Most institutions have decided to blacklist Grofers from participating in any placement programmes.
FIXES BY THE GOVERNMENT: Energy price fixed, tax issues linger.
Seven months down the line, not much progress has been made, except that the scheme is still being fine-tuned.
'There are different ways in which some are lucky through their lives. My great boon has been serendipity,' says Subir Roy.
India had been engaged in a contentious battle with the US over the issue, especially in the pharmaceutical sector.
India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.
Even if the new body focuses on long-term planning, it is unlikely to do so through five-year Plans.
'It was always my intention to be different, because that is the only way to last.'
'Challenges will come but we will stay the course. No big step can be taken if one is afraid of criticism. We will not flinch from criticism,' says Railways Minister Piyush Goyal.
While an official in the Commerce Department indicated a trade war was in the offing, till now the government has been in wait-and-watch mode.
Lower numbers signal that that companies, especially the technology services firms, are steadily reducing the dependency on non-immigrant visas.
Altaf Ahmed Lal, country head of the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) in India, has quit and so have a few other key officials at the American drug regulator's India office.
Arun Jaitley had proposed in the Budget to double the rate of capital gains tax on debt MFs to 20%.
In the letter addressed to the US president, the doctors -- one from the Harvard Medical School and two others who have been associated with top US varsities over the years - have urged him to order a "full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation" before the President-elect takes office on January 20.
On September 4, Trai issued a consultation paper on call drops.
Central banking is a science, not an art, Tamal Bandyopadhyay tells RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
Even as government projects aren't lucrative from a revenue perspective, companies fight with each other to bag the contracts
Those earning over Rs 50 lakh a year need to disclose all jewellery and cash in their returns, says Tinesh Bhasin.
The NPPA letter was issued to GSK on Wednesday.
As the Centre faces multiple hurdles, BJP-governed states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have swiftly moved in to usher in radical reforms as they aim to take a larger share of the FDI pie.
Sources say companies will have to keep the market share of merged entities below 50% in all circles
In the first of a two-part series, Business Standard examines the impact of the upcoming summer on agriculture and drinking water supply.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
Though the Cabinet reshuffle on July 5 has a clear stamp of the Prime Minister's Office, the changes have also increased the coherence between the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Though the summer is expected to be hotter, global and domestic forecasts point to good rains.
A tussle between the Delhi government and the Lt Governor has left bureaucrats vulnerable to sudden transfers.
Revenue dept says changes in I-T Act require Parliament nod; new regime to wait till Budget in June-July 2014.
The agreement would divert China's attention and keep them busy in the Pacific theatre, probably resulting in a reduction in threat perception in our area of interest in the Indian Ocean, notes Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
The run-up to next year's general elections might see some of the top executives of government-run companies getting unlucky. And, the period could become the best in the lives of those waiting in the wings.
'Every time you put on a mask and take the mask off and adjust the fit, you are putting additional fatigue on the materials.'
Happy hours, a discount concept popular across bars, restaurants and multiplexes, is now catching up in the health care sector, too.
Arun Jaitley will aim for jumps in other revenue streams for the government.
FDA allows Teva to launch Nexium generic; Cipla, which supplies formulation, to gain
The exponential number of downloads can be attributed to a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking people to have the app on their mobiles, combined with the government's push for downloading of the app through other channels, reports Neha Alawadhi.
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