SP alliance with RLD, SBSP no big challenge for BJP: UP minister Sidharth Nath Singh
The battle lines have been drawn in Uttar Pradesh where elections are just around the corner. The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government is eyeing a second straight term against a splintered opposition. Will the SP's alliance with smaller parties hamper the BJP's chances? Has the repeal of farm laws altered the political landscape ahead of polls?
In an exclusive conversation with FinancialExpress.com, Uttar Pradesh MSME Minister Sidharth Nath Singh opens up on a number of issues, including the party’s poll preparations, and the series of allegations levelled against the BJP on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and the continuing farmers' movement.
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December 07, 2021
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Lionsgate CEO and President Jeffrey A Hirsch and Rohit Jain, Managing Director for Lionsgate South Asia and Networks[1]Emerging Markets Asia talk about their expansion plans in India, the scope of OTT platforms in India and South Asia, their content strategy, tie ups with bollywood & hollywood production houses and more!
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November 29, 2021
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Making healthcare affordable and leveraging technology | Ritesh Talapatra, MD India, Optum
Ritesh Talapatra, Managing Director, India, Optum on making healthcare affordable by leveraging technology with innovative solutions of the future, health tech trends witnessed during the pandemic, use of technology in preventing pandemics of the future and challenges being faced by the healthcare industry.
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November 26, 2021
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Infrastructure Project Finance: Let's talk sustainability
The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) has identified 7,000 projects that require over ₹111 lakh crore in investment in core sectors like power, roads, railways, and urban projects over the next five years, which means, the private sector has to chip in with the big bucks.
In a recent statement, FM Nirmala Sitharaman called for re-thinking financing and development priorities for inclusive, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, prioritizing healthcare and education, ensuring resilience of global supply chains and creating infrastructure aligned with #SDGs.
Traditionally infrastructure projects have been funded through debt. However newer investment vehicles like SPACs have allowed domestic companies to raise capital offshore more recently. The real hot spot for SPACs has been the ESG space and in fact Indian renewable energy producer ReNew Power became the first major overseas listing of an Indian company through a SPAC in 2021.
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November 02, 2021
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Virtually Borderless Investing: Opportunities beyond India
Indian share markets are on a roll, enticing one and all to ride on the back of the equity rush. However, in a digital world, where most aspects of your life are becoming borderless, why should your equity investments be limited by the national borders? If you can make friends on Facebook from across the globe, why can’t you buy Facebook shares? Netflix streams into your homes, but why not into your portfolio? Vinay Bharathwaj of Stockal, Sandeep Bhardwaj of IIFL Securities and Anupam Guha of ICICI Securities discuss how to become a global investor, in this conversation hosted by Financial Express Online and brought to you by Stockal.
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November 22, 2021
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Accept there were shortcomings, working to correct mistakes: Manish Doshi
Gujarat Assembly elections will be held around November next year. In September this year, the BJP had changed its entire cabinet including the Chief Minister in the state. The BJP had performed well in the recent local and municipal elections but the party's defeat in Bhanvad gave a booster shot to the Congress. With the Aam Aadmi Party and Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM marking their entry into the state, the road ahead is not going to be smooth for the Congress. Gujarat Congress Spokesperson Dr Manish Doshi told the FinancialExpress.com that the party is working to address its shortcomings and will defeat the BJP in the 2022 polls.
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November 19, 2021
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SME Artha Day 2: Solving Finance For Small Businesses
SME Artha Day 2 focuses on financial inclusion. Almost 80 per cent of the 6.3 crore MSMEs do not have access to institutional lenders such as banks. The panel discusses on how to include SMEs in the formal lending ecosystem to enable them to grow the business
The years 2020 and 2021 have been rough for #SMEs. The disruptions caused by the pandemic brought to the forefront the sector’s financial fragility. Hence, we at Financial Express conceptualised SME Artha (‘Artha’ in Sanskrit means wealth and property) to offer our community solutions on managing their finances.
