'SBI is already too big. Too big to fail.' 'It already is a moral hazard. What will it do with 20,000 branches that it cannot do with 14,000, especially in these days of online and mobile banking?'
Sensex firm on favourable GDP numbers for FY16.
CEOs fear any change in status of the mines will mean disruption in production, loss of investment and increased production cost for user industries.
The elements are all aligned to make India a global powerhouse, says IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
RBI's out-of-turn rate cut has surprise few economists.
Lt Gen Bakshi announced 'full support' to the new chief and made it clear that he won't resign.
In the history of Indian railway budgets, Suresh Prabhu will perhaps be the first railway minister not to have announced either a single new train or a new railway line
Indian roads are far more unsafe than its railways. A sense of urgency is required to tackle India's embarrassing record on road safety.
You could step aside from the BJP membership, don the mantle of a full-time journalist again and then go ballistic against the government, Sudhir Bisht tells Arun Shourie in this open letter.
ISB professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com that Modi government's continuation of tax terrorism is driving away investors.
'The corporate sector says by 2022 they will create 300 million jobs.' 'In the last 70 years we didn't do it, how will we do it in 5 years?' 'Only agriculture can bail out the economy. Unfortunately, it is not being looked into.'
'India's biggest loss is that we will not have anyone as principled and as courageous as Rajan.'
Maruti will showcase its first concept electric vehicle, the e-SURVIVOR; M&M it's six new EVs, including two futuristic concepts
If the people of Tamil Nadu stop deifying their leaders and start evaluating them more objectively, the political masters too may change their wayward behaviour, argues Sudhir Bisht.
To curb mis-selling of policies and rationalise commissions, radical changes have been proposed to help investors.
President Xi said that the Chinese side is ready to work with the Indian side to carry forward the fresh impetus of bilateral relations.
Recently, The World Bank has come up with the latest figures on the wealthiest countries in the world.
'It is not impossible that there will be some arrangement with the Congress in West Bengal after the ongoing local body polls.'
One can see the scale of recalls going up as the market expands.
A big hit to China's growth or to Europe's financial system could certainly tip the global economy.
Urjit Patel as the new RBI governor whose focus is on taming inflation has lowered the probability of interest rate cut soon
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.
Who are the men the prime minister relies on to execute his impressive agenda?
Growth in India will pick up from current levels, says LEO Puri, managing mirector, UTI Asset Management Company.
We are in this mess as the machinery of the government in a market economy is broken. We need technically sound banking regulation, so that capital is not misallocated, and the landscape does not get littered with zombie firms kept alive through evergreening, says Ajay Shah.
Since 2000, India has had three serious droughts.
Ministry considering tax sops for India's first global financial centre, steps to liberalise futures and options markets.
Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP
The greatest progress on civil rights in the United States since Abraham Lincoln was under the Southern Democrat Lyndon Johnson, the past master of wheeling and dealing in Congress.
The government is looking at building by-laws and floor area ratio so that you can build up instead of out, thus requiring less land.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Abuu Dhabi on Sunday on a two-day visit to the strategically important United Arab Emirates during which he will hold talks with the country's top leadership to enhance cooperation in key areas of trade and security and address the Indian diaspora.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
India is set for decent growth in 2015.
We're behaving like frogs in warm water. We swim around untroubled, cooled by our faith in Indian liberal democracy. We are blind to the bubbles popping around us, the bubbles warning of fundamental changes, says Mihir S Sharma.
What is it about Arohan that puts it in the top league of microfinance institutions in the country?
In the first part of an exclusive interview with Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com on the eve of the first year of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, BJP President Amit Shah talks about the government's achievements and the controversy over the land ordinance.
Industrialists have the same complaints as they did in the UPA's second stint.
While all poll surveys point to an overwhelming anti-Congress mood in the country, there is a growing consensus in the grand old party that it has no reasons to be defensive and should instead run an aggressive campaign against Bharatiya Janata Party' prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi by questioning his administrative acumen and underlining the corporate support he enjoys, says Anita Katyal
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.
'He depended too much on assurances given by sadhus and sants. He may not be culpable, but he was wholly responsible for December 6, 1992.' 'While Manmohan Singh came to reforms out of conviction, Rao came to reforms out of compulsion. If the compulsion had not been there, I don't know how he would have responded.'
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