According to a recent Assocham study, the business confidence index for the state stood at 6.5 on a scale of 10, with respondents stating that West Bengal could be treated at par with Gujarat, Maharastra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh as a favourable investment destinations.
The RBI on Thursday hiked key policy rates for the 10th time since March, 2010, in a bid to tame inflation, which crossed the 9 per cent mark in May.
In September this year, Sebi had proposed to bar investment advisers from acting as agents for promoting financial products.
Bengaluru may not remain India's 'Silicon Valley' for too long owing to its crumbling infrastructure and associated woes, says an Assocham study.
The phase-wise transition of iD Fresh products into organic items has started and will include flagship offerings such as idli and dosa batter and Malabar parotta.
Majority of the respondents said that they have been falling behind financially and their standard of living has deteriorated.
Industry body Assocham has released a study paper, titled 'Mobile value added services' a vehicle to usher in inclusive growth and bridge the digital divide' on which Trai is seeking comments from various service operators by February 11, Trai said.
Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said India has lost one of the finest political leaders and a legal luminary.
India's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector is facing stiff competition from the likes of Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, China, Canada and Ireland that are posing a grave threat to the growth of India's BPO sector, said the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India.
Medium and small cities like Pune, Agra and Meerut rather than top metros have emerged as hot destinations for job aspirants by clinching a lion's share -- 60 per cent of the total jobs created in the country last fiscal, an Assocham study said.
The CBDT has revised the target upward by 10 per cent (Rs 53,000 crore or Rs 530 billion) for the current fiscal to keep the fiscal deficit at the budgeted level of 4.6 per cent of the gross domestic product.
Inflation in the 'fuel and power' basket in December slumped to 8.38 per cent, nearly half of 16.28 per cent.
Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel today said it may have to shut down its 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka due to a continuous shortage of iron ore.
Industry chamber Ficci said, Japan as a nation would overcome the calamity to reassure its place in the comity of most prominent economies of the world.
After having raised its key policy rates 10 times in a year-and-a-half to check inflation which remains stubborn, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday it has no magic wand to bring down the rate of price rise.
The government on Tuesday asked the apex industry chambers to prepare their report card on affirmative action for Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes and weaker sections before August 15, so that it can be included in Prime Minister's Independence Day speech.
"We had announced last year that the decision would be taken at an appropriate time to deregulate diesel, the government hasn't changed their decision... We have to see how the inflationary pressures go and take a decision," Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra told reporters on the sidelines of an Assocham function.
Virbhadra Singh wants the private sector to invest in the food processing industry
A new breed of hackers has emerged, whose main aim is not necessarily financial gain but causing disruption
Facing deficit of minerals within, Indian entities are increasingly looking for buying assets abroad.
Logistics and transportation bottlenecks are impacting the country's economic growth by about two per cent, industry body Assocham said on Friday.
Also considered as a green initiative, it would help the units reduce transaction cost and time.
"A committee is working on it. We have also asked the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) to broaden the scope of section 55 of Companies Act 1956 which is now clause 22 of Companies Bill," SEBI Executive Director Usha Narayanan said at an Assocham event in New Delhi.
"Male teenagers have increased their expenditure on cosmetics to Rs 3,000-4,000 per month as against their average expenditure of less than Rs 1,000 in year 2000," industry chamber Assocham said in its survey.
The government should devise more stringent norms to check corporate fraud in the country, a joint study released by industry chamber Assocham and consultancy firm Ernst and Young said.
Attendance in commercial organisations is very thin.
With telecom and banking majors stepping up mobile banking services, 2011 is poised to be the year that would transform your banking habits - making payments or checking your account balance on your mobile.
Assocham said even if an investment revival were to happen, it would be a time lag of at least 18 months before it reflects in the manufacturing sector.
The sectoral regulator Irda on Wednesday said the initial public float guidelines for the insurance industry will be ready by early October.
British mining major Rio Tinto will be investing Rs 370 crore (rs 3.7 billion), for exploration and mining of diamonds in Madhya Pradesh's Bunder town, over the next three years, a senior State Government official on Monday said.
The size of the Indian wine industry may touch the Rs 2,700 crore-mark (Rs 27 billion-mark) by the end of 2012 due to rising disposable income, increasing tourism and suitable tax structures, an industry body study has said.
Within a week of the CBI arresting senior bankers in the housing finance racket, the competition watchdog CCI on Monday said 11 real estate companies are already under its scanner.
The Bill proposes introduce the concept of class action suits for the first time in India, which would empower investors to sue a company for 'oppression and mismanagement' and claim damages.
The Steel Ministry on Wednesday said it may seek from the Environment Ministry speedy clearance to Posco's Rs 54,000 crore (Rs 540 billion) project in Orissa.
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that he is not surprised that B Ramalinga Raju has retracted his infamous January, 2009, confession of perpetrating accounting fraud at Satyam.
The food processing and beverages sector creates maximum employment on every Rs 10 lakh invested in the segment followed by textiles, agriculture, wood, paper and leather, a study by industry body Assocham has said.
WPI inflation, which was in the negative zone from November 2014 to March 2016, has been on an upward trend for the seventh straight month
The lack of resources makes coaching for institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and medical colleges unaffordable for a majority of Indian middle class households, who then encourage their wards to enter fields that require lesser counselling fee, says an Assocham study.
The government on Sunday ruled out rolling back increase in fuel prices, even as the Opposition National Democratic Alliance called for an all-India bandh on Monday to protest the price hike and rising inflation.
An Assocham study shows that the four major metros in India recorded a share of 57.22 per cent in total job creation out of the total sample size.
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