Share buyback tax was not warranted

Levying buyback tax at a flat rate of 20 per cent (plus applicable surcharge and cess), irrespective of the period for which shares are held will be a dampener for equity shareholders who take......

Why PNB scam didn't dent BJP's Northeast show

It appears that the BJP government has succeeded in managing the communication of the PNB scam in a manner that its adverse impact on its electoral fortunes is largely contained, says A K......

25 years later: Mumbai's 12 blast sites today

Photographers Hitesh Harisinghani and Afsar Dayatar revisit the sites of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. March 12, 1993, dawned just like any other Friday. On the surface, Mumbai seemed normal. The......

Meet India's only world heritage city

How did the newly-anointed heritage city bag the title and is it ready for the expected rush of tourists? IMAGE: One of Ahmedabad's magnificent pols or old-fashioned housing clusters in the walled......

Sebi to tweak 'fit & proper' regime for bourses, clearing corporations

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is mulling changes to the 'fit & proper' criteria for market infrastructure institutions (MIIs), such as stock exchanges, in a bid to segregate the......

43 Nifty, 27 Sensex stocks trade above 200-DMA. Analysts see more upside

With the markets scaling new highs, as many as 43 stocks from the Nifty50 index and 27 of the 30 scrips that are part of the S&P BSE Sensex are trading above their respective 200-day moving average......

Zee, Sony to sell 3 Hindi channels to address CCI concerns

Big Magic, Zee Action and Zee Classic are all part of Zee network; the merging firms have a combined viewership share of 36% in Hindi general entertainment, and 33% in Hindi movies. Photograph:......

India at 75: 18 biggest moments for Indian markets from 1947 to 1993

From the enactment of the capital control Act to the recognition of the BSE as a stock exchange and the infamous Harshad Mehta scam, here are the 18 biggest events for stock markets from 1947 to......

FIRST LOOK: Rohit, Ponting ring the opening bell at BSE

Mumbai Indians’s Rohit Sharma, Ricky Ponting and owner Nita Ambani visited the Bombay Stock Exchange IMAGE: Mumbai Indians’s Rohit Sharma, Ricky Ponting and Nita Ambani. Photograph:......