Adani Group’s Vizhinjam trans-shipment port can put India on the global map as a shipping hub. It will also boost India s foreign reserves and can potentially rev up the country s woeful status in the global shipping world. Vizhinjam is Adani s toughest project yet. It is also critical to its ambition of becoming the world s biggest port operator by 2030. Why has India not had a successful trans-shipment port yet? What can Adani do that others haven’t been able to? And how will this project help its ambitions to rule the global ports business? Listen to host Anirban Chowdhury on the latest episode of The Morning Brief podcast as he talks to Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Head of Transport at Crisil, and ET’s in-house shipping expert P Manoj. Tune in!
Bihar s caste survey results have provided a new poll plank to the Opposition. As India plans to start the decadal Census, the political parties are once again raising the demand for an all India caste census to enumerate the numerically strong Other Backward Classes. But in an era where data is the new oil, it is no surprise that the holy grail of the electoral system is uniting political parties in their demand for dividing voters into sub-categories. But will this data be used for development or will it rile up another round of reservation riots? From ET s Political Bureau, Nidhi Sharma debuts as host on TMB as she gets the political point of view from Manoj Jha of Rajya Sabha, Sushil Kumar Modi, Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Rajya Sabha member of BJP, M Veerappa Moily, Congress MP and Former Union Minister of Petroleum, Law, Power, Corporate Affairs, while R Subrahmanyam, Former Secretary to Government of India re-emphasizes why this demand needs to die down and not div
How alternative medicine is actually harmful for people, Dr. Abby Philipes explained all about it in the first part of this episode. For the second part, we speak with someone who suffered from Asthma in childhood and got treated through Ayurveda. Catch the full conversation between host Kiran Somvanshi and Dr. G. G. Gangadharan, the founder & director of Ramaiah Indic Specialty Ayurveda Hospital, Bengaluru in part 2 of this episode of The Morning Brief podcast. Tune in!
Indian elections are a spectacle, a circus, and a battleground all rolled into one. And a new breed of young, savvy political consultants are changing the way these battles are fought. Coming from institutes including IITs and IIMs and from big tech cos and global consultants they are the secret weapon of Indian politicians. Together they craft strategies, design campaigns, and manage their messaging with a keen eye and analysis of the country’s voters. In this episode of The Morning Brief podcast, we meet these poll planners who are quietly transforming political parties and their politics. Catch Prachi Verma in conversation with Pratik Jain, Co-Founder & Director, I-PAC, Bikramjit Bhattacharya, Principal Associate, I-PAC, ET’s CL Manoj, and Rica Bhattacharyya. Listen in! Credits: ET
After disrupting the broking business, Nithin Kamath of Zerodha has his target fixed on the next big thing - the Mutual Fund business. What is going to be the game-changer? WIll Zerodha have brick and mortar stores? And will the Kamath brothers ever considering giving up a piece of the chicken that lays the golden egg? Catch this candid conversation with host Suresh Venkat in the run-up to the Et Startup awards.