While workers in the United States and Europe are having a difficult time in not only finding a job but also keeping it, the situation in South Asia, including India, is somewhat different.
The finance minister gave a reason to cheer to mutual fund investors last week. After the announcement of the Budget, the stock markets rose sharply.
Indian FIs are fast getting their act together to counter stiff competition from the banking entities.
When Kapil's Devils won the World Cup in 1983, cricket was still one of the sports in India and a champion team needed a true blue cricket fan Lata Mangeshkar to hold a concert so that each member could earn Rs 1 lakh.
Fast paced urbanisation has taken a toll on the environment.
There is tremendous potential for increasing the Indo-British trade from the current $12 billion to $25 billion in the next couple of years, according to leading Indian parliamentarians and businessmen.
The government on Monday revised the economic growth to 8.5 per cent for 2003-04 from 8.2 per cent estimated earlier, mainly due to a bumper agricultural growth of 9.6 per cent.
Helped by robust growth in tourist inflow in the country, the Indian hotel industry saw their occupancy levels rising to 59.7 per cent in 2003-04, an increase of 4.9 per cent over the occupancy level of the previous year.
The seventh seeded Indians made good starts but couldn't sustain the pressure in the opening game.
Infra projects are enormous cash guzzlers and funding such low-return projects might unwittingly pull down the overall growth rates.
The surge in the stock market has failed to stem the trend of small-sized brokers shutting operations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to farmers and other stakeholders associated with the cooperative sector to make GCMMF, which owns the 'Amul' brand, the world's number one dairy company from its current eighth position. He was addressing nearly one lakh people, mostly cattle rearers and farmers, gathered at the Narendra Modi stadium in Motera area of Ahmedabad for the golden jubilee celebration of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF).
Ramesh Shrichand Damani feels that steady retail buying could provide a strong, broad-based boost to the Indian stock markets.
HS Prannoy battled his way into the semifinal of the men's singles with a thrilling three-game win over Malaysia Lee Zii Jia to assure India a badminton medal
Allaying any apprehension on the US moves to curb BPO to India, the government on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that it would have a limited effect and BPO volumes to India were slated to touch $3.6 billion in value terms during 2004.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about Katrina Kaif.
In FY23, Indian operations accounted for 41.6 per cent of the consolidated revenue of India's top five multinationals, up from 34 per cent in FY18 and 33.2 per cent and 34.2 per cent in FY21.
Do you think Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer can do the job for my team?
The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.
Is the current growth rate a fluke? Or can India really keep growing spectacularly? Tell us what you think!
Bilateral trade between India and China, the two fastest growing economies, is forecast to touch a record level this year at $10 billion, compared with last year's $7.6 billion.
The broking industry's pecking order is set to change with Groww, a fin-tech startup from Bengaluru, poised to topple the industry's poster boy, Zerodha, as the leading brokerage in the number of active investors. According to data provided by the portal Topsharebrokers.com, Zerodha has 6.32 million active investors, while Groww is at 5.99 million. It is projected that Groww, which has grown at a much faster clip over the past two years, will surpass Zerodha this month, or next month.
India has been adding about two million mobile telephone users per month this year and the growth is expected to accelerate with full implementation of unified licensing regime, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has said.
Presenting Purvi Doshi's collection on the fourth day of Lakme.
Adani group opened a $1.2 billion copper plant, bought a port in Odisha, raised stakes in a cement company and stitched an alliance with rival Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, all in a matter of one week in signs that the apples-to-airport conglomerate has shrugged off the Hindenburg effect and is back to rapid expansion spree. In the last one week, Adani group has through regulatory filings and press statements announced expansions and investments in its mainstay ports business, diversification into metal refining, fund infusion into a two-year-old cement foray and continuing progress in the commissioning of its mega solar project.
India's biotech sector is expected to grow 25-30 per cent during the current fiscal over Rs 1,830 crore revenue generated during 2002-03, according to a joint survey by the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises and Biospectrum.
Global Internet firm Yahoo! on Thursday said it plans to ride on India's mobile explosion to drive growth for its products and services in the country.
Devaswoms are meant to manage temples, not the faithful. Why didn't they simply stick to their set of responsibilities and execute it well and efficiently?, asks Shyam G Menon.
India Inc has found renewed hope in the capital markets for the next six months but has painted a gloomy picture for the long-run due to the uncertainty arising out of impending general elections.
Local language information technology application market is likely to touch a revenue of $64 million by 2005 from the current $11 million, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan.
Demand for gold in India, the world's biggest market, has risen sharply with the wedding season in full swing.\n\n\n\n
Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal explains why the Congress is ill-equipped to battle the Narendra Modi government in the forthcoming Budget session of Parliament.
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