In his post-budget interview, finance minister
Pranab Mukherjee talks to NDTV chairman Prannoy Roy and chairman Business Standard Ltd TN Ninan about reforms, subsidies and compulsions of coalition politics. Edited excerpts:
Just a week after India saw its largest insurance company LIC buy
Rs. 11,450 crore worth of shares in the country's largest oil exploration company ONGC --- a move described by former finance minister Yashwant Sinha as "daylight robbery" --- right under the nose of Sebi, its chairman
UK Sinha clears the regulatory air.
One of India's 48 billionaires - the latest Forbes rich list ranks him at 270 with a net worth of $4.1 billion - Uday Kotak, 53, vice-chairman and managing director, Kotak Mahindra Bank says leadership is about being disruptive and thinking out of the box. Excerpts from an interview.
New leaders face comparisons with predecessors. These comparisons give way to judgments about their performance and expectations gets placed on the leader's shoulders,
The 69-year-old Godrej Group patriarch, Adi Godrej says leadership is certainly no popularity contest. Good leaders, he says, even when they take decisions not liked by all, owe it to their subordinates to explain the rationale for such decisions.
A three-decade veteran at mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), in what is only his second job - the first being with Tatas-promoted Indian Hotels - Keki Mistry, 57, has played a critical role in the lender's transformation into India's leading financial services company that also dabbles in banking, asset management and insurance.
Interview with Vineet Singh Hukmani, CEO, RadioOne.
With eight consecutive quarters of growth behind it, Hindustan Unilever has been able to ride the stress of rising input costs, a falling rupee and changing business environment, with some success. The company's chairman and parent company Unilever’s chief operating officer Harish Manwani talks to
HT.
Being the eldest son of the industrialist Rahul Bajaj, Rajiv, 45, got the world’s fourth largest two-wheeler firm as part of his inheritance. But in 2001, barely a year after he unofficially took over the reins of the firm, he saw Bajaj Auto slip and lose its No. 1 position in India for the first-time in 45 years.
RAdm (Retd) Vineet Bakhshi, VSM, chairman and managing director, Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) speaks to Hindustan Times on the driving spirit behind the creditable growth trajectory of the country’s youngest defence shipyard. Excerpts:
The Supreme Court has pointed out that the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India were "flawed in many respects". Nripendra Misra, who was the chairman of Trai when the regulator's recommendations were submitted to DoT, talks to
HT about his view on the verdict.
Last in news for building India’s longest railway bridge -- the 4.6-km-long bridge involving the construction of the Vallarpadam-Idapally new line in Kerala -- the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) is bracing up to start execution works on major projects including the construction of the prestigious Rishikesh-Karanprayag rail link. Corporation Managing Director
Satish Agnihotri spoke to
Srinand Jha on upcoming schemes and related issues. Excerpts:
Achieving political consensus for impending policy reforms tops the agenda of R V Kanoria, the newly-elected president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Dogged by controversies and delays in past years, the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation (DFCC) now seems poised to begin execution work of India’s single biggest infrastructure project involving the construction of 3,300 route kilometres of tracks at a whopping Rs. 60,000 crores.
Despite the uncertain macro-economic conditions in the developed West, Infosys is preparing for the long term, with continued investments and a positive hiring outlook, its MD and CEO SD Shibulal told Hindustan Times. Excerpts: