The new rail and road cargo service launched on Friday, linking Guangdong, Tibet and Nepal, aims to boost trade with the South Asian neighbour as China pushes forward its Belt and Road (Silk Road) initiative, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
Tax collection at source would lock in Rs 400 crore of seller money, say Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal.
It was conveyed that he would not have a free rein in making bureaucratic postings. Sunil Bansal, handpicked by BJP president Amit Shah to execute his UP blueprint, has made it clear the party's writ would run over the government. But Adityanath has institutionalised a system to keep Bansal out, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
Vishal Sikka has little time left to turnaround Infosys.
India Inc is facing threat from non-traditional sources.
IndiGo's situation points to a deeper malaise where skill shortage can challenge India's status as the fastest-growing aviation market, say experts.
Movement of rupee and crude oil prices will also dictate the trend
The country must get its act on global alliances right in order to feed its fuel-hungry economy, points out Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
The implications aren't too significant, given the size of Ukraine and its role in the global economy.
Local businesses are fretting over reform setbacks.
'Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed.'
'15, 17 years back we were not even in existence in the US. Today nearly 1/3 of prescriptions written comes from India.' 'India is showing that in a very competitive environment -- like the US and Europe -- our industry is doing very well.'
While demonetisation will benefit the organised sector, the government has to find a way to channel the upcoming revenue buoyancy towards job creation to balance out job losses in the informal sector, says Akash Prakash.
The RBI expects change, presumably commencing in the next Budget, but must hold its current view until this actually happens.
It also marks the culmination of the revamp exercise that the brand undertook 18 months back, spearheaded by Nellaiappan Thiruambalam, who was appointed as director and CEO of the personal care and foods division in April 2013.
Having invested close to $15 billion in Indonesia, Indian firms have lined up further $15-16 billion investments.
Over lunch with Jyoti Mukul, Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO, GE South Asia, discusses how GE is transforming itself into a digital industrial company.
At a time of massive job losses that is what the much-vaunted Indian IT sector needs. Ritwik Sharma reports.
'The biggest struggles are in the human mind.'
Stalling the introduction of better emission standards is based on specious logic, especially in a country that has 13 of the world's most polluted cities.
Make in India has few advantages and some disadvatnages too.
Fiscal discipline has been maintained but toxic assets worth Rs 7 crore are a massive headache
Sensex remained volatile through the day.
This means lower losses on fuel sales by Indian oil companies and a shrinking oil subsidy bill for the government.
Corrosion is a big menace for anything with steel application from rebars in construction, oil and water pipelines, railway track, power distribution poles to automobiles, says Kunal Bose.
Expressing serious concerns over the current account deficit touching a record 4.8 per cent in 2012-13, India Inc on Thursday asked the government to take all policy measures, including boosting exports and foreign exchange inflows to bring down CAD.
With EU, it is part of the FTA that we will need to negotiate.
Tarun Das and T N Ninan offer their prognosis for US-India momentum on the economic front
'If India and China come together, 40 per cent of the world's people are going to be prosperous'
He said land is required for rural roads, irrigation, electrification.
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
'Learning to learn should be given more importance than what is actually being learnt,' recommends Zaki Ansari.
Modi's Make in India will work only if the cost of borrowing comes down.
Governor Rajan can be more unambiguously pro-growth.
'We are in the reverse gear and we are not there anywhere compared to the rest of the world'
Link between oil exploration and markets can be used by India to great advantage.
Following is the full text of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's speech at FICCI's 86th annual general meeting on Saturday:
Duty cut on raw material imports are not likely.
'The smartest businessmen are shopkeepers as their return on investment is better than anyone else.'
Hike would have led to higher cost of fertiliser, electricity and even CNG.
