Arundhati Bhattacharya, the chairperson of country's largest bank SBI, has been named as the most-powerful woman in business in India by Fortune magazine.
It was merely an obligation in the past, but financial inclusion has now turned into a big business opportunity for private banks.
Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda settled for a quick draw and shared first place along with Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine in the Fujairah International open chess tournament that concluded in Fujaira, UAE, on Wednesday.
The head of India's largest private sector bank, who is in Davos in this Swiss Alpine resort town for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, said that the central bank has already in its last policy statement, indicated monetary policy easing in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal.
Grandmaster and defending champion Abhijeet Gupta showcased his positional acumen to outwit Grandmaster Amin Bassem of Egypt in the sixth round of 14th Dubai International Open chess tournament in Dubai.
Amid a growing number of industry leaders expressing anguish over policy paralysis, top banker Chanda Kochhar has said that people are talking more about challenges while taking the positives for granted.
ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochchar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and film producer Ekta Kapoor are among the nine Indian women named in Forbes magazine's inaugural 'Asia Power Businesswomen list'.
Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda continued on his giant-killing spree and stunned top seed Baadur Jobava to jump into the joint-lead at the end of the sixth round of the Fujairah International Open chess tournament in Fujaira, UAE, on Monday.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand continued to struggle in his first open tournament in 23 years as he suffered a shock defeat at the hands of French Grandmaster Adrien Demuth in the fifth round of the masters section of Gibraltar chess festival in Gibraltar on Sunday.
The Reserve Bank of India's move to pause its hawkish Monetary Policy stance is on expected lines as high interest rates affect the economic growth, bankers and analysts said.
Busting a major 'front running' case in the stock market, Sebi on Friday ordered impounding of unlawful gains worth nearly Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million) from brokerage firm Sharekhan and 15 other entities.
His global experience, deep business acumen and long association with the Tata Group will prove invaluable in his new role: ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar.
Some are heading the top banks in India, while others are calling the shots as company's CFO.
Mukesh Ambani has got company of at least 29 fellow corporate executives, including four from his own group Reliance Industries, in terms of annual salaries running into crores of rupees for the latest fiscal.
"Our business is growing between 18 to 20 per cent and we are also adding branches... it's expected that we would hire between five and six thousand people in our workforce," the bank's managing director and chief executive Chanda Kochhar told reporters.
India's top banker Chanda Kochhar shares valuable life lessons in a letter to her daughter.
Indian banks have the potential to go global, says ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar.
Kochhar was directed to return about Rs 10 crore in cash bonuses she had received as CEO, and also give up close to 6 million shares of the bank she had as stock option, which was about Rs 350 crore.
The largest private sector lender is also looking to open a full-fledged branch in China, where it already has a representative office, managing director and CEO, Chanda Kochhar said during the bank's 19th annual general meeting in Vadodara.
HDFC Bank managing director Aditya Puri, ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, and Axis Bank MD and CEO Shikha Sharma did not receive their bonuses in full for financial year 2016-17
ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar has said that the Indian economy would continue to see robust upward momentum in the years to come and the lender was well prepared to leverage from the potential growth opportunities.
ICICI's Chanda Kochhar, ranked highest among Indian women, has been ranked second across the region
'The book captures Rana Kapoor's hunger for real estate leading to bungalows in Delhi, Mumbai, London and other cities; the multiple companies -- over 100 -- to fund his family's various ventures; the attempt to game the system by showing lower non-performing assets,' notes Joydeep Ghosh.
Three Indians PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi, ICICI Bank's CEO Chanda Kocchar and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon -- have been listed in 'The World's 100 Most Powerful Women' list by Forbes magazine.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
Pictures from the Swachh India campaign.
Sena said many banking frauds have come to fore during the Modi regime.
Sushant finished off his innings in style by scoring high on his last theatrical release, Chichhore, a film that was ironically about suicide not being a solution.
SBI's Bhattacharya is ranked second on the list, while ICICI's Kochhar is 5th and Axis's Sharma is 19th in the Fortune list
The committee is considering 1,300 names for this year's awards from which it is likely to select 120.
A 75-year-old Dalit man who was surviving on begging allegedly committed suicide after not being able to get food in Darguwa village
Singer Hamsika Iyer couldn't believe that she was roped in to sing a song for Ra.One!
Singer Hamsika Iyer couldn't believe that she was roped in to sing a song for Ra.One!
Sudhir Mishra's Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin is relevant even today.
Chanda Kochhar on fate and hard work - the cornerstones of her career in the banking world.
The Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry comprising top industrialists and bankers met on Wednesday and reviewed the economic situation, particularly in the wake of the European financial crisis.
The visiting US treasury secretary Timothy F Geithner today said Washington will closely work with New Delhi to promote a more balanced and greater economic cooperation between the two nations.
Three Indians -- Pepsi Co chief Indra Nooyi, corporate honchos like India-born Pepsi Co chief Indra Nooyi, Axis Bank's chief executive Shikha Sharma and ICICI Bank's chief Chanda Kocchar -- have figured in the list of Forbes' 'The World's 100 Most Powerful Women' 2010' released on Thursday.
Chanda Kochhar, managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Bank Ltd, the second biggest lender, expects loans to grow 16 per cent in the year to March and sees lending rates rising during the year.
Located in the banking hub of Singapore's central business district, the branch office is the start of ICICI's retail operations in the country under a 25-branch qualified Full Banking licence given by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in April, Kochhar said.
