Scores of new airports have been built around the country but many are yet to open because airlines do not see sufficient demand as ticket prices are too high for the majority Indians
The $100 billion Tata group conglomerate is a major beneficiary of the decision to open up aviation in India.
Imports dropped 13.16 per cent year-on-year
India does not have a unified regulatory regime to counter Ponzi, or pyramid, schemes whose operators typically grab new deposits to meet their promise of guaranteed returns to existing savers, point out Manoj Kumar and Mayank Bhardwaj.
Like pharmaceutical companies globally - which used to enjoy a preferential exchange rate in Venezuela - Indian producers have been left badly stung by the collapse of the bolivar currency
While many promises remain unrealised, power reforms and the creation of tens of millions of new bank accounts have helped Modi maintain his popularity
The insolvency and bankruptcy code will strengthen the hands of lenders to recover outstanding debts by setting a deadline of 180 days for companies to pay or face liquidation
Three members will be representatives from the government, and three from the RBI.
Infrastructure accounts for nearly 38 per cent of India's industrial output
Bankers back the new bankruptcy code, which would impose debt deadlines on failed firms and foresees up to five years in jail for debtors who conceal property or defraud creditors
Retail inflation has eased from double digits in 2013.
India, the bank's second biggest shareholder after China, is looking to borrow from the AIIB.
Indebted Air India, which last made an annual profit in 2007, has seen its market share shrink in recent years.
Even if some of those projects remain on paper, the potential for manufacturers and engineering firms is too big to ignore
A strong showing will be vital to Narendra Modi's chances of a second term.
'We need to look beyond the current approach'.
Suresh Prabhu said the freight business was 'struggling'.
A proposed 24 percent hike in the salaries of 2.6 million employees and pensioners, will land the railways with a wage bill of about $4.7 billion.
The corporate income tax breaks make up a relatively small part of $80 billion in business giveaways.
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