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Yield inversions have traditionally been a harbinger of recession in the US and weaker global growth. Sai Prabhakar and Hari Viswanath discuss what is happening and what are its implications for stock markets.

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Over the past week, many foreign leaders, right from Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, Australian PM Scott Morrison, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, Chinese FM Wang Yi and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov visited India and met the top Indian leadership to make their case for support in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. In this podcast, V Nivedita takes a look at what they said and India’s position on the issue.

After a little more than a month since Russia started its military operation in Ukraine, is peace in sight? 

In what could be the first sign of de-escalation of tension between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has said that it would to scale down military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine on Tuesday.  

As you know, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on the 24th of February. At that time, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the Ukrainian government was overseeing a "genocide" in the eastern regions of the country. This comes days after Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent regions. 

Officials from both nations met several times to negotiate peace, but there was no breakthrough. This time, they met in Istanbul, Turkey, and it looks like the negotiations are bearing fruits. Russia has promised to reduce ops in some regions, while Ukraine has proposed adopting a ‘neutral status’.  

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Even though "Writing With Fire" did not win the award for the Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards, India still has a reason to celebrate -- Namit Malhotra’s visual effects and animation company DNEG’s work for The Dune won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. This is not the company's first award. In fact, the company has six Oscar-winning films to its name and now Dune joins the list.

In this podcast, Meenakshi Verma Ambwani & Chitra Narayanan speak to Namit Malhotra,  Chairman and CEO of the multi-award-winning company.

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The casual gaming industry is giving brands a new horizon to engage their audiences on non-gaming apps and websites. Many brands like Amazon, Paytm, and Airtel have seen a 40% revenue increase after incorporating games in their ad strategies. Here’s a conversation on the same with Yashash Agarwal, Co-Founder of Gamezop - a gaming solutions provider.

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This conversation you’re about to hear is a part of BusinessLine’s Table Talk series, conversations with leaders on their life and times and businesses. In this episode, the vivacious new MD and CEO of United Spirits, Hina Nagarajan, speaks to BusinessLine.  For the uninitiated, Hina Nagarajan is the first woman to lead a liquor company of such a large scale in the country. 

She talks about how the pandemic stoked demand for premium liquor, the growth in in-home consumption, and the company's new marketing strategy to meet the needs of a changing India in a freewheeling chat. She also opens up about the IIM Ahmedabad experience and her interests beyond corporate life.

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K Gurumurthy and discuss Akhil Nallamuthu discuss recent significant factors that have driven the swings in crude oil, and what you need to watch out for.

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Delivering humanitarian medical aid involves immense planning and procurement of medicine and other healthcare supplies, besides ensuring the physical safety and mental wellbeing of healthcare and aid workers on the frontline, among other things.

Simi Basheer, Director - Human Resources and Facilities with MSF (Doctors without Borders) South Asia, gives us a peep into the mammoth task involved in getting medical aid to those in strife-torn regions. An insight, as the world, witnessed the third week of the Russian attack on Ukraine.

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The subject that we are discussing today will seem gross. A Bengaluru-based start-up called Loopworm, which was started by two IIT Roorkee graduates, is working to bring food waste back into the food cycle using biotechnology.

Loopworm’s mission is to solve the global protein deficiency and waste generation. The start-up is involved in protein farming, but not pulses, dairy or meat. It farms an insect called the black soldier fly, whose larvae can become a high source of protein for commercially farmed fish, shrimp, poultry and even pets.

Currently, the feed for poultry and fish consists of fish meal which is usually made from vast quantities of catch from the oceans. It’s a depleting and increasingly expensive source. Loopworm says farmed insects are the most sustainable and eco-friendly way to feed the animals we eat

The black soldier fly is a sleek-looking fly that many confuse with a wasp. It is not a pest and can be put to use by humans. They play a similar role to redworms as valuable decomposers in breaking down organic matter and returning nutrients to the soil. They can break down the bacteria in their food.

TR Vivek is in conversation with Ankit Bagaria on this curious, and, somewhat smelly business.