The frenzy to be present at the Madison Square Garden on September 28 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Indian-American community likely rivals a rock concert held at the famous New York venue.
Nanotechnology researcher Dr Anita Goel feels that India can benefit from the gene Radar sensing technology which can detect the presence or absence of a disease's pathogen with the same accuracy available only in a diagnostic lab, reports Suman Guha Mozumder.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' stock market queries. Ajit will offer his unbiased views on a weekly basis
IIP for November 2015 and CPI for December 2015 will be announced today.
'There is a compulsion to look hard, decisive, and risk-taking; start something; and then conclude it in a way you can claim victory.' 'That is not such an easy option against China,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
'I will be happy if walls are built between India and China!' 'We are going to nooks and corners of the country to make ordinary people realise the need to buy Indian goods so that our workers get jobs.'
Once tipped to emerge as the biggest exporter, the pharmaceutical industry is yet to acquire the scale of those in software services, says Krishna Kant.
OPEC agrees to keep pumping as oil glut fears persist.
'As someone who has had the opportunity of cross examining Vinod Rai, extensively over three days as part of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, many of us included I had concluded at that point of time that this report rests on the foundation of sand.'
The 50-share NSE Nifty ended up 37.05 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 10,397.45 points
The WPI inflation stood at negative 2.4% in May 2015, compared with a negative 2.65% in April 2015.
The NSE Nifty too recovered over 100 points, or 0.96 per cent, to end at 10,576.85.
Muted quarterly earnings, mixed cues from global markets and unabated foreign fund outflows added to the volatility
The turmoil on the Street and a continued fall of the rupee may affect growth stocks, pushing equity investors back to the relative safety of defensive counters, or forcing them to flee markets, or both.
To do so, the government will have to tackle a number of broad development challenges successfully, says Shankar Acharya
'It is less polarising than Hindutva.'
'Amul has never replaced premium ingredients with cheap ones.'
The BSE Sensex moved up 103 points to 35,319.35, while the wider NSE Nifty finished at 10,741.70, up 23.90 points.
Two years after India entered the product patents regime, the year 2007 saw Indian drug firms striving to shed the copycat image and become innovators with emphasis on research activities even as they resisted moves to include more medicines under price control.
'Ultimately, people will revolt at one time or the other.' 'You cannot feed the public with cultural issues forever.'
Zzungry said it had introduced limited edition of 'Ulundu kozhukattai' and 'Kova kozhukattai' that are inspired from the cuisines of two states that hold great relevance in the life of Raghuram Rajan.
In a surprise announcement in April, Sun and Ranbaxy -- at that time owned by Japan's Daiichi -- declared an all-stock deal to create India's largest and world's fifth-largest drugmaker in an over $4 billion deal.
Maharashtra has reported 31 positive cases, Kerala 19, Uttar Pradesh 11, Delhi and Karnataka six each, Ladakh three, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Telangana two each; and Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab one case each. The total number of confirmed cases also includes 17 foreigners -- 16 Italian tourists and a Canadian, it said.
Better-than-expected financial results in Q3 due to higher revenue growth and margins in key markets fuel the rally
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices underperformed the largecaps and ended over 1% lower.
How the XUV300's suspension, plastics and interiors hold out in Indian conditions after a couple of years will be the litmus test for its success in the long term, but for now, this SUV delivers, says Pavan Lall.
'It disappoints and saddens me no end that Mahua has allowed herself to be carried away by the Goebbelsian onslaught mounted on the BJP and Narendra Modi by certain vested interests which find themselves exposed and thrown out of the gravy train,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
NDDB had helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they created in their own hands.
The good news for us is that India's economy - and sentiment about it - is much better than it was a year ago, says Jamal Mecklai.
Ambassador T P Sreenivasan salutes India Abroad, the leading Indian-American newspaper for half a century, which ceased publication on March 30.
'The movie seeks to strike a long-awaited conversation. A story that the screen should have told long ago.' 'It is an attempt to cure that epidemic of social media opinion and provoke us to leave our rhetorical positions for once and see the issue purely as a great tragedy which happened for more reasons than we give to ourselves,' says Utkarsh Mishra.
The 50-share NSE Nifty ended flat, up 5.80 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 10,308.95.
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 1 points to end at 26,396 and the Nifty50 slipped 2 points to end at 8,109.
The Andhra Pradesh government has re-launched the Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme for below-poverty-line (BPL) families in the State from Wednesday, coinciding with Ugadi, the Telugu New Year Day that was celebrated two days ago. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy formally inaugurated the scheme at Jadcharla in backward Mahbubnagar district on Wednesday.
'The government and the RBI have been playing a very good part in terms of inflation management.'
The 30-share Sensex ended 79 points lower at 26,909 and the 50-share Nifty closed 25 points lower at 8,102.
'If some measures are implemented quickly, they can help revive growth.'
Markets finished lower for the sixth consecutive day as hopes of the Goods and Services tax (GST) bill being passed in the current session of the Parliament faded considerably.
'The Indian economy has been subsidised by the poor.'
The inflow of cheap capital has also kept the rupee at a high level, making exports uncompetitive and broadening the current account deficit despite falling oil prices.
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