Though e-commerce opens a new world for the handicraft industry, empowering craftspersons still remains a real challenge.
Analysts say worst seems over but RBI's helping hand needed in form of rate cuts.
Sales have picked up in the past few days for retailers in the apparel and consumer durables segments.
Projects about to be completed include the first rail connectivity projects in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, along with crucial gauge conversion between Rangpara and North Lakhimpur, which would connect Arunachal Pradesh to the rest of the country.
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Officials said the World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Asian Development Bank had evinced interest in the project.
The fund is to invest in income generating assets such as malls, office complexes among others.
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While private equity giant Blackstone and Pune-based realtor Panchshil Realty had offered Rs 800 crore for the building at Nariman Point, the building's owners -- Viveck Goenka, chairman and managing director of the Indian Express Group, and private equity firm ICICI Venture (which has 49 per cent stake in the property) -- expected the sale to fetch Rs 900 crore, said the executive.
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He started a fund with Rs 800 crore and made several investments.
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The introduction of fuel adjustment component in passenger fares will merely add Rs 450 crore.
In the last few years, zero per cent financing has become quite attractive as consumers aspire to buy the latest products, especially in categories such as mobile phones and television sets.
While one of them is on the verge of opening, three others are expected to come up in the next three years.
Earlier, its attempts to monetise properties, including the 22-storeyed Air India building in Nariman Point, saw lukewarm response.
With Big Bazaar Direct, the company franchisees will visit customers to take orders and the products would be delivered in three to seven days.
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Consultants say those selling imported consumer durables, apparel, food products, furniture, etc, are the ones hit the hardest.
Recovery in US gives extra boost to IT/ITeS office deals in Bangalore and the National Capital Region.
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As home deals are down to a trickle, most are looking at life beyond broking.
120 new malls came up in last two years, but 30-40 of their older peers downed shutters
The only way out for DMRC would be if the lenders, a consortium of 10 banks, find another concessionaire for the project
Real estate loans could become NPAs for banks.
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