Talking corporate heads are a barometer of the business community's engagement with the economy. If they have nothing to say now there should be cause for concern.
Exuding confidence in setting up a profitable banking venture, industrialist Anil Ambani on Tuesday said the proposed bank will help lower Reliance Capital's debt to one-fourth of current levels and would be listed as a separate entity in three years.
12,000: Number of people Flipkart plans to hire in FY15.
Asking the government to tweak FDI norms in multi-brand segment, retailers said sourcing rules must be made similar to that of single brand while demanding foreign firms be allowed to put only 50 per cent of first tranche of investment in back-end infrastructure.
CEOs fear any change in status of the mines will mean disruption in production, loss of investment and increased production cost for user industries.
'When you come through the hassles and struggles of business life, your mind is wired differently.' 'You are more connected to reality,' Akali Dal MP Naresh Gujral tells Rahul Jacob and Archis Mohan
KVIC is keen to build an international footprint and is hopeful about signing up B2B agreements with at least 40 countries, to which end it has even registered a GI (geographical indicator) tag in the UK, Germany and Russia.
India Inc has too much on its plate to ensure double digit growth in FY16.
Chanda Kochhar, managing director of ICICI Bank, says the new government must take effective action bringing clarity around tax laws.
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
Tata Group's CLiQ is the latest to join the e-commerce club, to compete with the likes of Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
India Inc's investments abroad in April-June 2015 have once again risen to $1.3 billion.
Reliance Retail follows Future Group in online foray
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Depreciating rupee a silver lining for some businesses amid the economic downturn.
Riding on a stock market boom since 2009, India Inc's chief executives have been able to salvage a lot of lost pride in their second innings.
Companies write off investments, shed assets as initial projections go haywire
R-Power, Essar could be hit as state mulls benefit-sharing levy for ecology loss.
Year 2013 saw business leaders facing the ire of hostile investigative agencies.
Bandhan Bank is the first bank to be launched in eastern India post Independence.
Jaitley's Budget has the potential to change the face of Modi's Bharat
Discount chain to expand to the east and west, continue with third-party brands.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the summons to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 5 others by a trial court over the coal scam.
The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
Indian CEOs might like to make some serious course correction.
Sentiment has improved but no progress on GST & ending 'tax terrorism' disappoints.
For FY14, the first full year of the law's implementation, the spend could go up to nearly Rs 8,700 crore (Rs 87 billion), given that India Inc's profitability has grown at a compounded 7.5 per cent annually in the past three years.
Payments banks will mainly deal in remittance services and accept deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh.
Tight liquidity will hit over-leveraged and cash-hungry companies, spare conservative ones
The four major Hindi general entertainment channels -- STAR Plus, Sony, Colors and ZEE -- have all launched music and dance reality shows in the 9-pm slot on weekends.
Unfazed by the absence of leaders of the Left, the Janata Dal-United, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee along with some regional parties on Tuesday sought to put up a united face raising the pitch against demonetisation by demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The year 2014-15 could well go as one of long-pending financial sector reforms, expected to have a lasting impact.
Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi marched from the Congress headquarter in New Delhi to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former prime minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case.
Glimpses of the change Narendra Modi promised million of voters were visible at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi has now no excuse, but to perform and change India for the better. Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com reports from the presidential palace. A feature on the swearing-in ceremony like none other.
So let's stop focusing the Modi agenda on India Inc and the capital markets, and let's start focusing on the Modi development agenda for the average Indian.
While many promises remain unrealised, power reforms and the creation of tens of millions of new bank accounts have helped Modi maintain his popularity
Sensex ended above 26,000 led by telecom shares amid TRAI's spectrum sharing norms.
He wants to transform his retail-led enterprise into a consumer goods giant, and reach Rs 1 lakh crore in turnover by 2021, but is that feasible?
Fast cars, marathons, golfing and shooting - nothing stops these high-power tycoons from pursuing their passion.
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