Production at every automotive facility, offices of information technology firms and retail establishments in the state remained shut on Tuesday as a mark of respect to the late chief minister.
While Jayalalithaa may have died her political legacy will continue to survive through the slew of 'Amma' branded products and services.
O Paneerselvam did not even sit in Jayalalithaa's office chamber and left her seat vacant in the assembly. This time Amma is not coming back and he has a large number of challenges awaiting him.
Some believe the shift to mobile-based transactions will be seamless considering that the urban tele-density is 148%. In rural areas, it is touching 51%. But smartphone penetration in India is a mere 12%. Growth of mobile money has been extremely slow: It is currently 1%.
In the fifth of a six-part series, Business Standard visits Coimbatore, often referred to as the Manchester of South India for its promising textile industry, to assess the impact of the note ban.
With the first salary date after demonetisation around the corner, will India's labourers be able to take their hard-earned wages home?
National brands prefer the acquisition route since the southern market is culturally different, reports T E Narasimhan from Chennai.
Note ban hits sales and registration of new cars; states work online payments model to deal with cash crunch. Ajay Modi and T E Narasimhan report.
Business Standard checks out trade hubs across the country to assess the impact of demonetisation. The first of a six-part series takes a look at Tirupur.
Much depends on how the liquidity situation evolves over the coming months, with greater clarity expected from the next monetary policy meeting scheduled for December 7.
Lens on rural transactions. Only 38% of branches of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) are in rural areas
The Assam government has taken the initiative to pay workers their wages electronically and has asked banks to open branches adjacent to tea gardens and install ATMs in estates.
As PM talks of lower lending rates, housing companies prepare to cash in.
The German auto maker is clawing back up the brand charts as it fights off competition from Audi, BMW in the Indian market.
With the Apollo Hospitals chairman saying that she has recovered, the party can go back to business as usual.
Can Everstone overcome the challenges that previous owner HUL could not, as it tries to rebuild Brand Modern?
Foxconn is yet to submit its land requirements to the Maharashtra government to set up its factories.
Reducing it to 1.3% would lead to savings of Rs 70,000 crore over 5 years
The company owns 12 of 45 facilities it has in India and around 75 per cent of its global headcount of 2,44,300 is based in the country
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