Markets under pressure; IT financials grab spotlight.
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.
The aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills of the youth will be the force for India's economic transformation
US President Barack Obama on Sunday affirmed his commitment to enhancing India's 'voice and vote' in global financial institutions like IMF.
Investors from across the globe are keen to invest in Gujarat.
The spectre of Singur and now its verdict is looming large on the future of many of Bengal's projects, especially the state government's industrial parks that are vacant. As many more episodes await, the question uppermost on everyone's minds is, how long will Singur haunt Bengal?
The 30-share Sensex ended up 33 points at 27,241.78 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 27 points at 8,200.70.
Expectations were probably too high from Narendra Modi.
FM should avoid proposals such as to tax financial transactions and fringe benefits
China's slowing means commodity markets are no longer overheated.
It's time we dispensed with the paper trail and shifted all labour law paper, workflows and permissions online.
Report card of the Narendra Modi-led central government for the first six months, on the basis of ratings by top CEOs, under key parameters.
PM promised a tax regime that is predictable and competitive
'Poor home work, and a subsequent loss of nerve.' 'This sums up the Modi government's current travails, the stall in key sectors, fading momentum, irritability,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
'India needs to adopt a more proactive policy of triggering exports to China.'
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office, which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely for the United Progressive Alliance regime, questions are now being raised about pending decisions across ministries and whether at least some ministers have turned redundant.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
The second-longest serving chairman introduced quite a few measures for the primary market and implemented a new corporate governance framework.
India is today one of the top locations for semiconductor design and embedded software, but it remains hidden under a generic and misleading name, IT/ITES services.
'The army has stopped short of exerting the sort of influence it may have done historically.' 'It is comfortable with its relations with the civilian government as the superior partner.'
'There is no change in the overall story of economic recovery.'
RBI will cut rates in its next policy announcement on June 2.
'James Crabtree ignores the emergence of a nexus between business and politics going back to the 1920s and talks of it as a new child of 21st century India,' says Shivanand Kanavi.
'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.'
Pushback to Modi govt's policy pronouncements has already started, it now has a very small window of opportunity to bring in reforms.
All evidence suggests that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates soon.
Economic growth in the last two years has stayed above seven per cent.
The government has made its initial moves, good and not-so-good, while the roll-out in some cases has been slow.
The PM needs to tap into his latent support base among the aspirational classes, while keeping the loony fringe at bay to stop or reverse the change in the political atmosphere
A cut in rates would have encouraged the banks to lend aggressively on the retail front.
It is important to note that slowdown in activity is really confined to a selected few regions within China.
There are conflicting signs on India's investment cycle.
If the crisis worsens it could jack up India's oil import bill by over $20 billion this fiscal, at close to $200 billion.
KPMG's global board will meet in India next week
The government has taken a number of steps to address the situation faced by farmers.
CEOs are not happy with scorecard so far but are ready to invest more as they think one year is too short a time to revive the economy
For all the blame-game over the flood preparedness in Chennai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, this is not the first of its kind. Nor would it be the last, given the nature of the north-east monsoon, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Oil and gas players' wish list includes incentivising E&P investments and reintroduction of income tax holiday for exploration and production activities, among others.
Low oil prices also means effectively transfer of wealth from the producing nations to the consuming nations
One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state governments adopting apprenticeships on a large scale.
