Read the full story here. Tune in to BL Podcast for...

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. If you are someone who has been regularly following the news, then you might have heard of the Kyiv Independent. In the last few months, the Kyiv Independent has become one of the prominent English-language news sites bringing out breaking stories from war zones. Several magazines and journalism think tanks have tracked how this media house has grown....

IT major Wipro offered fresh recruits a revised salary package of ₹3.5 lakh per annum (LPA) from its previous offer of ₹6.5 LPA. This comes as the company has delayed the onboarding of freshers amidst the macroeconomic headwinds being faced by the industry at large. With Wipro slashing freshers' salary packages citing global recessionary crosswinds. Is the IT Industry preparing for the worst with...

Pakistan has been facing an acute economic crisis. To avoid an economic collapse, the country has reached out to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout. Pakistan is trying hard to unlock the USD 1.1 billion loan facility with the IMF. Meanwhile, the IMF has asked Pakistan to follow certain conditions such as increasing taxes on luxury items. As of February 10, Pakistan had only USD 3....

Edelweiss Mutual Fund had a sharp run-up and crossed the Rs ₹1-lakh crore in asset under management (AUM) recently despite the upheavals in the market. Unlike others, Edelweiss MF has largely taken the passive route to grow its asset and tried to deliver better returns at lower cost for investors. Radhika Gupta, Managing Director & CEO, Edelweiss AMC, shares her view on the way forward. Read the f...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently, said that petroleum products could soon be included under GST after discussing with the states. The remarks came months after Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Central government was ready to bring petrol and diesel under the GST regime. The talks about bringing petroleum products is going on for a while now. So, what...

A conversation with Nandita Iyer, a medical doctor, author and blogger, on finding your niche on social media For years, savvy marketers targeted women in their advertising as they were perceived to be invisible influencers in household purchase decisions. On the Internet, women have become visible influencers. On this episode of Digital gadfly, hosted by Shubho Sengupta, meet Nandita Iyer, a medi...

The Reserve Bank of India has returned Payment Aggregator applications of Paytm, Freecharge, and PayU. Meanwhile, it gave In-Principle Authorisation to 32 existing PAs that include Amazon and Google. Hamsini Karthik delves deep into the topic and explains the difference between Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways, the significance of a Payment Aggregator license and why Paytm’s application wa...