Export growth picked up mainly owing to rising global crude prices, which pushed up processed petroleum exports by nearly 40 per cent, apart from a broad-based improvement in exports of major foreign exchange earners such as engineering goods and gems and jewellery.
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In effect, companies which put their money in telecom in India would have done much better to keep the cash in bank and earn interest.
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Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
As the liquidity crunch reaches crisis levels and getting tax refunds remain a big headache, exporters saw orders fall by 15 per cent till October.
Demand will boom in the US and China, but exporters say it will be difficult for India to tap these markets.
The large drop was for export orders that were meant to be delivered until October.
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The freebies are now over, but Jio will need to notch up subscriber numbers and margins to prove its sceptics wrong.
Take part in the growth story, Amit A Shah tells Corporate India.
Customers won't shift to electric cars until there is countrywide infrastructure for charging stations, which should be as spread out as petrol pumps now. Two, the price of the lithium ion battery, which constitutes 30 to 40 per cent of the cost of an electric car, has to fall substantially, so that the vehicle is as affordable as a gasoline one.
Growth was primarily pushed by a jump in steel and electricity generation, apart from a sustained rise in natural gas output.
Tamil Nadu, the best-performing state, managed to do this in 63 days. Land allotment took 156 days nationally and 28 days in Himachal Pradesh. Environmental approval took 91 days nationally and 25 days in Chhattisgarh.
The failure of big-budget Bollywood movies show that mega stars such as Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma are struggling to impress the audience.
McDonald's problems couldn't have surfaced at a worse time. Cut-throat competition, rapid expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending in the wake of demonetisation have seriously dented the overall quick-service restaurant business.
Samsung makes the largest number of non-4G feature phones in India
The region constituted more than 31percent of the segment's total sales volume in 2016.
As many as 26 of 50 urban hubs across the country have shown a moderate upturn in housing prices between December 2016 and March 2017
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