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Opinion: Somebody Should Send Axis Bank's Board a Thank-You Note
Axis Bank's board, which should have spent at least the past year looking for new leadership, now wants permission to cling on to Shikha Sharma until December; apparently it can't find a replacement by end of May.
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Opinion: Uber's India Doom Is Written In The (Selfies With) Stars: Gadfly
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan is the new Taj Mahal.
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Opinion: What Mukesh Ambani Is Doing With Jio Isn't Rocket Science
India's telecom industry is in turmoil, and depending on whom you ask, one man deserves all the credit or all the blame.
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Opinion: Shame On You Crazy Diamond Bankers. PNB Was No Lone Wolf
It's disingenuous to think that India's biggest banking fraud was just one bent officer in a bumbling state-run lender enriching an uncle-nephew pair of greedy diamond merchants. That's the spin Punjab National Bank is trying to put on the $1.8 billion scam that went on for seven years.
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Opinion: Investing in India? Better Call Your Tax Lawyer First
The grandfathering of past returns promised by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech is missing from the fine print of the finance bill.
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Opinion: Mukesh Ambani's Brotherly Love For Anil In Range Of $3 Billion
Must the tap of brotherly love turn off at 68 cents on the dollar?
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Opinion: Bitcoin As Money? Here's A Roadmap For How It'll Happen: Gadfly
Now that bitcoin is a mainstream asset, with futures contracts traded at the world's largest exchange, becoming actual money should be the logical next step. But if you were to ask investors their expectations, the reply in most cases would likely be: "Not in my lifetime."
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Opinion: The Contrasting Telecom Fortunes Of Mukesh And Anil Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, sold 10-year dollar notes at just 130 basis points over U.S. Treasuries on Monday. None of the existing debt of Indian nonfinancial issuers, including state-owned firms, was raised this cheaply, according to Bloomberg News reporters Carrie Hong and Neha D'silva.
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Opinion: Mukesh Ambani's Softly, Softly Online Plan May Outsmart Amazon
The $200 billion e-commerce market Morgan Stanley is forecasting for India by 2027 just got a new contender -- with a very different plan.
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Opinion: India's Money Helicopter Flew Wrong Way With Cash Ban
In the annals of economic experimentation, India's cash ban will stand out. Not because it was ill-advised, poorly executed or unsuccessful in achieving its original aims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to outlaw 86 percent of his country's currency a year ago today was all those things. What made it remarkable, though, was the way it flew aga...
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Opinion: Infosys Would Be Much Better Off If It Just Came Clean
Infosys stock, which dropped 14 percent after Vishal Sikka resigned, is up almost 7 percent since then.
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Opinion: Ratan Tata Has A Child Lock Feature In Mind For Jaguar
The nerve center of the $105 billion group that encompasses, among other units, the marque British carmaker, has been the target of an intense battle for control for almost a year now.
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Opinion: The Sort Of Headline Modi Would Not Want Abe To Read
The private sector is latching on to the Abe-Modi bromance. Suzuki Motor Corp., by far the biggest success story of Japanese investment in the country, is considering a fourth production line in the western Indian state to take total capacity there to 1 million cars a year, according to media reports.
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Opinion: Nandan Nilekani Must Boost Business, But Also Morale
With Nandan Nilekani, 62, appointed as non-executive chairman, the founders have wrested back control.
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Opinion: Infosys Fight Isn't Tata Redux, In fact, It's A Lot Worse
Unlike Ratan Tata, who was in control of the group holding company's board, Murthy -- and the other co-founders, if they side with him -- are just shareholders taking on a hostile board from the outside.
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Opinion: Somebody Should Send Axis Bank's Board a Thank-You Note
Axis Bank's board, which should have spent at least the past year looking for new leadership, now wants permission to cling on to Shikha Sharma until December; apparently it can't find a replacement by end of May.
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Opinion: Uber's India Doom Is Written In The (Selfies With) Stars: Gadfly
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan is the new Taj Mahal.
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Opinion: What Mukesh Ambani Is Doing With Jio Isn't Rocket Science
India's telecom industry is in turmoil, and depending on whom you ask, one man deserves all the credit or all the blame.
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Opinion: Shame On You Crazy Diamond Bankers. PNB Was No Lone Wolf
It's disingenuous to think that India's biggest banking fraud was just one bent officer in a bumbling state-run lender enriching an uncle-nephew pair of greedy diamond merchants. That's the spin Punjab National Bank is trying to put on the $1.8 billion scam that went on for seven years.
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Opinion: Investing in India? Better Call Your Tax Lawyer First
The grandfathering of past returns promised by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech is missing from the fine print of the finance bill.
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Opinion: Mukesh Ambani's Brotherly Love For Anil In Range Of $3 Billion
Must the tap of brotherly love turn off at 68 cents on the dollar?
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Opinion: Bitcoin As Money? Here's A Roadmap For How It'll Happen: Gadfly
Now that bitcoin is a mainstream asset, with futures contracts traded at the world's largest exchange, becoming actual money should be the logical next step. But if you were to ask investors their expectations, the reply in most cases would likely be: "Not in my lifetime."
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Opinion: The Contrasting Telecom Fortunes Of Mukesh And Anil Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, sold 10-year dollar notes at just 130 basis points over U.S. Treasuries on Monday. None of the existing debt of Indian nonfinancial issuers, including state-owned firms, was raised this cheaply, according to Bloomberg News reporters Carrie Hong and Neha D'silva.
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Opinion: Mukesh Ambani's Softly, Softly Online Plan May Outsmart Amazon
The $200 billion e-commerce market Morgan Stanley is forecasting for India by 2027 just got a new contender -- with a very different plan.
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Opinion: India's Money Helicopter Flew Wrong Way With Cash Ban
In the annals of economic experimentation, India's cash ban will stand out. Not because it was ill-advised, poorly executed or unsuccessful in achieving its original aims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to outlaw 86 percent of his country's currency a year ago today was all those things. What made it remarkable, though, was the way it flew aga...
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Opinion: Infosys Would Be Much Better Off If It Just Came Clean
Infosys stock, which dropped 14 percent after Vishal Sikka resigned, is up almost 7 percent since then.
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Opinion: Ratan Tata Has A Child Lock Feature In Mind For Jaguar
The nerve center of the $105 billion group that encompasses, among other units, the marque British carmaker, has been the target of an intense battle for control for almost a year now.
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Opinion: The Sort Of Headline Modi Would Not Want Abe To Read
The private sector is latching on to the Abe-Modi bromance. Suzuki Motor Corp., by far the biggest success story of Japanese investment in the country, is considering a fourth production line in the western Indian state to take total capacity there to 1 million cars a year, according to media reports.
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Opinion: Nandan Nilekani Must Boost Business, But Also Morale
With Nandan Nilekani, 62, appointed as non-executive chairman, the founders have wrested back control.
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Opinion: Infosys Fight Isn't Tata Redux, In fact, It's A Lot Worse
Unlike Ratan Tata, who was in control of the group holding company's board, Murthy -- and the other co-founders, if they side with him -- are just shareholders taking on a hostile board from the outside.
