'This is a good time to restructure your portfolio because the sectors and stocks that performed in the last bull market may not perform as much now.'
The Chinese fight to keep their exchange rate low; we fight to keep it high. And from equal status in 1980, China's per capita income is thrice India's today.
The radar, manufactured in Britain, is capable of detecting even a small rowing boat, commander of the Naval Detachment Rathode Mukherjee said.
The rupee's sharp depreciation has been the most important issue in the current debate on the state of the economy.
Foreign banks set the template in consumer banking in its infancy, but have almost vacated this booming space.
The onus rests on the government to help industry take advantage of depreciation.
One of the chapters in the document titled 'Asian Theatre' has quite elaborate comments on China, and opines that India's China strategy has to strike a careful balance between cooperation and competition, economic and political interests, bilateral and regional contexts. Rediff.com publishes verbatim a part of the chapter 'Asian Theatre'.
India's decision to fall back on an Islamic and authoritarian government to protect and promote its interests is a sad commentary on its neighbourhood policy, says T P Sreenivasan.
The chief of Air Staff on Friday stressed the need for protecting India's space assets in the wake of China developing anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons and pushed for building the country's military space capabilities.
According to the China experts in New Delhi the arrest of so-called 21 Indian diamond merchants on charges of smuggling under China's anti-smuggling laws in Shenzhen on January 8 needs to be handled carefully by the establishment and even the media.
The two countries want to broaden and deepen their economic and commercial ties as well as strengthen bilateral national security partnership.
Whether it is Sri Lanka, Maldives, or Nepal, quietly but steadily, India has been reclaiming some of the ground it had lost to China, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Aggregate domestic R&D spend in India has never exceeded 1 per cent of GDP, and over 80 per cent of Indian firms spend nothing on research.
Much hard work remains to be done if the country is to become a successful economy and a modern society.
According to him, there are enough laws but their implementation is important.
Replying to the debate in Lok Sabha on Motion of Thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind's address to the Parliament, Modi said the Congress' 'arrogance' has not gone away despite multiple electoral defeats and its 'misdeeds' seem to indicate that it has made up its mind not to come to power for the next 100 years.
For India to take its rightful place in the sun, we need scores of companies involved in formal, mainstream education.
Sustaining 8-10 per cent growth will require lots of partnerships and some innovation says Lee Howell of the World Economic Forum.
Most informal enterprises in slums employ local residents, generating benefits for the local economy.
India needs to agressively counter China's imperial ambitions and its plans to encircle and break up the country.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Friday backed the proposed data privacy and cryptocurrency bills, saying India is putting in place the most forward-looking policies and regulations. Ambani, who has been a votary of Indians owning and controlling their own data and the nation drafting strict rules around how digital information is stored and shared, said nations have the right to build and protect strategic digital infrastructure. Stating that data is the 'new oil', he said every citizen's right to privacy has to be safeguarded. "India is putting in place the most forward-looking policies and regulations," he said at the Infinity Forum, hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
He does not consider the back-to-back Twenty20 losses to India a major setback but Australia's stand-in cricket coach Michael Di Venuto concedes that his team has certainly been outplayed in all three departments of the game so far.
Rajneesh Gupta presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of the two teams ahead of the T20I series this weekend.
The government needs to create a sustainable bond market and cut the fiscal deficit.
In 2008-09 boosting consumption helped sustain growth. Now it's investment that needs a boost.
'There will be partnerships between banks and fintech firms, but there will also be areas where they will be direct competitors.'
Indian policy makers would be well advised to disabuse themselves of the notion of a Sino-Indian convergence in managing Pakistan. China doesn't do sentimentality in foreign policy, India should follow suit, says Harsh V Pant
India may cut its loan pipeline from the World Bank or pre-pay some of the amount as it is running the risk of exceeding the borrowing limit from the global lender in next three years.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup
Marketers need to build on the country's core values to strengthen Brand India's presence abroad.
Twenty years of economic reforms later, the Indian elephant has morphed into a tiger, averaging 8.5 per cent growth in the last decade. . .
The government may mobilise a whopping Rs 4 lakh crore, an amount which may help in wiping out the country's fiscal deficit, by bringing down its holding to 51 per cent in all the listed public sector firms, a report says.
Asian Development Bank on Friday said India can sustain 8 per cent economic growth but asked government to improve infrastructure and carry forward reforms to attain a higher growth of 9-10 per cent.
Like China, Indian companies are adopting ruthless and corrupt practises while doing business in developing nations.
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