Neeraj Swaroop Age: 53 years Designation: Was regional chief executive, India & South Asia at Standard Chartered Bank. He is now the regional chief executive for South East Asia (excluding Singapore) Education: IIT, Delhi and MBA from IIM Career: Worked at Unilever, India, HDFC Bank and Bank of America Interests: Watching cricket, travelling, swimming Q. A lot of foreign banks have had issues in scaling up in India, but Standard...
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As a child, everyone has a favourite boast about their daddy. But few would have a story to match Prof Jayant Baliga's. "The first TV broadcast into a home in India occurred in my house." In true tradition of a man of science this isnt an empty boast. It really did happen. "My father, BV Baliga, was chief engineer of All India Radio after Independence. There was an exhibition in...
10:57 AM, Feb 27, 2012
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), when it buys reactor components, settles bills partly in dollars and partly in rupees. These days it has been trying to convince component suppliers like Areva to take the payment entirely in rupees. This is largely to cut out the rupee depreciation and volatility risk. The component suppliers aren't in a mood to oblige. They don't want the foreign exchange volatility risk...
12:15 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Uday Kotak Age: 52 Profile: Founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank and Indias first billionaire banker. Rich List Rank: 15 Wealth: $ 3.6 billion His Strength: -Building a team that enjoys what it does. -During every crisis, the entire top team would huddle together like a cricket team To see how far Uday Kotak has come, you dont have to go to his office at Nariman Point, Mumbai. Go instead to...
10:25 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Gyaneshwar Pandey Age: 34 Career: CEO, Husk Power Systems; International Rectifier Corporation, Los Angeles Qualifications: B Tech (Electrical Engg), MS (Electric Power Engg), MS ( Power Electronics engg) Areas of interest: Reading and writing fiction Bihar and entrepreneurship: Paradoxical would you say? I dont think so. There is a lot of entrepreneurship and opportunities in Bihar. If you think about it, there have been very few employment opportunities and people...
11:10 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Extinct species remain in the footnotes, but Dynabook is different. It was a concept for a handheld personal computer before the adjective 'personal' got linked to the word 'computer'. Till 2008 it remained just an ideal - a battle scar on the legacy of Alan Kay, the creator, and two legendary venture capitalists, Vinod Khosla and John Doerr, who invested in Dynabook Technologies. But now, the world is ready for...
01:10 PM, May 03, 2011
Within the circles of literary theory, he is arguably as talked about as his atomic scientist namesake. Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg professor of the Humanities, the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard and author of many publications on cultural and literary theory. In a world where to be respectable you must adopt a scientific approach, what can Humanities teach us? Today, there is really a...
10:50 AM, Mar 17, 2011
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10:50 AM, Feb 16, 2011
Time was when the initial public offering of Infosys Technologies struggled to find investors and the lead managers had to underwrite the issue. And what a killing they made! The equity stake they picked up was worth more than 11 times in just seven years despite the dotcom meltdown. This legend has driven countless investors to try and score the 'next' Infosys so that they can retire to a mansion...
10:45 AM, Jan 06, 2011
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AR Rahman is bringing together Western and Eastern musical forms. ...
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12:54 PM, Jan 07, 2010
Some neologisms, and some old ones dusted off and made new. ...
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China's economy unbalanced; India's better: Economist Stephen Roach. ...
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