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Podcast: Why is Dr Reddy's Laboratories bringing the Russian vaccine to India?

While the Russian Sputnik V vaccine follows a similar path as the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine of being based on the human adenovirus, a common cold virus fused with the spike protein of Sars-Cov-2 to stimulate an immune response, its approval and registration without the crucial Phase III trial and consequent tie-up with Dr Reddy's Laboratories has made headlines. Manu Balachandran, author of this fortnight's cover story delves into GV Prasad and Dr Reddy's long-standing relationship with Russia, the country's apparent transparency with the pharma company, and why it bet on

Unlock Restaurants: Measures taken by Mumbai eateries to ensure safety

For the first time since the March lockdown, the government has permitted restaurants and bars to open shop. Here's how they are ensuring employee and customer safety

Podcast: Inside Ronnie Screwvala's plans for upGrad

Build. Scale. Repeat: Ronnie Screwvala, who transformed UTV from a production company to a multimedia conglomerate, is now dipping into his entrepreneurial genius to build edtech startup upGrad into a venture of scale and impact. Can it compete with the likes of Byju's and Unacademy?

Capital Ideas: Ranu Vohra on the leadership rejig at Avendus Capital and becoming a full-stack financial services firm

How India plans to regulate its cryptocurrency trade

India is planning to bring in a law to ban trade in cryptocurrency, that will certainly come as a huge blow to an industry that has been booming during the lockdown

IN PHOTOS: The New York Fashion Week has a new look in 2020

The first NYFW of the pandemic was a mix of virtual and physical shows, with a limited audience, social distancing, and some reimagined mask couture

Podcast: How Infosys CEO Salil Parekh outperformed peers

By building new capabilities in digital, cloud, automation and AI, Infosys has won ever larger contracts. And the share of revenues from digital technology services as a proportion of the total has almost doubled in the last two years, to 45 percent.. Cover story author Harichandan Arakali speaks about the 'Salil Parekh flavour', the impact of H-1B visa restrictions on Infosys, and takes stock of the CEO and MD's biggest challenge yet: Ensuring the company stays on course

Behind the spectacular fall of Chanda and Deepak Kochhar

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Deepak Kochhar, the husband of former ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar. Deepak was arrested in a money-laundering case related to the loans sanctioned by ICICI Bank to Videocon group for alleged pecuniary considerations.

How Delhi Metro—India's largest metro rail network—restarted after five months

Services of the Delhi Metro began at 7 am on the 49-km-long Yellow Line (HUDA City Centre and Samaypur Badli), as per the Centre's guidelines on September 07.

IIM-Ahmedabad defies slowdown, sees 35% jump in highest domestic package

Genpact made the most offers on campus for IIM-A's PGPX one-year programme placements, as did the IT sector in industry-wise hiring

EXPLAINED: K-Pop label BTS Prepares for an IPO

Big Hit Entertainment, the manager of the popular boy band BTS, is readying for a stock market listing expected later this year; they plan to offer 7.1 mn shares. The IPO is said to be South Korea's largest in three years