Indian diamantaires are looking to go slow on rough diamond purchase during the remaining quarters of the current financial year, thanks to weak global sentiment.
It doesn't appear to be happening yet, even though India's stock market has been Asia's best performer this year.
Indian companies struggle to escape debt burden as profit slows.
Loans make money for the lender in the initial years but losses come later when they turn bad.
'There is no money with the villagers as there is little work.'
The 30-share Sensex ended 50 points lower at 28,112 and the 50-share Nifty declined 12 points to close at 8,531.
Metals bucked the trend and shone across the board.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India has declined by six per cent to $5.47 billion during January-March quarter of the current calender year even as government is making efforts to promote the country as an investment destination.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
Recent recovery in the white metal was reflected in a falling gold to silver price ratio.
Almost every home in this area has a slogan 'Jal, Jangal, Jameen' painted outside. Rashme Sehgal reports for Rediff.com on the four-year battle to save the Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh.
HSBC maintained "overweight" rating on Indian equities, saying "fundamentals are strong".
Industrial production expanded a provisional 3.4 per cent year-on-year in June.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 142 points at 29,462 and the 50-share Nifty gained 26 points to end at 8,895.
The urban jungle still retains some precious wild spaces inhabited by not frequently seen birds and animals. The author spends a day exploring them
Markets opened marginally higher helped by a rebound in index heavyweights
Vivek Mahajan (Head - Research) Aditya Birla Money, analysed the slow IIP growth.
The economic activities that registered growth of over 6 per cent in the second quarter are manufacturing, electricity, gas, water supply, other utility services and trade, hotels, transport and communication, and services related to broadcasting.
'You want to create a law to give the death penalty to those who kill cows.' 'But you don't want to give the death penalty to the man who rapes an 8-month-old baby.'
Mark Scialla had interviewed several people on December 28 and 29 on alleged health issues faced by them due to the now closed Sterlite copper plant. Rambha said the visa clearly stated that the American national should not embark on any work except tourist activities.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
Agriculture, which accounts for 14% of GDP grew at 3.2% in the quarter
'They (BJP) can claim of winning even 82 seats, despite the fact that Uttar Pradesh has only 80 seats'
Cheering the rebound in India's economy which grew 5.7 per cent in the April-June quarter, highest in the past two-and-a-half years, India Inc on Friday said it expects the GDP to pick up further on the back of conducive investment policies and execution of reforms by government.
A rate cut could stimulate demand and help revive industrial activity, without much risk of sparking off inflation again.
There was a sharp fall in power output on Thursday from a plant in Gujarat that left India more than 9,000 megawatts short of peak demand, according to two officials at the state grid operator.
Amit Shah requested Adityanath to tighten the reins of the HYV's activities, now that he was CM. But Adityanath is not prepared to let go so easily.
While everybody is talking about the vast potential of 5G, the uptake of such services in India depends on operators getting around 100 Mhz 5G spectrum. At the reserve price proposed by Trai, getting this spectrum will cost a telco around Rs 490 billion. Which amount could be difficult for operators to mop up, given the financial stress they are undergoing, says Kiran Rathee.
n the broader market, both the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices, were up 1.2% and 0.7% each.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Monday took a dig at the tax return expose of her Republican rival Donald Trump by questioning his business credentials.
'If you look at voice and data realisations in India, they are the lowest in the world.'
Tax shortfall: Finmin asks banks to deposit March TDS by month end.
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India's economy grew 4.7 per cent in 2013-14, following an expansion of 4.5 per cent in 2012-13. In the fourth quarter of 2013-14, growth remained subdued at 4.6 per cent, mainly due to a decline in manufacturing and mining output.
The absence of any recovery in investment is underlined by the capital goods sector.
'WHO has been under a lot of attack, so when they saw the Lancet study, they stopped the clinical trials of HCQ.' 'They should not have stopped the clinical trials.'
The global rating agency expects the economy to pick up in the next two financial years.
Manufacturing sector grows at 3.5%; agriculture sector at 3.8%
The Right to Privacy judgment reinstates the individual as VIP, says Mitali Saran.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices have performed better than the front-liners
Raghuram Rajan, who was Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry before taking over as RBI Governor on September 4, is scheduled to announce the next mid-quarter policy review on December 18.
