Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
For those who are sceptical about using debit or credit cards, even when faced with cash crunch, Adhil Shetty, CEO of BankBazaar.com, lists out a few safe cashless options that can be exercised through mobile phones.
TCS is hiring from over a hundred engineering campuses, MBA graduates from top B-schools in the US
The acquisition has opened a market to 245,000 healthcare providers, 350 payers (insurance firms) and 180 million lives.
Once tipped to emerge as the biggest exporter, the pharmaceutical industry is yet to acquire the scale of those in software services, says Krishna Kant.
Given that there are hundreds of players in the shadow banking space, it's hard to make a credible estimate of potential NPAs. That creates more scope for panic, says Devangshu Datta.
Top companies across sectors -- automobile maker Maruti Suzuki, consumer electronics giant Samsung to IT giant Infosys -- have reopened factories and offices as India took its first steps towards resuming economic activity after weeks under a near-total coronavirus lockdown.
Suresh Prabhu, the new railway minister, described his charge as being 'the engine of growth'.
Like everything else, the structure of banks may change, and banks may depend more on digital technologies and artificial intelligence for dealing with both their customers and employees.
Despite having started at least a decade later than Jet Airways, IndiGo accounts for the lion's share in the domestic market
Say heavy penalties for medical errors might raise health care costs and make practitioners too cautious, says Sushmi Dey
Swiss brokerage UBS joins European banking peer HSBC in shutting down its offshore derivative business
As a tech services company, Ola has never been in hardcore manufacturing. And unlike in ride hailing, which is a two-player market (Uber is the only other competitor), in two-wheelers it faces many entrenched players. But most of all, rivals say Ola's targets are out of sync with most, even ambitious, projections.
'IndiGo 2018 is a harsh, ultra-lean, mean, zero asset, fighting machine with aspirations of taking on the global long-haul low-cost market.'
It is advisable to stick to mid-caps with sustainable financial metrics rather than those offering the promise of faster growth.
To curb mis-selling of policies and rationalise commissions, radical changes have been proposed to help investors.
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Banking as we know it will stand on its head in the next 10 years.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's approach of win at all costs without looking at the bigger picture by refusing to play a Day-Night Test match against Australia is extremely disappointing, feels former captain Ian Chappell.
It is apparent that an easing of tensions at the border and a disengagement of troops is on the cards, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The US government should not only look at salary, but also focus on skills while making immigration reforms
The govt has a lot more to do then just open bank accounts for the poor in the Jan Dhan scheme.
Old-timers say Jet boss Naresh Goyal, although still razor sharp, doesn't have the same energy he once did and this reflects in his 'baby'.
The authoritative Congressional Research Service, which provides data and analysis to the US Congress, finds that India no longer features in the world's three biggest arms importers.
India's human development indicators show that deprivation extends well beyond the 22 per cent of population who live below the official poverty line.
'At Snapdeal, our aim is to become the best-in-class technology company.'
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India's export-oriented information technology outsourcing industry is perhaps more optimistic today about growth prospects than it was in the past five years.
The report is based on data collated from 5 large angel groups.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
This is the car major's second coming in India.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
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The year 2014 was one of the most challenging years for India. For two consecutive years our GDP growth was sub 5 per cent. Employment generation had declined, the revenue buoyancy was low and the country had become investment starved.
The real estate sector presents a daunting picture with revival prospects appearing to be bleak.
The move to ban Rs 500 and 1000 notes may not curb the root cause of black money.
Cash flow-based analysis should throw up businesses better able to survive the transient effects of a working capital crunch, says Devangshu Datta.
The US Fed on May 24 hinted at withdrawing its third round of quantitative easing, or bond buying programme, worth $85 billion each month, which began in the wake of the worst credit crisis in September 2008.
'We expect growth to increase in 2017, after this brief period associated with the change in notes.'
The new Honda Amaze breaks free from its Brio moorings, and is designed to wow, says Rajesh Karkera.
'Jin Jiang had invested in Louvre Hotels.' 'Louvre, a couple of months ago, took a majority in Sarovar hotels.' 'So they are coming in now.' 'Look at the Chinese -- two quarters ago they took 25 percent in Hilton.' And then HNA also took majority in Carlson (Radisson).'
As FIIs pull out of road projects, doubts have surfaced about the future of new highways and roads
World's most popular free email providers Gmail and Yahoo have made telephone number mandatory for creation of new email addresses in a bid to check spam.
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