Experts say you may invest in small-sized funds and benefit from their nimbleness.
Rediff.com presents the gist of the speech delivered by Mr. Kailash Satyarthi on the Foundation Day of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh.
Novices should enter markets via SIPs of equity mutual funds.
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
On the investor side, we realised most of the funds have foreign capital, thus closing down the opportunity to the Indian investor.
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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Investors often forget that the movements in indices such as the Sensex reflects the performance of its constituent stocks; nothing else.
'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.'
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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.
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.
Lingerie designer Karishma Jumani talks about why the Indian lingerie industry took so long to come out of its 'comfort zone'.
"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.
'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.
Many people struggle to claim or liquidate investments and insurance policies due to procedural issues.
The time the companies have to get ready for GST is 6 to 12 months.
Consumer durables and electronics companies are putting the final touches to their festive period plans.
'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.'
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 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.
"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 processor is just 5 per cent of the overall cost of a computing device.
Raamdeo Agrawal says, an investor should figure out if the company actually makes money or not, making an investment comes later.
Shriya Rangarajan has come a long way from the comforts of the western world.
An analysis of the National Housing Bank's Residex shows from 2007 to now, almost all tier-II cities have seen their residential property prices appreciate by 45-120 per cent.
Following the Supreme Court ruling against liquor being sold within 500 metres of state and national highways, the infamous Indian jugaad is in play once again. Veenu Sandhu, Nikita Puri, Ranjita Ganesan & Avishek Rakshit find out how India is coping.
Although the markets could see a knee-jerk reaction, they rule out a sharp fall.
What is Change really like in Bihar? Once seen as India's basket-case, what is its turnaround story like?
Mr Rahul Gandhi himself has given seven different prices in different speeches with regard to the Rafale, that is the 2007 offer.
A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year in spite of the stock market decline.
Fortnightly updates, brilliant display, a fantastic camera and satisfying battery back up, makes this 5.2-inch phone HTC's saviour.
Price cuts will surely help Apple's cause here, says Himanshu Juneja.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
A unique start-up in India is helping the differently abled find their match.
