Given that some reputed builders are also present in this segment and the cheap rates, does affordable housing make a good investment option?
From mistreatment, sexual harassment to low wages, domestic workers are in a poor state in India with hardly any legal protections, says Neeta Kolhatkar.
Soon after the BJP lost the 2004 election, the stockmarkets went into unprecedented free fall. Then SEBI Chairman G N Bajpai reveals how his firm handling of the situation restored confidence and soon the markets were back to doing what they do best -- make money. A revealing excerpt from his book, A Game Changer's Memoir.
An execution paralysis has gripped the city.
Recent defaults have made a section of traders contemplate moving towards promissory notes.
Local businesses are fretting over reform setbacks.
Imran Khan will always be first and foremost the enigmatic 'Kaptaan', who pulled off the impossible -- transform an immensely talented but fractious bunch of cricketers into world beaters.
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
If you looked back at 2018 and had to give it a name, the Year of Limitations might be the most accurate.
The Bill will come up for discussion in the upcoming winter session of the Parliament.
Left fuming by the West Indian cricketers' mid-series pullout due to a pay dispute with their Board, the BCCI has slapped a damages claim to the tune of Rs 250 crore ($42 million) on the WICB.
Cleaning up India's grubby business climate is top of the agenda for both regulators and the government.
Benchmark 10-year bond yields hit a 13-month peak as bond traders priced in more aggressive monetary easing next year.
Grandparents of Moshe Holtzberg, who survived the 26/11 carnage at the age of two, talk of how questions by the now 12-year-old boy only add to their grief.
A woman can do many wonderful things if she wishes to, and one of them is to grow her money.
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During April-February, the index of industrial production, a measure of factory activity, declined 0.1 per cent compared with a 0.9 per cent growth in the corresponding period of 2012-13.
Mumbai's Chabad House, which was attacked in the 26/11 terror attacks, is unlike any other Jewish centre, Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have communicated to the telecom department that they will not pay AGR dues of Rs 88,624 crore, the deadline for which ended on Thursday, and will wait for the outcome of modification petition listed for hearing before the Supreme Court next week, according to official sources. Reliance Jio on Thursday paid Rs 195 crore to the telecom department to clear all adjusted gross revenue dues accounted till January 31, 2020, according to an official source.
Rajneesh Gupta and Ian Bishop glance at Universal Boss's ODI record and highlight 5 Gayleforce knocks.
The Sebi order is vindication of Sinha's stand, but it has not brought him much relief as his money is still stuck.
The new Insurance Bill will boost investment in the sector
Deutsche Bank could be the next to trim its retail operations.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa not only collected funds for charity and diverted it to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, but also helped the outfit legitimise money collected through extortion, counterfeiting, smuggling and animal skin trade. Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com reports
The following are the members of the Memon family who faced trial.
'I am not optimistic about the global economy for the next couple of years.'
India's 10 biggest cities face a whopping $179.8 billion (Rs 11.9 lakh crore) risk from a series of threats over the next decade.
'The batsmen need to spend a lot of time at the wicket and wait for the right opportunity to score.' 'The bowlers have to be patient and build the pressure to force the batsmen into making mistakes.'
Moshe's laughter rings in the home of the Rosenbergs, his maternal grandparents in Afula, Israel. Abhishek Mande Bhot listens in.
The prospects for strong, sustained economic reforms do not appear to be promising in India.
Surat had bagged the fourth rank under the Smart Cities Mission based on its proposal.
Expectations were probably too high from Narendra Modi.
'Respect nature, working with (it) rather than against it.'
Sebi found that on average, the remuneration paid to CEOs in certain Indian companies are far higher than the remuneration received by their foreign counterparts.
David Coleman Headley pens down his life as a terrorist and his turn towards extremism in his new memoir.
'That was a morning where if I wanted to fly, I would have flown as well.'
Technically, the Indian economy is on road to recovery.
Migrant workers are leaving Gujarat, PM Modi's home state, as they have no work.
'For a man who had just received news of his daughter's kidnapping, he showed no sign of anxiety or agitation.' 'Here is a cool customer, I thought to myself.' 'The only thing he said was, 'I would not have been so anxious had they kidnapped my son'.' 'He told me that his daughter Rubaiya, who was a medical intern, was returning home from the hospital in a minibus when it was stopped close to the Mufti's house.' 'She was taken by four armed militants.' A gripping excerpt from Moosa Raza's Kashmir: Land Of Regrets.
'We did not know we would one day dominate nearly 70 per cent of the market.' 'Today, of 100 diamonds available for trade in Antwerp, 93 are cut and polished in India.' A fascinating excerpt from Shantanu Guha Ray's The Diamond Trail: How India Rose To Global Domination.
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