Cleaning up India's grubby business climate is top of the agenda for both regulators and the government.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
CII president K V Kamath, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Rajeev handrasekhar and Assocham President Sajjan Jindal held discussions with Chidambaram immediately after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had interacted with a larger industry group. The government as also the Reserve Bank of India have taken a number of steps since beginning of October to ward off the Indian banking system from the global financial contagion.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his Budget speech on Monday, announced a new dispute resolution mechanism for such companies who are in confrontation with the taxman's action.
For an institution looking to revive past glory, the Nalanda University's initial days have been far from glorious.
Elaborating this, Swati Piramal, vice president, Assocham and director of drug major Nicholas Piramal said though big multinational pharmaceutical companies have adequate cash reserves to face the global crisis, small and medium scale research-driven pharmaceutical and biotech companies which are heavily dependent on external funds for survival, may find the going tough and this will open up acquisition opportunities for Indian companies.
Five companies, including NTPC, Reliance Power, Lanco Infratech, Jindal Power and Sterlite Energy, of the 11 pre-qualified bidders, were in the fray for the project. The financial and technical bids for the coal-based thermal power project were invited on December 29 and the final financial bids were to be opened within 15 days.
The Indian Steel Alliance, the high-profile lobby group for big producers representing approximetly half of India's steel production, is being dissolved, seven years after it was set up to promote steel usage in the country. On Sunday, state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd had pulled out of ISA in a bid to distance itself from the recent price-rise controversy and had said the alliance had outlived its utility.
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and far between, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
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RIL had objected to the state government's decision to receive bids in sealed envelopes instead of an open auction.
Ahead of the International Women's Day, three Indian women have powered their way to the Forbes list of global billionaires. The three Indian women include Savitri Jindal having a net worth of $8.2 billion, Bennett, Coleman & Co's chairperson Indu Jain at $4.4 billion and Anu Aga of the Thermax group with a net worth of $1.1 billion.
Govt diverts Rs 253-crore subsidy savings to the poor.
In the domestic segment, demand is currently led by rural markets, oil and gas, LPG and B2C segments like roofing and sheeting.
CEOs fear any change in status of the mines will mean disruption in production, loss of investment and increased production cost for user industries.
Essar Group's Shashi and Ravi Ruia are the only new entrants in the list of the 10 richest Indians compiled by Forbes, while banker Uday Kotak jumped the most number of places among the top 40 billionaires. The Ruias jumped five places to the 7th position with a net worth of $12 billion, while Kotak with $4.6 billion hopped 11 positions to the 16th rank.
Akhil Jindal, President of Welspun Group and Rajendra Hinduja, Executive Director of Gokaldas Exports say that there has been significant improvement in cotton, home textiles, and the apparel segment.
The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
While BSE has identified 373 companies whose securities will remain under restricted category, NSE has listed over 116 companies.
Avista helped some companies restructure their debt in such a way that overseas investors had to take a steep haircut
A record contingent of 121 athletes, including 54 women, will represent India at the Rio Olympics.
The decision was taken by the ministry this week, a top Coal Ministry official said, while refusing to reveal the names of the companies.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
S Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Services CEO, been selected the Business India Businessman of the Year 2004.
Tata Sons has moved the Supreme Court against an estimated Rs 300-crore (Rs 3-billion) sales tax demand from the Maharashtra state government.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 142 points at 29,462 and the 50-share Nifty gained 26 points to end at 8,895.
Essar group, Bhushan Steel and JSW group likely to be impacted by changes
In the apparel export segment, one of the biggest challenges is that UK has a size, US has a size, Europe has a size and a measure; but India does not. So a size India project will be rolled out in the entire country, the first of its kind in Indian history.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
One thing has remained constant through the Indian economy in the last seven decades: the dominance of family-owned businesses. Krishna Kant reports.
'The economy will pick up in 2020 or a little later... When it picks up, will it reach 10%, 8% or still lower? It all depends on how realistic are the diagnosis and the prescriptions that follow,' says Professor K J Joseph.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Infrastructure and real estate prominently feature as wealth destroyers.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Theoretically, Modi, who understood corporate finance, committed no crime by raising debt to fund a growing business. In fact, he did a tidy job of it, but his operation started to see the ground underneath it give way in January 2018. A fascinating excerpt from Pavan C Lall's Flawed: The Rise And Fall Of India's Diamond Mogul Nirav Modi.
Looking into the flexi-fare scheme in Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi trains introduced in September 2016, the CAG stated that occupancy in all classes except the sleeper class in Duronto decreased.
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It is hoped that the decision of India's apex court will send a signal to politicians and their cronies from the world of business that the rule of the law does eventually prevail, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
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