Indian-American business leaders meet to discuss ways to make this initiative a success.
A comprehensive solution involves a complete overhaul of our education and training model.
All credit to the finance minister for walking the fiscal and expectation tightrope extremely well in his budget speech, says Ganesh Natarajan.
An analysis of the National Housing Bank's Residex shows from 2007 to now, almost all tier-II cities have seen their residential property prices appreciate by 45-120 per cent.
One hopes that the government will act on the Kelkar panel recommendations.
'Continuity in a common agenda is essential, not to disrupt the progress achieved so far,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Rahul Gandhi slammed the Modi government, accusing it of being against farmers, labourers, students and the poor.
The shares could continue to see outperformance if the Budget assumptions are proved correct
Rejecting Congress' charge that projects he has been inaugurating in recent months were all started during their time, he said, as prime minister, he would have been happy if the projects were completed 15 years back and led to creation of jobs.
Though not a blockbuster budget it does not undermine the fact that key issues were addressed and the finance minister certainly did not under-deliver, says Vatsal Srivastava.
'What will be achieved by the prime minister's condemnation of each and every unfortunate incident? Will just the PM's condemnation bring about closure to these cases,' asks Sudhir Bisht.
P Chidambaram accused the BJP of making a u-turn on bills like GST after having stalled them during the UPA regime.
Patricia Hewitt, chair, UK India Business Council and former UK minister, spoke on a number of government initiatives and investment sentiments.
'This is not a small change, it's a BIG change. People wanted to hear the voice of their PM. They can do so now. This is a big parivartan.'
It has been a difficult year for Singh, whose fate from the start has been closely tied to that of the Gandhi family.
India's neglect of villages shows up in many other ways.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India and the United Kingdom are economically made for each other.
Many see Nirma's Lafarge deal as some kind of second coming for the Patels.
India and France on Monday inked an Inter-Governmental Agreement on the sale of 36 French fighter jets, Rafale, but were unable to sign the final deal due to some "financial" aspects, which are expected to be sorted out in "couple of days".
Indian govt is trying hard to get global investors to invest in the country.
Launches of new homes reduced drastically this year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an impassioned speech to the United States Congress.
'What I want is not for the elected to tell me what they did in the 1990s or for the past 5 years,' says A Bihari Abroad. 'I would rather know what they plan to do in the next 6 months and give the people a report on the progress of these initiatives. Perhaps, a presentation on their performance and their future plans, to the electoral public, who they represent and are actually answerable to.'
Big ticket defence deals including purchase of missile systems, frigates and joint production of helicopters were sealed on Saturday.
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Arvind Kumar Sharma, a 1988-batch IAS officer and one of the many joint secretaries in PMO, definitely wields some power.
While the two sides' objectives may appear to differ, it is clear that both India and China are emphasising on the common minimum possible areas of cooperation between them, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
As the NDA government completes two years in office, there are more questions on Swarupa Dutt's mind than answers.
Opposition parties ask the government to listen to the concern of the intellectuals returning awards.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
Report card of the Narendra Modi-led central government for the first six months, on the basis of ratings by top CEOs, under key parameters.
Hyderabad-based Pi Datacenters wants to be the first destination of choice for enterprises in data and cloud services.
Modi government has pledged to lay 700,000 kms of broadband cable.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 248 points at a record closing high of 27,346.
The Modi PMO is like none other: It is staffed by people who are so low profile that the only dominant personality is the Prime Minister's.
In his fifth address as President, Pranab Mukherjee asked authorities and institutions of the State to adhere to the 'dignity' in discharging their duties.
The party will need organisation, preparation, funding and ideological clarity, says Aditi Phadnis
Boost to dairy sector will generate jobs
'The BJP currently occupies the centre stage of Indian politics, much the way the Congress did in the 1970s. That may be comforting to the party, but it could also be the road to perdition of easy self-congratulation and sycophancy.'
The move is aimed at reflecting the diversity of India and highlighting the contribution of prominent personalities.
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