As rural demand tapers, companies are back at the drawing board, firming up plans to beat the unexpected slowdown in sales.
They believe that long-term story is intact.
In the crazily complex cauldron that is India, where caste, community, class and cash are just the primary ingredients, no one has yet come up with a fool-proof method to ascertain how voters make up their minds, on which button to press, in the privacy of their 'confessional' booths, notes Krishna Prasad.
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The market could consistently undervalue a certain kind of business.
India is the world's third-largest smartphone market.
Network18 founder Raghav Bahl is all set to launch his new venture.
While the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal-United are busy fighting each other, the BJP is trying not to repeat the mistakes it made the last time out, says Satyavrat Mishra
In his book Restart, Mihir Sharma minces no words in pointing out that faulty policies, the lackadaisical attitude of bureaucrats and a few wrong decisions of past governments have hampered India's growth.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, bottom, left, says he is fond of Bill Gates' famous quote: "Success is a lousy teacher." Back from a long foreign business trip, the founder-chairman of Bharti Enterprises talks to Malini Bhupta and Kiran Rathee about the challenges posed by Reliance Jio and how he is determined to come out on top once again. Mittal says , today, Airtel is as ready as Jio in pure-play 4G operations.
Brokers like Vasudevan are struggling to keep themselves in tune with this super-informed, new-generation retail investor.
If Tamil Nadu is to avoid a hung assembly, it is up to the silent voters, whose combined strength is more than that of the two major combines in the fray, says N Sathiyamoorthy.
In India, bond yields have fallen nearly 70 basis points in the last one year.
Any saving on the car loan EMI can translate into major savings.
Tehran plans to lift exports by 500,000 barrels per day
From farmers to cement, steel, logistics, transportation and automobiles, the back-end is struggling to get going due to the liquidity crisis.
More people will be literate, on the Internet, linked to the national identification scheme and likely to receive electricity, especially from alternative-energy sources.
The seasons in 2012 and 2013 went by with hardly any property launches, mainly due to an economic slowdown and a need to clear the backlog
He wants to transform his retail-led enterprise into a consumer goods giant, and reach Rs 1 lakh crore in turnover by 2021, but is that feasible?
The ripples from November 8 may be seen in next year's state budgets.
Stay ahead of the game; learn the tricks from Ecom king Jack Ma.
Most experts said indices would open higher on Monday and rally might sustain for a few sessions
Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
Longest period of price-earnings expansion in the index since 1996
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
Under Sharma Axis Bank has also taken the lead in focusing on technology, which has now become core to almost every other lender's strategy.
Experts believe the market will fall between 1 and 3%.
Rahul Gandhi has the potential to grow into a good, effective, leader of the Opposition provided he puts his heart and soul into it, with a willingness to learn, says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant who worked closely with India's first three prime ministers.
Today, India is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce markets in Asia/Pacific along with China.
Xiaomi is the third largest smartphone brand in the top 30 cities in India.
Financial assets make a comeback as returns on physical assets falter.
The market breadth ended weak on the BSE with 2,086 shares declining and 893 shares advancing.
'We have the political will to take this to the very end.' 'But what eventually happens depends on the effectiveness, honesty and missionary zeal of the officialdom in the frontline of the battle against corruption,' says S Muralidharan.
India's demographic dividend may not automatically give rise to tangible economic gains -- at least not with immediate effect -- but it is likely to have a big impact on the coming Lok Sabha elections, Mayank Mishra
It hopes to turn around Ranbaxy within four years of closing the deal by improving efficiency and resolving all regulatory issues
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
With big dreams and high hopes of earning lakhs or even crores, more and more youngsters are getting into software development for smartphones.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
With facts and figures, the CAG report has highlighted how Gujarat was far from a role model for states across India, and that the progress made in this province in western India in improving agriculture, education, healthcare and empowerment of women and children, was not exactly creditable, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
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