Gulveen Aulakh

New Delhi

Services Editor at Business Standard

Services Editor at Business Standard. Formerly with Mint, Economic Times | @IIM_Calcutta LDP Alumnus | Writer, thinker, foodie | Views expressed are personal

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Articles

'Business as usual': Indian firms brush off Turkiye tensions

2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Sharleen D'Souza |Gulveen Aulakh |Dev Chatterjee

Even as New Delhi turns up the heat on Turkish firms over Ankara’s public embrace of Islamabad, Indian companies rooted in Türkiye are staying put. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Dabur India, and Jubilant FoodWorks say it’s business as usual, with no plans to alter course despite the geopolitical chill. Jubilant FoodWorks, which operates the Domino’s Pizza franchise and its own coffee chain Coffy in Türkiye, said it remains committed to expansion.
DLF Home Developers' Aakash Ohri

1 month ago | business-standard.com | Gulveen Aulakh

Aakash Ohri, joint managing director and chief business officer at DLF Home Developers, says the group will monetise its existing land banks before pursuing new acquisitions. This comes even as the largest realty company by market cap prepares to launch The Dahlias project by year-end and enters the Mumbai market. In an interaction with Gulveen Aulakh in New Delhi, he also said the group would focus on premium and luxury segments but noted that the buyer demographic was also changing.
Will money in hand from tax breaks spur housing demand?

2 months ago | rediff.com | Gulveen Aulakh |Sanket Koul

Real estate developers are hoping that the slew of tax concessions announced in Union Budget 2025, set to take effect this financial year, will spur demand for affordable and mid-segment housing, even as the broader housing market shows signs of fatigue. These hopes come against the backdrop of a looming global recession that could nudge consumers to prioritise savings or essential expenses such as education, according to senior industry executives and tax planners.
Realty sector turns cautious as equity market tumbles

2 months ago | rediff.com | Gulveen Aulakh |Prachi Pisal

'In the past six months, capital markets have seen a dip, and realty is struggling. The stock-market investor will be cautious of putting that investment in real estate when there may be a slowdown coming.'. Real estate majors in India have turned cautious with their project pipelines to prevent a buildup of inventories in the residential space as buyers and investors are holding off their realty expenditure amid a market tumble.
Max Estates' Sahil Vachani

2 months ago | business-standard.com | Gulveen Aulakh

Max Estates, the real estate development arm of Max Group, is eyeing the second spot in the National Capital Region (NCR) market with 17 million square feet of residential and commercial space being built up over the next 3-4 years with a ballpark investment of ₹15,000 crore crore including land, said Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Sahil Vachani.
Real estate attracts $1.3bn investment in Jan-Mar, up 31% YoY: Colliers

2 months ago | rediff.com | Gulveen Aulakh

Institutional investments in Indian real estate have seen a strong start to 2025, with inflows reaching $ 1.3 billion in the first quarter - a 31 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase. This growth was primarily driven by domestic investments, which accounted for 60 per cent of the total inflows during the quarter. With $ 0.8 billion inflows, domestic investments saw a 75 per cent annual rise and were largely focused on industrial & warehousing and office segments.
Institutional investment in real estate jumps 31% to $1.3bn

2 months ago | rediff.com | Gulveen Aulakh |Prachi Pisal

The growth was primarily driven by domestic investments, which accounted for 60 per cent of the total inflows during the first quarter of the financial year. Institutional investments in Indian real estate have seen a strong start to 2025, with inflows reaching $ 1.3 billion in the first quarter--a 31 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase. This growth was primarily driven by domestic investments, which accounted for 60 per cent of the total inflows during the quarter.
'We want to dive further into experiences', says Airbnb CFO Ellie Mertz

Mar 23, 2025 | business-standard.com | Gulveen Aulakh |Akshara Srivastava

Experiences will be the new frontier of growth for vacation rental company Airbnb, said its global Chief Financial Officer, Ellie Mertz. In an interview in New Delhi with Akshara Srivastava and Gulveen Aulakh, she said the company is betting big on the Indian growing middle class and is partnering with the government to accelerate business growth in one of its fastest-growing markets globally. Edited excerpts:
HT Syndication: Bharti Airtel to steer clear of GPU-as-a-service

Feb 7, 2025 | htsyndication.com | Gulveen Aulakh

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- India's second-largest telco Bharti Airtel will steer clear of offering graphics processing unit or GPU-as-a-service in near term and, instead, look at scaling up its data centres, vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said during the third-quarter earnings call on Friday. "The GPU-as-a-service, we have currently decided to park that because things are changing very fast in that space, the cost of the quality of the chips and the efficiency of the chips.
Airtel to steer clear of GPU-as-a-service for now, focus on data centre business

Feb 7, 2025 | livemint.com | Gulveen Aulakh

“The GPU-as-a-service, we have currently decided to park that because things are changing very fast in that space, the cost of the quality of the chips and the efficiency of the chips. Also, the money that you make on GPU-as-a-service, a lot of it is dependent on sophisticated work around how you manage those workloads," Vittal said, giving the rationale behind the company’s decision.