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Time of India
a day ago
- General
- Time of India
Morning Brief Podcast: Air India: Reboot or Relapse?
Seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London, Air India flight AI171 crashed, killing 241 of 242 people onboard, marking India's worst aviation disaster in over a this episode of The Morning Brief, host Anirban Chowdhury speaks with safety and flight ops expert Amit Singh, founder of Safety Matters Foundation as well as ET's aviation experts Forum Gandhi and Arindam Majumder, to unpack the tragedy that has shaken the foundations of India's aviation the black b ...Read More ox recovered and investigations underway, the episode explores what is known so far, the hard questions around airline accountability, and whether lapses in safety protocols played a role. ...Read Less
Time of India
13-06-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Morning Brief Podcast: India's Rare Earth Reckoning
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online) India's Rare Earth Reckoning Anirban Chowdhury | 24:31 Min | June 13, 2025, 6:16 AM IST LISTEN 24:31 LISTENING... As rare earth shortages disrupt global manufacturing, India's auto sector is feeling the crunch. In this episode of The Morning Brief, hosts Anirban Chowdhury and Shally Seth Mohile speak with Ankit Somani (Co-founder, Conifer), Hemal Thakkar (Senior Practice Leader and Director, Crisil Intelligence), and Vinnie Mehta (Director General, ACMA) to unpack how China's tightening grip on rare earth exports is sending shockwaves through India's auto sector. With restrictions on critical elements and magnets used in EVs, defense, and electronics, Indian supply chains are earth magnets up to 15 times stronger than steel magnets and power everything from regenerative braking and sensors to infotainment and battery systems. Yet despite having the world's fifth-largest reserves, India lacks the refining capacity, magnet-making infrastructure, and policy clarity to compete. The result? Deepening dependence on China, which controls more than 85% of global export approvals get entangled in a multi-agency licensing maze, Indian manufacturers are scrambling to respond from redesigning tech to lobbying for domestic capacity. This episode explores whether India can future-proof its clean-tech ambitions or stay magnetized to global risk.
Economic Times
12-06-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Morning Brief Podcast: Corner Office Conversation with John Pearson, CEO, DHL Express
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online) Corner Office Conversation with John Pearson, CEO, DHL Express Anirban Chowdhury and Forum Gandhi | 18:06 Min | June 12, 2025, 6:48 AM IST LISTEN 18:06 LISTENING... DHL Express, has made a strategic turnaround in the last 15 years to become a key revenue driver for the DHL Group. At the helm is its CEO John Pearson, a 40 year veteran at the logistics behemoth. But as geopolitical forces give new directions to global trade, DHL must find new anchors. In this Corner Office Conversation Pearson talks to Anirban Chowdhury, who joins him at DHL's Dubai facility, and ET's Forum Gandhi about how he and his company are navigating the shifting sands, air and waters of global trade and how India is playing a critical role in its recalibrated in
Economic Times
10-06-2025
- Health
- Economic Times
Morning Brief Podcast: Health Hazards in your Grocery Bag
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Bureau) Health Hazards in your Grocery Bag Ratna Bhushan | 21:48 Min | June 10, 2025, 7:13 AM IST LISTEN 21:48 LISTENING... "A bottle of mango lassi, neatly sealed and within its expiry date, erupts like a shaken soda—over-fermented and undrinkable. Delivered in 10 minutes from a quick commerce dark store, it should've been safe. But it wasn't. And it isn't an isolated case. As India's quick commerce boom races ahead with 10-minute deliveries, dark stores—those invisible micro-warehouses powering your convenience—are quietly falling short on food safety. From broken packaging and stale bread to near-expiry edible oils and infestations, hygiene violations are slipping through the cracks. With fragmented regulations and overstretched operations, are we walking blind into a public health risk? Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks to ET's Ratna Bhushan and Dr Arun Gupta, convenor, Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest, about the systemic hygiene failures inside dark stores, the medical risks of spoiled food, and whether consumer convenience is quietly compromising our in
Economic Times
30-05-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Morning Brief Podcast: Patrick McGee on the Apple-China Toxic Nexus and Where India Stands
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online) Anirban Chowdhury and Dia Rekhi | 40:07 Min | May 30, 2025, 10:24 AM IST
