We no longer have the ambition to rival China save through words. We are happy to be fighting ourselves and digging up disputes from centuries ago as a substitute for real development, argues Aakar Patel.
Medical tourism has got a shot in the arm with number of overseas patients touching 100,000 mark last year as against 10,000 patients in 2000 thanks to the bouquet of quality healthcare services fraught with cost advantage.\n\n
The recent stimulus measures announced by China have seen most analysts sit up and take notice.
Be it consumer products, lifestyle or entertainment, spiritual gurus are stepping into business and are finding success
Drones are being sold by e-retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal for less than Rs 40,000 apiece.
Companies like Flipkart, Amazon and Meesho as well as quick commerce ones like Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart may create hundreds of thousands of seasonal jobs for the coming festival season.
Investors would do well to curb their enthusiasm and not digress from their investment objectives.
The business intelligence applications in India is poised to grow to $70 million by 2007, registering a compounded annual growth of 29.4 per cent, a report by Frost and Sullivan, a global growth consulting company said.
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Pegging the growth of the Indian television market at about 10 per cent in the next five years, Philips India on Thursday said the biggest growth markets for TVs would be smaller towns and rural areas.
China, the world's most populous nation, has about 150 million pet dogs - about one for every nine people - suggesting yet another promising consumers' market in the country, a report said on Monday.
If growth reverts to the pre-Covid level, a lot of people may have to temper their rosy optimism, points out Debashis Basu.
Bengaluru-based United Breweries (UBL), makers of Kingfisher beer, is eying strong growth in the premium beer segment, driven by changing consumer preferences towards premiumisation. "Across categories, premiumisation is taking place as people are looking for better choices and beer is no different. "People are upgrading to better beer and newer brands. We have a good offering of premium brands - Kingfisher's premium variants are Ultra and Ultra Max," Vikram Bahl, chief marketing officer (CMO), UBL, said in an interview.
The government expects the pension sector to overtake insurance segment once it is opened up to private players.
Ramesh Srichand Damani guides you on investment strategy.
Annual direct investment by developing countries into other rising economies has grown faster than that by developed countries in the past 15 years, the UN Conference on Trade and Development has reported.
Ever a picture of golden elegance and age defying splendour, her fashion evolution spanning over half a century is telling of her gift to stay gorgeous day in and day out.
PHOTOS from Day 1 of the third and final Test between England and the West Indies at Edgbaston on Friday.
'It is a worrying trend as we are not seeing too much fresh capital being raised for new projects, plants, expansion or diversification. It's just private equity or venture capital or promoters cashing out.'
