Premier Li Keqiang highlighted his government's performance in the last one year and the challenges ahead in various fields. Compared to other reports by his predecessors, Li spoke more frankly about the mounting challenges faced by the country. Srikanth Kondapalli on the two recent Chinese parliament sessions.
'While military acts such as the Uri surgical strikes are one option, cultural, economic and diplomatic isolation should also be part of the arsenal,' argues Sankrant Sanu.
The President said that for rapid creation of jobs in the manufacturing sector, the government will strategically promote labour-intensive manufacturing.
India has asked the US to treat the issue of visa for IT professionals as a trade-related one rather than an immigration issue.
Let's fix the system, end the abuses but make sure we recognise the role of immigrants in creating jobs: Khanna.
We must take action to address the impediments to growth faced by our businesses and our economies. And we can only succeed by working together, says American Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.
Two top United States lawmakers have introduced a legislation in the House of Representatives to designate India as a special global partner of America
India has been opposing the pact as ITA will only benefit the country when its domestic manufacturing is robust.
Making a strong pitch for producing good teachers in large numbers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a mission in this regard amid his assertion that the whole world is looking at India with great expectations "but we are not ready".
Under Neemuchwala's digital-first vision, Wipro has accelerated investments in automation, analytics, cloud and cognitive technologies over the past three years, says Ayan Pramanik.
'Unsurprisingly, the joint statement issued after Modi's visit contains a paragraph on terrorism.' 'It is on the usual lines that India would have with, say, Croatia.' 'The surprising part is that it shies away from getting into specifics,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
US India Business Council president Ron Somers wrote in an article that India is not only the world's third-largest economy but is also a stabilising force in a region known to be a 'tough neighbourhood'.
One hundred years from now, of course, I expect Tata to be much bigger and more global than it is now.
'The big elephant in the room is our misguided view about the rupee.' 'India is scared that if our currency appreciates, who will buy from us. But a breakout is inevitable.'
The minister said Australia would benefit greatly from this pact.
Nokia is one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies in India
'If we chose to do the right things, it is possible to avoid job losses at a mass scale,' ABB MD Sanjeev Sharma tells Raghu Krishnan.
It will take years for faster Internet to reach this population and those who aren't even connected so far
No country has achieved a faster, deeper modern transformation than China, says former ambassador Kishan S Rana.
Sustained growth only if domestic manufacturing rises
'There is large-scale sacking, and salaries in smaller companies are lower than the minimum wages of Rs 18,000 a month.'
Industry seeks cut in customs duty on natural rubber.
In our case, the reason for this downward revision of guidance is because there are clients where we have had one time hits because of ramp-downs and things like this, says the Infosys CEO.
Infosys has been focusing on winning more lucrative digital technology and automation outsourcing contracts.
In the looking glass world of India's governance, banning something is a good way to promote it
Policy lays out a 5-year road map seeking creation of 3.5 mn jobs and promoting 10,000 start-ups.
Johnson Controls-Hitachi, Voltas, Blue Star, Whirlpool recently recorded new 52-week highs but still haven't lost their steam
Overall expenses in Q2 stood at Rs 6,473.68 crore, as against Rs 5,871.25 crore in the year-ago period.
Sanjeev Nayyar suggests 16 measures by which we can tackle our unrelenting and untrustworthy neighbour.
Uttar Pradesh government has awarded the project to Vamasundari Investments, the investment arm of HCL
On the Digital India initiative, Pichai said India was undergoing its own revolution
Information technology, not manufacturing or infrastructure, should be the focus of the government while implementing initiatives such as Make in India and Start Up India.
The state is planning an event similar to PM Narendra Modi's Startup India.
Qatar is the world's richest country in terms of per capita income.
Beating market expectations, Infosys had reported a 13 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter
India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.
India has a long way to go to catch up with Thailand let alone the US.
If Volkswagen's sales were to plunge in North America in the coming months, this would not only have an impact on the company, but on the German economy as a whole.
India is committed to getting back to a sustainable growth path of 8 to 9 per cent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said, adding that such a target is achievable because the fundamentals of the Indian economy remain strong.
'In their over-enthusiasm to clean up the system, both the banks and the regulator should not forget that the key to the insolvency law is revival of companies -- recovery of bank dues is an offshoot of that,' points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
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