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Hyperlocals At Crossroads

The local delivery boom as a result of the lockdown seems to be tapering off

IN 2022, THE TELECOM NETWORK WILL START TO SHIFT INTO SPACE”

It’s been a bloodbath in the Indian telecommunications sector but Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, put up a formidable fight. In a tell-all conversation with India Today Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and Deputy Editor Shwweta Punj, Mittal talks about how the pricing war unleashed by Reliance Jio is badgering the sector; how Bharti Airtel is inching back into the saddle of profitability and why Budget 2021/22 should focus on those at the margins and not on corporate tax cuts.

Bulls to Rule For Now

EQUITY MARKETS ARE ENTERING THE NEW YEAR WITH HOPE. HERE’S WHAT LIES AHEAD

Best Advice I Ever Got

“ADVERSITY BRINGS OPPORTUNITY, BUT WE OFTEN NEED HELP IN FINDING IT”

Mercurial Transformer

MUKESH AMBANI BUILT THREE SECTORDOMINATING BUSINESSES UNDER RIL AND CLEANED OFF THE CONGLOMERATE’S DEBTS BY RAISING ₹2.89 LAKH CRORE

Eye On The Future

Gurdeep Singh has proved his mettle as cmd of ntpc by steering the company from coal-based generation to green energy

Go Beyond Life, Health Policies

Product innovation will gain traction as the industry gets set to go on a digital overdrive

Universal Reinventor

UNDER RAJESH GOPINATHAN, TCS HAS INTEGRATED A WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF AUTOMATION PRODUCTS TO CREATE THE 'MACHINE FIRST' DELIVERY MODEL

“THE CHOICES YOU MAKE DETERMINE HOW FAR YOU WILL GO”

ANAND KRIPALU, MD AND CEO, DIAGEO INDIA

The Empowerer

SANJIV MEHTA DELEGATED RESPONSIBILITY AND RELIED ON QUICK MARKET FEEDBACK AND COST CONTROL IN ORDER TO THRIVE IN THE MARKETPLACE

Staying On Top

HOW INDIA'S BEST CEOS ARE STEERING THEIR COMPANIES THROUGH CRISIS AND CHAOS

Quantum Leaper

RAJEEV JAIN FOCUSSED ON PRODUCT CREATION IN RETAIL AND SME LENDING AT BAJAJ FINANCE, WHILE ENGAGING MORE WITH CUSTOMERS USING DATA ANALYTICS

Kataria's Sporting Adventures

Getting one’s business to stay afloat and inspiring team members to be resilient during a black swan event such as the Covid pandemic can become extremely stressful, especially for the CEO of the business.

Institution Builder

AFTER USING TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSFORM INDIAN BANKING AND STEERING INFOSYS PAST ITS BIGGEST CRISIS, K.V. KAMATH, FORMER CHAIRMAN, ICICI BANK, HELPED MULTILATERAL LENDER NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK SCALE UP MASSIVELY DURING HIS FIVE-YEAR STINT

The Battle For Indian Retail

How Mukesh Ambani, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Walmart’s Doug McMillon are fighting to get a bigger slice of India’s $850 billion retail market

TIME FOR MODI-BIDEN TANGO

Having deliberately opted out of the world’s largest trade bloc, RCEP, India can now push for the limited trade deal with the US

“ALWAYS HAVE A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP IN YOUR JOB”

ANUJ JAIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KANSAI NEROLAC PAINTS

PUSH FOR A REBOUND

Companies garner record profits in July-September after four quarters of decline as cost reductions and revival in economic activity boost balance sheets; manufacturing firms steal the show

Tapping Gig Talent

HOW COMPANIES ARE REORIENTING THEIR SYSTEMS TO INTEGRATE SHORT-TERM WORKERS

PhonePe: Life Beyond UPI

In less than four years, PhonePe has emerged as the leader in UPI transactions, neck-and-neck with Google Pay, leaving behind Paytm and others. But where is the revenue model?

Network

Agrawal’s Elephant Safari

Making Medicines in India

CENTRE HAS ANNOUNCED TWO SCHEMES TO REDUCE IMPORT DEPENDENCE IN MEDICINE MANUFACTURING. WILL THEY WORK THIS TIME?

Hungry For Stressed Assets

Private equity and stressed asset funds continue to show interest in acquiring value assets undergoing insolvency proceedings despite delays and litigation

Data Centre BOOM

With the rise in Cloud adoption, data generation and emergence of data-as-a-service model, data centre business in India is not just growing big, but also emerging as the new real estate asset class

The Net-Working Effect

How women-only platforms can bridge the gender gap at the workplace

Riding The Vaccine Wave

The world of vaccine and drug development is being reset. Here's how indian pharma must reinvent to lead the new era of drug discovery and research

Inside India's Vaccine Ecosystem

A blow-by-blow account of how indian vaccines are being readied

Valuing LIC

HOW THE 64-YEAR-OLD LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION SHOULD BE VALUED FOR STOCK MARKET LISTING

Saving Taxes

YOU CAN SAVE TAXES EITHER BY INVESTING IN GOVERNMENT-NOTIFIED PRODUCTS OR BY CLAIMING EXEMPTIONS ON CERTAIN TYPE OF EXPENSES. THE LOWDOWN

REFORM PANGS

State laws may delay progress of Centre’s agri-marketing reforms, but won’t be able to halt them