Several brokerages lifted their outlooks for the BSE Sensex and companies were queuing to ride the wave of political euphoria
'It will take many years to clean the Ganga. It will not happen in five years like the prime minister wants. If you want it to be sustainable, temporary measures won't work.' Twinkle Tom, an environmental engineer by training (from Stanford no less!), now designs wedding gowns because India, sadly, does not want her expertise and skill.
The ones who came more recently were clutching the green cards that gave them an escape hatch through which to return to green pastures: Arvind Panagariya, Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian and other perfectly honourable gentlemen like them, points out T N Ninan.
In a major development in the fight against black money, multilateral grouping OECD today unveiled a 'single global standard' for automatic exchange of financial account information by various countries including India and Switzerland.
A good business school will put you through a battery of tests to improve your soft skills, says Dr Tarun Pasricha.
The resilience of many emerging markets, notably China and India, in the aftermath of the Lehman shock further strengthened this sense of manifest destiny.
'China's development is on a different scale from India's. They are very far ahead.' 'I don't think it will be possible in the next 30 years for us to catch them,' says Aakar Patel.
ADB has often expressed its interest in promoting sub-regional integration in South Asia and perhaps could be involved as a facilitator.
Aggressive acquisitions & deep pockets fuel real estate competition; experts suggest future partnership
India is ranked best among the BRICS nations, out of which South Africa is 17th, Brazil 35th and Russia at 100. China is much lower at 132nd place.
An undergraduate program is not just about academics.
Sebi has approved the norms for financial institutions setting up shop at GIF City in Ahmedabad.
Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around will remain capped.
US rate hike fear keeps Asian firms in check; India most upbeat.
The absence of criminal legal treaties between India and tax haven nations have been cited by probe agencies working in the SIT on black money as one of the major impediments in initiating steps to bring back illegal funds stashed abroad by Indians.
New inventions allow Tencent Holdings' WeChat users to book taxis, top up phone credit, while Clone Algo's YAY App users are able to talk and chat free besides being able to apply for online for micro loans and use Clone Algo trading algorithms.
An initiative to fund the education of bright Indian youngsters undertaken by two Indian-Americans has now acquired a momentum of its own, discovers Anjuli Bhargava.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
Understanding InvITs properly will enable investors to make an informed decision, says V K Bansal.
As regards India, market valuations already reflect most positives.
India has moved up 16 positions to rank 55th on a global index of the world's most competitive economies, where Switzerland remains on top.
The US FOMC concludes its two-day meeting today while the Bank of Japan will start its two-day meeting today.
'If Indians are as smart as their counterparts in university, and have equal opportunity, then what is the reason that we cannot produce inventions of quality that are recognised by the world?'
Qatar is the world's richest country in terms of per capita income.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys a close relationship with Shinzo Abe. For Abe, "a strong India is in the best interest of Japan, and a strong Japan is in the best interest of India."
At the bottom of the water index for 2016-17 are Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh (UP), and Haryana, which are major producers of paddy, wheat, along with a host of horticulture crops.
India has been ranked at 142 among 189 countries in the latest World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business" report, a drop by two places from the last year's ranking.
'He proved that a small nation could do what even bigger nations could not think of and that was his greatest gift to the next generation.'
The members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar.
The upcoming general elections will be the focus and the economy and market performance will pivot around that event. The general consensus is that the India stock market should be up around 10 per cent by the end of the year.
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 207 points to end at 25,230.
The country, last year, stood at the 27th spot for effective regulation and supervision of securities exchanges.
Risk sentiment is likely to be favourable if oil prices stay benign, global growth sentiment remains robust and the dollar index does not break out, says B Prasanna.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed as "historic" the jump.
Speaking at a programme at Kolaghat in West Midnapore district, the chief minister said, "We are against forceful acquisition of land. In West Midnapore district the Haldia Development Authority and West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation have land banks. "We will allot land for projects from there."
Crypto-assets are essential to blockchain technology, which has the potential to be one of the next major growth drivers for the software ecosystem in India. A prohibition would nip this opportunity in the bud, say Vaibhav Parikh and Jaideep Reddy.
The Reserve Bank of India held its policy rate at 7.25 percent on Tuesday.
'Unless we start making the products we need, we cannot become a developed country or call ourselves an economic power.'
'GST had to come close on the heels of demonetisation as part of the same package.'
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