After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
The Hinduja Group, Mukesh Ambani, Murugappa, and the Adani groups were the other gainers in the Modi regime, while Naveen Jindal and Sun Pharma groups saw the most erosion in their m-cap in the last five years, reports Krishna Kant.
New Delhi to push for services trade facilitation & food stockpiling.
Just before the 2008 financial crisis made headlines, Indian companies were on a global buying spree. In the fifth part of the series, Dev Chatterjee and Krishna Kant discuss how the crisis came as a black swan event for some, changing the mood from exuberance to despair.
Trade and economic issues, including visa, totalisation pact and impediments hampering investments, are likely to figure at Monday's US-India CEO Forum meeting, which will be jointly addressed by visiting US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
German Chancellor Angel Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga would be participating in the 45th edition of the meet.
The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries
The sector has been going through a slowdown.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be in India tomorrow, but Cyrus Mistry will no longer head the Indo-UK CEO forum.
The latest trigger has been Future group's buyout talk with the retail unit of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's family-owned Heritage Foods
Manoj Sinha will retain his current role in the railways.
The Delhi high court on Friday allowed Vikas Yadav, convicted for killing Nitish Katara, to meet his ailing grandfather by granting him custody parole of two days as a test to see if he is "fit to be let out in society".
A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year in spite of the stock market decline.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
The Indian market is highly competitive, and tariffs here are amongst the lowest in the world.
Handing the Human Resource Development ministry to a first-time minister and the talk of repealing Article 370 may be signs that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are working in tandem
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Reliance, Birla Group, Airtel eye small finance banks.
Issues related with intellectual property rights, including piracy of films and software, figured prominently during the India-US CEO Forum in New Delhi attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.
Performance is considered a major reason why Ravi Shankar Prasad might have had to leave telecom.
The financial year ending Saturday saw such big-ticket events that set the directional tone for the country's business journey.
The calculation excludes cross-holding of listed group cos in each other.
The telecom industry is moving towards a five-plus one model.
The Department of Post, Tech Mahindra, Videocon Group and stock exchange NSE have joined big corporates like Ambanis and Birlas to seek entry into banking business through newly created niche category of Payments and Small Finance Banks.
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Traders were up in arms, fearing huge job loss if Walmart was to enter.
'The economy will pick up in 2020 or a little later... When it picks up, will it reach 10%, 8% or still lower? It all depends on how realistic are the diagnosis and the prescriptions that follow,' says Professor K J Joseph.
The Aam Aadmi Party and talks about next Lok Sabha elections seem to be hogging the limelight when it comes to discussions around India at the World Economic Forum's annual talk-fest of the rich and famous from across the globe.
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
Over 2,500 international delegates from more than 150 countries are expected for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, as against 2,100 delegates from 121 countries in 2013.
Over 2,500 international delegates from more than 150 countries are expected for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, as against 2,100 delegates from 121 countries in 2013.
When is the last time our government recognised a twenty something entrepreneur for introducing a break-out innovation?
Many of the industrialists profiled in the book are no longer riding the wave of success.
A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
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In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Friday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head -- Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, discussed the best stocks to put the investors' money in.
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