#IndianEconomy #Covid19Impact #IndianMSME
Keynote Speaker: Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE
Speakers: Ashok Saigal, MD, Frontier Technologies and Co-chairman, CII National MSME Council, Pankaj Gadgil, Head of Self-Employed Segment, SME and Merchant Ecosystem, ICICI Bank, Rajan Raje, Chair, MSME Forum, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Group CEO, Nichem Solutions, Ravi Varanasi, Group President, NSE
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November 17, 2021
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SME Artha Day 1: Solving Finance For Small Businesses
SME Artha Day 1 focuses on how a plethora of new-age fintech firms are cutting out the middle layers to lend directly to small businesses.
The years 2020 and 2021 have been rough for #SMEs. The disruptions caused by the Covid119 brought to the forefront the sector’s financial fragility. Hence, we at Financial Express conceptualised SME Artha (‘Artha’ in Sanskrit means wealth and property) to offer our community solutions on managing their finances.
#IndianEconomy #Covid19Impact #IndianMSME
Chief Guest: Sidharth Nath Singh, Cabinet Minister (U.P.), MSME
Speakers:, Ajay Srinivasan, Director, CRISIL Research, Chandrakant Salunkhe, Founder & President, SME Chamber of India, Hardika Shah, Founder & CEO, Kinara Capital, Nirav Choksi, Co-Founder and CEO, CredAble
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November 18, 2021
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Congress will have to accept role of regional parties: RJD Spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan
With the Mahagathbandhan on the brink of a collapse in Bihar, the RJD is still hopeful of a future alliance but the party has underlined that the Congress must realise the importance of regional forces. In an interview with FinancialExpress.com, RJD Spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan talked about Nitish Kumar's waning popularity, his failure to implement the liquor ban, the future of RJD and other issues.
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November 15, 2021
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Solving Finance for Small Businesses | SME Artha Day 2
SME Artha Day 2: Solving Finance for Small Businesses
We, at Financial Express Online, are cognizant of the problems faced by the SMEs and have conceptualized SME Artha (‘Artha’ in Sanskrit means wealth and property) to offer our community with solutions on managing their finances.
The two-day event will discuss how the sector, which is the backbone of the Indian economy, can get access to funds when they need it the most and at the lowest cost possible.
The panels will deep dive into the new models of cash flow lending, need for collateral-free loans and how SMEs can leverage capital markets for funds.
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November 11, 2021
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Solving Finance for Small Businesses | SME Artha
SME Artha Day 1: Solving Finance for Small Businesses.
We, at Financial Express Online, are cognizant of the problems faced by the SMEs and have conceptualized SME Artha (‘Artha’ in Sanskrit means wealth and property) to offer our community with solutions on managing their finances.
The two-day event will discuss how the sector, which is the backbone of the Indian economy, can get access to funds when they need it the most and at the lowest cost possible.
The panels will deep dive into the new models of cash flow lending, need for collateral-free loans and how SMEs can leverage capital markets for funds.
Website link - https://www.financialexpress.com/events/sme-artha
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November 10, 2021
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Picking Stocks For Long Term Wealth Creation: Vivek Bajaj INTERVIEW
How to identify long term winning stocks in the share market? Vivek Bajaj, Co-founder, Elearnmarkets and StockEdge, explains in this eye opening conversation with Financial Express Online. Vivek Bajaj shares his ‘10-10-10’ strategy for beginners, and tips to use advanced information tools for more experienced investors. He also shows the basics of technical chart reading to identify securities price trends. Watch on to learn how to get started with your journey to create long-term wealth.
Interviewer: Shaleen Agrawal, Editor - Markets, Financial Express Online
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October 26, 2021
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Decrypting Cryptocurrencies: In conversation with Nischal Shetty, CEO & Founder, WazirX
As part of our series on decrypting cryptocurrencies on FinancialExpress.com, we spoke with Nischal Shetty, CEO & founder, WazirX on where he sees the current trend of rapid adopting of cryptocurrencies headed. Does the cryptocurrency market need regulation? How does one stay safe in a market that's so volatile and rife with speculation? Shetty breaks it down in this interview with Roshun Povaiah, Editor - FE Digital.
