Foreign companies now pay less tax relative to their earnings than at any time in more than three decades. Foreign private companies paid 24.36 per cent of their pre-tax profit as tax in 2023-24, show numbers from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
Tesla needs to either sell the same models with reduced features to lower the cost for Indian market, or incur losses.
'If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation cuts funds, there could be more impact.'
Enhertu currently costs around Rs 1.6 lakh per 100-milligram injection.
There have been 41 cases of Covid in the most recent four-week period ending mid-January, with three deaths.
After registering a net profit of Rs 25.1 crore in Q3FY25 and consolidated revenues growing by 7 per cent on a like-for-like basis, Siddharth Mittal, chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director, Biocon, told Sohini Das/Business Standard in a virtual interaction that local manufacturing in the US is a trade off between cost and qualifying to do business there.
'Growth for some companies has been hard to come by and this is a smart way to get there.'
Do we have enough trained oncologists and medical professionals in India to man these over 4,500 beds in the public sector?
'We have to be prepared for the larger disruption that is likely to take place.'
The share of companies where it would take over 100 years for a median employee to earn the equivalent of their top executive's annual salary rose to 65 per cent in FY24 from 61 per cent in FY19.
Water samples from different parts of Pune have been sent to the public health laboratory for chemical and biological analysis.
Excess earnings of unlisted companies over and above their interest costs are at a record level. The interest-coverage ratio of 2.94 is the highest going back to 1990-91, according to numbers from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The ratio measures earnings relative to every rupee to be paid as interest on outstanding debt.
The share of rent in consumption expenditure has risen to 6.58%, according to the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-2024. This is the highest it has been in surveys going back to the turn of the millennium.
Both new and completed project values as of December 2024 remain below pre-pandemic levels seen in 2019.
As battery prices drop, early customers of Tata Motors, which was the first mover in the passenger EV market, could feel let down.
Why is Shailesh Chandra, managing director of Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, not worried about the competition?
While Maruti held the top spot for four decades, the Ambassador was the best-selling car in post-Independence India for three decades.
When star mutual fund managers quit their jobs to start their own ventures, they have often begun their new innings by becoming portfolio management service (PMS) providers. Over the years there has been an influx of fund managers - they could earn big if they succeeded on their own - and alongside there are wealthy clients looking for an edge beyond that offered by traditional mutual funds.
Two Japanese auto giants, Honda and Nissan, are moving towards a potential merger, but it remains unclear how their Indian operations will be immediately impacted.
'Along with Blackstone, we would be keen to look at opportunities in the North.'
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