The total investor wealth in domestic stock markets soared by Rs 1.53 lakh crore as investors cheered energy reforms, including hike in natural gas prices.
India and Japan's effort to form a multilateral group of liquefied natural gas buyers to avoid paying higher prices for the fuel is laudable as an objective but is unlikely to be effective immediately.
Adani will go ahead with its $15 bn mine, rail and port project.
'We expect the new government to look into the issue of penalties imposed on technology firms involved in UID related projects.'
The problem, say experts, is not so much the use of plastic as the lack of effort to recycle and reuse it.
'Event management can distract from, but not permanently mask, execution failures,' points out Rathin Roy, director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
Experts said the rate hike would improve working capital position of the manufactures as it would correct the inverted duty structure but may lead to increase in price of the finished goods.
The strategic pacts were inked after the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe during which they also discussed international and regional issues of mutual importance including UN security reforms.
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India has been pursuing measures that discriminate against overseas businesses, says US Congressman Erik Paulsen.
The government has the upper hand in the ongoing negotiations, and it is unclear if a real debate will happen, observes Tulika Narayan.
Will get Rs 830 cr, Rs 329 cr respectively to offset higher coal costs
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan has proclaimed his determination to set Tamil Nadu's fiscal house in order in five years, and Friday will show how he plans to go about it when he rises to present the Stalin government's maiden budget, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Global supply is staying in excess of demand.
In the 38-page report, across 10 chapters, RIL explained how it entered the exploration and production business; the history of the New Exploration and Licensing Policy and the introduction of production-sharing contracts.
He becomes 2nd Indian to win this award; N R Narayana Murthy won it in 2003.
'IndiGo 2018 is a harsh, ultra-lean, mean, zero asset, fighting machine with aspirations of taking on the global long-haul low-cost market.'
Water shortage is likely to lead to political tensions and instability in the future, warns Simon George, President, Cargill India.
Modi urged the Swiss business leaders to explore the investment opportunities in India.
A majority of respondents expect the number of jobs generated to increase in 5 years.
He designed some of India's most iconic buildings.
'I'm a big fan of Hindu and a big fan of India -- big, big fan.'
In the test, a space rocket boosted a hypersonic glide vehicle, one capable of carrying a nuclear device, which circled the globe before impacting.
In most cases, the payback on energy saving projects offered by GIBSS are between one and three years.
Govt hopes to add 0.21 mn Mw capacity by 2022, against 0.25 mn Mw added over 60 years.
Speaking at the CII's partnership summit in Jaipur, Azevedo who is the Director General of WTO, also said the member countries should implement the trade facilitation agreement on time as it would help in reducing cost of commerce and boosting exports.
India's macroeconomic situation has benefited from oil prices' decline.
The agreement on pricing last month marks a significant step towards promoting energy security in the region, say Nisha Taneja & Samridhi Bimal.
US-based $40-billion industrial goods giant Honeywell has just launched its 16th plant, a hydrocracker unit with application in oil refining, in India. The two years of Modi government have been full of optimism and energy, Anant Maheshwari, president, Honeywell India, and Steve Gimre, managing director, UOP India, tell Sudheer Pal Singh.
What is business? Isn't it an exchange of valuable things?
Aseem Chhabra lists 10 of his favourite films that played in various sections at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
What India should not do is take the path China took at one stage to become the world's foremost cheap factory, says Subir Roy.
Indian govt must find solution to ever increasing LPG subsidy. Govt must cap LPG subsidy.
Total fuel subsidies accounted for less than 1 per cent of GDP and under 3 per cent of total government expenditures in FY14.
Mayank Ashar, managing director and chief executive officer, Cair India, says the reform momentum should continue and the industry should do its part too.
An Adani spokesperson said that it was yet another attempt by activists to delay the project.
The electric vehicle market in India needs a policy push that goes beyond targets, says Vandana Gombar.
Can the finance minister manage our expectations, asks A K Bhattacharya.
'Modi and Abe are working seriously for India-Japan bonhomie to grow stronger.' 'It is a win-win situation for both countries and the future look promising,' says Rajaram Panda, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations India Chair Visiting Professor at Reitaku University, Japan.
N Ganapathy Subramaniam, chief operating officer (COO), discusses the strategy to concert digital opportunities to larger deals, focus on reskilling own people instead of acquiring a company to get access to skillsets and demand from newer verticals in an interview with Romita Majumdar
