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Thunderstorms, torrential rains, landslides, floods, cold waves, heat waves, cyclones, droughts, dust storms, hail or snowstorms: India experienced at least one of them every day in the first nine months of 2022, according to the New Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment (CSE).

These climate extremes claimed 2,755 lives, affected 1.8 million hectares (ha) crop area, 416,667 houses and killed over 69,007 animals, states the report.

These data will carry a lot of weight, even if India hasn’t submitted its Long-Term Low Emissions Growth Strategy for low carbon transition pathways nor took charge as the president of G20.

Experts want nations to capture and assess their progress toward enhancing resilience and make more detailed and ambitious commitments in their national climate plans.

What can help nations do this is as simple as an artificially intelligent robot. AI is a powerful tool that can address the challenges posed by climate change.

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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.

Bank deposits have an advantage over NBFC deposits to the extent they are covered by DICGC insurance up to Rs 5 lacs of deposits.  Thus if one is considering NBFCs, given the investment risk being higher as compared to banks, the interest rates must be attractive and also the NBFC must be financially sound. In our bl.portfolio edition dated Dec 11, we recommended attractive fixed deposit options for investors to consider in small finance banks. In this follow up podcast on good options in the fixed-income segment, we identify 4 options you can consider in the NBFC space. We also recommend listeners check out our detailed article on this in this week's print edition/website, for more details.

Parv Shah and Vishal Balabhadruni discuss safer options amongst NBFCs that you can consider in today's context.

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2022 was a volatile year for markets, and stock selection made all the difference. Looking ahead it appears asset allocation will make all the difference in 2023. Listen to the podcast to understand the different scenarios that can play out in the equities market and how you must play it during the course of the year.

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It’s been a month since the e-rupee’s retail pilot was launched. As you know, the e-rupee is RBI’s ambitious project to digitalise the economy. How is it different from wallets and payment apps? What are its uses and what lies ahead for digital currency? Also, what is the reaction of bankers and customers?

In this podcast, Senior Assistant Editor Hamsini Karthik talks to Ajay Rajan, head of transactions at Yes Bank, and Navin Surya, fintech expert about this one of its kind experiment by the RBI.

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Climate change is becoming a constant part of our lives. The tea gardens of West Bengal are not spared from it. West Bengal’s Dooars region contributes around 25% of the nation’s tea yield. Change in weather patterns such as drought, and floods have a massive impact on tea-producing areas.

With climate change reducing the quality of tea yield, it is becoming difficult to get a higher price for the crops at auctions. Hence, farmers are at the receiving end of it.

In this podcast, Piyashee Mallick talks about how climate change plays an important role in agricultural production in India, about climatic conditions that lead to the reduction of tea yield and the impact that it has. She also discusses if farmers should follow some different cropping patterns due to climate change in the region.

Mallick is a research scholar at Jadavpur University, West Bengal. Her area of work is "Climate Change and its impact on agriculture.

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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.

The Parliamentary panel on Finance’s recent report on anti-competitive practices by Big Tech firms is a must-read. It delves deep into the day-to-day of these firms and identified 10 anti-competitive practices:

1. Anti steering

2. Platform neutrality

3. Adjacency

4. Data usage

5. Mergers and acquisitions

6. Pricing

7. Tie-ups

8. Search and preference ranking

9. Restricting third-party apps

10. Advertising policy

The report -- called the “Anti-competitive practices by Big Tech” -- has suggested some big changes that could make the market more efficient, transparent and address the “power imbalance” between big tech companies and users.

It recommends the creation of institutions named “Systematically Important Digital Intermediaries” and has talked about revamping the CCI.

In this podcast, Senior Deputy Editor KR Srivats helps us understand what’s in the report.

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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.

As we head into 2023,  we look at the creator economy in depth. In this end-of-the- year episode of Digital Gadfly, a monthly podcast series on all things digital marketing, host Shubho Sengupta speaks to Manish Pandey, social media evangelist, and mentor to new-age digital brands and Influencers.  Manish, who is also part of the leadership team of social tech start-up Josh Talks and co-author of the book Booming Digital Stars, is pretty gungho about the monetising power of the creator economy. Do listen in to get a sense of Manish's own meteoric journey in this space, his takes on the influencer economy, and more.

After a solid 2021, calendar year 2022 has seen Indian stock market take a breather of sorts but it still has outshined many a global peers, thanks to resilient fundamentals and domestic investors stepping up to fill the void left by incessant selling by foreigners.

In this podcast, Parv Shah talks to Kumar Shankar Roy to find out the reasons behind India's outperformance over global markets, stocks that won and lagged, as well as how value stocks stole a march over growth equities.

While the audience came back to the movie halls after the pandemic, some small budget movies delivered unprecedented returns and some big budget movies vanished from the audiences’ attention. It was content that played the key role in making a movie hit or flop. Read the full story here. 

In the last few weeks, we have witnessed the stunning capabilities of AI tools like ChatGPT to generate content with a simple text prompt. But what happens if students use them for their assignments? 

To understand the academic impact, businessline spoke to Kashyap Kompella, CEO of global technology industry analyst firm RPA2AI. Kompella explains how ChatGPT works, how schools can respond, and what teachers and students can do to use it ethically.

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