Almost half of that market is in India's villages.
Players like UltraTech Cement more expensive than ITC and HUL; others catching up fast.
The RBI cited lower-than-expected inflation, weak crude prices and weak demand, as well as the government's commitment to sticking to a fiscal deficit target as reasons.
Optimism about a stable govt at the Centre, a demand revival and falling oil prices buoyed the markets.
Theoretically, there is an inverse relationship, but other factors need to fall in place for it to work well this time
oreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011.
A fleet of eight JF-17 Thunder fighter jets -- jointly made by the two countries -- will escort the Chinese president once his plane enters the Pakistani airspace.
Fresh investments are constrained by tepid demand.
This is the lowest investment grade rating.
New age technology will reshape India's future.
Economists expect Modi to announce big-bang reforms.
Boost to dairy sector will generate jobs
Sanjeev Nayyar travels across India from Barmer to Arunachal to Mahabalipuram, and comes back humbled and impressed with the women he interacted with through his journey.
"The poor will not suffer disproportionately due to bouts of sharp inflation, and the middle class will not see its savings eroded," Raghuram Rajan said.
Top companies in China are valued at 7.7 times the trailing 12-month earnings against a P/E ratio of 18.6 times for Nifty 50 companies.
Experts say it will make GDP growth target of 5.7-5.8% difficult to achieve, while ministries feel late resurgence will help in sowing of rabi crops.
A new generation of scholars -- this time, sociologists and anthropologists, who hitherto have been busy with researching social practices of primitive tribes and social structures like India's caste system -- are starting to cast their eyes on the financial sector.
Sahil Kapoor of Edelweiss Retail Capital Market Research says that setting up a monetary policy committee should have been the first step. And the central bank could have moved towards a formal inflation targeting mechanism after the processes and data sets are in place.
Prithviraj Chavan helping out Delhi's government tide over high onion prices has not gone down well in his home state of Maharashtra, says Neeta Kolhatkar.
Capital flows have become much more skittish and volatile during this period, with short-term horizons dominating allocations.
The WTO toolkit provides various instruments to deal with such situations - anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties and safeguard measures.
Under Sharma Axis Bank has also taken the lead in focusing on technology, which has now become core to almost every other lender's strategy.
But experts say downside limited, pockets of opportunities for investors
Does the rally reflect expectations of improving fundamentals or they are likely to correct?
India's macroeconomic situation has benefited from oil prices' decline.
Governor Rajan can be more unambiguously pro-growth.
Money will flow to Europe, Japan - and the emerging markets, including India.
Group still far from coordinating monetary/forex policy
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And with prices low, the equilibrium real exchange rate will also be low, that is to say depreciated.
A delayed monsoon and abundant cotton in the international market could spell trouble in the state's suicide zone.
Budget in the medium term aims to kick-start the investment cycle.
Bank credit growth, still sluggish, could see a rise if the Reserve Bank of India decides to cut interest rates, believes Ashima Goyal.
Power2SME, a one-stop shop for sourcing and buying raw materials for SMEs, is the only B2B firm in this space.
Distress sales, market closures and anchoring of fishing fleets have been reported from West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
We still have time for this government to take action.
It maybe time for the Centre to take a closer look at Chief Minister Jayalalitha's innovative' solution to a long-pending problem, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Dulat's professional successors in the game would now find it that much harder to access/create meaningful sources/assets needed for effective functioning in a place like Kashmir. By blowing their cover the former top spy has undone whatever he might have been able to add to his organisation's resource kitty.'
