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A World That Pretends to be Civilised
WHAT a strange planet we inhabit.
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March 21, 2026
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Fiscal Trailblazer
From academia to India's finance ministry, NIRMALA SITHARAMAN has become a defining voice of economic leadership
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March 21, 2026
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The Ecosystem Builder
GEETIKA MEHTA Managing Director, Nivea India champions the kind of leadership that goes beyond organisations, nurturing talent, enabling mentorship, influencing industry dialogue and driving collective progress across the broader ecosystem
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March 21, 2026
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AI: Climate's Double-Edged Sword
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a core economic infrastructure. From private industry to government platforms, from agriculture advisories to power dispatch centres, AI systems are being embedded in the economic systems globally and in India.
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March 21, 2026
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Steady Strategic Leadership
Calm, strategic and people-focused, VIBHA PADALKAR has helped shape HDFC Life into one of India's leading insurers
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March 21, 2026
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Taking Charge At Consumer Giant
PRIYA NAIR returns to lead Hindustan Unilever with deep company knowledge and global experience as the FMCG behemoth sharpens its growth agenda
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March 21, 2026
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Leading with Instinct Shaped by Experience
From scaling Salesforce South Asia to advancing Al-led enterprise models, ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA drives measurable transformation across sectors
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March 21, 2026
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The Moment the World has Been Dreading
THE INDIAN RUPEE plummeted to an all-time low — a good 20 days after a ballistic missile killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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March 21, 2026
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The FDI Gates Reopen Slowly
IN A MOVE THAT feels like a policy U-turn with a straight face, the Union government has eased the once rigid Press Note 3 framework, originally introduced during the pandemic to block opportunistic foreign takeovers.
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March 21, 2026
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Inventive, Innovative India
NOWADAYS, everyone is talking of innovation; it is amongst the most popular buzz words, the aspirational goal for everyone from startup entrepreneurs to government bureaucrats.
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March 21, 2026
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WOMEN AT THE HELM
AS INDIA ENTERS a new phase of economic expansion, the conversation around growth turns more nuanced.
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March 21, 2026
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WHERE WERE THE WOMEN?
The much-viewed group photograph of AI industry leaders and government heads taken at India's AI Impact Summit 2026 showed up that the fourth industrial revolution too may find women at its fringes. Joelle Pineau, chief AI officer at Cohere was the only woman industry representative in the photograph. Will India's ambitious plans for artificial intelligence collide with stark gender imbalance?
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March 07, 2026
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INDIA'S EDGE IN THE AI ERA
Why deployment, data and digital scale, not just capital, will define India's Al leadership
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March 07, 2026
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WHY THE NEXT DECADE WILL BE WON OR LOST IN THE APPLICATION LAYER
The infrastructure is being laid. The models are being built. The sovereign positioning is happening. What is needed now is execution
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March 07, 2026
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HOW AI IS RESHAPING FARMING
From fields to forecasts, AI is revolutionising agriculture through smarter, data-driven decisions that boost productivity, efficiency, and certainty
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March 07, 2026
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BUILDING INDIA'S STRATEGIC EDGE
India's diversity is not just demographic, it is industrial. Healthcare, manufacturing, climate, mobility, each produces unique datasets underrepresented in global foundation models
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March 07, 2026
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Beyond Intent - The Three Levers Of Scaling Decarbonisation
HARSH MARIWALA on the India Exchange 2026, the idea of an India-UK/ Europe Green Corridor and how we can scale the transition through three critical levers: capital, technology and markets
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March 07, 2026
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AI STARTS AT THE TOP
Leaders whose boardroom decisions, capital commitments and strategic clarity are shaping India's AI trajectory
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March 07, 2026
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WHEN BANKING OPERATES AT THE SCALE OF A NATION
Institutions that survive for over two centuries do so not by resisting change, but by repeatedly re-engineering themselves for the moment they are in. At population scale, digital transformation is less about speed and far more about judgment
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March 07, 2026
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SCALING THE INTELLIGENCE ECONOMY
India's AI ecosystem has entered a transformative phase that materially strengthens the operating environment and signals a coordinated national bet on cohesive infrastructure
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March 07, 2026
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“AI SET TO RESHAPE EURASIAN RAIL CONNECTIVITY”
In an interaction with BW Businessworld, Texmaco Defence Systems MD & CEO, Chairman, National Part of SCO Business Council Secretariat, India, and Texmaco Rail & Engineering Chief Executive (CBD) Tribhuvan Darbari discusses how AI in Indian Railways aligns with the strategic connectivity, security and integration goals of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
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March 07, 2026
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INDIA'S POPULATION SCALE AI PLAYBOOK
Beyond the big bucks on AI models and infrastructure, India is looking to engineer AI into its farms, factories and classrooms, to enable adoption at scale, benefitting 1.4 billion people
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March 07, 2026
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AI and the Future of Work in India
Linkedin data reveals how augmentation, not replacement, will define India's AI transition
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March 07, 2026
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INDIA'S AI INFLECTION POINT
THE YEAR has opened with unusual clarity of intent. India enters it as the fastest-growing major economy, with real GDP for FY26 projected at 7.4 per cent and nominal growth at 8 per cent.
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March 07, 2026
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"I SEE THREE CHANGES IN TERMS OF AI ADOPTION"
Vijay Balakrishnan, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Godrej Enterprises Group, in an interaction with BW Buisnessworld's Urvi Shrivastav on the sidelines of the India AI Summit, talks about the trajectory of AI adoption, AI-driven transformation, workforce capability building, and much more.
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March 07, 2026
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India's AI Shift Hits the Ground
KPMG India's PURUSHOTHAMAN KG emphasises that beyond enterprise efficiency, it is social-impact use cases that will decide whether India's AI ambitions deliver real, measurable change for the common citizen
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March 07, 2026
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IS ALGORITHM RUNNING THE SHOW NOW?
From brands generating AI-crafted ads to non-metro cities running performance campaigns with a focus on hyper-personalisation, AI is no longer an experiment. It is now the engine but at what cost and to whom?
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March 07, 2026
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CAPITAL BEHIND THE CODE
From early-stage conviction to sector shaping capital, investors are quietly financing the technologies defining the next economic cycle
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March 07, 2026
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The Importance of Being the Man on the Spot
MILITARY COMMANDERS no doubt face exceptional dilemmas on the frontline when confronted with situations that have larger, geopolitical ramifications.
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March 07, 2026
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SUPERCHARGED JOBS, SILENT DISRUPTION
The next workplace crisis won't be unemployment, but unemployability in an AI-driven economy
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