If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to rethink the notion that the traditional SMEs will form the manufacturing backbone, argues Prosenjit Datta.
The PM also took a swipe at 79-year-old Gogoi who had called the assembly election as a direct fight between him and Modi, saying he can only pay his respects to the elderly leader.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money has decided to create a rich national database where multiple agencies probing tax and financial crimes will pool in vital classified information to be shared for seamless investigation.
MySmartPrice has been growing about 100 per cent a year and is profitable.
'The INS Vishal -- a 65,000 tonne giant with 54 aircraft, including fighters, electronic warfare aircraft, airborne command posts and anti-submarine helicopters -- can both protect and dominate,' says Ajai Shukla.
'It has also saved the government about $ 9 billion in fraud and wastage because by having that unique number you eliminate fakes and duplicates from your beneficiary and employee list,' Nilekani said at an event on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Kishore Biyani led-Future Group has filed a caveat before the Delhi high court requesting it to be heard if any plea is filed by e-commerce major Amazon over its Rs 24,713 crore deal with Mukesh Ambani-led RIL. Anticipating a move by Amazon, which had got an interim arbitration award in its favour, putting the announced deal on hold, the Future Group firm has moved the Delhi high court.
More than 250,000 gram panchayats are yet to be connected through broadband.
The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016. "What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said."
The proposed company, Yu Televentures, will import handsets from China and sell in the Indian market.
'No Budget has so far has addressed the issue of the government's abysmal productivity of capital spending, improving which will be the big game changer. 'But, the government's tight lock on businesses, banks, education, and even essential services like transportation and large parts of infrastructure and healthcare is destroying capital year after year,' points out Debashis Basu.
'Now is the time for India to course correct and for the government also to course correct,' says businessman Mangesh Khatri.
'We are all in a tizzy about NBFCs in the aftermath of the IL&FS default.' 'We tend to jump to the notion that an NBFC is like a bank. But banks make a promise that deposits are liquid and have an assured return.' 'NBFCs make no such promises,' points out Ajay Shah.
'If I had to highlight one area that will do well, it is the financial assets -- that is the private sector banks, insurance and mutual funds.'
The deadline has been termed as "impractical" by many college principals, who could not manage to meet it.
'There was a universal feeling that not much is known about amateur and professional golf in India, and also how golf is developing in what is going to be a very big economy in just a few years.' 'They all want India to be ready and accessible.'
Banerjee said she was doing so after consulting leaders of major opposition parties and following 'a favourable court order'.
Analysts say it is a case of over-promise and under-delivery.
After gaining 300 million mobile wallet users in India, the firm has now expanded operations to Japan via PayPay Corporation, a joint venture established by SoftBank Corp and Yahoo Japan Corporation.
India is looking at 5G technology as a major opportunity in terms of offering services tailored for rural India like telehealth, tele-education and bandwidth-heavy applications
The navy wants to spend Rs 40,000 crore on INS Vishal, a choice the army and air force oppose. This is as much about turf as about funding. explains Ajai Shukla.
Three years and Rs 28,710 crore worth of transactions later, it has more than double the number of sellers than Flipkart.
'Everyone is still trying to understand the quantum of impact demonetisation will have on the economy.'
The announcement came after marathon meetings held by the minister with senior railway board officials since Friday.
BSE proposes two models for making gold trading and investment transparent
Are Indian citizens mindful of their responsibility?
Sebi will be taking a number of measures to develop a derivatives market of commodities.
E-cigarettes pose a huge health risk to users, who more often than not are adolescents and young adults
Insurance company will bear the cost of digitising. It will in turn benefit from lower expenses on servicing policies.
Stepped up public expenditure must be accompanied by focused policies, advises Vinayak Chatterjee.
The agreement would divert China's attention and keep them busy in the Pacific theatre, probably resulting in a reduction in threat perception in our area of interest in the Indian Ocean, notes Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Nilekani said new-age technology markets work on a winner-takes-all basis.
Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
NDA government has shunned populism.
Even though the Health Ministry and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have been insisting that there is 'no solid evidence' of community transmission so far, the government has started scaling up health infrastructure to deal with any situation.
Defence ministry incompetence hobbles development of battle-taxis for the Indian Army.
HAL made its point against a sceptical Indian Air Force, which opposed the HTT-40 project, blocked funding, and imported an expensive Swiss trainer rather than backing the HTT-40.
The biotech company's revenues had fallen to as low as Rs 50 cr.
The seasons in 2012 and 2013 went by with hardly any property launches, mainly due to an economic slowdown and a need to clear the backlog
Realtors, consultants and foreign universities vie for big share.
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