Whereas the headline growth rate appears very respectable, India needs faster to growth to generate jobs.
Marquee recruiters made premium offers, with consulting leading the pack by making 25.04% of the offers, followed by IT/ITeS (18.59%), e-commerce (10.55%) and BFSI (10.13%).
In India to take part in a board meeting, Martin Sorrell, chief executive officer of WPP, spoke to Alokananda Chakraborty on a wide range of subjects.
Businesses are still taking time to adjust in the new tax regime, which would weigh on growth rates for the financial year closing today.
Modi has set a target of generating 100 Gw of solar power by 2022.
The GST Council's agenda includes trimming the number of items in the 28 per cent slab by 75 per cent, easier compliance for assessees and small taxpayers, and a presentation on bringing real estate under GST.
Internet, tech, infra, realty in India might gain
Maruti Suzuki posted a marginal increase in January and the likes of Hyundai, Ford and Mahindra & Mahindra reporting a single-digit growth.
Reaching a consensus might also get tougher, as already seen with issues like inclusion of natural gas in GST and imposition of a sugar cess, both central proposals being resisted.
A Special General Meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India will be held in New Delhi on Wednesday amid indication that a majority of its state association are in favour of partial adoption of Lodha Committee reforms in a bid to end the impasse.
Recently, there has been a mushrooming of international apparel retailers.
The government is keen to close the sale before March 31, 2021, to help meet a record Rs 2.1 lakh crore target which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has set from divestment proceeds in the Budget for 2020-21.
The system has gone through three rounds of testing for its load-bearing capacity.
Apart from streamlining loan processing, most public sector banks charge lower interest rate, an aspect which seems to be game changer.
In five years, royalty payments have grown 31.1% yearly, much faster than rise in revenue and profit.
A lot of work is needed to be done on the part of the insurance sector behemoth, and the government, before it is ready for its market debut.
Most of India knows Deep Sidhu as the man who planted the Sikh religious flag on Red Fort.
While the Union Cabinet had in November last year approved the sale of the government's entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL, offers seeking expression of interest (EoI), or bids showing interest in buying its stake, were invited only on March 7. The EoI submission deadline was May 2, but on March 31 it was extended up to June 13. On Wednesday, the government said this deadline is further being extended up to July 31.
India needs about 19 million low-cost homes -- roughly defined as costing a million rupees ($16,700) and below -- to shelter an urban population expected to nearly double to 600 million by 2030 from 2011.
Why self-audit by NSE, why weren't charges probed under your supervision, ministry asks regulator.
The footprints of Indian-origin corporate executives at multinationals is expanding, with Sandeep Kataria taking over the reins of footwear major Bata as its global chief executive officer. From FMCG majors to IT titans, Kataria joins the league of Indian-origin executives who have climbed the highest echelons of corporate across diverse sectors globally. From Nooyi to Pichai to Nadella, the list of such people at the helm of multi-billion dollar enterprises is long.
Women are opting out of high-flying career due to family responsibilities, says a study.
'We know that returning money to unitholders at the earliest is the first and most important step towards resurrecting our brand and regaining investor trust.'
The ruling mean FPIs cannot seek treaty protection against the new withholding tax that companies are required to deduct at source. The apex court order pertains to when the cricketing bodies of Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka formed a joint committee to conduct the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
With the amendment, firms like EY and Deloitte can work as resolution professionals instead of only their partners enrolling as insolvency professionals.
The development is expected to pave way for greater transfer pricing cooperation between the two countries, enhance investment flow
This number is more than the total number (1,071) of electric cars sold in India in calendar year 2019. MG has stopped registrations for the ZS and will cater to 2,409 of the total bookings.
This move to make it easier for funds to avail of tax exemptions.
Diverse marquee investors are becoming long-term shareholders of Jio Platforms because of a unique set of technologies and platforms under one entity.
Investment by US PE firm KKR will add fire to Ambani's battle for dominance in the retail market that is also being eyed by Jeff Bezos' Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.
With over 200 brands and websites as participants this year, the Google Online Shopping Festival is turning bigger.
Though inflation, on the basis of the wholesale price index, is nowhere near the 1990-91 level of 10.26 per cent and India is in a much better position to check it, the greater integration of our economy with the globe has exposed it to a much higher risk of imported inflation.
Top gainers from the Sensex pack are Infosys, Cipla, NTPC, ITC and Lupin
India ranks 4th in the 2013 global manufacturing competitiveness index even as the country's growth rate has been pulled down in recent quarters.
Under the amended treaty with Mauritius, for two years beginning April 1, 2017, capital gains tax will be imposed at 50 per cent of the prevailing domestic rate.
According to estimates, if the companies are not allowed to raise petrol rates at least Rs 5 a litre by the first fortnight of September, they might begin to suffer underrecoveries on this decontrolled auto fuel, too -- for the first time this financial year.
Arun Jaitley had proposed in the Budget to double the rate of capital gains tax on debt MFs to 20%.
Coal India achieved a staggering production of 536.51 million tonnes during the financial year ended March 31, 2016
"The Corporation has decided to offer a voluntary retirement scheme, with a view to enable employees who are not in a position to continue in service of the Corporation due to various personal reasons, to request for grant of voluntary retirement from the services of the Corporation," Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) said in an internal notice to its employees.
The central bank's tough new rules spell major changes in the competitive landscape for financial services audits.
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