Indian jewellers such as Gitanjali Gems, Malabar Gold and Kalyan Jewellers have opened stores abroad to limit the slump in sales.
We invited readers to comment on how young people can deal with stalkers and obsessive lovers. Here, reader Shifali Parekh tells how her sister's stalker left her whole family shaken.
Invest 5 to 10 per cent in a banking sector fund. Ensure that mutual fund's portfolio includes all three players -- private sector banks, public sector banks and NBFCs.
The Reserve Bank is likely to hike interest rates marginally in the fourth quarter of this fiscal to give a signal to the market, a top financial sector expert said.
The government is likely to appoint more directors on the board of the crisis-ridden Satyam Computer Services soon. "More directors will be appointed within two days," a senior official of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said.
The government's help to the crisis-ridden Satyam Computer Services may include financial support as well, as it is a question of saving jobs and institutional investment, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said.
Several leading industrialists, including Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani, Vedanta Resources Limited executive chairman Anil Agarwal, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Welspun Group chairman and Assocham president B K Goenka, attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Expressing shock over the terrorist attack in Mumbai claiming about 100 lives, the Indian industry on Thursday demanded tougher laws along with 'stronger and firmer' leadership to tackle terrorism.
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Business leaders met Manmohan Singh to discuss the problems facing the country.
DoT sources confirmed receipt of the report by auditors Parekh and Co and said that it is yet to examine the findings. DoT would ask for RCom's response later.
The benchmark index on Wednesday surged 314.92 points or 1.05 per cent to close at 30,248.17 on widespread buying spurred by forecast of a normal monsoon this year.
Cross-border M&As get cheaper and easier, but this requires one set of laws -- on takeover codes, for instance - for local firms and another for the dual-listed ones.
The government today expanded the three-member Satyam board to six to include S Balakrishnan of Life Insurance Corporation, Tarun Das, chief mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industry and T N Manoharan, former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Swinging into action on the very first day of taking charge of the scam-tainted Satyam, its three-member board on Monday announced that top management would be changed and every effort made to address the prime concern of liquidity, including asking main clients to make advance payments.
A top company official said, "We are still waiting to receive any communication from the new board. we might make a presentation to the new board."
Sukanya Verma looks at some of the dance-offs that regaled us in the past.
The actress seems to design herself on the legendary beauty.
NSE's board was to approve on Friday the annual financial statement for the year ended March 31, 2019, but it decided to defer the matter till its legal team firmed up a view on Sebi's order, sources said.
The board -- which includes, Kiran Karnik, T N Manoharan, former chief, ICAI, and HDFC chief Deepak Parekh, appeared relieved after a marathon run of selecting a bidder for the scam-tainted firm.
Four people injured in the Oberoi standoff have been taken to the Breach Candy Hospital. The four people have been identified as Apoorva Parekh, Siddharth Tyagi, Ketan Desai and Amardeep Sethi.
Called Default Option, it is a life-cycle fund under which the amount of money invested in equity would be more in the initial stages while in the later stages, more money would be invested in debt instruments.
State Bank of India's decision to freeze home loan interest rates at 8 per cent for a year has stirred a controversy with the country's largest mortgage player HDFC on Tuesday terming the move as a 'gimmick'. SBI executives retorted by saying that the package was not a 'teaser rate', as HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh described the move.
Sources said, though the board did not meet officially on Monday, the members were engaged with some of the prospective lenders to overcome the financial problems.
The board, whose size was doubled with the induction of three members on Thursday, is likely to elect a new chairman to steer the company out of the financial mess that its founder Ramalinga Raju led it into.
The board had earlier said that the bidder will be announced on April 9.
According to a senior CBI official, the agency has evidence to suggest the finance ministry's recommendations were overlooked while giving a licence to MCX-SX in 2008.
Describing its choice as a "vote for the future", a distinguished four-member jury selected State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Om Prakash Bhatt as Business Standard's Banker of the Year for 2006-07.
Issues related with intellectual property rights, including piracy of films and software, figured prominently during the India-US CEO Forum in New Delhi attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.
According to said M L Parekh, Director of All India Spices Exporters Forum, exporters will also demand lowering of the margin requirements of pepper during the meeting.
In a written answer to Lok Sabha, Minister of Corporate Affairs Prem Chand Gupta said investigation reports have been received in 23 cases and instructions issued to Serious Fraud and Investigation Office to prosecute the concerned persons. Investigations against four entities having links with Parekh - Triumph securities, Nakshatra Softwares, Goldfish Computers and Luminant Investrade - have been completed.
"Land is the riskiest form of speculative real estate, which is why there are huge swings in land value," said Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC in a key note address at a function organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers and Industry in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Lenders can now review a borrower account within 30 days of default. Earlier, the banks had to start resolution within one day of default.
In a grand ceremony with overtones of a United States presidential inauguration, heads of state and government, India Inc honchos, opposition leaders, Bharatiya Janata Party members and showbiz stars rubbed shoulders as they watched President Ram Nath Kovind administer the oath of office to India's 58 new ministers.
The country's largest home loan player HDFC on Wednesday said that it may have to raise lending rates further if the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increases key policy rates in the forthcoming monetary policy review on July 29. HDFC has been arguing that the effective borrowing cost is a little over 5 per cent if the tax benefits are included.
Besides Joseph, one of the lawyers defending Michel is a member of the Congress' youth wing while the father of another is a party member, Patra claimed at a press conference.
How bridge keeps corporate India sharp and quick-witted.
President A P J Abdul Kalam presented the awards at a function at the Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.\n\n
Setting apart something like 10 per cent of GDP every year for investment in infrastructure is going to be a new experience for this country -- and long overdue.
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