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From JC Chaudhry's numerology love to Adar Poonawalla's candidness on Covid, IPOs and more, our top reads of the week
From Aakash Institute's JC Chaudhry's numerology startup to Adar Poonawalla's journey about racing against time to create Covid-19 vaccines, his strategy for other businesses, our latest podcasts and videos, and more, here are our popular stories of the week
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Scorching summer may derail rural recovery, lead to a spike in inflation and interest rates
Along with heat stresses, the growing possibility of an El Nino condition may need a policy response, hit fiscal buffer
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Dr. Arindam Pande highlights contributing factors for heart disease
Coronary heart disease and risk factors
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How Brand WPL will be built over the long term
The early years would be loss-making, yet the league is expected to create phenomenal value for franchises and aspiring cricketers
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Byju's-Aakash deal done, JC Chaudhry is now busy building a world for numerology
With Nummero, the septuagenarian hopes to dispel misinformation and myths surrounding numerology, and solve people's problems. He even plans to set up an institute that would integrate numerology with modern science
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Crony capitalism and controversial businessmen, with Nandini Vijayaraghavan
In this episode, Divya Shekhar discusses a brief history of the biggest corporate failures in India over the past two decades and what we can learn from them with Nandini Vijayaraghavan, who is the director and head of research at the Korea Development Bank. In her latest book 'Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World's Largest Democracy', Nandini tells this story through four businesspersons. She talks about why the government, investors and other stakeholders have not learnt from past mistakes, why listing day pop is a risky game
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Markets slippery, companies struggle to protect margins
During the third quarter of financial year 2023, sectors like auto, FMCG and industrials saw improvement with healthy margin expansions, with other segments indicating a wide divergence in margin recovery
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How Sudhir Singh made Coforge a $1-billion company
Focusing on specialists and ruthlessly saying no to anything outside the company's focus areas helped this ex-Infosys executive raise his team's aspirations to play in the big league
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Family philanthropy is spreading its wings in India
In this special issue on India's Next Wave of Philanthropy, the Forbes India team dives deep into a new set of super-rich families that are going beyond writing cheques to support causes like education, health and women's empowerment from the grassroots. We also analyse new trends in giving and new approaches that combine funds and participation
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Dr. Dutta talks about Cardiovascular Health : Congenital heart defects
Dr. Soumya Kanti Dutta discusses the various clinical aspects of congenital Heart Disease (CHD) focusing the treatment and preventive measures for CHD
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How Jaaved Jaaferi wrote and danced his way into the world of advertising
The actor walks down the memory lane talking about the ads he has worked on and how the Indian advertising industry has changed over the years