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 30-share Sensex ended down 261 points at 28,747 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 83 points at 8,684.
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
With the July 1 deadline to apply for bank licence fast approaching, aspirants are scrambling to meet the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) eligibility criteria to apply.
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority will soon notify prices of as many as 150 packs of essential medicines in line with the new pharma pricing policy, according to official sources.
Select metal stocks rebounded while power stocks extended losses after SC verdict on coal block allocations.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 292 points at 29,571 and the 50-share Nifty closed up 75 points at 8,910.
The contraction in M&A activity in India contrasts sharply with the upbeat global picture, much of it led by a reviving US economy.
BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices ended in line with their larger counterparts and closed marginally up 0.2% and 0.4%, each
Sensex plunges 322.39 points to over 1-month closing low of 27,797.01; Nifty tumbles 97.55 points to 8,340.70.
The Sensex ended below 28,000 for the second straight day at 27,869.
Even smaller companies like Torrent Pharma and Alembic file five to 10 ANDAs every year.
Sensex dull at close, Infosys rules, ITC drags.
'15, 17 years back we were not even in existence in the US. Today nearly 1/3 of prescriptions written comes from India.' 'India is showing that in a very competitive environment -- like the US and Europe -- our industry is doing very well.'
A probe finds several pharma majors in breach of the law; and in turn they blame the government.
Indian business, on quite a different trajectory from its global counterpart, remains relatively insulated from any kind of backlash.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
Corporate legal cases kept India Inc on its toes in 2014 as high stake matters on coal, telecom and mining came up in the Supreme Court, which also sent Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy to jail.
The 30-share Sensex closed down 115 points at 28,444 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 31 points at 8,524.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 30.30 points at 28,161.72 and the 50-share Nifty dipped 7.95 points at 8,543.
Shares of ING Vysya Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank rallied by up to 6% on the BSE on reports that Kotak Mahindra Bank in final stages to buy the bank.
Roadshows will be held in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York and Boston, NTPC gained close to 1%.
Firms generated free cash flows in 2013-14, for the first time since the 2008 Lehman crisis
The 30-share Sensex ended lower by 61 points at 29,122 mark and the 50-share Nifty slipped by 12 points to close at 8,797.
It's time for Indian generic companies to rethink their strategies.
The sharp fall in the rupee's value against the dollar during the July-September quarter, it turns out, has come as a boon for corporate earnings.
Sensex ended above 26,000 led by telecom shares amid TRAI's spectrum sharing norms.
Focus on the best you can do with what you've been given.
Piramals are the largest investors in the Indian real estate sector after HDFC, with investments worth $3 billion already.
India Inc did not perform well during December quarter.
A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year in spite of the stock market decline.
Financial numbers can sometimes paint a rosy picture because of changes in the accounting policy or a one-time income.
Japan has the capital and needs to pull out of China, which has been its major destination. India, on the other hand, desperately needs capital especially for infrastructure, argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Over two years since the Nirbhaya rape shook the nation women in New Delhi feel no safer than they did before. With safety apps to self-defence classes on the rise, Ritika Bhatia takes a look at what working women in Delhi are doing to keep themselves safe.
The inspiring story of how Bhavesh Bhatia turned his blindness into his strength.
Upstaged by the swanky malls in town, both M G Road and Brigade Road have lost their "happening" status
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