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A Lot of Bull

Why the sharp recovery and sustained run in stock markets is built on weak fundamentals. Despite the fall, they are trading at double the valuation of the 2008 Lehman crash

Bond Fund With a Difference

BHARAT BOND ETFS ARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN AAA-RATED PSUS AT LOW COST WITH PREDICTABLE RETURNS AND EQUITIES-LIKE LIQUIDITY

Ticking Time Bomb

Up to ₹40 lakh crore worth of loans of banks are under six-month moratorium. The risk of default looms large

How To Make FTAs Work

India’s experience with free trade agreements has been bitter. Can the country learn from its mistakes?

GROWTH SHOULD PICK UP FROM SECOND HALF OF THE FISCAL

India's economy is expected to shrink in FY21. The government has come out with several reforms of late to make the country a global manufacturing hub and push jobs and growth. Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, while speaking with Business Today’s Nirbhay Kumar, says that foreign companies are strongly considering the possibility of shifting manufacturing to India given its low costs and a huge market. Kant talks about plans to attract foreign investment, boost local demand and reforms kick-started by the government. Edited excerpts:

“The ISA wants a solarised hospital in every district”

The International Solar Alliance (ISA) took shape at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) held in Paris in 2015. Its formation was spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Headquartered in India, ISA has 86 signatories, 67 member countries, and 48 partners. It plans to facilitate more than $1,000-billion investment in solar energy by 2030. Upendra Tripathy, Founding Director General, ISA, and former secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, spoke to P.B. Jayakumar about the alliance’s future plans. Edited excerpts.

Reimagining Work

In a world that has changed, businesses are looking at new organisational structures

Best Advice I Ever Got

“WE NEED TO COUNT UPON THE ‘COLLECTIVE WISDOM’ OF OUR TEAM” MANISH SHARMA, PRESIDENT AND CEO, PANASONIC INDIA & SOUTH ASIA

REINVENTING RELIANCE

How Mukesh Ambani is pivoting RIL from a petroleum company to a technology corporation

The Solar Mirage

India’s solar capacity addition is slowing as viability of projects and host of other issues trouble developers

THE INDIAN HAND

Whether India develops a Covid-19 vaccine/drug or not, Indian companies will be preferred partners for global pharma to make and distribute the life-saving drug globally

SUSPENDED AMMUNITION

With the insolvency and bankruptcy law suspended, the ecosystem of professionals around it faces disruption and uncertainty

Less Tax, Better Policies

Protecting user data, enhanced capital support to start-ups and changes in it sector laws can transform india into a digitally empowered society

Food in a Tinderbox

The restaurant industry is close to irreparable damage. Can it be saved?

In a Tight Corner

States finally have headroom to borrow more from the market. But there’s a cost to it

New Gen Reliance

As Mukesh Ambani’s children play a greater role in Reliance Industries, the group is adding muscle to its digital, retail and petrochemicals businesses

Debt Funds: No Safety Tag

FROM THE NBFC LIQUIDITY CRISIS IN 2018 TO COLLAPSE OF SIX FRANKLIN TEMPLETON SCHEMES, DEBT FUNDS ARE NO LONGER CONSIDERED SAFE

Money Matters

MANAGING YOUR MONEY CAN BE TRICKY. SEND YOUR QUERIES, AND PERSONAL FINANCE EXPERTS WILL HELP YOU RESOLVE ANY ISSUE

INNOVATION SHOULD BE GIVEN A BOOST THROUGH TAX INCENTIVES”

In the middle of the current pandemic, India has emerged as a credible supplier of essential medicines. Four Indian pharma companies have just signed a partnership agreement with US-based Gilead for supply of its experimental coronavirus drug Remdesivir. Satish Reddy, President, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (which represents 24 leading pharma firms) and Chairman of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, speaks to Business Today’s Joe C. Mathew about how home-grown firms are serving India and the world during the Covid-19 crisis.

Education's Big Leap

Institutions of higher learning are graduating to new delivery models to engage with students online

Cancelled Hopes

As orders are scrapped, supply chain is disrupted and global demand slumps, Indian exporters struggle to remain in business

Stimulus: Here Is The Money

India badly needs a stimulus. Here’s how to find the money

THE NEW FARM FORMULA

Farmers are finding newer ways, and means, to conduct transactions in times of lockdown

THE VIRTUAL BENCH

Lockdown has given a big push to virtual courts. Will this be the turning point in Indian judiciary?

RBI'S BLOCKED TAP

The traditional approach of pumping money into banks to push liquidity to corporates and NBFCs is not working. It’s time to change the strategy

MAKING OUT OF INDIA

Pharmaceutical players will set up plants in major markets, go for more automation and focus on digital marketing

TRANSFORM OR DIE

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing companies to reimagine and reinvent

NOT A SMALL SHIFT

MSME guide to survival has several drastic measures such as lower leverage and diversification into newer areas

Force Majeure Restraint

Companies invoking the clause must remember that it does not ensure guaranteed protection from contractual obligations

CONTROL +ALT+ DEL

How hotels are reinventing themselves to stay afloat