Average delinquency rate for close to 12 months seasoned loans was 9% during 2009.
A normal monsoon, softer interest rates and inflation, pent-up demand, along with mild budgetary support may help growth pick up in coming quarters.
'The levy proposed to be charged on air tickets for regional connectivity fund would marginally increase cost.'
The Maggi controversy is likely to be a stepping stone in the evolution of country's packaged and processed food industry.
India to be 2nd largest IT market in APAC by 2019: Gartner
How did marquee Dalal Street investors fare in the Jan-Mar quarter that saw the BSE Sensex tank 10 per cent?
While demand for hair care products is increasing in both rural and urban markets, urban consumers have proven to be more extravagant, reports T E Narasimhan.
Promoter holding in family-owned firms up 70 bps since 2005, 240 bps since 2010.
With a loan book of $268 billion, India's retail banking is now ahead of Russia, Malaysia and Mexico but behind China, Brazil and Thailand
Japanese companies are planning investments of about Rs 75,000 crore
India has pipped China to drive the volume growth of smartphones in the world on the back of falling prices of high-end devices.
Vikram Kothari, managing director of Rotomac Pens, is now fighting a battle that might be difficult to win.
Longest period of price-earnings expansion in the index since 1996
Navil Noronha stepped out of the shadows to address the media for the first time during the company's recent IPO.
Increased price control over branded generic medicines has affected its profitability
Talks on with P&G, HUL, Patanjali, among others to push their products via 250,000 common centres
Mid-caps in cyclical sectors such as cement, financials and capital goods estimated to earn much more
This is the first tranche of capital infusion for the fiscal and more funds would be provided in future depending upon the performance of PSU banks.
There are good reasons to believe that India is at the start of a long period of growth for equities.
There is no clarity yet on how an estimated 10.9 million new jobs would be created every year.
Walmart is rumoured to be looking to listing Flipkart in a few years. At that stage, we'll get a better sense of what's going on in retail, says Devangshu Datta.
About railways sector, the Survey said that it is facing stiff competition from other modes of transportation and the government is initiating various transformative measures to keep railways on track.
Zydus Wellness looks for a wider berth in the country's burgeoning beauty market, redesigns and rebrands its flagship brand
The strong correlation between its sales (revenue or turnover) and crude oil prices (average for the financial year) suggests that Ambani may be proved right.
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd may scrap plans to invest in online marketplace Snapdeal, technology website Recode has reported.
There are also signs that the private sector investment cycle is slowly coming back, as capacity utilisation figures across industry continue to slowly creep up. A pickup in investments will front load profitability, says Akash Prakash.
Sustained growth only if domestic manufacturing rises
Connecting with people is the first step to creating greater awareness for the brand and that in turn, believes ISRO chief K Sivan, will translate into the institution becoming a place that people want to work in.
India is world's one of the biggest e-commerce markets.
Recently, there has been a mushrooming of international apparel retailers.
There are 230 million vehicles on the road, and counting. Bulk of these are under seven years old and once they get older, the industry estimates the requirement for spare parts and aftersales service to shoot up sharply.
The airport security market, which comprises segments like security, disaster response, identification, manning and cyber security is currently growing at a compounded annual growth rate of about 25 per cent, according to a study titled 'India Homeland Security Market: An Emerging Opportunity'.
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Top firms will have enough firepower to go for foreign M&As, given their balance sheet growth, say bankers.
China accounts for 90% of imports of mobile phones to India.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
Some make for good investment ideas even after a strong run-up but others could see gains fizzling.
The Tata-SIA airline Vistara is gearing up to station an indigenously developed robot, RADA, at its signature lounge at Delhi airport's Terminal 3. Powered by AI, the robot is programmed to scan boarding passes, provide information on the terminal, departure gates, real-time flight status and weather conditions of destination city etc. And RADA can also entertain people by playing games and multimedia content, says Sangeeta Tanwar.
Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi have sharply increased their sourcing from India.
The $12 billion plus rising Indian e-commerce business market is witnessing a rush of hiring and may need one lakh people over the next six months, industry experts have said.
To tap the rapidly expanding online retailing market, Philips Lighting, a subsidiary of the Dutch consumer electronics giant Royal Philips, has partnered 'exclusively' with Amazon to sell its latest product range.
