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Budget 2024: What do students want?
How important is the Union Budget for college students? How do they rank social welfare vs infrastructure? In part 1 of a series on Budget expectations, Neha Bothra speaks to Gen-Z about what's on their wishlist from the government. The Union Budget 2024-2025 will be announced on July 23
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Exploring Sobha Group's ambitious plans to enter the US and Mumbai luxury realty sector
Sobha Group's founder PNC Menon and his son Ravi Menon, the chairman of Sobha Limited, and co-chairman of Sobha Realty, feature on the cover of our luxury real estate issue. In this podcast, Manu Balachandran discusses the rise and rise of the Menons' business and sprawling empire in the context of the increasing demand for opulent living spaces
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Chronicling the progress of India's deeptech sector
The yearly special issue focusing on India's deeptech sector has arrived. In this podcast, Harichandan Arakali overviews how the sector has evolved so far and discusses the traditional challenges awaiting close-to-commercialisation companies
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A look into our Climate special: From energy transition to green jobs, and more
This Indian summer saw most of the country engulfed in extended heat waves. Even the plains of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, a respite for people in these months, weren't spared. Forbes India's Divya Shekhar takes you through our latest issue which delves into India's energy transition and climate challenges while it still keeps on developing to meet its ambition
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'I gave everything to politics...but my heart was with cricket': Gautam Gambhir
The frontrunner for the Team India coach position, former cricketer and politician Gautam Gambhir has a freewheeling chat about cricket, leadership and his tryst with politics
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Sunil Gupta, pioneering figure in the data services sector, shares deeper insights
After garnering close to two decades of experience in the business of storing gigatonnes of data and operating 19 third-party data centres, Sunil Gupta co-founded Yotta Data Services in 2019. Suddenly, the pioneer sees himself hemmed in by India's biggest conglomerates and the world's largest tech multinationals, all investing top dollar in data storage. In this podcast, Gupta, the star of the current issues cover, walks us through his journey so far and shares what lies in the future
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Is Apple + OpenAI expedient or the best of both worlds?
Apple, as widely anticipated leading up to its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to the iPhone, iPad and MacBooks. The tie up evoked strident criticism from Elon Musk, the world's richest person, in particular around data privacy. In this episode, Jaspreet Bindra, an independent AI and ethics researcher and former chief digital officer of the Mahindra Group, and Dipanjan Chatterjee, VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research, unpack the significance of this deal
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WWDC: How will Apple balance its privacy stance with AI features
Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference, WWDC, kicks off later today, and anticipation is high with respect to the iPhone maker's AI roadmap, as it is generally considered to lag Android rivals such as Samsung and Google — especially in the era of generative AI. Neil Shah, vice president of research at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, and Navkendar Singh, associate vice president at IDC India, unpack what they are expecting to see today from Apple's conference
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Celebrating Forbes India's 15th anniversary
Forbes India is today not what it was 15 years ago—not at least in form, as digital storytelling takes precedence over printed words. Yet, the essence of Forbes India remains the same, as the team stays faithful to the pillars on which the product is founded: Leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and wealth. In this podcast, learn about Forbes India's trajectory as we celebrate the achievements and reflect upon the lessons
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Expansion to exit: There's a new wave of global capability centres in India
Access to talent, value and innovation - these are all reasons that multinational companies are either setting up IT and software-driven R&D centres in India or expanding existing facilities. Some, however, are reducing the workforce in such centres and there's also a set of companies considering exiting their GCCs altogether. To understand what's going on, I spoke with Stanton Jones, Distinguished Analyst at ISG, a technology research and advisory firm that tracks outsourcing deals around the world, about their recent survey of GCC activity. Here's what he said
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Election results: Why the global CEO will remain gung-ho about India's tech services
In this episode, Megha Chawla, senior partner at the multinational consultancy Bain & Company, talks about why India's tech talent has become a non-negotiable part of the global CEO's strategy, discussing the prospects for the nation's tech landscape, as India returns to a coalition government at the centre after a decade. In the age of AI, India's IT services companies have become important partners to global businesses, she says