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Jay Shah - Cricket’s Game-Changer
AT HIS PERCH in BCCI office at the 1.32 lakh capacity Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad — the world’s largest — a discussion with Jay Shah stands out for his clarity of mind. And his steadfast belief that cricket administration must focus its energies only on infrastructure development and player facilities. Everything else is a by-product, he emphasises — not once, not twice, but multiple times in the conversation. BCCI’s financial heft, he reiterates, is another outcome.
Class of 2024: India’s Best CEOs Navigate Uncertainty, Volatility
ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, supply chain disruptions, energy transition, shifting weather patterns — navigating any one of those can be a nightmare for a corporate leader. Add to that the pressures of quarterly financials, share price performance, rapidly changing demand and supply and the constant need for human resource upgradation and you have a perfect cauldron for a CEO to stir his way through to success.
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WEALTH CREATION is so integral to growth and capitalism that it is often one of the truest indicators of a nation’s economic glide path. Fortune India’s much anticipated annual rich list provides the most accurate and authentic insight into the changing fortunes of the country’s richest individuals. In this 2024 edition, India now has a record 185 dollar billionaires. Together, they are worth an astounding $1.2 trillion, roughly equivalent of one-third of India’s GDP.
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CENTRE’S HEAVY-LIFTING of the Indian economy via sustained capital expenditure for the past few years has been able to keep India’s economic engine moving — but only so much. The other three engines that power GDP growth — private sector investment, consumption and exports — have hopelessly lagged behind. Budget 2024-25 takes a shot at at least two of those, consumption and private investment, to break the deadlock persisting since well before Covid.
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AS THE NEW GOVERNMENT takes charge, it’s one of those once-in-five-year situations where the annual Budget of the Government of India is presented in July instead of the regular February 1. Modi 3.0 may not be as economically challenged as Modi 1.0, but the sub-par performance at the ballots this General Election is widely expected to have a bearing on Centre’s financial statement when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman rises to present her seventh Budget.
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GREAT NATIONS rarely lead the world until they learn to push the frontiers of technology. Until their entrepreneurs radiate the confidence of industry disruptors. And until their companies execute the dreams of these entrepreneurs. Today, there lies a great challenge in deep-tech, defined as ‘disruptive solutions around unique, protected or hard-to reproduce technological or scientific advances’ by global consulting firm BCG. While International Finance Corp.
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IT IS THE NATION’S good fortune that India’s policymakers have dumped every suggestion advising the country against foraying into large-scale manufacturing. That is the right thing to do in India’s long-term interest. Some of the world’s best known economists, analysts and consulting firms have repeatedly advised against setting up world-scale manufacturing facilities citing the moves as anti-globalisation, pointing out that China’s manufacturing prowess can’t be challenged.
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L&T IS A BRICK and mortar firm of a size and expanse across businesses like no other in India. Its half a million plus workers execute some of the country’s most complex construction and engineering projects. These include the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, India’s first undersea coastal road in Mumbai and the first-ever 3D-printed government building in Bengaluru. The company is also constructing the world’s first experimental fusion reactor in France jointly with 33 countries.
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EVERY 14TH INDIAN banks with HDFC Bank. India’s largest private bank is up against some serious headwinds as MD & CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan battles the fallout of the merger with parent HDFC — both internally and externally. Internally, on its books, its industry-leading liability and return statistics have taken a hit ever since the merger took place in July 2023.
The Conversation: Christian Ulbrich, CEO & President, JLL
High inflation and geopolitical concerns have dealt a double blow to the real estate sector globally. As China continues to suffer under the weight of a collapsing real estate market, raising alarm of a potential domino effect across geographies, JLL CEO and president Christian Ulbrich weighs in on the risks and the opportunities, and where India stands. Interview by Rajeev Dubey. PAIN POINTS What is the current state of real estate globally?
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Fiscal prudence is the rarest of rare commodities in politics. In the quest for voter appeasement, politicians in democracies have thrown the future of next generations under the bus with their profligacy and freebies in the biggest democracies from the U.S. to U.K. and Italy and from Tamil Nadu to Bihar and Punjab. That has purposely indebted future generations with their irresponsible acts.
Culture, Leadership, Empowerment, Agility and Evolution of HR
Rajeev Dubey, in conversation with Sunil Singh & Arup Roy Chowdhury Sunil Singh: Sir! You are a legend. You have seen the journey of HR in India and across the world. You have HR evolving from an administration function to a pure HR function. The good part is that you have seen this transition, both from the Business and HR sides.
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EVEN THOUGH finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has muted expectations from the upcoming February 1 interim Budget (vote-on-account), corporate India and the stock market never cease to anticipate.
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A PACKAGE OF TWO contrasting stories this issue brings alive an ironic development taking place in India’s rapidly growing financial services industry — the backbone of any fast-paced economy. On one hand, the rush of some of India’s biggest conglomerates — from Reliance Industries to Godrej; Tata to Hero MotoCorp and L&T to Serum Institute — to launch NBFCs explains just why NBFC is the latest holy grail of the financial services sector.
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RARELY HAS A NATION taken on the economic might of China with as in-your-face measures as India has in the past few years.
