With TDP and YSRCP trying to score political points, the sacred laddu may well create a storm in days to come.
EV manufacturers point out that converting a regular petrol car into a flex-fuel vehicle requires only about Rs 17,000-25,000 per unit, whereas developing an EV demands vastly greater investments in research, battery development, and localisation.
Revenues from Bangladeshi patients have declined by 30% to 35% in 2024-2025. Bangladesh typically accounts for 70% to 75% of all medical visas issued by India.
Rs 135.3 crore. How much of it was salary, and how much commission?
Skill improvement has failed to keep pace with salary hikes.
Analysts see a silver lining in banking.
Average salary of the 100 best-paid directors is 1% of their companies' net profit.
At least 43 of the 175 issuers would have been hit if proposed mechanism had been in place before the R-Power IPO.
Though the Infosys stock has regularly tanked on days the company's results are announced, it has made up for the losses before the announcement of the next results.
Biyani said he wanted to make amends for the steep pricing of the Future Capital IPO, which resulted in heavy losses for investors.
Data shows of the 385 companies, which had announced their latest shareholding, fund houses cut their stake in about 200.
Indian companies have raised over Rs 3.13 lakh crore up to September, excluding foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) and external commercial borrowings in September. This is close to the cumulative Rs 3.14 lakh crore raised in 2009.Inc's highest fund mobilisation was in 2007, when it mopped up over Rs 3.20 lakh crore.
'Indian private universities can provide world-class education at one fourth the cost, home comforts, and direct links to Indian and global industries.'
India Inc's order book doubled in the fourth quarter (January-March) of the last financial year compared, to the year-ago period.
Numbers collated by the Business Standard Research Bureau show that in the last three years, leading cement manufacturers have multiplied their nine-month profits manifold and mining and paper companies have more than doubled it.
Manufacturing sector suffers from project delays, lack of fresh capital.
Official sources say scrutiny of returns filed by companies, brokers and individuals active in the stock markets and in possession of shares revealed wide use of this mechanism to evade tax.
Analysis of the results for the 2008-09 financial year, done by the Business Standard Research Bureau for over 1,200 companies, suggests that companies across a range of sectors continue to do badly, with stagnant or declining sales and with profit margins under continuing pressure.
Uncertainty on demand growth seems to be crimping investment.
Costly inputs, dearer loans, volatile rupee squeeze profits, margins in Q2.
Costly inputs, dearer loans, volatile rupee squeeze profits, margins in Q2.
India Inc could set a new fund-raising record in 2010. Even before the year starts, companies have lined up equity raising plans of Rs 1,50,000 crore, close to two-and-a-half times of what they raised through share sales this year.
In India, the government has given in for now by announcing sops worth Rs 1,400 crore or Rs 14 billion (Rs 600 crore or Rs 6 billion of which are speedy refunds). But the initial relief which greeted the move already seems to be fading.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs will discuss the proposal to lift the ban on state-owned companies from investing in mutual funds in its weekly meeting on Thursday.
The poor performance of the corporate sector in the current financial year is reflected in the fact that the number of sectors posting net losses has more than doubled quarter-on-quarter -- from seven in the first quarter to 15 in second to 37 in the third quarter.
The market meltdown since its January 8 peak has made private investments in public equity (PIPE) unprofitable as 2007's deal size of $5.31 billion is currently valued at $5.29 billion.Of the seven deals in the real estate sector, five are profitable while two made losses. Similarly, of the 17 deals in manufacturing sector, 13 reported loss.
Likely to slow down four-year bull run on bourses.
Of the 125 sectors tracked by Business Standard Research Bureau, 62 sectors have lost ground, while 63 others have gained over the May 10 levels.
Corporate India will have to shell out an additional Rs 21,000 crore (Rs 210 billion) if the 2010-11 Budget increases the excise duty by 2 per cent.
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