UpFront
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Budget 2024: What India's tech startups want
Apart from the perennial ask for lower taxes and customs duties, deep-tech startups want more R&D spend, greater public-private collaboration
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Give and Tech: India's IT entrepreneurs lead the way
Just as in the bustling US tech sector, India's IT entrepreneurs — from the IT services bellwethers to the more recent digital native billionaires—have carved a niche for themselves by not just donating millions but also by immersing themselves in relatively newer causes like climate change and gender inequality
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Budget 2024: Expect moderation in pace of government capex growth
The government has done the heavy lifting of spending on infrastructure projects in recent years. It could well moderate the pace of growth for capex in this budget, while focusing on social infrastructure and welfare projects in the election year
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Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner on how private equity can plunder the economy
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher and Co., talk about their book These are the Plunderers: How PE runs and wrecks America. The book is a well-researched critique of how private equity firms in the US that specialise in buying companies, load them with debt and completely squeeze them for profits. The authors talk to Divya Shekhar about the insurance takeover by PE, the lack of transparency in their dealings, and the responsibility of the media while covering PE billionaires.
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Budget 2024: The long road to fiscal consolidation
The government is likely to walk the fiscal tightrope as it aims to achieve its commitment of lowering the fiscal deficit to 4.5 percent of GDP in FY26
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Paytm moderates Buy Now, Pay Later lending, but overall impact marginal
The demand for big-ticket lending, onboarding of new lending partners will be watched closely. Analysts forecast a path towards profitability by FY26
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Electric vehicles are taking off steadily. How can the Budget help?
The government will need to do some more handholding before the EV sector finds a firm footing. With the upcoming Budget, the industry hopes for an equitable landscape with subsidies and incentives, across states and the Centre, and a focus on long-term policy measures
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How Rashmi Verma's MapmyIndia is going up against Google, Apple Maps
An early mover in India's digital mapping ecosystem, MapmyIndia has mapped nearly 18 million locations in the country, six million km of roads, and captured nearly 15 million addresses
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Will elections make interim budget 2024 inflationary
The possibility of some populist schemes can't be ruled out in the interim budget as general elections are due in April-May 2024, but the government has limited fiscal room due to uncertainties amid volatile inflation
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Interest rates key for equities but investors must crave opportunities in every crisis: Kenneth Andrade
As markets go through multiple cycles of lows and highs, veteran investor Kenneth Andrade, founder director of Old Bridge Capital Management, spills his secret sauce on how to stay risk averse and create alpha even in times of crisis
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Beyond banks' Q3 earnings: Concerns over deposits, margins and credit growth
While the financial health of India's banks might be strong, there are challenges each one faces to build deposit growth and try and lend aggressively to improve net margins