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The rules of the digital marketing game has radically changed, thanks to technology, agile work, and fledgling creative agencies. 

In this episode of Digital Gadfly, a monthly podcast series on all things digital marketing, host Shubho Sengupta speaks to Mayur Hola who's at the top of his game driving digital marketing at Oyo. Mayur Hola, Senior Vice-President and Global Head of Brand at Oyo, is a rare marketer who has experience in the creative agency side, having worked in Ogilvy, McCann, Contract and Havas. In this episode, Shubho unpacks his marketing playbook and gets real about what's working and what's not.

Introducing a brand new podcast series People@Work. As the name suggests, it will look at trending human resource issues and is hosted by our regular columnist Kamal Karanth.

In many cases the holding company discount in India is quite significant and way above what has been observed in developed markets. There are instances of companies even trading at discounts as high as 85 per cent to underlying asset value. Why is the discount so high? Are these value traps or great opportunities? Listen in to find out. 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is participating in the high-level UN General Assembly session, with a packed diplomatic week ahead that will include more than 50 official engagements including bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral meetings.

Listen in to know more!

Recently, A major foodgrain storage scandal in China has raised questions over foodgrain stocks across the world.

What caused the food grain scandal? what is the repercussion of this scandal on world food security, and where does India stand with regard to food security?

MR Subramani, head, of Commodities and Agri-Business, The Hindu BusinessLine, explains.

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Financial gain has been the main factor behind investment decisions taken by investors. But, of late, some investors across the world are also becoming conscious of how companies make money, instead of focussing solely on the money made. And this takes us to ESG investing, which has formed the basis of over $35 trillion in assets coming from investors globally. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities in stocks.

Tune in to understand whether ESG investing is truly a novel approach, how decoding such companies may not be easy in the absence of uniform standards, what are the ESG options for Indian investors, the real financial return experience, and much more.

Electric vehicles and their adoption has grown globally over the last few years, and India is also looking to make the best of the EV revolution with domestic EV sales growing year on year.

India’s Electric Vehicles landscape-What are the challenges that it faces, and what is the way forward?

G Balachandar explains.

The IDF's World Dairy Summit 2022 is an annual meeting of the global dairy sector, bringing together participants from all over the world.   

The participants’ profile includes CEOs and employees of dairy processing companies, dairy farmers, suppliers to the dairy industry, academicians and government representatives etc.  

An exhibition space of over 6,900 square metre will be available to the exhibitors for showcasing activities.  1500 participants from about 50 countries

There has been debate in the media on whether motor insurance claims would be settled if the person travelling in the rear seat of a car doesn’t wear a seat belt. We discuss this aspect in detail. With the floods in Bangalore, many car owners may find that their vehicles are stuck in deep water on roads and parking lots. We discuss the steps and other precautions that car owners must take so that their claims are honoured and not rejected. In addition, we give details of riders that can be taken with your motor insurance policy so that you pay very little from your pocket in case of damages.

Listen in to understand key aspects of how to make your motor insurance claims process smooth.

A retirement corpus should meet all expenses of an individual starting from retirement day to at least 100 years because the primary risk in retirement planning is survival risk. The typical monthly maintenance amount for a 30-year-old will be ₹16 lakhs by the age of 65. With ₹6.8 crore in a low-risk bond, one can maintain today’s equivalent of ₹25,000 per month lifestyle when they retire, given inflation stays below 5%. With a well-balanced equity-debt investing one can accumulate such a high corpus in their working life.

Parv Shah and Sai Prabhakar of BL Research discuss the various other facets of retirement planning