US president was unaware that the son of a manual labourer had to abandon studies
The first public-private partnership (PPP) initiative in bottled drinking water has taken shape at Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, with a Rail Neer plant set for commissioning.
Ratan Tata was the first one to realise that Indian companies had become a prisoner to tradition and needed to radically innovate.
Being leaders in compensation and benefits, collective bargaining for wages is a non-issue in the industry.
During his lifetime and after, Ambani aroused extreme responses in others.
Many bankers say the move will have a serious impact on the chain of command of nationalised banks and that it would only enable the government to dish out favours to a few of their own men.
Using available government data, the team is targeting $30-40 billion worth of iron and steel products that are imported into India.
The inability of the economy to create new jobs faster than jobs are lost to automation leads to unemployment.
At the end, however, Allen finds too much of what he calls positive thinking can boomerang.
Under current laws, a company cannot sell mines but only transfer leases when it is acquired by another firm.
Decades of a state-owned monopoly selling coal at a fixed price has taken its toll on production.
In any case, Ghosh could take lessons from the best professionally managed companies all over the world that always groom the CEO successors well in advance.
The new system will entail a periodic revision in the price of subsidised LPG cylinders so that the subsidy remains fixed.
With the Supreme Court (SC) cancelling captive coal block allocations, Jindal Steel & Power Limited will be the worst-affected company.
It is up to the government to take a decision on this before it starts auctioning.
The Supreme Court order has created a new legal framework for coal mining by ruling that only the Union government and its entities can do it.
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its final verdict on coal mine allocations later this week.
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office, which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely for the United Progressive Alliance regime, questions are now being raised about pending decisions across ministries and whether at least some ministers have turned redundant.
The move is part of a larger initiative by the government to speed up work in the highway sector.
Since the court had earlier questioned distribution of mining rights through the screening committee route, experts say the solution worked out would be weighed on the basis of legality.
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