For the banking system a new cycle starts in FY2024. It's fraught with fresh challenges on asset quality and profitability, warns Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Experts believe volatility is here to stay for some time, at least till China stabilises and clarity regarding the US Fed's interest rate move emerges.
A market where prices are not likely to go up is excellent for the long-term investor.
Any change in rates would mean more volatility; else, poll outcome-fuelled rally expected to continue.
Neemuchwala will be a big asset when it comes to setting things right.
The staggered increase in kerosene rate may not have the same impact of freeing up the fuel price as for diesel.
China's domestic debt is a major concern.
The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today? Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it. By just being brilliant, captivating crowds, and behaving like a being from the future, doing things that STILL provoke oohs and aahs from watchers. Vaibhav Raghunandan salutes the Incomparable Pele.
In order to check the abnormal surge in edible oil prices during Diwali festivities, as many as 18 states are in the process of imposing stock holding limits on oilseeds and edible oils after being empowered by the Centre for doing so. Of the 18 states that are in the process of imposing stock limit on my edible oils apart from UP, include Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Kerala, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Of the 18, Uttar Pradesh, has already imposed stock limits on edible oils, the Centre was informed with as many as 23 states to discuss ways and means to ensure further easing of edible oil prices.
If Mr Modi and his team expect to win the 2019 elections, groundwork for improved performance in their second term should be done now.
The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the Indian economy is on a sustained path of revival and cited rise in GST collections and direct taxes to support her assertion. She further said that the confidence in the Indian stock market is growing as retail and small investors are keenly investing money in the share market. She was addressing the media in New Delhi.
With hotels and restaurants being barred from levying service charge, waiters, chefs and other workers are worried they will lose out on money and are planning to approach managements to seek a pay raise. They are also apprehensive that tips given by customers out of goodwill will dwindle. Uttarakhand-native Prakash Singh Koranga, 27, a chef who works at an outlet of popular franchise Moti Mahal Deluxe restaurant in south Delhi, said service charge which gets proportionally divided among the staff acts as an "extra income" and "incentive to give our best at the job".
'People who tell you otherwise are either psychopaths or plain delusional.'
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Investors who play follow-the-leader and invest wherever the Foreign Portfolio Investors are going may face painful losses.
Your high expectations and attachment to certain property can make you buy property which is not financially suitable.
Don't opt for a SWP when you have a regular cash flow. During such times, opt for a SIP.
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of rural habitations with population of less than 1,000 has declined sharply
It doesn't make sense to view the womb through the prism of religion, community and tradition, warns Shyam G Menon.
TCS, Infosys and others are banking on automation to protect their turf in the US, but building a successful revenue model around it may prove difficult
Here's what could be ahead for India: A $10-trillion economy by 2030-32, a Sensex at 1,00,000 by 2025, monthly GST revenues at Rs 2 trillion by 2024-25, 100 new unicorns by 2025, and poverty below 5 per cent by 2030, predicts R Jagannathan.
The e-commerce story in India has begun to look up.
'We want to make sure we stay in India and we have very high hopes from India,' says Mark Mobius.
The art of making Ittar (scent) is perhaps as old as civilisation.
Demand to remain high with festive season ahead and ongoing price fall
Indian business, on quite a different trajectory from its global counterpart, remains relatively insulated from any kind of backlash.
Krishnamurthy Subramanian listed land, labour, law, and liquidity as the key areas of big reforms.
Whether it took the corona crisis to bring about the transformation, or otherwise, the change ought to be welcome, notes Virendra Kapoor.
The group companies now lead the market capitalisation league table in sectors such as ports, power generation, gas distribution and transmission, and power transmission and distribution, ahead of incumbents in both public and private sector. This has Gautam Adani family the second wealthiest in business in India.
With the government looking to divest loss-making steel assets, significant interest from secondary players is most likely this time apart from the anticipated list of large integrated primary steel producers, said industry experts. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL), NMDC Integrated Steel Plant (NISP)-Nagarnar, Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd and three units of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) - Alloy Steels Plant, Durgapur; Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant, Bhadravati; and Salem Steel Plant, Salem - constitute the divestment list. All the three units of SAIL have been loss-making for more than five years.
India-Pak face-off saw brands pay up to Rs 20 lakh in last-minute spot buying.
The market price action seems to point in this direction. Let's hope we finally break out. It is about time! asserts Akash Prakash.
Whether one likes it or not, services constitute the value-addition sector that the country has to build on, using its comparative advantage in infotech and related skills, suggests T N Ninan.
The IT industry advisories show that they think they've weathered the worst, observes Devangshu Datta.
'This is a blip in the 100-year history of cinema.'
'We've never really been in the situation of having a difficult time with the Chinese and an increasingly difficult time with the Russians along with a relationship with the Americans which is important.'
My sense is that we are in a situation similar to 2011-13, notes Debashis Basu.
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