It is welcome that the government tried to make its intentions clear last week - especially as risk concerns return to global markets.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
A day after deciding to nearly double natural gas prices to $8, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday hinted that power and fertiliser units may get gas at subsidised rates to keep electricity and urea costs down.
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The agency has kept its FY15 growth forecast unchanged at 5.6 per cent.
Clearly, rich Indians have little confidence in India. Perhaps we are also chronically dishonest.
While Congress-ruled states such as Kerala, Karnataka and Assam expressed fears about the sudden demise of the planning process and wondered what it would be replaced with, also worrying about the immediate implications on annual Plan outlays, Andhra Pradesh said it was considering setting up its own NITI Aayog.
Thailand, Indonesia want unconditional access to India's multi-brand retail space.
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Likely to set the ball rolling for Rs 1.72-lakh-cr projects today
Firms are still barred from holding board positions in the special purpose vehicle that will develop the airport.
'It is vital we should form an international coalition against ISIS, because their brutality and the use of the Internet for jihadist activities is a reminder that the entire world community has to be in this together,' US Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview ahead of Prime Minister Modi's visit.
FM needs to convince Indians to invest more in stocks.
A good monsoon could rein in food inflation. Largely good corporate results mean better days are ahead. Nifty may reach record levels, points out Devangshu Datta.
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said falling oil prices act as a cushion for CAD, adding it is time India does away with restrictions on gold imports
Honest tax payers need not worry about the new black money law, says finance minister Arun Jaitley.
Gold schemes are offering attractive returns to investors.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
IMF projected India's economic growth at 4.25% in 2013-14.
The RBI holds its next policy meeting in early June.
The proposal will now be considered by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
Some experts says that the high net-worth requirement of Rs 50 crore for setting up an IU is a deterrent.
Unless Dr Urjit Patel starts clearing the balance sheets of banks, the investment cycle will not start. Unless the clog in the drain is cleared, further lending cannot happen. If further lending doesn't happen, the investment cycle also will not happen, writes M R Venkatesh.
While he has plenty of critics at home, Rajan is a favourite among foreign investors and has been credited for bringing inflation under control.
Even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in 2014, Subramanian Swamy was agitating for Rajan's removal.
Following up on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget announcement of creating an integrated oil company, India's biggest oil and gas producer ONGC may buy all of the government's 51.11 per cent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
Lack of decisiveness and courage to deal with PSBs may turn out be the biggest impediment to the Modi government's economic initiatives, says Debashis Basu.
The approval was announced by Environment Minister Greg Hunt, who said "after undertaking a thorough assessment and consideration under national environment law, I have approved the Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure project, subject to 36 strict conditions".
'The cash part is the lower hanging fruit compared to the other sources.' 'To attack the cash part of black money, I can't think of anything else but demonetisation.'
Mamata woos industry with boat ride to Gangasagar, Sundarbans
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the states were free to announce farm loan waivers if they had the fiscal space and that there would be no shortfall this year in divestment and non-tax revenues.
Hindalco has already bagged 4 mines in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh
ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar stirred a hornet's nest this week when she linked the low numbers of women in B-school to a focus on quantitative ability in the testing process.
The Congress has reasons to enjoy the BJP's discomfiture. After all, the Insurance Bill was introduced by the UPA government in 2008 but was constantly blocked by the BJP on some pretext or the other which was then in the Opposition.
'There is tension between the zones all the time.'
The finance ministry has put out a revised draft in public domain.
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
Four specific areas will be watched carefully in the first half of FY16
Retirees and labour officials acknowledged that the city's finances were in a shambles and they would have to share in the sacrifice to help Detroit recover.
The Oil Ministry is seeking Cabinet nod to allow Reliance Industries to retain three gas discoveries worth $1.45 billion in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block even after expiry of timelines.
The dust over the controversy around foreign direct investment (FDI) in the defence sector appears to have settled.
Corporate legal cases kept India Inc on its toes in 2014 as high stake matters on coal, telecom and mining came up in the Supreme Court, which also sent Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy to jail.
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