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As various States notched up the volume against Centre for the paucity of coal and resultant power outages, the Centre hit back on Tuesday morning, accusing the States of selling power at higher price in power exchanges while load-shedding for consumers at the same time. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Professor Kanishka Biswas of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bengaluru, an autonomous institution of the governmental Department of Science and Technology, has just been named as one of the recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, the highest Indian award for scientific work, for his development of a ‘high performance thermoelectric material’, Cadmium-doped Silver Antimo...

Harish Bhat, author of #TataStories, takes us on a nostalgic journey into the creation of the Air India Maharajah. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Satya Sontanam and Hari Viswanath discuss what earnings yield is and why it is a helpful tool to evaluate stocks vs.  Other asset classes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Syringe and needle producers in the country are an anguished lot, as they face the prospect of their hard-earned reputation getting dented globally. Following a Government directive this week, restricting the export of syringes – these manufacturers find themselves in a position where they will not be able to honour existing global commitments. A tag of being “undependable”, they caution, affects...

An IIT Madras researcher engineers material so as to gather electrons and make them do useful work--such as splitting water under sunlight. The research gives birth to a new field of science called 'polarisation photo electro chemistry'. Listen in to know more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Finding your tax burden quite high?  Satya Sontanam and Maulik Madhu discuss why any plans to share your income with near and dear ones to reduce the tax outgo, will fall flat. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

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, Saugata Gupta, Managing Director & CEO, Marico Ltd, talks about how Marico pivoted during the pandemic to have more of a digital play and on the future path for the FMCG major. He also shares his life inspirations, his manag...

The Founder and Dean Emeritus of Chennai's Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), Bala V Balachandran, passed away on Monday at the age of 84. The Dean of the institute, Suresh Ramanathan, reminisces a few moments with the management guru, whose ideas had helped shaped businesses globally. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Journalists make up a newsroom's vital institutional muscle memory. As V Rishi Kumar, our Hyderabad bureau chief, retires after a 26-year-long stint with BusinessLine at the end of September 2021, Gitanjali Diwakar tries to capture some of it by speaking to him about writing and reporting on a city and region that has witnessed tremendous changes, scams, political upheavals and successes over the...

Pomegranate is a "superfood" that is super resilient in hot and arid regions, has great domestic and export demand, and has the potential to offer farmers super profits. India of course is the largest producer of this fruit. In the last decade, there has been a boom in India's pomegranate production. It has the potential to become a keystone export item for India. Pankaj Khandelwal, the Chairman o...

Former PepsiCo Chairman & CEO Indra Nooyi’s book, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and our Future, published by Hachette India, is just out. This conversation is an interview preceding her book launch with Vinay Kamath, Senior Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine. Nooyi is a chemistry graduate of Madras Christian College and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, she went on later to earn another MBA from th...

Lithium ion batteries rule the energy storage world today.  Lithium has its limitations and also China has a solid grip over Lithium supplies, which is a strategic headache for India. Fortunately, other, non-Lithium technologies are catching up. The hottest among the challengers are the metal-air batteries, particularly, Zinc-air and Aluminum-air. Metal-air batteries, though better.than Li-ion in...

It’s been three years since the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PMJAY) was launched. A flagship Government programme that provides health insurance, especially for the economically disadvantaged – it is morphing to include more diseases and provide coverage to the unorganised sector and the missing middle class, as well, for instance. Tasked with implementing the programme, the...

The deadline for filing your tax returns has been extended to December 31, 2021. But did you know that you are likely to have a higher tax outgo if you delay filing your tax returns?  Listen and learn. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

PM  Narendra Modi is on an official visit to the US. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Shringla, and other senior officials are part of his delegation. Here's a look at the prime minister's schedule during the trip. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Indian SaaS start-ups have raised $4.3 billion (across 282 deals) in funding since the beginning of 2020, and nine out of the 10 SaaS unicorns were created since 2018, according to data released by Venture Intelligence. Listen to the podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

There is a direct correlation between literacy rates and successful vaccination drives in a particular region. While this may sound obvious, it is necessary to establish the precise linkages using robust data for the successful implementation of any public policy, argues Soma Wadhwa, Research Fellow at India Development Foundation in a conversation with TR Vivek. Here's a recent piece she wrote on...

The Insurance regulator IRDAI has recently extended the validity of two Corona-specific policies - Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak - till March-2022.  Tune in to the discussion between Keerthi Sanagasetti, Research Analyst, and Sai Prabhakar, Principal Research Analyst, to know the features of these policies and whether it is worth signing up for one.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcast...

The small farmers' lack of access to loans from the formal financial sector is often cited as a key reason for distress and suicides. What difference can the ability to borrow from the organised sector make? There are now a raft of new startups that want to lend to farmers. Will the farmers truly benefit from the increasing financialisation of the agri sector. TR Vivek is in conversation with Anil...

Shruti Paliwal tells us why this online repository is joined by Indian researchers as, in a first, it defends against suit filed by academic publishers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Freshworks — a Chennai- and Silicon Valley-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider has filed for IPO in the US. SaaS has been around for a while now. The software itself is considered a service industry. So, what is SaaS? Here's all you need to know... Listen in. Read the full explainer here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

This conversation is a part of BusinessLine's Table Talk series, conversations with leaders on their life and times and their businesses. In this episode, Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever, talks about how the FMCG major is being transformed, leading through a crisis, his early life, and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/busin...

When you hear this from a top heart surgeon, there’s no ignoring it. The last few months have seen a footballer have a cardiac arrest, mid-game, during Euro 2020. He survived it. Closer home, two people from the entertainment industry – both in their 40s – have died from a heart attack. There’s learning from the football incident. Defibrillators need to be available in more public spaces. And, mor...

To commemorate the death anniversary of freedom fighter Subramania Bharati, Tamil Nadu government has declared September 11 as 'Mahakavi' Day. Bharati’s innovative contributions to Tamil poetry and prose are considered to have sparked a Renaissance in 20th CE Tamil literature. But he also wrote extensively in English, of which little is known. In The Coming Age, published by Penguin Modern Classic...