A customer wanting to buy a car would have to wait a long time for delivery.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
'When we say we want to increase pension participation, do we want to increase participation through the savings route?' 'Or do we want people to save in specific pension products?' asks Renuka Sane.
'The biggest gainers under this scheme would be insurance companies.' 'If the government is going to route the payments through the insurance companies, these companies will be making nearly 30 per cent of the money.' 'For instance, if the government is paying Rs 100, then Rs 30 will go to these insurance companies.' 'Only Rs 70 will be available for expenditure that will be incurred by the hospitals.'
The regulatory actions, undertaken by the RBI and the government, came hours after finance ministry sources confirmed that SBI was directed to bail out the troubled lender. For the next month, Yes Bank will led by the RBI-appointed administrator Prashant Kumar, an ex-chief financial officer of SBI.
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
Ananthasubramanian, 55, started her career in 1982 at Bank of Baroda as a specialist officer in the planning stream.
Many placement agencies are fly-by-night operators in New Delhi.
Concerned over the series of attacks on mobile phone towers in the valley, the Centre also issued an advisory to the state government.
CoA takes away all functioning powers of BCCI office-bearers
What is it about Arohan that puts it in the top league of microfinance institutions in the country?
Harassment, corruption and the burden of compound interest for years are also the reasons.
As the House took up the debate on Motion of Thanks on the President's Address, the Bharatiya Janata Party launched a frontal attack on opposition parties specially the Congress for their stance against the CAA, saying they were trying to divide the nation.
Co-founder Nilekani could take the role of non-executive chairman, becoming a bridge between the board and Murthy, reports Ayan Pramanik.
Inflation pegs down currency value, re-allocates resources, reduces potential economic growth and leads to the attrition of gross domestic savings.
Mop-up misses target as big FIIs skip issue.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
'In the time I have been an Indiawallah, I have seen three US Presidential visits to India, nuclear sanctions, nuclear cooperation, a border conflict with Pakistan, the growth of IT services, a government losing a confidence vote, and so much more,' Rick Rossow, the new Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa.
'We can't have the best of both worlds -- large, efficient, world class government-owned banks, doing social banking and making profits. 'Why not set them free from the shackles of such obligations and run them as business units?' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'If the RBI blesses us with a banking licence, we would like to launch a successful bank.'
"We will work out the parameters then we will see as to how mentioning will be done," he said.
Experts say one in every four mental health problems is due to depression and anxiety at the workplace.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
Public sector banks are inefficient, poorly governed and beset by largescale corruption.
The Left unions want concrete action and not just 'assurances'.
The Prime Minister's Office has suggested that EPFO should deploy 15 per cent of its funds as loan for low cost housing saying it would generate a credit flow of Rs 70,000 crore (Rs 700 billion).
Bandhan Bank is the first bank to be launched in eastern India post Independence.
Offloading shares in ONGC, CIL, NHPC may fetch govt more than the year's target.
Investors also appreciate the role being played by the founders; analysts, too, remain unperturbed.
It may not be an exaggeration to say that in the next three years, in India itself a million jobs or more might be at risk due to automation. How we leverage its benefits will determine our fate in the digital era.
SBI had a tough journey in the last 40 years.
During deleveraging the income falls more than reduction in debt due to the austerity measures.
'SBI is already too big. Too big to fail.' 'It already is a moral hazard. What will it do with 20,000 branches that it cannot do with 14,000, especially in these days of online and mobile banking?'
Not many people know that today's BPM industry gives specialists great career options.
Go for high quality and low-to-medium-duration funds in your debt portfolio
Debt fund managers think the Reserve Bank governor might at best go for one rate cut in April.
The farming community expects much more substance from the government, Ajay Vir Jakhar.
'She was either overconfident that nothing will happen to her or she underestimated the gravity of the allegations.'
A much-vacant mall in a sleepy industrial park is all that's left of the amount allegedly owed by Mangla Shree Properties against 0.2-mt sugar deliveries
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.