Suveen Sinha

$13billion deal for the Ruias of Essar: Lucky or unlucky?

The Ruia brothers of Essar believe that 13 is their lucky number. So it’s not sure whether today’s deal to sell Essar Oil to a foreign group led by Russia’s Rosneft, at $12.9 billion, will make them happy or sad. It is not $13 billion, but it’s not too far either.

To mark India’s victory in 500th Test, an all-time XI with a difference

Instead of a favourite all-time XI, here’s a team of the 11 best players who never played a Test for India.

Shut Badarpur plant for better air quality in Delhi: Dharmendra Pradhan

What if all the cars were taken off the roads of Delhi for 17 years? As you reach for your green calculator for the impact this will have on the air quality, oil and gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan would like you to know that the same results can be achieved by shutting down the power plant at Badarpur, on the edge of Delhi, for just a year.

HT interview | Energy is as important as tea, water, sleep: Dharmendra Pradhan

Oil and gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan says India needs its own unique energy model, one that will emit less carbon and use the country’s own raw materials. That can be achieved only through technology, and only if youngsters apply their mind to it and form startups.

Want Nilekani to invest in your startup? Here he reveals how he picks them

Nandan Nilekani, who co-founded Infosys and created the Aadhaar system, has invested $50 million in a dozen start-ups, and committed $25 million more. If you want his money, do the India twist.

‘I look at original Indian issues and how they can be solved’

Want to invest in start-ups? Nandan Nilekani reveals how he chooses them

A prolific investor in start-ups, Nandan Nilekani reveals how he chooses them.

How heating, hissing and intruding have put the Big 3 of tech world in turmoil

This is not a great time to be Samsung. Certainly not a great time to be Samsung and fly. These days if that smartphone happens to be a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, you will feel your back prickle at the end of the safety demo. The last line these days is that if you have a Note 7, you must keep it switched off through the flight, while the other phones can run in airplane mode.

Why Vikas Khanna served pink appams to Pepsi’s Nooyi

Vikas Khanna wanted to serve Indra Nooyi, the worldwide head of beverage and snack giant PepsiCo, a breakfast that would make her remember her childhood. So, on Tuesday morning, he served her pink appams.

Why ‘big’ Maruti need not worry about small Renault Kwid

Maruti still seems to be caught in the old mindset. I do get to talk to a lot of people in Maruti and some of them sound almost apologetic about the lack of mongrel in the S-Cross, which the Creta and Brezza are seen to have in abundance. They should shout from the rooftops that the S-Cross is a thoroughbred.

Is Bollywood in the middle of a crisis?

Disney has announced it will stop producing Hindi films. Other production houses are also facing losses. Can exorbitant star fees be blamed for the slump in Bollywood?

Post-RK Pachauri Teri is safer for women

In the six months since Rajendra K Pachauri moved out of Teri under a cloud of sexual harassment charges, the influential energy research institute says it has cleaned itself up. It has put in place a transparent system of appraisals, and will set up an ombudsman whom anyone can approach with grievances.

Of Kavin Mittal, startups and Chinese IT giants

Sunil Mittal has taken Bharti from a bicycle parts firm to a multi-billion, multi-business, multicountry giant. His son, Kavin, therefore often faces comparisons with the father. The wisest thing Kavin did was not to follow in his father’s footsteps (Abhishek and Rohan, please take note). He set up his own firm, Hike Messenger, which has a mobile messaging app.

Post-RK Pachauri Teri is safer for women

Of Kavin Mittal, startups and Chinese IT giants

The real battle against air pollution lies beyond the diesel cars frontier

As the judiciary makes up its mind about diesel cars, the irony is that diesel was the favoured fuel when the technology of its engines was still developing, and trucks and buses were bellowing black smoke on the streets. Now that the technology is highly refined, the courts and authorities want to clamp down on diesel cars, even new ones, though trucks, buses, and that freak of a vehicle called Jugaad are still bellowing black smoke, as do cars of a vintage when emission norms were more lax and technology more primitive.

The real battle against air pollution lies beyond the diesel cars frontier

How Turkey plans to ride on more flights for biz with India

Stories from the trenches: The remarkable journey of Indian start-ups

The entrepreneurs behind some of India’s most dynamic start-ups have been robbed, ridiculed, and even wrongly imprisoned. Here, Suveen Sinha, author of The Tip of the Iceberg, traces some of their remarkable journeys

Counter view | If parliamentarians want a better pay, let them perform

If MPs are serious about a salary hike, there ought to be a system to assess performance. Yes, even MPs’.

How GE is turning its back on politeness without being rude

Banmali Agarwala came five years ago from Tata Power. He has come so far since then that he calls his Tata stint “ancient history”. That is how much GE has changed, as it now strives to become a bit more of an information technology and digital company, investing $1 billion in those areas every year.

What fashion e-tailing portals can learn from the Trunk Show experience

How GE is turning its back on politeness without being rude

This Kishore lad is no singer, I tell you: Tracing Kishore Kumar’s journey

For at least two decades from the late 1940s, Kishore Kumar struggled to win respect as a singer. He got the odd hit from SD Burman, but few others.

Jilting Jabong on ‘issues’, Snapdeal to spend $100 m on fashion

Why Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl is relieved at losing Jabong to rival Myntra

Bahl was relieved he did not acquire Jabong, which fell into Flipkart’s lap, because he did not find the target clean. And he was upbeat because Snapdeal will spend the cash saved -- $100 million – to build its own fashion business.

Pokemon, Tesla mishaps show we suck at handling toys

Players get so carried away that cops in the United States are known to advise people not to operate a motor vehicle or bicycle while trying to catch a Pokemon

Pokemon Go, Tesla Autopilot mishaps show how inept we are at handling tech and toys

A player and a gentleman: How brand Virat grew up

Virat Kohli was the brash young man nobody wanted their children to adopt as role model. Not anymore. And the world of endorsements is clued into this change.

‘Rajan’s exit doesn’t mean banks can hide bad loans’

The worst is over, says Vinod Rai, about public sector banks’ bad loans, says the first chairman of the Bank Board Bureau.