'It has taken us 15 years to get to where we are. It obviously doesn't happen overnight.'
Under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, the Centre provides an annual financial benefit of Rs 6,000 to eligible beneficiary farmers in three equal four-monthly installments of Rs 2,000 each.
'That secularism in India is at risk is alarming for someone like me. I'm born secular,' Anjolie Ela Menon, the well-known painter, tells Pavan Lall.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
'This fall is nothing. We could see worse if everybody hits the panic button.'
Reliance announced a rights issue of Rs 53,125 crore, which it said was the biggest in India.
'We can go somewhere between 35 per cent and 40 per cent.'
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
Dhrupadi Ghosh, who works for a magazine in Kolkata, tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar what she would like to see in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget.
Assuming that the value of LIC's holding has risen in line with the markets, its portfolio size today could be around $86 billion, higher than the previous record of $84 billion in March 2018.
The National Stock Exchange's proposed IPO to raise Rs 10,000 crore this year is expected to see the largest ever PE exit, of around Rs 5,000 crore.
With farmers on Thursday blocking railway tracks across the country, at stations big and small, protesters at Singhu said it proves that the agitation is not just limited to Punjab and Haryana.
With inflation figures expected to be well within RBI's target, there may be room for further rate cut.
'I really wish I knew how to arouse love in the hearts of people, how to make them understand that religion comes later, first we are all humans.'
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'Please do not threaten us with street violence.' 'Do you have some humanity left in you?'
That is what you will hear again after Nirmala Sitharaman presents a speech that will prove to be meaningless and numbers that will show themselves to be wildly off the mark, observes Aakar Patel.
Recovery in bluechips and gains in European markets helped the rally.
The broader NSE Nifty, after cracking the 10,600-mark, ended 82.30 points, or 0.77 per cent, lower at 10,589.10.
India lost around 38.5 thousand hectares of tropical forest in the last decade. Nearly 14 per cent of the country's tree cover! It is one thing for Modi to announce that India will reach a net-zero level of emissions in 2070. But if it is serious, it needs to start today, points out Ramesh Menon.
The scales started tilting in favour of smartphones in 2014, when a slew of new, yet vibrant, brands entered the market, with their competitively priced offerings helping smartphones become the indispensable device that it has turned into today.
India is today the second-largest telecom market in the world with over a billion customers and close to 600 million Internet users. New connections are available on the tap, calls are virtually free and it's hard to imagine anyone without a mobile phone today. Globally, there would be few parallels to this success story that truly democratised telephony and empowered a billion-plus people, observes Airtel's Sunil Bharti Mittal.
The market players are expected to react to the better than expected factory output data for the month of August, which revealed that the industrial production grew by 6.4%.
The S&P BSE Sensex gained 57 points to end at 26,064.
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The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024. Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus AIADMK-BJP's 39.72%) is not insurmountable on a bad day, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Metal shares were the top gainers with Hindalco up over 5%.
As much as 9 crore shares will be sold over two days, with institutional investors getting to bid on the first day and retail ones getting a chance on Friday.
Reliance's big-bang entry across the solar ecosystem will cut dependence on Chinese imports drastically. And Ambani's repeated emphasis that RIL's new energy foray will be 'a truly global business' points that his group is playing not just for a share of the Indian pie but to be the OEM in the larger 5,000 GW global market by 2030, points out Shailesh Dobhal.
After 24 months of slowdown beginning in January 2018 before the pandemic and then 18 months of collapse since January 2020, we have become the world's worst performing economy, observes Aakar Patel.
Television actor Avika Gor reveals how she made conscious efforts to eat healthy and feel better.
Blockchain's promise: Dramatically speeding up transactions, explains Ajit Balakrishnan.
The 50-share NSE Nifty ended up 37.05 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 10,397.45 points
The 30-share Sensex is down 348 points and the 50-share Nifty was down 107 points at 25,228.17 and 7,542.10 level, respectively.
PSU bank shares were the top gainers on hopes of a rate by the RBI on easing consumer inflation
EPS' real test will commence with a decision whether or not to patch up with OPS and on what terms -- and then, to decide whether or not to have the BJP for an electoral ally, come 2024, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Uncertainty lingers in the minds of retail investors due to scams.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 245 points at 28,799 and the 50-share Nifty closed down 81 points at 8,750
There is nothing to suggest that the DMK stands to gain from the AIADMK split nor is there anything indicative of an extraordinary advantage for the BJP, independently or in the company of the AIADMK, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
In the broader market, the BSE Smallcap and BSE Midcap index gained 0.1% and 0.4%, respectively
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