The benchmark Nifty rallied 1,000 points or 17% from 7,000 in 78 trading sessions since May 12, till date to surpass the 8,000 mark.
Sensex ended up 190 points at 25,519 and Nifty climbed 57 points to end at 7,626.
Rajan strongly defends RBI's decision to hold the key rates in the absence of any new data points.
'A couple of Pulwamas will bring the two nations to war and it will be limited to J&K itself.'
Anil Ambani will take over as the chairman of Pipavav Defence
Two organisations tracking tax violations and money laundering worldwide identify totally different sets of countries for lack of financial transparency.
Launches of new homes reduced drastically this year.
At that time, co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal had made a public announcement at a Bengaluru hotel, about a $1-billion fund raising, largest so far in the Indian e-commerce sector. A day later, Amazon issued a statement that it was investing $2 billion in India.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 13 images.
Investors booked profits at higher levels after the Sensex and Nifty hit all-time highs in the previous session.
Indian companies realise several business opportunities ahead of International Yoga Day on Sunday
Indian bond yields may not spike if the government opts to increase spending when it unveils its annual budget in late February.
A common factor that binds all these men is greed.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
Bharti Retail launched its first mall, The Pavilion, in Ludhiana.
Nitish Kumar has to eschew disastrous experiments with prohibition and reservations in the private sector. Unless he is dissuaded from pursuing these flawed measures, he will pave the way for Bihar to again become a part of the BIMARU group of sick states, says Amulya Ganguli.
De-allocation could raise import bill by $3 billion, add to coal shortage.
These are companies with a strong track record and good prospects on earnings.
India is failing to take advantage of its important ally, Japan as much as it should, notes Mihir S Sharma.
The Modi PMO is like none other: It is staffed by people who are so low profile that the only dominant personality is the Prime Minister's.
New Delhi has missed its target for partial privatisations for the past five years
Taxpayers might face several issues while filing returns this year.
China will also set up 50 joint laboratories with countries participating in the Belt and Road initiative to enhance cooperation on innovation.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday revised upwards the long-term corporate credit ratings of software majors TCS, Infosys and Wipro to 'A' from 'BBB+.'
He has had a productive first year at the RBI -- one which saw, also, India's economic imbalances improve and the unexpectedly strong general election outcome.
The ecosystems of India and China today jostle against one another across Asia and much of the world.
China's economy is in transition, with rising wage costs and massive overcapacity.
'When you forgive a farmer's loans there is this ideological economists lobby which says: 'That's socialism. And that's bad'.' 'But to forgive the loans of big people, so that they will be interested to invest further is capitalism and is good.'
'Both Japan and China face a common challenge: How to deal with Trump.' 'The trade war with the US seems to have facilitated/hastened Abe's China visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister since 2011,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
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Some experts believe that building new cities may not be the answer to India's swelling urban population.
The 2015 World Bank group's Doing Business index ranked India at 142, down from 140, which it was the year before.
The president-elect has vast public, social, and political experience which will help him better to discharge his duty as the First Citizen of India.
Global investment is agnostic when it comes to nationalism, says Kanika Datta.
'There is core BJP support on the Hindutva line. It will continue.' 'Along with that, the BJP is ready to play the OBCs trifurcation card to its benefit.' 'If you see the post-Kairana result, the BJP spokespersons and IT cell have already begun talking about Hindu unity against Muslim unity, Ram vs Allah.'
Recently, The World Bank has come up with the latest figures on the wealthiest countries in the world.
Sensex ended strong, Tata Steel, HUL climb higher.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
RBI recently hiked LRS limit to $125,000 or Rs 7500,000 as on Aug 19 with $/rupee rate of 60
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
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