By castigating the reforms themselves because of the remediable and reversible defaults here and there in carrying them out, Yashwant Sinha is throwing out the baby along with the bath water, says B S Raghavan.
Every day at 9 am, five 20-somethings who live in a 4-bedroom apartment in Bengaluru have a session with their physical trainer. After a workout, they spend the next 8 to 10 hours in their spacious living room, headphones in place and computer screens in front of them. Their salaried job: To play video games for the rest of the day.
Modi government must fix policy paralysis.
Sale of India's specialty tea varieties from exclusive estates in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are on the rise in the domestic market, and sought after in overseas markets too.
In order to counter the growing penetration of e-commerce portals, the ICT industry in Gujarat is also mulling initiation of its own portal for selling products.
'As the interest rates rise, people are going to say why should I be taking big risks when I can get 4 to 5 per cent in a bank account.' 'So, I think you have to change your thinking.' 'You need to look at the balance sheet, look at dividends.' 'These issues that have been ignored.'
Many PSBs are in the process of rationalisation of ATMs
The original idea was to replace the existing schemes for scheduled castes and tribes.
Rajan's deputy Khan cautions against early celebration of falling inflation, unhedged forex exposure.
The next general elections would be held in multiple phases next year and be completed in time to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha by June 1, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath has said.
The keynote address will be given by United States President Donald Trump
Apart from a pavilion of vintage cars, there will be a Bollywood corner
This 23-year-old footballer exhibits glamour and style. Prathamesh Maulingkar, says Laxmi Negi, made heads turn at the recent India Fashion Week.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar expects to see progress in India-US defence relations at the speed of a year per month.
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
Sectors throw up a wishlist for the Finance Minister.
Manmohan Singh had told his team to "call off" the Indo-US civil nuclear deal a night before its scheduled announcement by President George Bush after Americans came with a killer proposal to let India have just two of its nuclear reactors out of the international safeguards, a top aide of the former Prime Minister has said.
The government is looking at building by-laws and floor area ratio so that you can build up instead of out, thus requiring less land.
Indeed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as Gujarat chief minister was considered close to certain business groups and industrialists, has hardly been seen with any Indian business head.
The car which has a 30 kmph cruising speed, can travel a distance of 150 kms on a fully charged battery.
The policy proposes a contingency plan to handle cyber attacks on vital installations and critical infrastructure.
'We asked them to withdraw these instructions immediately.
'We said, "If you don't withdraw, we are going to give a call that from tomorrow officers will totally boycott these instructions".'
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
It will now take at least two more years to get a clarity on the priorities and policies of the leadership of the new state of Telangana.
Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
Retailer bodies to demand govt action against I-Day sales offers, threaten legal action for breach of FDI rules.
Tharoor had last week kicked up a controversy comparing Kanhaiya with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, drawing strong criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party while Congress distanced itself from his remarks.
However, the realty players will have to pursue their long-pending demands with the state government for abolition of the Urban Land Ceiling Act, speedy approvals to expedite redevelopment of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority buildings, development of cluster development, rental and affordable housing.
Cheque clearances and cash withdrawals and deposits in public sector bank branches across the country were hit as employees started a two-day strike on Monday to press for a revision in wages.
The RBI may grant licences for setting up small finance and payment banks by April 2015.
GST, a much needed reform that widens the tax net, promises to strangle many legitimate businesses while they wait for the tax administration and systems to catch up, says Rahul Jacob.
A definitive guide to the movers and shakers who sit at the helm of the Asian sports boom.
Recent appreciation has not deterred companies like electric goods maker Havells to set up plant in India.
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
New head of the Confederation of Indian Industry speaks.
Many top corporate groups hit hard, in penalties and sunk investments, beside loss of future revenue
The minister has sought the help of US technology, expertise and innovation to make road safety a priority in India.
'The RBI is not releasing Rs 2,000 notes for the last 10 days; probably they have stopped printing it.'
The comments come at a time when the Supreme Court-constituted Special Investigation Team has detected funds worth about Rs 4,479 crore (Rs 44.79 billion) held by Indians in a Swiss branch of HSBC bank, while unaccounted wealth totalling Rs 14,958 crore (Rs 149.58 billion) have been traced within home.
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