India's informal economy and service sector accounts for over three-fifths of its $1.8 trillion economy.
'There is a certain irony embedded in this asymmetric geographical distribution of FDI because most state leaders have shed their inhibitions about promoting 'business' and have understood its virtues as a more cost-effective way of replacing the mai-baap welfarism that passed for economic policy till the early nineties', says Kanika Datta.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
In fact, no other recent Union Budget has held so much significance for the Indian economy as the one to be presented in about six weeks from now, notes A K Bhattacharya.
China tops the list with 3.5 million, followed by Brazil with 918,000.
Mandatory prescription of generic names is not a complete solution. Rather, in the absence of a range of approaches, it could mean passing the choice of selecting a drug from a doctor to a pharmacist, says Chandrakant Lahariya.
Amid Trump's expected action against employment visas, India's bellwether IT firms reveal they have been preparing for this eventuality for years.
It is a slight improvement over last year.
Whether it's about colonising Mars or donning Net-connected apparel, 2022 is a year everyone seems to be planning for, says Nivedita Mookerji.
'If jobs do not happen, the demographic dividend we have will become a demographic disaster.'
This historic Vishaka judgement brought the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace into the mainstream discourse says Kanika Dutta.
Modi made a strong case for a partnership between the producers and consumers in the oil market as it exists in other markets.
With India set to be the world's most populous country by 2030, there is a growing need to control population through better use of contraceptives, says Abhishek Waghmare.
It has been a difficult year for the world's second-largest economy.
While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore's Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time scale is not measured in decades and centuries, but in annual quarters, says Shivanand Kanavi.
They will grow at 5.8 per cent a year.
The report said forward-looking surveys and economic indicators along with rising business confidence provided hope that the decline in private corporate investment 'could be arrested' in 2014-15 and fresh investments of over Rs 1.2 lakh crore (Rs 1.2 trillion) 'could be realised'.
Spending at restaurants and bars grew more than 8 per cent compared to the year before.
The end of newspaper reporting will produce a landscape so barren that it will be terrifying, says Aakar Patel.
'Make cash available now, don't put people into suffering.' 'You should not come to a situation where the operation was successful and the patient is dying.' 'What did not happen in India for several years, you cannot do in 50 days.' 'This is agony and pain.'
Faced with stricter recall & testing norms, industry puts up a brave face, saying recalls improve consumer confidence
The Budget has stuck to annual increases in agri credit targets.
More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards
If Aldo, Charles & Keith, Hush Puppies, Steve Madden can do it, why can't Woods?
'The harmful side effects of what we call 'management toxicity' are affecting more and more Indians,' note Jeffrey Pfeffer and M Muneer.
It epitomises a significant opportunity lost, just when the state was beginning to shed three decades of leftist inhibitions in favour of economic reform.
The country must get its act on global alliances right in order to feed its fuel-hungry economy, points out Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Tanzania where he held talks with Tanzanian President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli.
Government claims big successes in agriculture, rural roads & investment scenario.
Sensex ends 134.91 pts down at 28,709.87; Nifty falls 44.70 pts at 8,712.05.
Non-performers were not punished, performers were not rewarded, points out Utkarsh Mishra.
FCMG companies which have plants i Npal may take a hit on revenues.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices extended gains and were up over 1% each
'There are 25 million farmers in India with at least 2 to 3 cows each.' 'If all them use biogas to cook, millions of LPG units and firewood can be saved.'
Search is on for reliable indicators of underlying activity.
The six are English dailies the Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Telegraph; their sister publications The Hindustan and The Hindu Tamil; and Ananda Bazar Patrika.
The marketplace was simply not conducive to the extension and evolution of broadband networks, particularly for less dense rural markets, so connectivity and services suffered.
India's list of non-cricket sports stars is growing, but when it comes to endorsement deals, the bulk of the money is spent on a handful of cricketers.
The fund industry may have embraced machines and robots, but managing money still needs the human touch
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