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Topic: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm back on Google Play Store hours after being pulled down for policy violation

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma tweeted that a UPI cashback offer led to the suspension of the app and asked 'India to decide' if giving cashback is gambling.

Paytm close to $2 billion war chest from Jack Ma’s Ant Financial, SoftBank, other investors

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma is raising capital to protect his digital payments company from new entrants like Facebook, Google and Walmart's PhonePe.

Indian company, not Chinese, can dominate global payments: Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma

‘India’s payments leader will build a low-cost, highly scalable model in an extremely competitive environment. The winner here can go win anywhere.’

Vijay Shekhar Sharma and the case of really incompetent blackmailers

Paytm’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma was allegedly targeted by one of his most trusted lieutenants for millions in ransom.

A stake in company behind Paytm will be Warren Buffett’s first foray into Indian startups

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to acquire a stake in One97 Communications Ltd, valuing the target at more than $10 billion.

ThePrint’s first Democracy Wall echoes voices from Left, Right and Centre

On ThePrint's 'Democracy Wall', a free speech campus initiative, students of Amity University engaged with a stellar list of personalities from politics, cinema, business, comedy and military.

Demonetisation is like a monkey on my back, says Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma

There were pros and cons to demonetisation and to being an entrepreneur, says Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma at Democracy Wall.

Off The Cuff with Vijay Shekhar Sharma

This edition of 'Off The Cuff' saw Founder, PayTm Vijay Shekhar Sharma in conversation with ThePrint Chairman & Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Contributing Editor Mahrukh Inayet....

Printline Media concludes first round funding with stellar list of investors

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Uday Kotak Family, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Bangalore-based tech entrepreneur Rajiv C. Mody, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Chairman, LVMH Asia Ravi Thakran, IIFL founders Nirmal Jain, R. Venkataraman, Karan Bhagat and Yatin Shah are eminent investors in the venture.

Our payments bank is more secure than PSU banks — Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma

India's youngest billionaire spoke in Mumbai about taking on the big banks, Aadhaar, privacy and the NPA debate.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.