India’s accelerating digital adoption has brought with it an increasingly complex risk landscape, but one of the most revealing developments of recent months has not been a new strain of malware or a breakthrough in cyber-attack technology. It has been the surge in virtual arrest and impersonation scams, operations that rely less on sophisticated technical…
Punjab National Bank has announced the appointment of Shri Amit Kumar Srivastava as Executive Director, following a formal notification issued by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance. The appointment, made under the provisions of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970, takes effect immediately. According to the regulatory filing, Shri…
Canara Bank has appointed Shri Sunil Kumar Chugh, Chief General Manager at Punjab National Bank, as its new Executive Director. The appointment has been approved by the Central Government for a term of three years from the date he assumes office or until further orders. Shri Chugh took charge on November 24, following the formal…
Space-based data centres, once a speculative concept, are now advancing toward operational experimentation. As artificial intelligence systems, financial networks, health-data architectures and national security platforms accelerate their demand for compute power, terrestrial infrastructure is nearing its limits. Global attention is shifting upward toward orbit, where a new class of resilient and energy-efficient compute environments is…
For all the investment now channeled into cyber-defence strategies like next-generation firewalls, cloud security stacks, endpoint monitoring, artificial intelligence filters, the real battleground for India’s cybersecurity lies elsewhere. It sits not in server rooms or data centres, but in everyday human behaviour. This was the understated, yet urgent point made in Dr. Alby John Varghese’s,…
Chitrank Goel has been appointed Deputy Managing Director and Executive Director of Kwality Wall’s (India) Ltd. (KWIL), assuming a central leadership role as the company prepares for its demerger from Hindustan Unilever (HUL). His elevation comes at a critical juncture for KWIL, which is entering a new phase of independent growth and operational realignment. Chitrank…
India’s derivatives market has long been among the most active in the world. Over the past two years, however, the landscape has undergone rapid and consequential change. Record retail participation, a string of regulatory interventions, high-profile market-manipulation probes and an expanding interest-rate–derivatives ecosystem have together forced exchanges, clearinghouses and regulators to rethink market design, risk…
JSW Steel has announced the appointment of Sandiep Batra as President and Chief Human Resources Officer – Steel Corporate, a move that underscores the company’s intent to build a more agile, capability-driven and future-focused workforce. His appointment, effective 18 November 2025, comes at a time when India’s steel sector is undergoing significant technological, digital, and…
In an environment where India’s fixed-income markets are undergoing structural transition, treasury functions across financial institutions are being forced to adapt in real time. Few practitioners reflect this shift more clearly than Harsimran Singh Sahni, Executive Vice President and Head of Treasury at Anand Rathi Global Finance Limited, who has spent more than 15 years…
Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has appointed industry veteran Niranjan Gupta as its new Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, marking a notable return to the organisation where he began his career. The move reinforces HUL’s long-standing focus on strategic continuity, leadership depth and future-ready transformation across India’s consumer goods landscape. Gupta joins HUL with 30 years…
