Joydeep Ghosh takes stock of personal finances after the life-altering surprises of 2016.
Inflation dipped to a five-month low of 5.19 per cent in July mainly on account of decline in prices of some food articles, vegetables and protein rich items.
A Balasubramanian tells Business Standard that the sector will see one of its best phases in the coming five years.
At the end of 2018-19, the Tata group had a consolidated debt of Rs 2.77 trillion. Tatas not only plan to avoid big-ticket acquisitions for now, the group's main focus will be on improving key metrics and reduce debt, say Shally Seth Mohile & Dev Chatterjee.
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Can the leaky public distribution system, or PDS, deliver the subsidised grain to two-thirds of the population?
Happy at the clear mandate given by voters to the BJP-led NDA, India Inc on Friday exuded confidence that Narendra Modi will initiate bold and decisive policy reforms to promote economic growth.
Faces are important in India, because people connect with people, not concepts.
Aditya Birla Money MD talks about liquidity concerns in the market.
The spike at private sector lenders like ICICI Bank and Axis Bank follows a push to grab market share from India's dominant state banks.
The beauty queen turned actor talks about her new athleisure start-up.
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
Most top industrialists rate PM's first 100 days in office as 'good', primarily due to his intentions, not concrete policy measures.
In the last couple of months, the Prime Minister has visited Japan and the US and launched the Make in India campaign to lure foreign investments into manufacturing sector.
Ambani's $15 bn bet will upend Indian telecom
Most large fund houses, such as HDFC MF, ICICI Prudential AMC, Reliance MF, Reliance MF, Birla SunLife MF and SBI MF, have the backing of large banks or financial institutions, giving them reach and understanding, they say.
Salil Dhawan reveals the MFs that have not only performed well in the past but have a promising outlook for the future too.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
RBI has, since January, cut its policy rate four times.
The majority have stayed away from getting into cash handling.
A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year in spite of the stock market decline.
It reverses the supply chain to customise part of its line-up, but the challenge is in sustaining it.
Riding on a stock market boom since 2009, India Inc's chief executives have been able to salvage a lot of lost pride in their second innings.
From mass layoffs to acquisitions, here's how the Indian start-up industry kept us on our toes.
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
UK environment minister Lord de Mauley hosted a round-table meeting here with representatives of mango and vegetable importers and exporters from the UK and India, Deputy Indian High Commissioner to the UK Virendra Paul, and senior regulators from Defra and the Food and Environment Research Agency.
"Our artificial intelligence tells us what people are buying at that point, what is in fashion; on the other hand, we have a fair idea of the material available. It gives us a sense of what we should be putting across in the market and we can put them across really quickly," Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra, tells Alokananda Chakraborty.
Balanced funds are suitable for investors who have low-risk appetite or are new to equities.Those with more than seven-year investment horizon should look at funds that have higher equity exposure.
These are the top 8 out of 88 funds that the diversified equity fund category has to offer.
Be a disciplined investor for attractive returns, says fund managers.
Mumbai police chargesheets billionaire-builder Chandru Raheja for cheating, breach of trust; Rahejas call it pressure tactic, say Wadia plea was thrown out by Supreme Court
Offloading shares in ONGC, CIL, NHPC may fetch govt more than the year's target.
Investors cheered a sharp decline in the Current Account Deficit, which stands at a 4 year low as exports picked up and gold imports reduced.
Tight liquidity will hit over-leveraged and cash-hungry companies, spare conservative ones
Even retail investors are talking about investing in start-ups.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
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