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With government officials at the Centre saying wheat production this year could be 8-10 million tonnes lower than initial estimates, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and other State agencies may find it tough to even procure 20 million tonnes (mt) of the grain during the current rabi marketing season. Subramani Ra Mancombu explains! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is set to become the largest listed insurance company in India and fifth largest listed insurance player globally. Kumar Shankar Roy and Hamsini Karthik discuss the much-awaited IPO's valuation, business nitty-gritties, rewards, and risks. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Temperatures are forecast to rise to 50°C in Jacobabad, Pakistan, approaching the temperature record for the city, which is one of the hottest places on the planet. New Delhi could touch 44-45°C, approaching its record April temperature, while some parts of North India could touch 46°C. Why is it so? Vinson Kurian explains... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bus...

Among the many problems in Indian agriculture is the absence of quality standards in the farm-to-fork food chain. The lack of standards means farmers have no incentive to innovative and produce qualitatively better food. It also takes away from the consumer the option of buying better. Even globally, determining the quality of farm produce is a largely subjective exercise, often involving conjectu...

Over the last five years, the Indian government has been focusing on increasing the number of patents that are being filed in the country. And now, we can see the results -- the Economic Survey 2021-22 showed that the filing of intellectual property patents in India has increased 30 per cent in the last five years and the number of patents granted in the period almost tripled. This increase in pat...

This conversation you’re about to listen to is a part of BusinessLine’s Table Talk series, conversations with leaders on their life and times and businesses. In this episode, BuisnessLine’s Richa Mishra and Vinay Kamath speak to Brahmani Nara, executive director of the dairy major, Heritage Foods.  For the uninitiated, Heritage Foods was started by Andhra Pradesh’s former chief minister N Chandrab...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was on a two-day visit to India, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed many important issues including the proposed India-UK FTA, climate change and the promotion of start-ups. The two leaders spoke about increasing defence cooperation by investing more in manufacturing and procurement. Amiti Sen reports. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: ht...

Indonesia, India’s main source of palm oil imports, banned exports of all edible oil raw materials on Friday to ease the domestic shortage. Indonesian President Joko Widodo suspended all cooking oil and raw material exports from April 28 until further orders. This move is expected to add more stress to the Indian edible oil market, which is already reeling from inflation. How will this affect you?...

With the rise of financial products and emergence of new payment channels, tricksters have levelled up their game. Vishal Balabhadruni and Kumar Shankar Roy discuss the modus operandi of some new types of financial frauds and how you can sidestep them. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

For International Creator Day, Business Line's Nikita Ann Varghese speaks with finance content creator Sharan Hegde and Country Manager of Jellysmack, Vipasha Joshi.  From content repurposing to quick tips for budding creators - this conversation will walk you through several aspects of the creator journey. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-li...

Companies insisting that those who signed on either present some kind of a bond wherein if they quit within a certain period of time they have to repay the company for the training they've undergone or even clauses with say that they cannot work for other companies in the sector, for a specific period of time. This has become a huge cause of concern for the lakhs of people employed in the sector a...

Even though the overall mobile subscriber base has dipped in February, the number of active subscribers increased by 9.5 million. What does that mean for telecom operators? And, how will you be affected by it? BusinessLine’s Ayushi Kar explains. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Vinay Kamath takes you along the journey of how India Cements is leveraging CSK and MS Dhoni for its new brand of cement. Listen in. Read the full story here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

In the book, The Struggle and the Promise, published by HarperCollins India, Naushad Forbes answers many critical questions concerning India's progress. He provides a logical, actionable blueprint for getting the balance right between industry, institutions and policy. In this conversation with BusinessLine's B Baskar and Vinay Kamath, he talks about what's holding India back and what's the way fo...

Retail investors with high-risk appetite are warming up to pre-packaged stock baskets. While this new route has its own share of advantages, with every crown comes thorns. Parvatha Vardhini C and Kumar Shankar Roy discuss the curated portfolio investment landscape. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

The news that has caught everyone’s attention is Elon Musk’s offer to take Twitter Private at $54.20 a share. That’s the top trending theme of the day, and if you too are interested, Here are 5 things you need to know! Listen in ! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

It took a pandemic for India’s medical technology sector to emerge from the shadows of big brother pharma, and emerge they did – making many of the devices used to tackle Covid-19. For instance, AMTZ (among the world’s largest med-tech manufacturing clusters) supported India’s need for 12 lakh RTPCR tests per day, by providing 11 lakh tests. There are “many who do the advocacy, but too few who car...

Start-ups with heavy ad budgets are preferring freelancers, in-house set-ups or alternative creative shops for their marketing requirements.  In this episode of BL Podcast, Vismaya Naganna, Founder of The Orange Heart, gives us an insight into this trend.  Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

IT-major Infosys Ltd posted 12 per cent YoY rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 5,686 crore for March quarter 2021-22. It also said that its revenue grew 22.7 per cent. In this podcast, Chief of Bureau, Bengaluru and Deputy Editor Venkatesha Babu talks about the five big takeaways from the results. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/mess...

Though Reliance Capital is debt-ridden at the group level, it has several subsidiaries that are profit-making and are well capitalised. How should the Committee of Creditors of Reliance Capital sell these subsidiaries? BusinessLine’s Surabhi takes a look at the process even as the CoC is expected to meet today to finalise the Request for Resolution Plan. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: htt...

In this episode of BL Podcast, we speak with Misbah Quadri, Founder and CEO, Monofys Media, on starting a business during the Covid-19 pandemic and the various challenges faced by women entrepreneurs.  Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Consumer price-based inflation jumped to 6.95 per cent in March, mainly on account of costlier food items. Shishir Sinha gives us a snapshot of the inflation numbers. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Several videos of e-scooters catching fire have raised concerns about the safety of electric vehicles. But, this worry could soon fade into oblivion as an emerging technology has the potential to stop the batteries of electric vehicles from catching fire. Solid-state batteries have only solid components unlike lithium-ion batteries have liquid electrolytes. M Ramesh explains in this podcast. Liste...

The Indian rupee fell to a new low against the US dollar as the oil price surged after the Russia-Ukraine war broke. Can the rupee continue to make fresh lows? Sai Prabhakar and Gurumurthy discuss what can impact the rupee movement and how far it can weaken against the dollar. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

On April 4, It was announced that India’s largest housing finance company, HDFC Ltd, will merge with the largest private sector bank in the country, HDFC Bank, to create an entity with a combined balance sheet of ₹17.87-lakh crore and net worth of ₹3.3-lakh crore. Hamsini, Chief Research Analyst, BusinessLine Research Bureau tells us more on what this means for investors and customers of the two e...