US retail chain Walmart is awaiting a decision by its board decision on its India strategy, including its partnership with the Bharti group.
Unless controlled and contained, given the untested belief that the north Indian labour support and follow the Hindutva kind of political ideology, there is a potential in terms of ideological clashes with their Dravidian brethren in the local neighbourhoods, and it all escalating into violence, especially during election time, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
May include 'influencing a company's major policy decisions' in the current meaning.
Several CII defence committee members confirm this is now the official CII position, which conforms to that of industry bodies, Ficci and Assocham.
The one-year extension would give Walmart and its Indian joint venture partner in the cash and carry business, Bharti Group, more time to sort things out and decide on a retail foray together, people in the know said.
Chidambaram has not been named as an accused in the FIR and the CBI is yet to file a chargesheet in the matter.
The stipulation that new front-end stores will have to be set up will impact M&A in the sector.
With the Union government clearing the way for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the railways, the Railway Board is devising a plan for operations, maintenance and construction projects.
Centre has already started work on developing a mechanism to ensure states producing any item in excess is able to transport it to other states where there is demand
With 4G coverage spreading, Indian consumers will likely be more open to investing in smartphones
While the talks are still at a preliminary stage, sources said major retail players had held discussions with Amazon
Company says faults, which were noticed soon after system upgrade on March 27, have been rectified
The government hopes that the PLI schemes would provide 200,000-300,000 direct employment over five years, according to sources in the know.
The overall FDI policy landscape is changing and can do so faster, says
Barring stray references such as the 'dual control' of banks and shifting the goalposts during demonetisation, he is not in a fault-finding mode with the government, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
What does Udhayanidhi's induction as minister mean? For the DMK, it indicates the future course, direction and leadership. It is continuity with change, and change with continuity, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Mr Prabhu has a big challenge ahead in implementing trade reforms to regain the lost export momentum, says Jayanta Roy.
Though the mandate is seen largely an outcome of Banerjee's welfare schemes, she has promised to industrialise at a faster pace, or so read the manifesto.
Foreign Direct Investment inflows from Mauritius have almost halved during April-January period of last fiscal to $4.11 billion on fears of impact of GAAR and possible re-negotiation of the tax avoidance treaty.
Although the idea is to focus on all states to turn India into a global manufacturing hub, the department of industrial policy and promotion, the nodal agency to carry out the campaign, has selected a handful of states that have a sound industrial backbone such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and others.
At the heart of the issue is the way e-commerce is defined in the current draft policy.
In eight major MSME-centric product groups, imports from China grew the fastest.
Services attract highest foreign direct investment, despite Make in India push.
The apex court issued notices to the Centre, ministries and departments concerned, Jet Airways and United Arab Emirate's Etihad Airways on the petition challenging the deal and sought their responses within four weeks.
Of the first 189 whose credentials have been probed from the 400 applicants till date, barely 30 make it - and only one qualifies for IPR benefits.
As Amazon India, Flipkart are forced to shut down 60 categories and push out 45 mn products, a new lobby group comprising sellers is in the making to take up e-com concerns.
CBI has also summoned a senior official of Reliance Industries Limited and a noted chartered accountant.
The Taiwanese maker is adopting a model of setting up smartphone assembly lines in multiple cities across India.
Jack Ma is learnt to have discussed about e-commerce, mobile telephony
While the gold policy covers every aspect, from sourcing gold to trading and investing in it, experts assert that the policy is incomplete if mining of gold in India isn't promoted.
What is worrying is that this year, angel investments and seed funding deals have fallen by 40 per cent, ringing alarm bells in the start-up community in India.
The Swadeshi Jagaran Manch has pointed out that these firms pose a threat to domestic manufacturing and retailing as they do not pay relevant taxes such as GST, giving them a huge edge over local players.
For the second year in a row, India has been recognised as the fifth-best performing nation in reforming the business environment. However, in the two categories that the government was banking on most - "Paying Taxes" and "Resolving Insolvency" - landmark reforms that were expected to yield better results have had the opposite effect. Under the circumstances should the country celebrate already or are there any reasons for worry, wonders Subhayan Chakraborty.
Under attack for several files pertaining to coal block allocations going missing, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said that he had asked officials to locate the missing papers by Tuesday and hinted the Central Bureau of Investigation may be asked to look into the case after that.
Three way split of AIADMK has slowed decision-making, prompting industry to look outside the state, says T E Narasimhan.
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.
'The idea is to have a separate and independent consultation on non-personal data, and decide the contours of how it should be regulated, whether as guidelines, rules, or a separate policy,' said a senior official at MeitY.
Also the companies should be self-sufficient in product designing and have maintenance and life cycle support facilities.
The Confederation of Indian Industry will organise a round table on investment.
