'Life will not improve overnight; it will happen in a gradual manner.'
As the world awaits the end of the global pandemic, rural Bengal might be witnessing a recession unfolding in bits and pieces. With factories and tea gardens closing down, agricultural income falling and storm Aila ravaging a large part of deltaic West Bengal in 2010, migration gradually became a norm.
North Korea warns the US that it will soon 'suffer the greatest pain it ever experienced in its history'. Rajaram Panda looks at the latest twist in the North Korean crisis.
'India easily remains one among the more attractive large economies, with high growth and stable/improving macros, as a top investment destination.' 'We are looking pretty good.'
UK-based retail major Tesco Plc on Tuesday filed the first application for setting up multi-brand retail outlets in India.
'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.'
'Trump's sparring with China is good for business,' Raymond's CMD tells Pavan Lall.
Not only is gold a hedge against currency depreciation, rising crude prices and uncertainty, it is up 7 per cent (in dollar terms) in the past 12 months, says Devangshu Datta.
The Sensex ended 229 points down at 27,602 and the Nifty ended down 63 points at 8,293.
The West has built a culture of art philanthropy.
India is affected by a 'resource inefficiency curse'.
'When a new superhero film releases, China creates figurines based on the film and puts them out in the market along with the film's release.' 'Does our domestic manufacturing sector been able to do it so quickly? No.' 'We have a large millennial population and we have to make products that are more in line with the tastes of those people.' 'The MSME sector can win back its customers only this way.' 'When they change with the consumers's needs, there will be a move towards Indian products.'
The Hinduja brothers, who run the multinational Hinduja Group conglomerate with interests across automotive, real estate and oil, moved up from third position last year to top the UK's billionaire charts this year.
Mistry is not the first Tata bigwig to be ousted and Tata is not the only big name which saw a doyen or two leave
'I feel that since they know the problems, in the next 2 to 3 quarters, these problems could be resolved.' 'But they should realise that things are not working well right now.'demonetisation did not have a huge negative impact on the economy. But when it comes to GST, those who are looking for loopholes find it difficult to adapt.
Make in India has big shortcomings when it comes to natural resources.
The agreement means consumers will enjoy more choices and varied price points.
Sandeep Pandey salutes women who have contributed to social transformation in India after 1980.
India is experiencing jobless growth and skepticism abounding that the country may not be able to cash in on its demographic bonus
Rediff readers tell us what their first salaries meant to them.
New foreign trade policy to stress manufacturing exports.
During his lifetime and after, Ambani aroused extreme responses in others.
Together, they controlled nearly Rs 26 lakh crore of assets at the end of FY16.
Vijay Mallya left India on March 2, presumably for London.
'There is a certain irony embedded in this asymmetric geographical distribution of FDI because most state leaders have shed their inhibitions about promoting 'business' and have understood its virtues as a more cost-effective way of replacing the mai-baap welfarism that passed for economic policy till the early nineties', says Kanika Datta.
A home ministry official said while 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country due to "massive efforts" to check the outbreak, the Centre has written to all states and union territories that "the lockdown measures should be implemented in letter and spirit".
'We first need to acknowledge the truth.' 'We are trying to diminish the problem and say, everything is okay and green shoots are emerging.' 'Imagine you are a doctor and not getting accurate medical reports, how do you diagnose and treat the illness?' 'We are not dealing with a terminal illness here, we are dealing with BP and cholesterol, which are imminently curable.'
Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party government, top industry captains pledged mega investments at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit
The unemployment situation is becoming increasingly acute.
A survey by industry body Ficci has lowered the country's economic growth forecast for 2013-14 fiscal to 5 per cent, from 6 per cent projected in July, indicating tough times ahead.
The power to cause societal pain, at least to some segments of society, is intrinsic to the nature of technological innovation.
India's exports dipped deeper in the negative zone.
Despite the freeze on diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan and protests against the fair, traders at the recently concluded four-day Aalishan Pakistan exhibition did brisk business, reports Upasna Pandey.
Foreign Trade Policy: More incentives for exports, focus on ease of trading
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
Make in India campaign has huge potential.
The current crisis Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is facing is a cumulative effect of inattention to water management and the fiscal burden of populist promises, says Aditi Phadnis.
'This announcement is big foolishness.' 'The government has no idea of economics. They are just announcing what comes to their mind.' 'Let them implement what they have announced and just see what will happen in two years.'
The global economy may just be entering a new phase.
A large chunk of the Rs 8.8 lakh crore of investments the Patnaik government had attracted is in uncertain territory.
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