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INDIA'S STOCK MARKET boom appears unstoppable since the Covid-induced trough. Pan your attention to some striking numbers. In the period between March 2019 and August 31, 2023, retail investors in India shot up from 4.5 crore to 12.7 crore. August 2023 also set a new record for the stock market, reporting a historic high turnover of ₹16.8 lakh crore, even as mutual fund folios hit an all-time high of 15.42 crore; SIP contributions were the best ever at ₹15,813 crore.
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THE COURAGE and conviction India has displayed in transitioning rapidly to EV-based mobility — despite massive protests from vehicle manufacturers — is sorely missing in resolving the great divide and incompatibility in the EV charging ecosystem. It represents just what all is terribly wrong: lack of coordination between the Centre and charging infrastructure players, between vehicle makers and the Centre and between the Centre and states or even within government's own departments.
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THE OLD ORDER changeth, yielding place to new! The famous phrase from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s classic poem Morte d’Arthur applies to the automobile industry more than ever before. While the industry is going through the tectonic shift of transition to electric vehicles, there’s another dramatic change underway in customer preference. Sedan, the epitome of elegance and grace, which ruled the car market for decades — is dying.
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ALL STOCK MARKET boom cycles are magnets for wide-eyed newcomers looking to make a quick buck in the shortest possible time. Manipulators know this very well. With the current boom extending longer than imagined, a host of uncertified self-proclaimed stock market Gurus, also called Finfluencers (financial influencers) because of their social media following, have mushroomed to tap into this investor curiosity.
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THIS GENERATION of humans has a great responsibility to save Earth for the future with a fuel that halts global warming by replacing carbon emitting coal and oil. The answer has been identified as ‘hydrogen’ that is available aplenty in the atmosphere. And unlike coal and oil that emit carbon dioxide, hydrogen emits only water (H2O), when combined with oxygen. But replacing fossil fuels is easier said than done.
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This April, Bangladesh became the 19th country to agree to settle bilateral trade in Indian rupees. Countries wary of excessive dollar outflows, especially those who run trade deficit with India, have started signing rupee trade settlement deals. Indian rupee is among the prominent currencies that are being referred to as the 'R' Club that threatens the hegemony of the dollar in international trade and settlements.
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About 30 years ago, when Sajjan Jindal sought his industrialist-politician father O.P. Jindal’s approval to set up an integrated steel plant as big as market leader Tata Steel’s, deploying a new, barely tested Corex technology, the senior Jindal replied: “I can give you my blessings, but not the money.” Sajjan, though, didn’t give up on his dream; convinced the then ICICI chairman N. Vaghul to lend him to build the ₹4,000-crore plant.
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Great civilisations are built on strong foundations of intellect, but are ruined by brute force of mavericks. Few nations know this better than India which suffered 497 years of decline from invaders' greed and all-round destruction. Hence, more than defensive, it's the offensive capabilities that are a prerequisite to sustain a progressive nation and its ambitions. We are well on our way.
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Rarely do corporate executives get to steer the course of a group that has a legacy of a century and a half. Even rarer is a responsibility to reimagine the business models of its most legendary firms, seed new businesses and bring in technologies that are set to change the face of the group forever. In his second five-year term as chairman of group-holding company Tata Sons, N. Chandrasekaran is getting to do both.
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BY NOW, the tenacity of the domestic market has proved to be the greatest force behind the resilience of Indian economy, putting to rest all doubts about economic recovery post Covid. Right in the midst of a world dreading the next recession, India will continue to expand its GDP. In fact, large consumption sectors such as automobiles, real estate and consumer lending are peaking to their all-time highs this fiscal.
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That the Indian economy will expand in a sea of global recession and GDP contraction is a given. The searching question is: How much? And whether measures in Union Budget 2023 can help accelerate India’s GDP growth. A large domestic market which contributes nearly two-thirds to the nation's GDP has proved to be the biggest force behind India's post-Covid economic rebound.
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The iconic Fortune 500 India listing of the country’s biggest companies — now in its 13th edition — is always a barometer of scale. Of size that never fails to amaze. The top 500 club in 2022 is now worth $1.57 trillion in annual revenue, almost as big as the economies of Canada, Mexico and Spain. It is also equivalent to 81% of India’s ₹147 lakh crore (real) GDP — up from 65% last year and 65% a decade ago. Thanks to a 35% jump in cumulative revenue of the top 500 companies to ₹119 lakh crore.
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India's aggressive climate goal of net zero by 2070 calls for rapid transformation of our primarily fossil-dependent economy to 100% renewable over the next five decades. Making this transformation while the economy is in a fast-growth mode is akin to changing the tyre while the car is running. But where's the choice? If there is a policy driving national transformation, it rarely gets bigger than this.
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As India readies to take a call on runaway technologies such as cryptocurrency and plans to introduce the much-delayed digital privacy laws, Asmita Dey caught up with Microsoft’s president and vice chair Brad Smith to pose some burning questions. Smith, who is an eminent lawyer and a global regulatory expert, cautions, “many millennia of human civilisation have demonstrated that one can never rely solely on goodwill of men and women to do what’s right”.
