Take One: Big story of the day
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Inside Kota: Edgy students, caring crusaders & a missing safety valve
A police squad, a psychiatrist and an educator are proactively reaching out to students, sniffing for signs of distress, and trying to defuse the ticking 'suicide' bomb. To their horror, the grenade pin lies with the parents
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Does markets sell-off in tech stocks indicate the end of the bull run?
Wobbly shares of Indian software services companies made investors nervous as selling pressure intensified with a few blue chip companies dragging the benchmark indices indicating markets sentiment is fragile
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Apple, Micron Technology, First Solar: India is bagging mega tech projects that a few years ago would have been China-bound. But can this sustain?
Things have started on a good note, but experts say roadblocks like infrastructure, red tape, a complex tax system and skilled labour remain
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Bank attrition: Concerning but not a pain point
Though attrition at some of India's biggest banks is high and rising, it is the junior management that makes the most exits due to opportunities in fintech and flexible working conditions. Banks are more concerned about retaining senior management talent, which is involved with strategic decision making
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Infosys falls after outlook whiplash: 5 Takeaways from Q1 FY24
Despite multi-billion-dollar order wins this year, translation to revenue will take time, CEO Salil Parekh said
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Broken dreams, pressure of the IIT tag and shattered lives: 'We failed him. He didn't fail'
The son of an IITian father and doctor-mother succumbed to expectations last year. The grieving parents find it hard to come to terms with their loss and rue inadvertently pushing him to the brink
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How LeverageEdu's Akshay Chaturvedi weathered the pandemic storm with 'soul searching' on Saturdays
The founder began looking for internal validation after being betrayed by a VC. His journey has been shaped by countless lessons in learning and unlearning. Can he now script a new chapter by taking the study-abroad platform to IPO?
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How, after years of cynicism, foreign investors are favouring India over China
The tide of foreign investments has turned as investors pull out of China stocks and turn to India and global emerging market ETFs, excluding China, for better long-term returns, finally
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Wipro's turnaround is work in progress facing macro spoilsport
With talent acquisition core to its work, India's fourth biggest IT company has seen the sharpest hiring course correction amongst peers
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How Spark Studio is weathering the edtech meltdown
Moving away from her arts-heavy curriculum, Anushree Goenka found the spark in the market for public speaking and spoken English to build a startup that is growing slow but steady
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Context & alphabets: Creative Galileo & the samosa act
Prerna Jhunjhunwala's venture for early learning for children is focusing on schools. The founder, though, is equally animated about a D2C play. But can B2C be as easy as ABC?