'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.
"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.
Sensex, Nifty under pressure on weak global cues.
'This is not just Make in India; this is much more than that. Right from design to delivery, everything was done in India.'
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Government seeks stakeholders' comments by Jan 30 on discussion paper.
US companies are 'positively looking' at India.
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.
Instead of ramming through change, Mr Parrikar has tied his own hands by placing reform at the mercy of numerous committees, says Ajai Shukla.
Cyber crimes caused by the insured's employees also get covered under the policy but would exclude the actual perpetrator.
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.
'They suck talent and dump elsewhere,' says ZohO founder Sridhar Vembu.
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.
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.
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
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.
'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.
In the past couple of years, Saregama has redefined itself into a 'content IP company'.
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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.
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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India and the United Kingdom are economically made for each other.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
'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.'
Ordering more Akash systems is essential for the Indian defence industry.
The Budget has unveiled measures that should now pave the way for India to progress from Make in India to 'Innovate in India'.
'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.'
"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.
'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.
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
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.
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.
If "innovation" were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie.
India on Monday got the backing of Switzerland in its bid to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
The prime minister and president stated their intention to expand defence co-operation to bolster national, regional and global security.
The author meets the brains behind Unocoin, the first Indian Bitcoin exchange and merchant processor in India to have raised international funding.
'Each day, while interacting with scores of people, all with demands and expectations of their own, holding one's own fort is of paramount importance. 'One must always have the vision which will guide the journey,' says Dinesh Goel, a chemical engineer from IIT-B, co-founder and CEO, AasaanJobs.com, an online marketplace for entry-level and blue-collar job seekers.
'Expectations were being built up about radical moves and the action plan did not disappoint.'
A left-leaning centralised socialist model has created a shortage/entitlement economy. In fact one of the reasons for India's limited progress is that post-independent India is at odds with its true nature. It is something that educated right of centre Hindus are trying to correct, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
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