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November 08, 2021
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BrandWagon Day 3: Creating A Digital League
Technology over the years has taken a very important role in the creation as well as execution of marketing strategies. Case in point, the rise in the number of Martech solutions over the last decade from just 150 in 2022 to 8,000 in 2020, as per the latest data from Statista. Another side of the coin is Ad-tech. The lion’s share of investments is dedicated to artificial intelligence, followed by augmented and virtual reality. Voice assistants and the Internet of Things are also considered when planning marketing budgets.
This year the BrandWagon Conclave is based on the theme, ‘Walking with the Customer’, so that the industry continues to grow and evolve with the quintessential Indian consumer.
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October 25, 2021
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BrandWagon Day 2: Screenplay - The Age of Screens
Technology over the years has taken a very important role in the creation as well as execution of marketing strategies. Case in point, the rise in the number of Martech solutions over the last decade from just 150 in 2022 to 8,000 in 2020, as per the latest data from Statista. Another side of the coin is Ad-tech. The lion’s share of investments is dedicated to artificial intelligence, followed by augmented and virtual reality. Voice assistants and the Internet of Things are also considered when planning marketing budgets.
This year the BrandWagon Conclave is based on the theme, ‘Walking with the Customer’, so that the industry continues to grow and evolve with the quintessential Indian consumer.
Be at our event: https://bit.ly/3pzYrMO
#FEBWC #FinancialExpress #Screenplay #Screens #BrandWagon #Conclave #MegaVirtualEvent #CMOs #Marketers #Advertisers #Adtech #MarTech #Media #CXOs
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October 25, 2021
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BrandWagon Conclave Day 1: The Changing Landscape
Technology over the years has taken a very important role in the creation as well as execution of marketing strategies. Case in point, the rise in the number of Martech solutions over the last decade from just 150 in 2022 to 8,000 in 2020, as per the latest data from Statista. Another side of the coin is Ad-tech. The lion’s share of investments is dedicated to artificial intelligence, followed by augmented and virtual reality. Voice assistants and the Internet of Things are also considered when planning marketing budgets.
This year the BrandWagon Conclave is based on the theme, ‘Walking with the Customer’, so that the industry continues to grow and evolve with the quintessential Indian consumer.
Visit our Website: https://bit.ly/3CcFpzs
#FEBWC #Day1 #ChangingLandscape #BrandWagon #Conclave #3Days #Mega #Virtual #Event #CMOs #Marketers #Advertisers #Adtech #MarTech #Media #CXOs
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October 25, 2021
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Dr Gagandeep Kang on Beyond Covid-19 and Last Mile Challenge in healthcare System
Talk of a billion doses of covid-19 vaccine administered in India and Dr Gagandeep Kang smiles. The not-easy-to-please data-driven scientist and a believer in evidence-based medicine, today finds enough and more reasons to rejoice over a statistic that has elated a nation and triggered hopes for better days ahead. Among all, it is to her, a stellar example of good progress that India could showcase in its first adult immunisation effort.
But then, as is her wont, the highly regarded virologist, professor at the Christian Medical College, Vellore and a member of the government's working group on Covid, is already occupied with the way forward and the lot many tasks ahead. What matters to her now is how vaccines performance will be reviewed now and the portfolio of vaccines examined for deciding on the best options for newer set of population that will need vaccination - children. Other than this, the need now to strengthen the safety surveillance system.
She took time out to speak to Financial Express online (video link attached) on a range of issues. She is now also for focusing on handling the challenges of the last mile delivery as efforts get underway to inoculate the 25 per cent of the eligible population that has not as yet received even a single jab.
