'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
In Mumbai, police seized Rs 1.40 crore from three persons in new Rs 2,000 notes.
Taken aback by the turn of events following the arrest of his wife Indrani in connection with the murder of Sheena Bora, former Star TV CEO Peter Mukerjea on Wednesday distanced himself from the case.
During the dot-com bubble, it had touched a high of 1.9.
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Investors turn their attention to export-driven sectors.
With 8 out of Maharashtra's 10 municipal corporations under the BJP's belt, and a stunning show in 25 zilla parishads and panchayat samitis, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, says Prasanna D Zore, is all set for an encore when his party next faces the polls.
22-year-old Prisiliya Madan pedalled her way through 1,800 km journeying from people's homes to the southernmost tip of the country.
These firms reported a combined operating profit of Rs 26,077 crore (Rs 260.77 billion).
While Raghuram Rajan has said in the past that other factors, including domestic fundamentals, outweigh the US Fed policy meet, this time it would be different
'The bullet train project is a complete sham'
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Indian market has been plagued by negative sentiment and triggers
The fallen bellwether of the technology sector has a strategy to reclaim its lost position.
With cash -- the primary medium of exchange -- all but disappearing, it is now unlikely that the expected fillip to demand on account of a good monsoon and proceeds from the Seventh Pay Commission payout will materialise.
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
The number of infrastructure projects cleared by a monitoring group set up in the Cabinet Secretariat had increased consistently in the past year.
The arrest of Chhagan Bhujbal by the ED rocked Maharashtra Legislature with protesting Opposition alleging it was "vendetta politics".
The BSE Realty Index is on a downhill journey.
Fresh investments by corporates up just 5.8% in FY17, lowest since 1992
Many giving double-digit returns, with India up less than one per cent; even so, it has done much better than other emerging markets.
Nifty 50 firms' net profit estimated to grow by a modest 3.1% in Q2, reports Krishna Kant.
Analysts say there is still no visibility of earnings improvement.
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
An analysis of year-wise movements of average global crude oil prices versus India's GDP reveals no inverse correlation, contrary to wide belief.
67 companies with total debt of Rs 5.65 lakh cr were either loss-making or didn't generate enough profit to cover interest cost in FY15
An action on the rate front is unlikely to figure in Rajan's plan for the moment.
Son of a daily wage labourer, roadside vendor, taxi driver, private tutor, landless farmer to magazine vendor crack IIT-JEE this year thanks to Bihar's Super 30
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
Analysts now expect India Inc to report a decline in both top line and bottom line for the September quarter.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
Through the past 12 months, the Bank Nifty has risen 55%
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