Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' stock market queries. Ajit will offer his unbiased views on a weekly basis
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.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
For 20 years, the stock market headed nowhere, and this has created permanent aversion.
'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.
Rediff.com presents the gist of the speech delivered by Mr. Kailash Satyarthi on the Foundation Day of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh.
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
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.
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.
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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.
'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.'
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.
The time the companies have to get ready for GST is 6 to 12 months.
Many people struggle to claim or liquidate investments and insurance policies due to procedural issues.
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 processor is just 5 per cent of the overall cost of a computing device.
"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.
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.
