Strengthening the portfolios of the home minister and the finance minister is a message that should not be missed, points out A K Bhattacharya.
Also the companies should be self-sufficient in product designing and have maintenance and life cycle support facilities.
National security, consolidation of border defences and border security highlights China's Tibet policy, points out Jayadeva Ranade, the former senior RA&W officer and China expert.
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
The bullet train is expected to cover 508 km between Mumbai and Ahmedabad in about two hours.
The Telangana government will be embarking on a week long celebration from Tuesday to observe its Formation Day.
Going ahead with its festive sales as per schedule, companies such as Flipkart, Jabong, and Myntra are having week-long Valentines' Day sales, offering discounts of as much as 80 per cent. Amazon India is also offering discounts of almost 40 per cent.
Foreign Direct Investment inflows from Mauritius have almost halved during April-January period of last fiscal to $4.11 billion on fears of impact of GAAR and possible re-negotiation of the tax avoidance treaty.
The most common complaint of financial consumers is cumbersome processes, complicated products, usurious charges, and mis-selling of products, which finally don't deliver what is promised or as expect, notes Debashis Basu.
India's rank inched up by just one position to 130 in last year's Doing Business Survey by the World Bank.
An exercise to rationalise coal linkages which will optimize transport of coal and reduce cost of power is underway.
But it is disappointing to note that Sitharaman's third Union Budget continues to promote a few problematic ideas, observes A K Bhattacharya.
Jack Ma is learnt to have discussed about e-commerce, mobile telephony
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
These start-ups are different from the ones that have made it big in India.
Columnist A K Bhattacharya wonders why is it that the value of investment proposals in 2015 declined by 23 per cent, but the number of jobs to be created through such investments actually went up by 12 per cent.
The President said that for rapid creation of jobs in the manufacturing sector, the government will strategically promote labour-intensive manufacturing.
The government on Wednesday approved Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) 'Fund of Funds for Startups' to support them with an aim to generate employment for 18 lakh persons.
The main purpose of the meeting is to assess their views on reforms that are required to attract long-term capital into the country.
Pressing ahead with its policy to promote domestic military industry, the government has cleared procurement proposals worth over Rs 21,000 crore and also okayed a project for the production of transport aircraft which is open only to Indian private sector companies.
Pressing ahead with its policy to promote domestic military industry, the government has cleared procurement proposals worth over Rs 21,000 crore and also okayed a project for the production of transport aircraft which is open only to Indian private sector companies.
But it may come with a downside risk of further rise in prices of several products.
The US is the largest consumer of gems and jewellery in the world contributing nearly 40 per cent of global production. If India can tap the opportunity, its overall exports to the US could jump by 10 per cent to $ 11 billion this year.
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