No one can fault India Inc for not taking care of shareholders; in fact, it has been extra generous.
The Reserve Bank on Thursday said the macroeconomic risks to the Indian economy have increased over the last six months due to the fall in growth, external sector developments and subdued performance of the corporate sector.
The recent softening of inflation is purely a base effect at play.
Aditya Birla Retail set up seven years earlier, posted a 20% growth in sales over a year earlier for 2013-14.
On the rupee, it expects some appreciation pressure on in the near term from greater portfolio flows.
The company hasn't been able to find a buyer because of the slowdown.
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It also painted a grim possibility of any major gains in the rupee during the current fiscal saying that the continuing global volatility, and domestic political uncertainty ahead of the 2014 hustings will limit chances of any significant appreciation apart from further impact growth.
Bihar, Odisha and Chattisgarh had grown the most industrially in FY14.
While Mumbai (including Navi Mumbai) registered the highest average rate (Rs 7,105), Goa had the highest revenue per available room at Rs 4,778.
India's telecom sector has been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies. India could go back to a private sector duopoly with just Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel surviving the mayhem. The third player, Vodafone Idea, could be history.
An industry source said Reliance Industries did not have a controlling stake in Yatra.com through its acquisition of Network 18. It was just a financial investment.
RE of GDP for 2015-16 show that the economy grew 7.9% in 2015-16, rather than the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent.
The US drug regulator raised the issue of significant deviations from the current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) in three of DRRD's plants in a letter issued in November 2015
State-owned Air India has approached the ministry of finance for a sovereign guarantee to raise Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) from banks, due to the government's inability to infuse all the required funds into the debt-laden carrier, given the current economic conditions.
Recent data from market analytics firm Nielsen shows that the rural market in the country's 630,000-odd villages is pulling down the overall FMCG business.
The demand has gradually shifted from 16-tonners to 25-tonners and is further shifting in favour of 31-t and 37-t trucks.
Brokerage firm CLSA says in its interactions with government officials, measures such as the dollar-deposit scheme were under consideration.
After four-odd years of focusing on reducing debt, the series of deals with Etihad could finally get it out of the spiral.
Adjusted gross revenue of the industry has grown just 5.3 per cent during the financial year ended March 31
Such brokers connect buyers to sellers, taking a commission on the deal.
Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies
While slow execution and delays in infrastructure projects have led to a payment crisis as recovery of dues is a big challenge, banks are breathing down their necks for loan repayment.
Indian investments in equity and debt account for the second-highest remittances outgo (about a quarter).
Second-tier NBFC stocks are trading at 24.4x their trailing earnings, which is nearly twice their 15-year average of 13.9x
Better margins, lower interest outgo could see the company turn profitable in FY15.
Technically, the Indian economy is on road to recovery.
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje breaks her silence.
Fiscal deficit, the gap between government's expenditure and revenue, stood at 4.5 per cent in FY14, lower than 4.9 per cent in FY13.
Technology evolution forces private players to downsize operations.
Huge margins, high custom duty and increasing demand among youngsters have led to exponential increase in smuggling of foreign cigarettes.
In five years, royalty payments have grown 31.1% yearly, much faster than rise in revenue and profit.
Here's a look at how key Tata group companies fared under Cyrus Mistry's stewardship.
'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.'
The report further said that confidence is improving, while risk aversion is falling and has upgraded industrial production to neutral from negative.
Like their international peers, Indian CEOs too have a significant portion of their incomes coming from stock options and performance-linked bonuses
The 13th Finance Commission had last year set a capital expenditure-to-GDP target of 4.5 per cent by FY15.
Murthy said there was a need to change the mindset of the employees to focus on large deals.
Stating that the forthcoming elections will delay the reform process and hurt growth, international rating agency Moody's on Monday said it expects growth to pick up to only 5.5 per cent in FY15.
Act says remuneration to directors and key managerial personnel should involve a balance between fixed and incentive pay.
Analysts say loan growth, Casa ratio and exposure to sectors under pressure did not indicate any stress at United Bank.
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