The fund industry may have embraced machines and robots, but managing money still needs the human touch
The company has decided to consolidate its delivery functions horizontally
Zee and Star, the two largest media companies in India, are undergoing some radical ownership changes. What could it mean? Vanita Kohli Khandekar attempts an answer.
Financial Intelligence Unit data show many of these societies have become the biggest draw for laundering money. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports.
TCS plans to build ignio as a standalone company.
These sectors have underperformed the wider market over the past year and are seen having far more upside potential if the economy picks up thanks to Modi's reformist agenda.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the "beneficiaries" -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is put at the centre of any policy design. This is a crucial way in which experimental results are often better than large scale data-based inference, says Mihir S Sharma.
With thousands of people receiving ransom messages from cybercriminals every day, Devangshu Dutta explains how you can defeat the hackers.
Mr Prabhu has a big challenge ahead in implementing trade reforms to regain the lost export momentum, says Jayanta Roy.
The lack of bandwidth and content means it will be a long time before online streaming services take off in India.
A total of 180 NSE-listed companies have not appointed a woman director.
In just three years the online real estate portal has managed to raise about Rs 270 crore.
Intrapreneurs are more diverse in their skill sets and backgrounds, more digitally native, more networked and connected, and more ambitious to do bigger things. A fascinating excerpt from Simone Ahuja's Jugaad 3.0: Hacking The Corporation To Make It Fast, Fluid And Frugal.
'I would want people to have food on their tables and their wages to rise.' 'Will that happen or not is the question that we need to ask and answer.'
The loss of income has severely dented the loan repayment ability of small borrowers
The S&P BSE Sensex has gained 149 points to open at 25,802.
'The attempt to build a negative narrative about India's economic performance is disingenuous.' 'For the investors as well as the targeted beneficiaries of welfare schemes, the ground reality is very different,' argues Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman, NITI Aayog.
Might end up with a smaller slice as more contracts get restructured, warn analysts.
Piramal Enterprises has about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) cash on its books.
'Unless the State is a welfare State, unless the State has more welfare measures, it will not be able to deal with these kind of sudden situations.'
A Bank Investment Company to act as a holding company for state-owned banks would go a long way in minimising government interference and improving governance.
Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints, L&T, ONGC and Infosys have gained between 1%-1.5%.
Like everything else, the structure of banks may change, and banks may depend more on digital technologies and artificial intelligence for dealing with both their customers and employees.
Nine companies incubating at StartupVillage have made it to the second round of Nasscoms flagship programme to support 10,000 technology startups across India.
He's betting big on small stores to help him reach 10 million households by FY21, report Abhineet Kumar and Raghavendra Kamath.
Internet users in India is attracting cyber criminals, as these are first-timers, who can be duped easily
Sensex climbs higher at close, bluechip stocks in focus.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
'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.'
The BJP in its policy document stated that tourism plays a key role in socio-economic progress through creation of jobs.
The 4G service may use Reliance Retail, with a surging customer base, as the launch pad
The system has gone through three rounds of testing for its load-bearing capacity.
Investors engaged in profit booking in the recent gainers at attractive and higher valuations.
In 2013-14, India became the third-largest contributor to Vodafone Group's service revenue and operating free cash flow.
The study says the entire supply chain of goods and services will suffer a massive liquidity shock.
Auto stocks led the rally with Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp and Maruti Suzuki leading the gains.
Reddi has so far made 10 investments in the US.
'As banks grapple with risk aversion and savers see an erosion in the value of money, the P2P platform can be a win-win for both borrowers and lenders,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