She is, for instance, not quite comfortable with the thought that despite a billion doses of the vaccine having been dished out, the country is still relying on effectiveness data on studies that are done by individual hospitals and other such solo groups. "The government has a vaccine tracker" but she is in favour of a stronger reporting system and data capture system that talk to each other."
She also sees a time now to "integrate Covid into providing healthcare for the population for all of the problems that we have" and not just covid. She also spoke on vaccine-induced protection and the approach to booster doses, how to keep children safe and how to choose which vaccine is most suited for them.
She also shares her insights on how Indian regulatory approval process compares with the regulatory processes elsewhere in the world. This becomes important in the light of Covaxin still to get the approval from the World Health Organisation but India having not just approved it early on but also giving the green signal to a DNA vaccine, a first such in the world.
With Covid in its endemicity phase, she also discusses how it would compare, in the days ahead, with the 200-odd other viruses or with the common cold. She also shares her thoughts on the much talked about Covid anti-viral pill, molnupiravir with several leading Indian pharma companies in the race to make it in India.
#Covid19India #Covid19Vaccine #DrGagandeepKang #VaccinationDrive
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October 25, 2021
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Dr Gagandeep Kang on Antiviral Drug Molnupiravir, Will It Flood Indian Market?
Talk of a billion doses of covid-19 vaccine administered in India and Dr Gagandeep Kang smiles. The not-easy-to-please data-driven scientist and a believer in evidence-based medicine, today finds enough and more reasons to rejoice over a statistic that has elated a nation and triggered hopes for better days ahead. Among all, it is to her, a stellar example of good progress that India could showcase in its first adult immunisation effort.
But then, as is her wont, the highly regarded virologist, professor at the Christian Medical College, Vellore and a member of the government's working group on Covid, is already occupied with the way forward and the lot many tasks ahead. What matters to her now is how vaccines performance will be reviewed now and the portfolio of vaccines examined for deciding on the best options for newer set of population that will need vaccination - children. Other than this, the need now to strengthen the safety surveillance system.
She took time out to speak to Financial Express online (video link attached) on a range of issues. She is now also for focusing on handling the challenges of the last mile delivery as efforts get underway to inoculate the 25 per cent of the eligible population that has not as yet received even a single jab.
She is, for instance, not quite comfortable with the thought that despite a billion doses of the vaccine having been dished out, the country is still relying on effectiveness data on studies that are done by individual hospitals and other such solo groups. "The government has a vaccine tracker" but she is in favour of a stronger reporting system and data capture system that talk to each other."
She also sees a time now to "integrate Covid into providing healthcare for the population for all of the problems that we have" and not just covid. She also spoke on vaccine-induced protection and the approach to booster doses, how to keep children safe and how to choose which vaccine is most suited for them.
She also shares her insights on how Indian regulatory approval process compares with the regulatory processes elsewhere in the world. This becomes important in the light of Covaxin still to get the approval from the World Health Organisation but India having not just approved it early on but also giving the green signal to a DNA vaccine, a first such in the world.
With Covid in its endemicity phase, she also discusses how it would compare, in the days ahead, with the 200-odd other viruses or with the common cold. She also shares her thoughts on the much talked about Covid anti-viral pill, molnupiravir with several leading Indian pharma companies in the race to make it in India.
#Covid19India #Covid19Vaccine #DrGagandeepKang #VaccinationDrive
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October 25, 2021
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Dr Gagandeep Kang On Endemic Covid Versus 200 Other Viruses
Talk of a billion doses of covid-19 vaccine administered in India and Dr Gagandeep Kang smiles. The not-easy-to-please data-driven scientist and a believer in evidence-based medicine, today finds enough and more reasons to rejoice over a statistic that has elated a nation and triggered hopes for better days ahead. Among all, it is to her, a stellar example of good progress that India could showcase in its first adult immunisation effort.
