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YouTube has been the bedrock of the creator economy in India. A new report by Oxford Economics, an independent consulting firm, says YouTube India has contributed ₹6,800 crore to India’s GDP in 2020. YouTube is supporting over 68 crore full-time equivalent jobs in India, and as a testament to that, the number of channels earning at least ₹1 lakh in revenue has increased by 60 per cent, as of June...

The global oil market has seen many changes in recent weeks. From Russia facing sanctions from the US and other countries over the Ukraine war, India getting discounted Russian oil, and the recent truce between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis group backed by Iran. BusinessLine's Chief of Bureau -Kolkata, and Hyderbad and author of 'Unfilled Barrels- India's oil story' tell us more about th...

Yield inversions have traditionally been a harbinger of recession in the US and weaker global growth. Sai Prabhakar and Hari Viswanath discuss what is happening and what are its implications for stock markets. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Over the past week, many foreign leaders, right from Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, Australian PM Scott Morrison, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, Chinese FM Wang Yi and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov visited India and met the top Indian leadership to make their case for support in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. In this podcast, V Nivedita takes a look at what they said and India’s position on...

After a little more than a month since Russia started its military operation in Ukraine, is peace in sight?  In what could be the first sign of de-escalation of tension between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has said that it would to scale down military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine on Tuesday.   As you know, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on the 24th of February. At tha...

Even though "Writing With Fire" did not win the award for the Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards, India still has a reason to celebrate -- Namit Malhotra’s visual effects and animation company DNEG’s work for The Dune won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. This is not the company's first award. In fact, the company has six Oscar-winning films to its name and now Dune joins...

A timely and relevant book that addresses the silent pandemic of mental health issues. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

The casual gaming industry is giving brands a new horizon to engage their audiences on non-gaming apps and websites. Many brands like Amazon, Paytm, and Airtel have seen a 40% revenue increase after incorporating games in their ad strategies. Here’s a conversation on the same with Yashash Agarwal, Co-Founder of Gamezop - a gaming solutions provider. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://...

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 businesses. In this episode, the vivacious new MD and CEO of United Spirits, Hina Nagarajan, speaks to BusinessLine.  For the uninitiated, Hina Nagarajan is the first woman to lead a liquor company of such a large scale in the country.  She talks about how th...

K Gurumurthy and discuss Akhil Nallamuthu discuss recent significant factors that have driven the swings in crude oil, and what you need to watch out for. Read | Crude oil: Upside can be capped at $120 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Delivering humanitarian medical aid involves immense planning and procurement of medicine and other healthcare supplies, besides ensuring the physical safety and mental wellbeing of healthcare and aid workers on the frontline, among other things. Simi Basheer, Director - Human Resources and Facilities with MSF (Doctors without Borders) South Asia, gives us a peep into the mammoth task involved in...

The subject that we are discussing today will seem gross. A Bengaluru-based start-up called Loopworm, which was started by two IIT Roorkee graduates, is working to bring food waste back into the food cycle using biotechnology. Loopworm’s mission is to solve the global protein deficiency and waste generation. The start-up is involved in protein farming, but not pulses, dairy or meat. It farms an in...

You have heard of gray, blue and green hydrogen, which refer to processes through which the gas is produced. Now, we welcome you to Gold Hydrogen -- something that might well turn out to be the savior of the planet. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

In this podcast Sai Prabhakar and Hari Viswanath discuss whether the TCS buyback adds any value to the shares, and what the current global disruptions could mean for the stock. Listen in! Read the full story here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Just as the global economy is recovering from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis brought about by Russia's military operation in Ukraine threatens to send the world into recession. How will the crisis impact the world? and will it impact India? Nivedita V talks to Dipti Deshpande, Principal Economist, CRISIL. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s...

The Russia-Ukraine war has been roiling global markets over the last week.  Sai Prabhakar and Hari Viswanath discuss implications for investors and how they need to proceed in the current context. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

In one of our recent episodes, we looked at the fodder crisis in India, a country with 540 million cattle, the largest in the world.  Dairy farming is the lifeline of millions of small farmers in the country. Even when crops fail, dairy farming provides them with at least bare minimum income and nutritional security. Given the importance of dairy farming in India, have you ever wondered how the fa...

The EU has accepted the Ukraine's application to the bloc in principle. But, despite the support from other members of the European Union, the recent invasion by Russia could delay the process by several years.   Let us not forget how Poland became part of the EU. In 1994, Poland had applied for a membership to the European Union (EU). These were times of peace and stable democracies. Yet, the cou...

In this exclusive, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talks to The Hindu BusinessLine about the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, its impact on oil prices, the economic sanctions on Russia and the Union Budget. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Even as the UN Security Council was holding an emergency meeting on the Ukraine-Russia crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday. "I have made the decision of a military operation," Putin said in the televised announcement and asked Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms. He claimed the Ukrainian government was overseeing a "genocide" in the...

In a low-income country of India's size, you can find a socio-economic crisis anywhere you look. Be it farms, factories, schools, cities, or villages. While the government is the primary actor with pretty much all power to address these challenges, how can people outside the government, especially the achievers from the private sector help make a dent?    Ashish Dhawan is one of those trying to ex...

Low and middle- income countries stand disproportionately affected in terms of cancer cases and deaths, says the World Health Organization. In fact, by 2040, over 70 percent of cancer deaths are expected to occur in these regions. But some initiatives are underway in India to streamline and standardise treatments, to help the medical community and patients/ payers to “choose wisely”. Tata Memorial...

Facebook stock has continued to remain under pressure since its record $230 billion market cap erosion in a single day 2 weeks back. Kumar Shankar Roy and Hari Viswanath discuss why this presents a good opportunity for long term investors. Read the full recommendation here Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

The government of India is warm to the idea of electricity and carbon dioxide from co-generation plants in sugar factories being gainfully used in co-electrolysis to produce sustainable aviation fuel. Senior Deputy Editor M Ramesh explains Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Akhil Nallamuthu, senior research analyst, and Kumar Shankar Roy, senior assistant editor, delve deep into the fascinating but risky world of non-fungible tokens i.e. NFTs. Listen in! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message