Anup Roy and Krishna Kant on the challenges the public sector banks face in revitalising themselves
Progress on several parameters creates a tipping point situation.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
As the Jan-Dhan scheme completes a month since its official launch, reports coming in from various parts of the country suggest the stated target of 75 million new accounts will be achieved much before January 26 next year.
Investors indulged in buying beaten down blue chips at lower and attractive levels.
Stating that pushing GDP growth, which has slipped to 5-year low of 6.8 per cent in 2018-19, is the top priority, President Ramnath Kovind said Modi govt will bring more reforms and raise farm investments to boost growth.
Regulators will need to allow the model to evolve to allow profits to flow, says Una Gulani.
Railway passengers can book their tickets and do shopping using RuPay pre-paid debit cards.
Railways, rural infrastructure, urban rejuvenation, solar and transmission and distribution of electricity are the new priorities, says Vinayak Chatterjee.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched his government's mega scheme ' Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana', declaring that it was aimed at eradicating financial untouchability by providing bank accounts to the poor.
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance government of "heaping hardships on people," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa flayed its "knee-jerk" reaction of increasing Foreign Direct Investment cap in different sectors and warned that its "insensitivity" towards people will take its toll soon.
Upcoming payment banks will lift lower income groups in distant villages.
The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the private Skymet Weather Services have made widely divergent monsoon forecasts.
'AI will be bigger than the advent of the Internet or the harnessing of electricity.' 'India must embrace it with all its might,' says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
In addition to the problem of long queues at automated teller machines, there would be the problem of guiding new cardholders, especially in rural and semi-urban areas, on how to use those cards, some bankers told Business Standard.
The problem is set to grow following issuance of 75 million new RuPay cards in the next six months with the launch of the Jan Dhan Yojana.
Government's financial inclusion mission is well intentioned, but it may be putting a severe strain on the banking sector.
The budgetary allocation for the sector is Rs 60,908.22 crore, with Rs 6,400 crore earmarked for the centre's flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY).
Celebrities will become more responsive to consumer concerns about the brands they endorse.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday batted for expansion of organic farming across the country.
The govt will have to clear hurdles to push GST by March 2015.
'Many said his visit was very risky. But mercifully, Air Force One has taken off from Delhi without Mr Trump stepping on anybody's toes,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Rose Valley is one of the biggest money businesses after Sahara.
As debt piles up, Anil Ambani's ability to see the asset sale plan through will be crucial
Get ready for a great safari across some of the best national parks in the country, courtesy the Indian Railways.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Did men and women of redoubtable experience and public service, upholders of the country's steel frame and paragons of corporate governance, never smell a rat?
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
AMBER brings you the nearest ambulance and alerts your preferred hospital and family members
The aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills of the youth will be the force for India's economic transformation
In an apparent bid to offset BJP candidate Pragya Thakur's controversial statement against slain IPS officer Hemant Karkare, Modi heaped praises on Mumbai police.
The president of a top Honduras football club and two family members were charged by US authorities on Wednesday with engineering a decade-long scheme to launder drug trafficking and foreign bribery proceeds through US accounts.
Dr Manjiri Bakre's OncoStem is revolutionising breast cancer treatment. And has raised $6 million to do more!
The CPEC poses a clear and imminent danger to Indian security interests, says Kulbir Krishan.
India's upbeat outlook contrasts with neighbouring China, where growth slipped to 6.7 in the first quarter
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
From reiterating his commitment to build the border wall to protecting the American way of life from terrorist threats, President Donald Trump outlined his vision for the United States of America
Here's how she is linked to the most talked about Oscars speech of the year.
To take the Rs 49,000 crore ITC to the top slot in the highly competitive FMCG business will require some aggression.
