Economists expect Modi to announce big-bang reforms.
Network18 founder Raghav Bahl is all set to launch his new venture.
The India government needs to work on policies that can enhance global trade.
Indian business has many legitimate grievances against the political class for not delivering an optimal business environment.
Many corporations extended benefits to same-sex couples well before the law was overturned.
Delivering good governance is one thing and influencing culture is quite another, and this is where apprehensions about Manohar Lal Khattar arise, says Kanika Datta
The means to do so via an expanded Aadhaar system is easily at hand, too.
If Mr Rajan's citizenship is considered relevant for heading an organisation that issues sovereign currency, should the provenance of a participant in a critical function of a sovereign democracy not count as well?
Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot intoned, "Recent incidents will certainly dampen business confidence and investment sentiment, both domestic and foreign; and perhaps also negatively affect decision making by bureaucrats and policy makers."
Globally, white-collar gender diversity in the workplace has become as politically correct a cause to espouse as, say, corporate social responsibility.
Globalisation may have many discontents as contents.
Broadly, where policy has remained mainly in government hands, the problems more thoughtful commentators noted back in the mid-nineties remain.
Civil society may be better off lobbying for faster liberalisation than another cumbersome institution.
Turning around a leading German precision forging firm has Sona's chief living in Munich like a 'university student'.
Air India's employees should not consider their company any different from other firms that allow only authorised personnel to speak to the media, says Kanika Datta.
Businessmen and society have a strangely contradictory relationship.
Debates over introducing Bt brinjal, the first genetically modified food crop in India, might have taken a different turn if the government had taken note of studies by one of its own R&D bodies, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, showing that indigenous methods of controlling the notorious fruit and shoot borer can be as effective, cheaper and more environment friendly than using chemical pesticide.
Just a decade ago, a kind of muscular nationalism was the leitmotif for talent management within Indian corporations. Any suggestion of bringing in foreign talent had managers bristling with indignation.
Short-lived products create a spiral of wasteful consumerism that raises a whole new set of problems.
The recent controversy over faculty pay at the IITs and IIMs suggests that they need to radically reorient themselves as academic institutions
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