Modi@1: All that's changed in Amethi, Rae Bareli, Varanasi, or not

Have Amethi and Rae Bareli got rough treatment in the last one year? Has Varanasi become cleaner? Business Standard’s Manavi Kapur finds out Prime Minister Narendra Modi wields a spade as......

Naveen Jindal on a hat-trick mission

Industrialist Naveen Jindal, fighting to win the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat for a third time, has more than just Narendra Modi to contend with. Joel Rai reports. See I join my palms to request you......

Aligning with Cong or BJP will be like cheating people: Kejriwal

With the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party, a party that originated from Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, this year's assembly elections in Delhi has become a three-cornered contest. In its first......

The KILLER regime: Hair-raising tales from North Korea

Firing squad seems to be a ‘standard’ form of punishment in North Korea, and is often freely used for various offences, ranging from murder, rape, grand theft, drug smuggling, treason,......

Can Voda Idea play on the front foot in a market fast resembling a duopoly?

In August 2021, Nick Read, chief executive of Vodafone Plc at the time, did not mince his words while speaking about the India business in an earnings call. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters......

Realty sector's inventory surges to over Rs 1 trn, outpacing sales growth

The past 18 months have seen a resurgence in the real estate industry, with developers regaining the ground lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters But it is once again......

Early birds' Q2 profit soars, top line a worry

The combined net profit of “early bird” companies, those that have declared their quarterly results, rose for the third consecutive quarter in July-September 2023 (Q2FY24).......

India Inc's Q2 show may fail to dazzle

India’s corporate sector is likely to report a slowdown in revenue growth and earnings for the July-September 2023 period (Q2FY24), according to earnings estimates by brokerages, after the......