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Topic: CCD

When CCD founder VG Siddhartha went missing

In 'Coffee King', journalists Rukmini Rao and Prosenjit Datta examine how VG Siddhartha's mega enterprise began to collapse.

The IAS officer 6 Karnataka CMs couldn’t do without takes charge of CCD

Former chief secretary S.V. Ranganath, a 1975 batch IAS officer, has been the chairman of Coffee Board. Colleagues say he's the best man for the CCD job.

What CCD founder Siddhartha’s suicide shows – India can’t become $5 trillion economy this way

The attitude of the government, which looks at profit-making as the anti-thesis of socialism, has not changed in the last 25 years.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.