Take One: Big story of the day
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His father built a vaccine empire. Adar Poonawalla is now busy diversifying it
The CEO of Serum Institute of India is finding newer frontiers to invest the family wealth. And he ensures these companies have the potential to complement the world's largest vaccine maker
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The perils of 'Horn Ok Please': Noise, speeding and rash driving
The Maharashtra government recently doubled the fines on honking. Reducing noise from traffic is important to ensure road safety in India which has the highest numbers of road accident deaths in the world
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How can India prepare for all the waves and variants ahead?
The focus firmly needs to be on Covid-19 vaccinations, precautionary doses, testing, genome sequencing, and following Covid-appropriate behaviour
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David, Goliath & the Unicorn: How Darwinbox got its HR box seat
From being a pariah to becoming a darling of the big enterprises, India's newly-minted unicorn Darwinbox took on big daddies of enterprise software—SAP and Oracle—to disrupt the HR tech space
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Inside TCS's cloud strategy: How the IT giant is consolidating its hyperscaler alliances to tap an 'unbounded opportunity'
CEO Rajesh Gopinathan is sharpening TCS's focus on partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google, deploying an army of engineers to transport some of the world's biggest companies to the era of ecosystems
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Why sovereign funds are lapping up tech IPOs
During 2021, three sovereign wealth funds—GIC, CPPIB and ADIA—made it to the top ten anchor investor list in India, a reflection of trends like internet penetration, the increasing size of IPOs and their belief in the India story
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The anomaly of doing whatever it takes to revive growth
The RBI needs to focus on its mandate of inflation control, and the onus is on the government to do the bulk of the lift off to drive investments and growth as the economy grapples with multiple challenges
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Inside GlobalBees and the ecommerce roll-up gambit
The homegrown unicorn is beefing up its portfolio by aggregating a colony of D2C digital brands, but with global leader Thrasio entering India, can the startup get ahead of competition?
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Vodafone Idea: Running to stand still
The government getting a substantial stake in VI does not change much for the Centre or the company. Its attractiveness as a corporate seeking urgent funding remains in question
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TCS hits $25 billion after Q3, but smaller rival Infosys is growing faster
The top companies' latest numbers also spotlight greater participation by women, overall, with the top IT companies seeing women make up close to 40 percent of their workforce
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Tata Motors is on a roll. Can anything stop it?
Tata Motors has become the country's second-largest carmaker following a slew of recent launches, and revival of the EV fleet segment