But then, as is her wont, the highly regarded virologist, professor at the Christian Medical College, Vellore and a member of the government's working group on Covid, is already occupied with the way forward and the lot many tasks ahead. What matters to her now is how vaccines performance will be reviewed now and the portfolio of vaccines examined for deciding on the best options for newer set of population that will need vaccination - children. Other than this, the need now to strengthen the safety surveillance system.
She took time out to speak to Financial Express online (video link attached) on a range of issues. She is now also for focusing on handling the challenges of the last mile delivery as efforts get underway to inoculate the 25 per cent of the eligible population that has not as yet received even a single jab.
She is, for instance, not quite comfortable with the thought that despite a billion doses of the vaccine having been dished out, the country is still relying on effectiveness data on studies that are done by individual hospitals and other such solo groups. "The government has a vaccine tracker" but she is in favour of a stronger reporting system and data capture system that talk to each other."
She also sees a time now to "integrate Covid into providing healthcare for the population for all of the problems that we have" and not just covid. She also spoke on vaccine-induced protection and the approach to booster doses, how to keep children safe and how to choose which vaccine is most suited for them.
She also shares her insights on how Indian regulatory approval process compares with the regulatory processes elsewhere in the world. This becomes important in the light of Covaxin still to get the approval from the World Health Organisation but India having not just approved it early on but also giving the green signal to a DNA vaccine, a first such in the world.
With Covid in its endemicity phase, she also discusses how it would compare, in the days ahead, with the 200-odd other viruses or with the common cold. She also shares her thoughts on the much talked about Covid anti-viral pill, molnupiravir with several leading Indian pharma companies in the race to make it in India.
#Covid19India #Covid19Vaccine #DrGagandeepKang #VaccinationDrive
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October 25, 2021
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Dr Gagandeep Kang: Is Indian Regulator Approving Vaccines Faster Than Abroad?
Talk of a billion doses of covid-19 vaccine administered in India and Dr Gagandeep Kang smiles. The not-easy-to-please data-driven scientist and a believer in evidence-based medicine, today finds enough and more reasons to rejoice over a statistic that has elated a nation and triggered hopes for better days ahead. Among all, it is to her, a stellar example of good progress that India could showcase in its first adult immunisation effort.
But then, as is her wont, the highly regarded virologist, professor at the Christian Medical College, Vellore and a member of the government's working group on Covid, is already occupied with the way forward and the lot many tasks ahead. What matters to her now is how vaccines performance will be reviewed now and the portfolio of vaccines examined for deciding on the best options for newer set of population that will need vaccination - children. Other than this, the need now to strengthen the safety surveillance system.
She took time out to speak to Financial Express online (video link attached) on a range of issues. She is now also for focusing on handling the challenges of the last mile delivery as efforts get underway to inoculate the 25 per cent of the eligible population that has not as yet received even a single jab.
She is, for instance, not quite comfortable with the thought that despite a billion doses of the vaccine having been dished out, the country is still relying on effectiveness data on studies that are done by individual hospitals and other such solo groups. "The government has a vaccine tracker" but she is in favour of a stronger reporting system and data capture system that talk to each other."
She also sees a time now to "integrate Covid into providing healthcare for the population for all of the problems that we have" and not just covid. She also spoke on vaccine-induced protection and the approach to booster doses, how to keep children safe and how to choose which vaccine is most suited for them.
She also shares her insights on how Indian regulatory approval process compares with the regulatory processes elsewhere in the world. This becomes important in the light of Covaxin still to get the approval from the World Health Organisation but India having not just approved it early on but also giving the green signal to a DNA vaccine, a first such in the world.
With Covid in its endemicity phase, she also discusses how it would compare, in the days ahead, with the 200-odd other viruses or with the common cold. She also shares her thoughts on the much talked about Covid anti-viral pill, molnupiravir with several leading Indian pharma companies in the race to make it in India.
#Covid19India #Covid19Vaccine #DrGagandeepKang #VaccinationDrive
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October 25, 2021
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