Metal stocks also had a good session, with JSW Steel zooming by 7%, and Tata Steel and Nalco gaining about 3% each.
'Our first great challenge is to create 12 million new jobs each year, to make the demographic dividend an economic dividend.' 'We are nowhere near that,' points out Mohan Guruswamy.
If people can lobby me for making changes in policies that goes against the country's interest, I won't keep myself in this position, says the vice chairman of NITI Aayog.
Answer writing is an extremely important skill and a CSE aspirant cannot skip practicing answers.
The opposition has attacked the Modi government over the National Democratic Alliance's last full-fledged budget before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
It is best not to get carried away by returns or take a short-term view of the markets, says Bhavana Acharya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met business leaders to hear their grievances on issues ranging from high capital cost to ease of doing business to certainty on taxation matters, as he interacted for the first time with the Indian industry chambers since taking charge over a year ago.
'The true fruits of the attack on black money, what Raghuram Rajan did for the banking system, and what technology is doing for us will come in FY19, which, not surprisingly, is the year running up to the next Lok Sabha elections.'
For India, it is business as usual with the government muddling along.
Higher disposable incomes, rural push and infra push to boost auto sector
The Congress feels there was no articulation of a bold vision of a statement of intent in the Budget, no articulation of a direction in which the economy has to go, and it lacks imagination. Renu Mittal reports.
ADB pegs India's GDP growth at 7.8 per cent in FY 2015-16
'We are looking at the Budget with the hope that it will address all issues even at the cost of exceeding the fiscal deficit target.'
'When there is no middle ground possible between the government and the governor, the governor has to go.'
Most Asian markets were trading weak on Monday.
The former finance minister also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the words he chose to attack his predecessor Manmohan Singh, saying he should remember that the Chair he sat on was used by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and even Atal Bihari Vajpayee and hence he should use right language.
'The media today is completely free from the government-induced fear factor.' 'It is only scared of the public backlash and its TRP ratings,' say Sudhir Bisht.
A platform that helps retailers reduce failed transactions while keeping the cost down, Innoviti is all set for India's digital payments revolution.
It could be a tough week In the run-up to such an event, the market is always nervous.
'Gujarat should have been a breeze. But the Patidar agitation and economic uncertainty queered the pitch.' 'Yes, the BJP won and its rank-and-file will take great comfort in the assembly victory. But the leadership is taking stock for a very tricky set of elections coming up in 2018.'
India has been a core portfolio holding for emerging market funds.
It is too late in the government's term for it to pull its usual trick of blaming the last guys.
At 11:37 am, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 28 points at 27,037 and the Nifty50 was up 2 points at 8,268
'If I had to highlight one area that will do well, it is the financial assets -- that is the private sector banks, insurance and mutual funds.'
Tambaram, a suburban area of the capital city has borne the brunt of the torrential rains, with areas beyond 2-3 km outside of its station left inundated, cutting it off from rest of Chennai.
'The BJP must realise that a resurgent Rahul Gandhi will take the battle straight into its camp.' 'He is not going to be held back by the misdeeds of UPA 1 and 2, so there is no point harping on them,' says Sanjeev Nayyar.
'...and defensive until the global macro headwinds turn more benign.'
A classic example of a leader who has chosen to risk everything for his vision.
FM should avoid proposals such as to tax financial transactions and fringe benefits
Jaitley's Budget has the potential to change the face of Modi's Bharat
The government has unleashed a slew of reforms to attract greater investments including higher foreign direct investment in defence and opening up the railways infrastructure sector, relaxed labour laws, launched campaigns like the Make in India for re-invigorating manufacturing, Clean India and Digital India, among others.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that it is imperative to maintain high growth rates.
Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
Rajan's remarks come as the Modi-led government completes one year.
Despite the rally, on the basis of valuations, Indian markets aren't too expensive, says Christopher Wood, managing director and equity strategist at CLSA.
The Sensex ended at at 27,676, lower by 210 points and the Nifty broke the psychological level of 8,400 to end at 83877 down 70 points.
With Pirojsha Godrej at the helm, Godrej Properties posted a fourfold jump in profit in the third quarter of the current financial year, probably the only real estate company that did so well in that quarter.
'We should celebrate when a girl hits puberty, just the way we celebrate New Year, Holi, Diwali.'
From Dudhwa to Veppathur and Havelock Island, the Indian tourism market is booming like never before.
It could also clear stalled projects and review various subsidies on the energy, food and fertiliser fronts.
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