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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
When public works are reduced to instruments of self-enrichment, designers and planners lose any stimulus to apply themselves.
On the afternoon of 4 September, Cyrus Mistry, the former chairman of Tata Sons, was killed along with a friend, Jehangir Dinshaw Pandole, in a car crash outside Mumbai. A few days later, Bengaluru, the soi-disant Silicon Valley of South Asia, was deluged by a biblical flood. The billionaire scion of India’s most distinguished business family killed in a road accident, the poster child of India’s economic transformation submerged in water: the two tragedies threw into nightmarish relief the state of our urban infrastructure.
Death on the road is accepted as such a quotidian fact of Indian life that the …
The acquisition of IDBI Bank puts his Fairfax smack dab in the middle of the RBI’s rules on bank ownership. It must now decide whether to sell CSB Bank or merge the two lenders, neither of which will be easy.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.
In a surprise move on Wednesday, the Tata Sons chairman announced he will exit Bombay House at the end of his tenure in February 2027. He leaves at what is one of the most crucial times for the group.
