A fourth of the property market is cash-based and this has affected home sales after high value notes were scrapped.
Every month you should work on these questions: Who am I? What skill set do I have? What experience do I have?
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
The RBI has been critical of banks for using restructuring schemes to hide the stress.
HR can make better hiring decisions with solutions powered by robotics & machine learning.
Ajit Balakrishnan rewinds to a decade when mobile phones were unheard of and when an IIM degree had a different purpose and value.
The company will use the proceeds to part-repay its debt, which stands at Rs 34,000 crore (Rs 340 billion) even after the recent qualified institutional placement of its shares. An RCom board committee recently approved the sale of these assets.
'Flush with funds, lending became a cash management exercise.' 'Road projects, power generation plants, airports etc were financed left and right with apparently no regard for the projects' ability to repay,' explains S Muralidharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
The BSE benchmark Sensex surged about 241 points to end at 35,165.48 and the NSE Nifty gained 84 points to close at 10,688.65.
India's cash-rich promoters are not the same as the wealthiest. For example, Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian based on his stake in Reliance Industries, followed by Premji, the Adani family of the Adani group, and Radhakishan Damani of Avenue Supermarts.
Hopefully, the grey world of central banking in a nation hit by demonetisation, will lighten up with some of his notes soon.
Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-master of Cabot House, was named dean of Harvard College Wednesday.
Privatisation or consolidation into half a dozen large banks might not rescue public sector banks from the crisis they find themselves in.
Many see Nirma's Lafarge deal as some kind of second coming for the Patels.
'If you go on with your start up ensure that you put all your might behind it.' 'Ensure that you talk to a lot of people and bounce off your ideas before you go out and make a pitch.'
It has been clear for a while that India needs manufacturing - and it may be true that global manufacturing needs India as well. Time to strike while the iron is hot, say Rajat Dhawan, Anu Madgavkar and Sree Ramaswamy.
A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education.
'Hardly any aqua centres exist in India though they are popular abroad.' 'Water is known for its buoyancy which reduces pressure on joints. So, you can exercise effectively underwater, provided you have the right experts guiding you,' Harsh Mariwala tells Viveat Susan Pinto.
How bridge keeps corporate India sharp and quick-witted.
Awfis stands out for its 'ambience' and 'ease of doing business'.
For the baning sector, 2018 was a 'Year of Exits' - borrowers fled from the country as loans went kaput and many bank CEOs were forced to leave
'The quick fixes have failed; there is now no alternative to deeper reforms,' says Ajay Shah.
To the extent that body shopping is replaced by true offshoring, everyone is better off, says Ajay Shah.
The ministry has also asked that the cap of such borrowings is to be set at $500 million (Rs 3,450 crore) for a single company and $1 billion (Rs 6,900 crore) for the entire sector.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices were up 0.5% each
Haryana plans 100-acre automobile village Auto Village proposes to have about 80 vehicle showrooms and workshops of all automobile brands
Banking is a boring business but still the banker should enjoy it as fancy awards and cozy relationships with politicians, Bollywood stars and corporate honchos cannot save them if the job is not done properly. In the concluding part of the series Tamal Bandyopadhyay wonders how long Kochhar would need to wait for her redemption or downfall and atonement.
Generation, a youth employment non-profit, is empowering young people to build thriving, sustainable careers. It also provides employers the highly skilled, motivated talent they need.
'Modi's recent decisions to improve India-China relations, adjust India's neighbourhood policies and to rebalance India's ties with the major powers are linked to his political agenda.' 'Of course, the good part is that this agenda is also in the national interest,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The president's spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on October 1 proposes a rise in the minimum wage and for new spending on infrastructure.
Solar equipment manufacturing, however, is unlikely to pick up in India as Chinese imports are more cost-effective
'The success of the country's economic policies is affirmed by receipt of FDI of $15 billion last year, the highest in the Asia-Pacific after China and India, and well ahead of Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand,' notes Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad.
From India's fight against COVID-19 to China face-off, Kovind spoke on several issues during the televised address.
Arvind Subramanian will hold classes for a week on applied economics at IIT Delhi
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) led by Nobel laureate R K Pachauri on Wednesday has commissioned a solar micro-grid connection (SMG) in Tanda village of Jagdishpur block (about 80 km from Lucknow) in Rahul Gandhi's Amethi parliamentary constituency.
Remembering Verghese Kurien, a visionary who singlehandedly built world's biggest agricultural development programme.
Inflow of more funds is likely to widen the reach of insurance and drive M&A activities in the sector where growth has stalled.
Anusha Jain was 21 when she took over her father's business. In four years, she has clocked 1.5x growth for the company.
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