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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 their businesses. In this episode, businessline's Vinay Kamath speaks to Colgate-Palmolive India chief Prabha Narasimhan. For the uninitiated, Prabha joined Colgate as MD & CEO in September 2022. She is a commerce graduate with an MBA from IIM Bangalore. They chat about her long corporate journey, the growth path for the oral care business, her interests beyond corporate life like cricket, and the two years at IIM. 

 (Produced by Akshaya Chandrasekaran)

How often have we heard excuses of ill health or personal problems for a delayed report or mediocre work? But the corporate manager does not have the luxury of replacing the employee reporting in sick frequently – unlike cricket, where you have standbys, and where excuses for poor performance just don’t wash. Jasprit Bumrah’s absence from the Indian squad or David Warner missing out on the rest of the Australia-India series due to injury cannot be used by the respective teams to explain away any weakness in performance.

In this episode of our regular workplace series People@Work hosted by Kamal Karanth, co-founder of Xpheno, we look at team dynamics on the sports field versus the corporate workplace. Can we take lessons from the cricket pitch? Who better than W V Raman, the former India cricketer and coach of the Indian women’s cricket team, and author of The Winning Sixer to talk about what we can learn from cricket.

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(Produced by V Nivedita)

There has been an increased interest seen regarding investing in international stocks especially that of the US. This has been due to increasing financial awareness regarding diversification and investors also wanting to capitalise on innovative global tech themes. However, the Budget proposal of increase in Tax collection at source (TCS) on foreign remittances might be a dampener for some of those investors investing in international stocks. 

Parv Shah and Vishal Balabhadruni discuss on the proposed changes regarding TCS on foreign remittances.

Tune in to understand the proposed changes and its implications on investors.

After nearly two turbulent years the Microfinance segment is starting to post healthy demand for loans, and this is a trend it has sustained for several quarters now. Alok Misra, CEO & director, MFIN, joins in to decode some of the finer nuances of the sector and explains why the rebound in growth as a trend is here to stay.

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On January 20, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sent an email to Google employees where he announced the news to reduce the company’s workforce by 12,000. Google happens to be one of the main technology companies to announce massive layoffs in the recent past. Global layoffs have reached three-fourth of 2022 in the first 51 days of 2023. Listen in!

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businessline Podcast is a daily series of podcasts from The Hindu businessline newspaper. In this series, we take a look at news that matter from around the world and stories to provide quick, critical analysis. Our reporters, analysts and experts provide context to help you understand what happened, why is it important and how it impacts you. Listen in as we decode a wide range of topics from politics, policy, Indian economy and the world of business.

It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. If you are someone who has been regularly following the news, then you might have heard of the Kyiv Independent. In the last few months, the Kyiv Independent has become one of the prominent English-language news sites bringing out breaking stories from war zones. Several magazines and journalism think tanks have tracked how this media house has grown.

The Hindu BusinessLine recently had the opportunity to attend Splice Beta — a journalism-focused festival — in Thailand. One of the speakers of Beta was Jakub Parusinski — the Chief Financial Officer of the Kyiv Independent.

In an interview, Jakub shared the behind-the-scenes of how the Kyiv Independent started, how the team raise funds, how they do their journalism, and most importantly, what it takes to run a media business during the war. 

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IT major Wipro offered fresh recruits a revised salary package of ₹3.5 lakh per annum (LPA) from its previous offer of ₹6.5 LPA. This comes as the company has delayed the onboarding of freshers amidst the macroeconomic headwinds being faced by the industry at large.

With Wipro slashing freshers' salary packages citing global recessionary crosswinds. Is the IT Industry preparing for the worst with a recession looming abroad and how does the sector look at present?

Kamal Karanth, co-founder at Xpheno, a specialist staffing company gives us insights into hiring patterns and the playbook that companies look to work by in a downturn.

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Pakistan has been facing an acute economic crisis. To avoid an economic collapse, the country has reached out to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout.

Rana touches upon the following points: the IMF bailout conditions, reason for Pakistan to go to the IMF and ways for the country to improve the current economic condition. Rana believes that Pakistan should help itself out by "behaving fiscally", increasing foreign direct investment and more. Listen in. 

Edelweiss Mutual Fund had a sharp run-up and crossed the Rs ₹1-lakh crore in asset under management (AUM) recently despite the upheavals in the market. Unlike others, Edelweiss MF has largely taken the passive route to grow its asset and tried to deliver better returns at lower cost for investors. Radhika Gupta, Managing Director & CEO, Edelweiss AMC, shares her view on the way forward.

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently, said that petroleum products could soon be included under GST after discussing with the states. The remarks came months after Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Central government was ready to bring petrol and diesel under the GST regime.

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businessline Podcast is a daily series of podcasts from The Hindu businessline newspaper. In this series, we take a look at news that matter from around the world and stories to provide quick, critical analysis. Our reporters, analysts and experts provide context to help you understand what happened, why is it important and how it impacts you. Listen in as we decode a wide range of topics from politics, policy, Indian economy and the world of business.