According to the draft, in the northeastern states the threshold is at Rs 500,000.
Sensex, Nifty under pressure on weak global cues.
Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."
Businesses and banks in Guwahati were open and vehicles plied the roads but schools and colleges were closed. Stray incidents of clashes were reported in West Bengal.
"Protectionism is not new. The attention that is given is because there is a political and emotional element to it." TCS COO N G Subramaniam on why his company is optimistic despite global headwinds.
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
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Government seeks stakeholders' comments by Jan 30 on discussion paper.
'This is not just Make in India; this is much more than that. Right from design to delivery, everything was done in India.'
It is premature to make the assumption that Biden's policy toward China will not be a break with Trump, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
US companies are 'positively looking' at India.
In its appeal, the doctors' body said the government should promote universal free vaccination to all above 18 years of age without leaving the vaccines to the extent of 50 per cent to the states and private hospitals.
In 2020 India was compelled by China to change its national security strategy. From counter-insurgency, which the army has been focussed on for years, we shifted to conventional war, observes Aakar Patel.
China is on the lookout for investment pastures where its money is welcome, safe and earns a decent return. India also needs vast investment - about $1 trillion over the next 10-15 years - in infrastructure, green energy, transportation and heavy industry, says Ravi Bhoothalingam.
Cyber crimes caused by the insured's employees also get covered under the policy but would exclude the actual perpetrator.
Instead of ramming through change, Mr Parrikar has tied his own hands by placing reform at the mercy of numerous committees, says Ajai Shukla.
The differences between the rich and developing nations have always been at the core of the World Trade Organisation, set up in 1995 to facilitate greater trade flows across the world, and it came as a major breakthrough when the US and India reached a deal over food security issues in 2014.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who envisioned Make In India last September was at his eloquent best as he made a fervent plea to global businesses to come Make In India.
With Donald Trump the appeal has to be to his business instincts in which his personal interests seem to play a significant role, says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal.
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
'They suck talent and dump elsewhere,' says ZohO founder Sridhar Vembu.
Include digital assets in a will, as e-mail and social networking websites don't provide account access to legal heirs.
The court has also questioned Epic's assumption that Tata Consultacy Services used the information for the creation of a competitive product
For existing technologies, unless appropriate financing is available, deployment at scale is difficult.
The rules, the first ever for software applications in the country, were recently issued by the patent office and mandate each new software to be 'machine-specific' and packaged with 'new hardware' to qualify for a licence.
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Because of corrections in property prices and oversupply in the office segment, the rich are investing in hospitals, warehouses, ATMs and other alternatives to traditional investment options.
In the past couple of years, Saregama has redefined itself into a 'content IP company'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India and the United Kingdom are economically made for each other.
'He proved that a small nation could do what even bigger nations could not think of and that was his greatest gift to the next generation.'
'The biggest struggles are in the human mind.'
The Budget has unveiled measures that should now pave the way for India to progress from Make in India to 'Innovate in India'.
Ordering more Akash systems is essential for the Indian defence industry.
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
"This will be the first dinner for a foreign dignitary at the White House under this administration. So, we think that's very significant," a senior administration official told reporters at the White House on the eve of Modi's arrival.
Stressing on the 'Make in India' initiative, a Ministry of Defence appointed committee has recommended enhanced private sector involvement by granting manufacturers tax and import concessions.
'If the almost literally heart-stopping Suez block has any positive outcome, it is to be hoped that it will accelerate the setting up of a fab (perhaps Taiwanese) in India,' asserts Rajeev Srinivasan.
The success of Anil Ambani's ambitious defence plan will depend partly on whether he can persuade government officials and international partners that he can build sophisticated equipment and partly on whether the PM can get India's notoriously slow procurement process to work, say Paritosh Bansal, Sanjeev Miglani and Promit Mukherjee.
'Our strategy should be to 'hold the line' in the north on the Sino-Indian land frontier, but maintain and, if possible, enlarge India's current edge in the maritime south.'
If "innovation" were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie.
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in China.' 'If at all anybody is in charge, it can only be a bunch of bumpkins of whom Xi has become a puppet,' observes B S Raghavan, the veteran civil servant.
India on Monday got the backing of Switzerland in its bid to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
