The focus is now on having premium service to give passenger comfort and increasing train speeds.
Valuation-wise, the markets look more attractive now
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of cooperative federalism is expected to be on display in the 2015-16 Budget.
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
Unsparing on the under-performing shooters but equally scathing on coaches and the national federation, the Abhinav Bindra-led National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) review committee hardly minced words as it chastised the Rio Olympics flop show while recommending a systematic overhaul.
The fragmentation of politics and the pressures of coalition management have contributed to a near-secular rise in budgetary social expenditures and spending on subsidies since 1991, leaving little fiscal space for government-led capital investment.
The country saw two straight years of deficient monsoons.
Brokers like Vasudevan are struggling to keep themselves in tune with this super-informed, new-generation retail investor.
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'India is doing better than when we took office 17 months ago'.
The festive season starts from August and last till December.
'Today, bankers don't want to take risks as the good decisions taken by them were not protected.' 'There is risk involved in all decisions, like businessmen taking risks in their businesses.' 'A banker must have taken a decision when the economic condition was different, and you cannot question him on the basis of the present situation in hindsight.' 'Naturally, this has affected the morale of bankers.'
Modi govt says its economic score on all coutns is very good.
'The Modi government needs some big private sector trophies to affirm its anti-corruption credentials before the polls.' 'So on whose neck will the sword fall next?' 'To that extent, the outing of the ICICI Bank-Videocon story is cathartic,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Kenneth Rogoff, professor of public policy and economics at the Harvard University, tells Dilasha Seth on the sidelines of the Delhi Economics Conclave that public sector banks will need to take a one-time haircut to address non-performing assets.
2013 foreign currency non-resident deposits to mature in Sep-Nov
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani has moved 2 ranks ahead this year on the most powerful list.
Khan stressed on taking austerity measures, working on tax reforms instead of taking loans, rooting out corruption.
The Indian economy was on an impressive growth path through the first decade of this century till it was brought to an abrupt halt by the policy inertia during UPA2 and the Modi government's inability to restore economic and financial momentum. Fascinating glimpses of what went wrong from Puja Mehra's must-read book The Lost Decade: How India's Growth Story Devolved Into Growth Without A Story.
'That is not a democratic ideal obviously, but it is a practical reality.' 'It is a consistent feature of politicians in Pakistan that their rhetoric on the army softens the closer they get to the seat of power.'
When Rajni Kothari pointed towards a new democratic alignment in India.
Banks led the decline with Nifty Bank and BSE Bank index dropping over 3% each.
The irony of this scheme to benefit farmers is that it could add to the problems for the government because the mechanism to procure and store crops like pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds barely exists.
BJP chief Amit Shah said that the government has brought the country out of policy paralysis.
The Society of Asian American Scientists in Cancer Research last month presented awards to seven doctors for their outstanding contributions to cancer research. The awards were presented by Rajvir Dahiya, SAASCR president, San Diego, California on April 6.
The problem, say experts, is not so much the use of plastic as the lack of effort to recycle and reuse it.
Formula One is to award double points for the last race of the season in a controversial attempt to keep championships undecided to the very end after four years of Red Bull domination.
'The UPA's claim of growth at 9.5 percent was absolute nonsense and a fraudulent claim because the country did not grow; it was only statistical growth.' 'I do believe that when there is a determined leader who wants to bring a desired change, the system will begin acting. Today, people think there is policy paralysis, but there is functional paralysis also.' 'When things start moving, people will invest. Many companies are holding cash, many people are not investing. Nobody is making any move. Everybody is waiting for the elections to get over.' Economist and Swadeshi Jagran Manch convenor Swaminathan Gurumurthy in conversation with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com
Growth in India will pick up from current levels, says LEO Puri, managing mirector, UTI Asset Management Company.
The country last raised the amount of government debt that foreign investors can buy by $5 billion in June last year.
A $28,500 deposit was made to the account of slain gunman Syed Farook, a media report has said.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Across India, decades of mismanagement and political meddling have left utilities selling electricity below cost and turning a blind eye to rampant theft.
Lower inflation, FCNR(B) outflows likely to influence central bank decision
The dust over the controversy around foreign direct investment (FDI) in the defence sector appears to have settled.
Modi govt has a unique style of working, say experts.
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
India still has to go a long way to implement reforms in various sectors.
The year gone by saw the high and mighty of the corporate world face the music in the Delhi High Court which held that the telecom majors are amenable to CAG audit and Mukesh Ambani's RIL struggling hard to get rid of an FIR lodged on gas pricing by the 49-day-old AAP regime.
As coal stocks at thermal plants fall to critical levels, economic recovery could be hi.
