Category : Capital Calculus

NEW DELHI: Addressing the 45th annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Mukesh Ambani, the company’s chairman, made a big promise: Launching Jio’s 5G operations by Diwali, And audaciously once again, Ambani promised to dare commercial boundaries and roll out “highly affordable fixed broadband services to hundreds of millions of locations in a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The discussion paper put out by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in late July is revealing. In very blunt terms it argues that the risks from climate change are for real and need immediate mitigation. Further, the inclement fallout of climate change was posing a financial risk to banks. The logic is […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Traditionally India’s soft power has been defined around yoga, cuisine, Bollywood and more recently contemporary Indian art. Little over the last decade, with the launch of Aadhaar, India has begun to acquire international attention for its prowess in creating public digital infrastructure to deliver public good. It has successfully created digital building blocks […]Read More

NEW DELHI: In July this year the number of transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the payment backbone of India, aggregated a record 6.28 billion. This is but a mere slice of India’s rapidly emerging digital economy; it is generating millions of data points about individuals, which have the potential to be monetised. India […]Read More