Chintan, an Indian NGO has been chosen for America's first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.
20 CEOs are from the companies based in US.
'Where are the funny writers on Indian television and OTT platforms?' 'Where are the sitcoms?' asks Vanita Kohli Khandekar.
The ugly underbelly of the policies of economic liberalisation followed over the last two decades has been crony capitalism at its worst.
Governor Raghuram Rajan's move to cut the MSF rate, at which banks borrow if they exceed their repo borrowing limits, by 0.50 per cent to 9 per cent should not be construed as a reversal in his policy stance and is more of a normalising measure, Citi said in a note.
Benefits of demonetisation come at a heavy price for Fintech firms. They will spend a massive amount on securing and reinforcing their cyber security apparatus this financial year. Karan Choudhury reports.
The Kauffman Foundation study released on Wednesday indicates that lessening the number of foreign national students in US jobs may be detrimental to the economic health of the country by accelerating the return of talented immigrant students to their home countries.
According to the financial services major, FY13 Sensex EPS has been downgraded from Rs 1,510 to Rs 1,175, and FY14 Sensex EPS is likely to be downgraded to below Rs 1,300.
What the reserves offer for now is improved import coverage of about 13 months, almost double the 2013 level of less than seven months. And, ammunition to arrest a rapid rupee slide, says Anup Roy.
RBI policy surely cannot impact agflation, in any case.
We celebrate Dassera and regard it as an auspicious day as a day of victory of good over evil! So was 16 December! It is time we regard this day as auspicious as Dassera in future, observes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The weather in Washington is balmy, but Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in the US to attend a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, would feel a distinct chill as he readies to meet corporate America.
US President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board, describing her as one of America's "foremost economists and policy makers".
In a statement issued late on Wednesday night, Citigroup said, "A total of 360,083 North America Citi-branded credit cards were affected. Only accounts issued in the US were impacted."
Flipkart has not been able to process with its plans of getting into the grocery vertical and is stuck on running pilots in select cities.
In the quarter, Cognizant's revenue grew one per cent over the past quarter in North America.
Computer hackers have breached Citigroup's computer network and have accessed data related to hundreds of thousands of its card customers, the Financial Times said.
The year 2020 could see the worst global economic fallout since the Great Depression in the 1930s, with over 170 countries likely to experience negative per capita income growth due to the raging coronavirus pandemic, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. Georgieva made the remarks during her address on 'Confronting the Crisis: Priorities for the Global Economy' in Washington, DC, ahead of next week's annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Budget this year has allowed PSBs to bring down govt stake to 51%
According to a research report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, despite better rains the growth forecast for this fiscal is likely to be around 5.6 per cent.
'With running water our two hands play, In and out the colourful soap dances away! It bubbles and froths between our fingers Under our nails it cleans and lingers Then all the soap we wash away!'
The agenda is to give a concrete shape to a Development Bank and pitch for reforms of the UN Security Council.
'Parsis are brought up with a great sense of the importance of truth and speaking your mind.'
Beleaguered investment bank Merrill Lynch has paid more than $10 million in cash and stock to its eleven top executives last year, says a media report.
The unit will do market research and prepare presentations for bank executives working with corporate clients.
Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch raised its growth forecast to 6.3 per cent from 5.3 per cent for the current fiscal. BAS-ML has also revised the country's growth projection to 7.3 per cent for the next fiscal from 7.1 per cent earlier.
The Tata Sons controversy has raised governance concerns. Arun Duggal and Mohandas Pai on the role of independent directors in such conflict situations.
While JioMart is doing 250,000 orders per day, BigBasket and Amazon pantry are doing 220,000 and 150,000 orders, respectively.
Lehman Brothers, fourth largest investment firm, filed for bankruptcy, after Barclays pulled out of an 11th-hour rescue, becoming the largest financial firm to fail in the global credit crisis, after federal officials refused to help other companies buy the venerable investment bank.
Merrill Lynch jumps to first from 7th last year in a smaller market; says its focus is larger deals and clients.
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Goldman cut India's growth estimates to 6.6 per cent from 7.2 per cent for the fiscal year ending March 2013, while BofA revised its forecast to 6.5 per cent from 6.8 per cent.
What stocks will gain from a normal monsoon?
A look at the top moneymaking female on primetime TV by Forbes.
According to BofA-ML, lead indicators still point to six months of pain and it is not until the March quarter that growth is expected to recover to 6.5 per cent levels.
Hurricane Florence hammered the Carolinas in America with damaging winds, storm surge and catastrophic flooding. The damage is so catastrophic that experts are pegging property damage and disruption from Hurricane Florence to total at least $17 billion to $22 billion. Additionally, the storm has claimed 32 deaths as of Monday, most of them in North Carolina, a number that had nearly doubled since a day earlier. Dogs, domestic animals and livestock took a hit from the record-breaking rainfall, surging floodwaters and brutal winds. Here are some of the most heart-warming images from the rescue.
With this subdued forecast, India is likely to record its worst growth performance since the 1991 liberalisation. However, it is among the only two major economies, which will register a positive growth rate in 2020. The other being China, for which the IMF has projected a growth rate of 1.2 per cent.
'Raghuram Rajan is a wonderful economist, but he is not a wonderful Indian economist.' 'He doesn't understand India in the granular form.' 'India exists only from Delhi to Nariman Point for him.' 'India is much, much bigger and complex.' 'The new RBI governor shouldn't get ready to open his umbrella when it rains in America'
Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), which houses the offices of some of the biggest banks in the country, however, slipped to 26th position from the 16th position.
'The Indian market has all the factors at the moment: Over-valuation, over-confidence, reliance on some source of massive fund flows and massive scams.' 'The trigger for a collapse could also have arrived.' warns Devangshu Datta.
