Apple Inc has announced the India prices of the new variants of its bestselling smartphones - launched on Tuesday - as it assembles the device in the country. The new iPhone 15 range starts at Rs 79,900 for the 128 GB variant (the same price as the iPhone 14 when it was launched last year) and goes up to Rs 199,900 for the top-end Pro Max with a 6.7 inch screen and 1 TB (terabyte) storage. The world's most valuable company also launched three new upgraded Apple watches, starting with the SE at Rs 29,900 and going up to Ultra 2 at Rs 89,900.
High interest rates have been discouraging fresh investments and dragged industrial production down for nearly two years now.
India Inc on Wednesday welcomed Tata Steel's acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus while expressing concern that the deal might re-rate the entire steel industry, making steel companies over-valued.
The banking regulator was uncomfortable with the runaway pace at which consumer credit was growing.
Global IT solutions provider HCL Technologies Ltd has signed a five-year multi-million dollar agreement with US-based Autodesk Inc to provide offshore application and data centre services.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has visited the manufacturing facility of US-based electric vehicle major Tesla at Fremont, California and said that the company would be doubling its auto components imports from India. The minister is in the US on a four-day visit. The world's largest electric car producer Tesla Inc's chief Elon Musk met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June in New York and after the meeting Musk had said that he planned to visit India in 2024.
India Inc's hiring activity was up 17 per cent in February with telecom and auto sectors leading the rebound, a report by leading job portal Naukri.com said.
Riding high on profit growth, India Inc is doling out interim dividends like never before
Majority of respondents feel that the government in the forthcoming Budget will increase the standard deduction and give more incentives for housing loans.
India Inc on Tuesday described the United States President Barack Obama's announcement to punish American firms by levying high taxes on their outsourcing business as 'protectionist' and a retrograde measure that, it said, will hurt the US companies.
Industry sources told India Abroad they wouldn't shed any tears if the legislation died in the House.
Congress candidate Elangovan secured 1,10,156 votes (64.58 per cent), which is 20.29 per cent more than the 2021 assembly election as the then INC candidate secured 66,300 votes and won the seat.
Declining value of the rupee, widening Current Account Deficit (CAD) and the impact of likely tapering of US bond purchases are some of the key issues which will keep Raghuram Rajan busy.
The message is clear: The 60-year-old wise uncles need to handhold the 40-year-old entrepreneurs when, obsessed with ambition and greed for growth, they become a victim of hubris, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Google has a lot of experience with legal troubles over intellectual property.
If we basically expect the government to use taxpayers' money to intervene every time when there are some 'sunsets,' then I think you introduce possible moral hazards: Subramanian.
India Inc's investment spirit is down. A majority of leading CEOs expect domestic investments and money infusion abroad by Indian companies to grow by less than 10 per cent or to decline during 2012, in view of the current economic slowdown.
'It might not have a direct impact on the domestic steel industry but will improve India's position in the global market.'
Corporate India's payout surged 22 per cent in 2006-07, with more than 50 per cent of the companies raising their dividends
'Historically, the markets tend to perform well during election years as governments aim to increase spending and call attention to growth.'
Corporate India has high hopes from the upcoming Budget.
The US Chamber of Commerce has written the President complaining of India's discrimination against a wide range of US exports.
Prices of key inputs up 44% to 74%; analysts expect earnings squeeze after a quarter or two.
India Inc has suffered a massive loss of over Rs 43,000 crore (Rs 430 billion), in the recently concluded financial year due to non-availability and mismanagement of power, a study says.
Coal, land, insurance bills are cited as govt's commitment to reforms.
The party said it was 'an inexcusable slip-up', for which responsibility was being fixed and action would be taken.
So let's stop focusing the Modi agenda on India Inc and the capital markets, and let's start focusing on the Modi development agenda for the average Indian.
India's economic growth remained subdued at 4.7 per cent in 2013-14 and at 4.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of the financial year, mainly due to a decline in manufacturing and mining output.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced the Union Budget 2013-14 in Parliament on Thursday.
India Inc (excluding trading and financial services companies) was sitting on a cash mountain of Rs 456,700 crore (Rs 4,567 billion) as on September 30, up 21 per cent from the same time a year before.
'This solid verdict would further strengthen his resolve to drive forward the economic agenda to ensure that the fruits of the economic momentum continue to reach the poor, so visible during the last five years.'
Seeking to cut costs in the wake of the current economic scenario, India Inc is increasingly adopting a differential salary structure based on performance and is also trying to attract the employees with intangible benefits like a favourable work environment, a new study says.
The early results from corporate India for the first quarter of 2015-16 are in, and these strongly suggest that a cyclical recovery is underway.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday made a double pitch for public sector companies. First he urged private sector companies to enter into joint venture partnership with PSUs
India Inc's hiring activity picked up by 1.3 per cent in July with improvement in recruitment in IT, real estate and retail sectors, says a survey by job portal Naukri.com.
Exit polls have a way of going horribly wrong, as they did in 2004. And India Inc is hoping it stays that way this time, too. That's because industry is concerned that the fractured verdict predicted by various media channels on Thursday would mean continued uncertainty on the economic policy initiatives that need to be taken up on a war-footing.
The first such interaction would be in Mumbai on Monday.
