Insurance firms want more clarity before increasing foreign partner's stake.
Percy Mistry says things at market regulator Sebi are also in bad shape.
'Retail investors have been selling since the Budget and Foreign Portfolio Investors started selling.' 'Thus far, domestic institutions have picked up the slack, buying enough to keep the major indices from falling off a cliff.' 'However, there has been carnage in smaller stocks and the financial sector has been hit much harder than the major market indices,' points out Devangshu Datta.
Though some operators offer the facility of tag lanes, such tags can only be used at designated points.
Urjit Patel as the new RBI governor whose focus is on taming inflation has lowered the probability of interest rate cut soon
Markets closed in the red on domestic worries.
This is the first time in the RBI's history that a governor is leaving without willing to renew his contract
FDI in the defence sector during 2000-2014 has been a meagre $4.94 billion, despite the total FDI flow into the country across sectors standing at $321.81 billion.
Even Delhi does not have a full-time registrar of chits.
Enormous debt isn't the only thing afflicting Air India. Its work culture is an equal culprit in its downfall.
That's how our politics is with no inner-party democracy. That's why we should listen to British MP Hilary Benn's speech, says Shekhar Gupta.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
'She was either overconfident that nothing will happen to her or she underestimated the gravity of the allegations.'
Some parties complained to the Election Commission alleging violation of the model code.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
The temples are concerned about the religious sentiments of the devotees who donate gold ornaments in the name of the deities
The challenges before the IT industry are many and its response over the coming months will shape the future of what has been one of the most vibrant value-creating and livelihood-enabling sectors.
When big offers hit the market, broader indices corrected 2-4%
Public resources are scarce and need to be used well.
In a pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the experts suggested timely implementation of the BJP's election manifesto promises to fix higher support prices. They also favoured a Kissan TV channel, an efficient procurement policy, priority for farm mechanisation and the linking of rivers.
Murthy talks about his role at the company, retirement plans and the direction in which Infosys is headed.
'There is tension between the zones all the time.'
The Bankruptcy Bill seeks to ensure predictability of outcome for creditors.
For FY16, MTNL's standalone net loss was over Rs 2,000 crore.
'Adaptability is what is needed right now and students have to continuously learn the new tools to remain relevant in the career they choose.'
It was a euphoric moment for students of the College of Engineering in Pune as the academic satellite developed by them -- Swayam -- was on Wednesday successfully placed in orbit along with 19 others.
Mergers to create at most six state banks
For 'a person who has dedicated his life to teaching students, guiding them to restoring monuments and preserving our built heritage, I never dreamt that my home will one day be demolished.'
Poor governance, constant interference of promoters, opposition from unions and talks of being an acquisition target seen as main deterrents.
As fuel prices continue its northward march with petrol and diesel being sold at Rs 80.73 and Rs 72.83 per litre in the national capital, at least 21 opposition parties, led by the Congress have staged a Bharat Bandh protesting the rise in fuel prices and depreciation of the rupee.
The new norms provide an operational framework for FPIs, a new class of overseas investors that club all existing class of investors like foreign institutional investors and Qualified Foreign Investors.
The PM's vision of a lean, agile, mobile and technology driven force requires more than 1.7 percent of GDP that it now gets.
To avert another Uttarakhand-type catastrophe, we must change course. We should stop pandering to the Indian elite's insatiable appetite for electricity, which is driving reckless dam construction, says Praful Bidwai
Govt is keen to push reforms in the insurance sector.
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
The Bharatiya Janata Party regime will have to make good on this election slogan to restore state-owned banks to health, says Rajiv Lall.
India needs to come up with new ideas to make the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas more appealing to overseas Indians. The Diasporas talents should be used for the country's development, says Thomas Abraham, founder of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin
The new army chief's highest priority must be to address the critical hollowness in the Indian Army's operational preparedness, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Railways must pull back its share of freight traffic.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
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