Budget is likely to focus on infrastructure creation in the N-E
An online platform suits many new angel investors who are professionals with tech companies or start-up founders.
Over the last 12 months, thanks to bold bets by venture capital firms like Sequoia, SoftBank Vision Fund, and foreign strategic investors like Naspers, pipeline of start-ups with potential to achieve $1 bn in valuation is at an all-time high.
'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'
Sebi had last year put in place a separate regulatory regime for REITs.
A fourth of the property market is cash-based and this has affected home sales after high value notes were scrapped.
The apex court directed Supertech to pay 10 per cent per month of the invested amount from January 5, 2015 to 17 home buyers, who are before the court, within four weeks
It has brought down the minimum capital requirement to $5 million from $10 million.
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
The government also proposed promoting 'one product one district' for better marketing and export of horticulture crops. It also called on states for early implementation of three key central model laws on land leasing, agriculture produce and livestock marketing and contract farming.
'Helicopter drop' was first proposed as an alternative to quantitative easing.
Cross previous high of $72 billion in 2007 as Indian promoters overcome the selling taboo. Abhineet Kumar reports from Mumbai.
Sebi has long struggled with balancing the needs of small investors and those of the market.
If there is one regulation that has undergone the highest number of changes over the past five years, it is the Issue of Capital Disclosure Requirements (ICDR) Regulations.
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The three companies for sale are Reliance Communications, Reliance Telecom and Reliance Infratel.
Dalal Street is bullish on invest
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
Banks play 'mind games' to woo customers. Big data and 'games' are now the tools of the trade.
With the frontline Indian benchmark indices trading near all-time highs ahead of the general elections that begin later this week, Marc Faber, Editor and Publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report" tells Puneet Wadhwa that the Indian stock market is relatively expensive, especially the index (large-cap) stocks.
Tax Guru Anil Rego answers your personal income tax queries.
With real estate valuations falling and other deals coming unstuck, the current management's improved target faces significant challenges.
The finance ministry is resisting pressure from other departments to cap foreign ownership of domestic drugmakers, fearing such a move would discourage potential investors, a senior ministry source said.
Simran Multani, Founder of Ovenderful puts her passion for baking classic bakes in raising funds to help abandoned and maltreated animals.
If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to rethink the notion that the traditional SMEs will form the manufacturing backbone, argues Prosenjit Datta.
Boost to dairy sector will generate jobs
Gains in shares of Apple Inc could take the world's largest publicly traded company to a market capitalisation of perhaps as high as $1 trillion, some of the country's biggest investors said on Monday.
India lost around 38.5 thousand hectares of tropical forest in the last decade. Nearly 14 per cent of the country's tree cover! It is one thing for Modi to announce that India will reach a net-zero level of emissions in 2070. But if it is serious, it needs to start today, points out Ramesh Menon.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
It was amusing to hear Minister Jaishankar's argument of tech companies being influential non-State actors. If only he looked at his own party before saying what he did, notes Shyam G Menon.
In advanced economies where the financial system is more matured, the form of shadow banking is more of risk transformation through securitisation.
This Vikram Samvat year 2070, ending on Thursday, has proved the worst in 17 years in terms of return on investment in gold.
For the current woes of the state to end, in city after city, town after town, village after village, unauthorised constructions have to be removed, no questions asked, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Investor lobbies and tax lawyers estimate the bill for international funds and banks could be as high as $8 billion
Probable reasons that led to failure of the sale process include 24 per cent government stake and corresponding rights, high debt, volatile crude oil prices, fluctuations in exchange rate, changes in macro environment, profitability track record of bidders and restriction on bidding by individuals.
Value investor Parag Parikh's sudden death has come asa big jolt to the fraternity.
Investing in special situations can help you tap opportunities that arise during adverse conditions, advises Joydeep Sen.
This is your golden chance to create the next big thing in India.
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PSUs may not be financially sound enough to plug deficit or revive investment.
