Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' stock market queries. Ajit will offer his unbiased views on a weekly basis
Find out how 30-year-old Nupur Jain is reviving the dying art of Sujani.
Agreement between Bharti Airtel and Loop Mobile, which offers mobile services in Mumbai, expired on October 31
Royal Enfield sees its scale and dominant market share as adequate buffers against Bajaj's recent challenges, says Ajay Modi.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Bombay House turns evangelist for new Tata products.
The sharp fall in oil price is positive for oil marketers as subsidy concerns reduce further.
With a market-oriented approach, an NGO in Delhi is ensuring the skills it imparts finds value with employers.
Foreign money has been pouring into India's fast-growing e-commerce sector, with investors ranging from Japan's Softbank Corp to Singapore's Temasek Holdings.
Rediff.com presents the gist of the speech delivered by Mr. Kailash Satyarthi on the Foundation Day of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh.
'It's hard to call whether the Indian markets will go through a time or price correction.' 'There could be a swift 5 to 10 per cent fall in the market in the next two months or there could be a gradual fall and six months sideway movement.' 'Eventually, I think there will be a bit of both.'
Experts say you may invest in small-sized funds and benefit from their nimbleness.
Novices should enter markets via SIPs of equity mutual funds.
For 20 years, the stock market headed nowhere, and this has created permanent aversion.
The move to ban Rs 500 and 1000 notes may not curb the root cause of black money.
Your social media profile may soon be your ticket to a loan or a credit card, says Abhishek Agarwal
'Young Indians are reading, but the wrong stuff.' 'They are reading and sharing Pappu jokes, Alia Bhatt memes and all the irrelevant material online.' 'My aim is to get them interested in books.'
On the investor side, we realised most of the funds have foreign capital, thus closing down the opportunity to the Indian investor.
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Investors often forget that the movements in indices such as the Sensex reflects the performance of its constituent stocks; nothing else.
Soon after acquiring strategic management control of Vijay Mallya's crown jewel, United Spirits, Diageo has swung into action, making up for years of lost time in trying to figure out the Indian market.
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Since the cash flows will be impacted in a big way, DLF will have to resort to selling non-core assets in a substantial and significant manner through the next few quarters.
Lingerie designer Karishma Jumani talks about why the Indian lingerie industry took so long to come out of its 'comfort zone'.
Entrepreneurship hasn't been a cakewalk for him, says Sinha.
Wrist bands range from leather and stainless steel to sports models in hues from pink to blue.
"Our artificial intelligence tells us what people are buying at that point, what is in fashion; on the other hand, we have a fair idea of the material available. It gives us a sense of what we should be putting across in the market and we can put them across really quickly," Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra, tells Alokananda Chakraborty.
Private-equity funds made an average annual return of just 7 per cent between January 2007 and December 2013 while the Sensex was up 11 per cent.
Many see Nirma's Lafarge deal as some kind of second coming for the Patels.
Many people struggle to claim or liquidate investments and insurance policies due to procedural issues.
'India is going to maintain its ties to China, India is going to develop a strong relationship with the United States. It means that India is going to have the flexibility to pick and choose its friends.' 'That's traditional Indian foreign policy, and it's smart.' Former US ambassador to India Frank Wisner, one of America's sharpest minds on South Asia, tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com what Washington can expect from Narendra Modi's visit.
The time the companies have to get ready for GST is 6 to 12 months.
'If the government had not spent an incredible amount of energy on demonetisation it may -- may, because it had not done anything the previous six months either -- have been able to pay attention to the deeper problems of low investment and job creation.'
Consumer durables and electronics companies are putting the final touches to their festive period plans.
The 91.9 per cent slide in the stock price of Gitanjali Gems since April has depleted the value of promoter Mehul Choksi's holding in the company by at least Rs 17 crore (Rs 170 million) a day on an average.
China's economy is in transition, with rising wage costs and massive overcapacity.
The farmers of Khentia are now working in tandem with the IIT team.
"The poor will not suffer disproportionately due to bouts of sharp inflation, and the middle class will not see its savings eroded," Raghuram Rajan said.
The forthcoming budget is an excellent opportunity for the Government to fulfill its promise of high economic growth.
India has made a remarkable journey from a top-down system of economic decision-making to one that unleashed our entrepreneurial spirits but the next big jump lies in enhancing the quality of our tale.
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