'Why don't they suggest artificial intelligence training for SC/STs?' 'Why can't they be trained in computer programming?'
States to come under DIPP watch on ease of doing business.
About 53 million homes in the country are yet to get electricity and many industries depend on diesel generation sets to meet their requirements.
New foreign trade policy to stress manufacturing exports.
Realty players want single window clearance for all affordable projects, reports Karan Choudhury.
50-odd biz leaders are part of Modi's entourage for the 3-nation tour
A day after Dalal Street witnessed its bloodiest battering, NSE chief Chitra Ramkrishna on Tuesday said there is no need for panic as in an inter-connected world, global developments are bound to have an impact on all markets.
The Cabinet approval would help more than 200 fashion and apparel brands who are lined up to enter India, including international labels such as Avva, Colin's, Damat, Tudba Deri and Dufy
The consortium will launch programmes in ease of doing business in their respective regions B-schools.
Despite the recent Western criticism on Bangladesh's labour standards, India has a long way to go before it overtakes the neighbour in global exports.
Riding on e-commerce wave is the youngest state, which faces competition from neighbours.
The government's subsidy bill towards oil, fertilisers runs into lakhs of crores of rupees.
Smaller Singapore- and US-based venture capital funds, retail associations and trader bodies such as the CAIT and SJM are all planning to approach the government to put pressure on the commerce ministry.
The most experienced administrator in the country seems to have sat back and allowed bureaucrats and policemen to manage the lockdown, observes Jyoti Punwani.
Among other things, taking note of complaints against several Chinese e-commerce players such as Shein, Ali Express etc for sending shipments as 'gifts' to customers in India and avoiding duties, the government has now mandated that all e-commerce sites and apps must have a registered business entity. This will be the importer on record and subject to customs rules, report Subhayan Chakraborty, Neha Alawadhi and Karan Choudhury.
The study draws attention to the contribution of the Indian industry
Some investors warned of a coming British or even global recession as sterling collapsed to hit its lowest since 1985.
In an interview, Chief Minister of the Punjab province in Pakistan and the Pakistan prime minister's brother, Shahbaz Sharif, says that strategic issues go hand in hand with trade normalisation
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be in India tomorrow, but Cyrus Mistry will no longer head the Indo-UK CEO forum.
Business chambers now inviting start-ups for membership.
Committed to secularism; wouldn't remove the word, says M Venkaiah Naidu
The Confederation of Indian Industry has pegged the requirement for investment at Rs 280 lakh crore ($4.7 trillion) for five years beginning 2014-15 to make the economy grow by seven per cent a year on an average.
Amazon committed a fresh investment of $3 billion, in addition to the $2 billion it announced in 2014.
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Monday dismissed concerns over alleged slow progress in the Centre's Namami Gange programme saying that the NDA government has resolved to make the river as "one of the cleanest" in the world by October 2018.
'Let the high price of onions clear the market, matching supply with demand.' 'Let onion growers keep exporting -- we are the world's largest onion exporter, export 10% of our production,' advises Naushad Forbes.
Even as India continues on the priority watch list of the Office of the US Trade Representative, strong voices from Washington, DC, have spoken out in favour of India, reports Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com.
The cumulative loss of 20 state-run lenders stood at Rs 14,000 crore during Q4
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to WEF annual meeting after a deadly Taliban attack in his country.
'I am glad to announce that these cities are now going to become green smart cities.'
It is still "discounts" that e-commerce players have to rely on to bring in customers, though they might claim otherwise.
While brick-and-mortar retailers have been the most vocal in their protests, e-tailers do not seem to be in a hurry.
Cut to 2019, and his name evokes grief and anger among more than 40,000 homebuyers who are fighting for the keys to their flats, which they should have rightfully got more than seven years back.
Pranav Adani has come a long way since 1999, when he first got actively involved with the Adani Group's businesses, run by his uncle, Gautam Adani.
The former McKinsey India head is presently on board of many big Indian conglomerates.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
Under new government, tax office to explore ways to reduce disputes.
The election to replace outgoing Sepp Blatter will take place at an extraordinary congress on February 26 in Zurich.
UK environment minister Lord de Mauley hosted a round-table meeting here with representatives of mango and vegetable importers and exporters from the UK and India, Deputy Indian High Commissioner to the UK Virendra Paul, and senior regulators from Defra and the Food and Environment Research Agency.
India, he said, has opened up its markets and stepped up public investment including in the infrastructure space and is concentrating a lot on boosting expenditure to improve the quality of rural life
Concluding the three-part series, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says that the black money law is likely to fail because of the ineptness of India's investigative and enforcement agencies.
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