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Gurbir Singh is an award-winning senior journalist with over 30 years experience. He has worked for BW Businessworld since 2008, and is currently its Executive Editor. His experience ranges from covering 'Operation Bluestar' in 1984 to pioneering coverage of the business of Media & Entertainment and Real Estate for The Economic Times.
The 'smart cities' plan raises questions whether the government can raise hundreds of billions of dollars to pursue its ambitions, and if it's serious about tackling squalid conditions in many parts of India's major urban centres
Read MoreAccording to the FSR, state-run banks, which account for nearly 70 per cent of the banking assets, held a humongous 14.1 per cent as ‘stressed’ assets.
Read MoreIn India, there has never been that perfect ‘editorial independence’, the traditional separation of ‘church’ and ‘state’; and with plummeting advertising and competition, the erosion of editorial values have only increased.
Read MoreBusinessworld and TNS Global, a market research subsidiary of Kantar Media, did a survey in two phases interviewing over 1,200 CEOs and senior executives
Read MoreIt is therefore no surprise that when, Vijay Mallya, at the United Spirits AGM in November 2015, said his focus was on settling the debt of the airline with banks, he was greeted with silent cynicism.
Read MoreDawn newspaper group chief Hamid Haroon says Pakistani readers and TV viewers are not so interested in Dawood 'as there are much larger and influential criminals impacting Pakistani society'
Read MoreThe company’s earlier attempt to launch an IPO in 2010 had been called off. The realtor company, headed by an elected BJP MLA, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, has also recently been in the news with speculation that the two sons, Abhishek and Abhinandan, had fallen out and there had been a split in the family business.
Read MoreHindustan Unilever and P&G must have now discovered that they had been selling sachet shampoos and tea on the wrong channels. Remember the ghost show Aahat on Sony around 1999-2000?
Read MoreThe judiciary is ultimately charged with interpreting the law and ruling on disputes between parties. If it begins to run administration, the constitutional area of dispute redressal will languish, as it already is with millions of pending cases, in neglect
Read MoreFor years BW Businessworld has tracked B-schools, the key link in the galloping expansion of capitalist enterprise. This year is no exception and we present to you the rankings and findings of the most prominent B-schools of the country in collaboration with survey agency C fore.
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