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India is a land of immense possibilities and vast riches. As our economy comes into its own while the global economy struggles, it's the vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that gives the country the confidence to press for its rightful place in the league of nations. Nothing exemplifies this phenomenon more than the country's richest — those who lay the foundation to build on the nation's long-term economic well being.
Molecular Nanoribbon Gels
Molecular Nanoribbon Gels Marta Martínez-Abadia, Rajeev K. Dubey, Mercedes Fernandez, Miguel Martín-Arroyo, Roberto Hernandez, Akinori Saeki and Aurelio Mateo-Alonso Abstract Herein, we show that twisted molecular nanoribbons with as many as 322 atoms in the aromatic core are efficient gelators capable of self-assemblying into ordered π-gels with morphologies that vary with the length of the nanoribbon.
The Conversation: Vini Mahajan, Secretary (drinking water & sanitation), Jal Shakti Ministry
Prof. Michael Kremer, 2019 Economics Nobel prize winner, met officials of the department of drinking water and sanitation under the Jal Shakti Ministry on July 13 to understand how Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is helping India save lives and livelihoods. The ₹3,60,000-crore scheme, known as har ghar jal, aims to provide piped water to all 19.14 crore rural households by 2024.
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Floodgates are about to open at India’s social media creator ecosystem as unbelievable talent is turning their skills at dancing, singing, acting, gaming, motivational talk, even education, into lucrative economic opportunities.
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Phenol, Acetone, Isopropyl Alcohol, Isobutyl Benzene and 2-Acrylamido 2 Methylpropane Sulfonic Acid may sound just as complex chemicals as they are, but for those of India’s chemical entrepreneurs who saw their potential, they are nothing short of rivers of gold. They foresaw, they invested, they conquered! As a result, if there is any non-digital, non-renewables sector that has seen capital investments despite Covid ravaging the economy in these 3 years, chemicals is right on top.
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A Ganpati idol holds a pride of place on the 16th floor chairman’s office of Adani House, the group headquarters in private township ‘Shantigram’ in Ahmedabad. Light semi-classical instrumental music flows in the background in the minimally decorated Chairman’s Lounge. Gautam Adani walks in briskly and settles down at the corner of a sofa with a warm, informal demeanour. He is agile, sports an unflinching air about him and a face that defies that he turns 60 on June 24.
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‘Adjacency’! That is how Gautam Adani patiently explains the group’s rapidfire entry into the nearly two dozen businesses that appear totally unrelated to the outside world. From ports to airports; thermal, solar and wind power to cement; and edible oils and FMCG to city gas distribution.
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A new era is dawning on us. An era that will be characterised by a 3D immersive world to be ruled by augmented and virtual reality where your digital avatars will meet your friends and relatives, attend celebrations — and memorials — rather than physically. And where virtual assets may even hold greater value than real assets. If all this sounds crazy, fuzzy and fictional to many of us, we are not alone. The stark reality is that the ‘Metaverse’ era is already upon us.
Guarding Against The Ukraine War Premium
A military conflict 4,983 kms from mainland India may seem like the last thing to hit the Indian economy, its companies or the consumers. But Russia’s Ukraine invasion has yet again proved that in an increasingly inter-dependent world economic trouble could emerge from the most unsuspecting quarters. For instance, with Ukraine-Russia together accounting for 90% of India’s sunflower oil requirement (edible oils have at least 15% sunflower oil), supplies have ground to a halt.
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The Conversation: Punit Renjen, Global CEO, Deloitte
For Punit Renjen, the global chief executive officer of Deloitte, the $50 billion professional services organisation, Covid-19 has meant going back to lessons learnt during his days growing up in Rohtak, a small town in Haryana. The pandemic, he says, has presented India an opportunity to grow sustainably, something that is inherent in the way we take care of ourselves, our community and our environment.
The Lord Of Indian Real Estate
At the core of a nation’s economic strength are its small and emerging companies. For decades, Europe’s strongest economy Germany has shown to the world how healthy small and medium enterprises can be powerhouses of economic well-being. It’s been idolised not just in Europe, but also in India and across the globe. Over years, India’s own emerging companies landscape has gained from strength to strength.
India’s SuperApp Gold Rush
First there was anxiety, then nervousness, then relief. But on many fronts no news was good news from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman as she presented her fourth Budget.
Inducing Single-Handed Helicity in a Twisted Molecular Nanoribbon
Introduction Conformational isomerism is a fundamental concept in chemistry that provides an overall view of the different spatial arrangements that the atoms of a molecule can adopt. These arrangements define the shape(s) of a molecule and determine its properties. Molecular conformation is particularly relevant in the biological activity of natural and synthetic substances, since bio(macro)molecules, although very flexible, adopt specific conformations from which function evolves.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman begins preparations for presenting her fourth Union Budget when Indian economy is on a revival path - GDP grew 8.4% in second quarter of FY2022, after expanding 20.1% in first quarter. So, what can she do to accelerate growth in the shadow of newer Covid variants? Fortune India organised a Pre-Budget Roundtable of some of India's brightest economic minds to bounce off ideas for Budget 2022.
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