The state is looking to build infrastructure that is up and running even during natural disasters.

Even though as CEO Susan Wojcicki was on her maiden visit to India - YouTube's largest user base - she cut her teeth in the media industry as an intern with the India Today Group way back in 1991. \"I used to live in Kalkaji (New Delhi) and travel to the India Today office in Connaught Place by bus,\" she fondly remembers. In fact, her first assignment as an intern was to write about the birth of e-mail. From there, Wojcicki went on to rent out her garage in the US to the Google founders and eventually became Google's first marketing manager in 1999. In conversation with Business Today's Rajeev Dubey and Ajita Shashidhar, Wojcicki talks about YouTube's ambition, its brush with regulators, fake news and her unflinching faith in YouTube's ad-supported business model. Edited excerpts:

One needs to wait and watch if Reliance Retail through its Hamleys acquisition will affect the Walmart and Amazon in the same way they affected Toys R Us globally.

After witnessing a robust quarter-on-quarter growth post the rollout of goods and services tax (GST), the slowdown has come as a surprise to most consumer companies

The popular made-in-India ethnic wear brand is eyeing a 35 per cent growth of its Western wear portfolio

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Zee5 launched bold and unconventional originals such as Made In Heaven, Four More Shots, Breathe and Final Call.

While the likes of Eros Now and Shemaroo seem to have a clear mass market strategy, one is also going to see the big daddies of digital entertainment, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hotstar following suit.

All work and no play makes you a dull person. CEOs are following this old adage and, in spite of their impossibly long working hours, finding time to do the things they love. BT spoke to some of the top executives.

CEO search in corporate India is becoming increasingly complex.

Politics snares Milk co-operatives for the first time in over four decades.

Commoners, actors, politicians, sports people and corporate heads have expressed concerns over the fall of India's most admired private airline

The Election Commission stopped the release of the biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi till the end of the elections.

Christine McCarthy, CFO, Walt Disney, said the company would be investing heavily on other platforms such as ESPN Plus and Hulu as well

If the Rs 1 lakh crore organised dairy industry is growing at a robust 10 per cent year- on-year, and consumption too is growing, why are many dairy companies losing flavour?

As opposed to a predominantly advertising-funded business model, most platforms have lately been moving to a freemium model, where they charge consumers for their original and premium content.

The Vivek Oberoi-starrer film was strategically planned to be released a week prior to elections

The BJP in 2019 elections has been capitalising on grey areas in regulations. Though the web series on Eros Now is not BJP-funded technically, a biopic of a living person can't be filmed without the person's approval

Whether Congress' Ab Hoga Nyay will defeat the BJP's Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar, is something one has to wait and watch. However, even more interesting bit than the campaign taglines are the methods political parties are using to reach out to masses.

The channel is reportedly owned by Parag Shah, a senior political analyst who has worked under Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was the Gujarat CM.

India is known to have as many as 350 unlicensed channels that come alive mostly during elections.