Suveen Sinha

Ruby Rai is a victim of Bihar’s cheat system

Ruby Rai is a product of Bihar’s cheat system, not its creator

There are many ways to beat the examination system, and Bihar has developed some of the more ingenious ones. You may have seen images of people climbing walls outside examination halls to provide help to those inside. There were also images of people writing an examination with a crumpled sheet on the side, from which they were copying. 

How new-age CEOs are demolishing corner office

New-age CEOs, as they overturn many tenets of conventional corporate wisdom, are also obliterating the concept of the corner office. It started in the US a while ago, it is now happening in India.

Why Salman Khan needs to watch good movies

Mukherjee had no intention of going back to the United Kingdom, where she had given up a flourishing career as a business manager to come to India and start a company that would do fashion retail. So she changed her CA.

How Nikesh Arora finally ran out of luck in India

Winner doesn’t take all: How Nikesh Arora ran out of luck in India

Former SoftBank honcho loves a scrap, but there is one fight he could not win.

Chef Vikas Khanna serves Pope desi treats

Why no one talks much about GMV now

Bebinca to prawn pulao: When chef Vikas Khanna made dinner for the Pope

Pope Francis, for his dinner at the Vatican on Wednesday, was served the Bebinca, along with 12 other dishes, all cooked by Indian chef Vikas Khanna

‘Guv only sets direction... Individuals come and go, but institution remains’

HT Interview| Individuals come and go, but institution remains: RBI guv Rajan

With the government going ahead with the idea of creating a bad bank, Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday made his concerns clear on the ownership of such a vehicle to tide over the bad loan menace, saying the lenders should hold a minority stake in any stressed assets fund.

Nobody creates a narrative around climate change: Amitav Ghosh

Why isn’t there a movie or a book on the Mumbai deluge of 2005, or the one in Uttarakhand in 2013? Amitav Ghosh hopes his new book will change that, and begin conversations on climate change

LimeRoad to redemption: Why e-com troubles make Suchi Mukherjee happy

Suchi Mukherjee is founder and CEO of LimeRoad, an online fashion retailer. She is discussing the current state of ecommerce in the country: the falling valuations, shortage of funds, and delayed hiring. Why is she still happy?

Don’t get carried away by advertisements

According to a Flipkart communication of March 3 this year, the country’s largest e-commerce player, with 50 million registered customers, gets 10 million visits a day.

Modi govt @ 2: Govt befriends social media to ‘follow’ the electorate

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has befriended the social media like no other. That was to be expected from a group that won a landslide mandate in 2014 after running the country’s first truly digital election campaign – holograms, hangouts, and all.

Rashtrapati Bhavan goes ‘smart’ with IBM’s help

The biggest residential property in New Delh, with an 80-year old man as its head, can now claim to be the smartest one around.

Mallya hurt the system, made entire business class a suspect: Jaitley

Now the next step is recapitalising banks, and empowering them more for recovery, says Jaitley

How the Airtel 4G girl came to win over trolls by laughing at herself

The face of the Airtel 4G, Sasha Chhetri, is known to all, as, in the words of Airtel, the ad campaign was a bit too much. Apart from her maturity in dealing with feedback, what helps is that the new series of commercials take the story forward, writes Suveen Sinha.

Don’t flip out and call Flipkart a flop

Today’s start-ups solve real problems. More to the point, this is not a crash.

What a suicide in Kota shows: That IIT dream is a nightmare

Kriti Tripathi did not want to be an engineer. She jumped to her death in Kota after clearing JEE.

His name is Raghuram Rajan and he says what he says

Rajan continues to use a lingo of frankness that served him well in the United States, where in 2005 he said financial development had made the world riskier

Sunny Leone to Shyam Bhat: Coming from Chiki Sarkar’s Juggernaut stable

Juggernaut, Chiki Sarkar’s publishing start-up, is betting big on e-books. It will sell them at half the price of the physical book, and it wants them to be read on the cellphone, preferably on its own app launched on Friday.

Donkey’s love on social media: The web we don’t want

When cricketer Younis Khan was building his career for Pakistan, his mother told him about donkey’s love.

Can’t allow cheap Chinese goods to swamp our industries: Commerce Min

As India grapples with a threat of dumping from

Govt will not poop e-commerce party this festival season

The ecommerce party can continue in the coming festival season. Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday dispelled fears, raised by a recent clarification in the foreign investment policy for online marketplaces, of a crackdown on discounts.

Now Xiaomi turns to Bollywood as phone companies bet on content

There are 400 million internet users in India, of which three-fourths access it through their cellphones. At 220 million, India has more smartphones than the US

Xiaomi turns to bollywood as phone firms bet on content

Barra is vice-president, global for Xiaomi, which started six years ago as a maker of Android-based mobile operating systems. It started making smartphones so its operating system could spread far and wide. Barra was the head of product management at Google’s Android mobile unit till 2013, when he decided to move to Beijing, with Xiaomi. He is now the face and voice of the Chinese company.

Vikas Khanna to cook up healthier image for Pepsi

Khanna, who has already worked on Pepsi’s juice brand Tropicana, will for the moment focus on its Quaker brand of oats

Watering IPL grounds: If ‘Gol Maal’ logic is okay, why stop at cricket?

If the Indian Premier League (IPL) reduces its use of water by a few million litres, a lot of other people will not have to go without it.

Feted abroad, Kailash Satyarthi has grim fight at home

Since getting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, companies have been calling Satyarthi over and listening to him on how to end the child labour that often features at the end of their supply chain