Unlikely to happen in less than a year,despite the advantage of the parent airline's base.
Some experts believe that building new cities may not be the answer to India's swelling urban population.
There has been an exponential increase in the use of technology to validate financial numbers, with a greater reliance on electronic evidence, use of live videos where possible, data analytics, and project management software to overcome the physical limitations in verifying transactions and accounts.
The market buzz is that the GoAir promoters are hoping for a valuation that is at least a little more than double its closest rival SpiceJet.
According to the decision, such entities can now first operate through e-commerce and then open brick-and-mortar stores.
Albeit muted for most part of the year, Deal Street in India has clocked M&As worth $29 billion in 2014 and expects the size to get larger with transactions worth over $40 billion in the New Year.
The search giant is keen to pocket a hefty slice of India's online advertising market, an Rs 1,300-crore (Rs 13-billion) market in 2011 that is set to touch Rs 3,400 crore (Rs 34 billion) by 2015 according to KPMG estimates.
Flipkart and Myntra, together, post higher sales than Amazon
According to Parizad Sirwalla, partner (tax), KPMG, the withdrawal of annual tax free transport allowance and medical reimbursements has squared off the benefit on account of standard deduction.
As part of the charm offensive, New Delhi has invited global regulators -- including the FDA -- to visit Indian production units to get first-hand evidence of measures taken to ensure the quality of locally manufactured generics.
Healthcare infrastructure includes buildings, equipment, ambulances, etc. Of the states and union territories, six -- Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu -- account for more than 50 per cent of the total healthcare infrastructure spending in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to open commercial coal mining to private players is a key step towards bringing order to the country's chaotic power industry and ending the chronic blackouts that impede its economic rise.
The decision to seek tie-up details from CA firms, especially those associated with the Big 4 -- PWC, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Deloitte -- follows a report by an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India committee on the multi-crore Satyam scam.
According to the latest Emerging Markets International Acquisition Tracker report, 243 emerging-to-developed deals were recorded in the first half of 2010, compared to 194 in the second half of 2009.
Bollywood's 2010 releases show that co-productions are the flavour of the season.
The All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Vadra attended the marriage of the son of Sonia Gandhi's trusted personal assistant Madhavan.
Majority of India's international routes have been captured by foreign airlines.
Notwithstanding the slump in the global market,the appetite for merger and acquisitions by companies both in the developed as well as emerging market economies like India and China continued to be robust in the first half of the year.
EV players suggest a reduction in the goods and services tax on batteries from 18 to 5 per cent as it would help push demand.
Describing stimulus as a 'short-term life support' measure, global consultancy firm KPMG executive director Vikas Vasal said, "(They) cannot continue forever. This is one area where timing may never be considered right; however, somewhere down the line the government has to bite the bullet."
Emerging markets are likely to overtake developed countries in terms of international acquisitions in the next two to three years, while India has emerged as the most acquisitive among the emerging nations, a latest study says.
Private Equity and Venture Capital funding in India needs to increase three-fold to $30 billion annually from the current level to shore up funding for small but promising companies, said a KPMG-CII report.
The total number of passenger vehicles (cars and utility vehicles) sold annually in the 1970s was 32,000 units - less than even one week's sales today.
The problem, says Chandrasekaran, arises from the lack of access to services, including healthcare, education and financial services.
Business subsidies may attract tax
'The reason the protests are not happening in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Noida is that there are options available to the youth in those cities. And many people can access this sort of job because most of them are armed with English, integrating them into the global economy. This is something not available to most youth in Gujarat (the government schools do not teach English till Class 5),' says Aakar Patel.
Although the idea is to focus on all states to turn India into a global manufacturing hub, the department of industrial policy and promotion, the nodal agency to carry out the campaign, has selected a handful of states that have a sound industrial backbone such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and others.
Using the global downturn as an opportunity, seven in every 10 Indian companies are planning radical changes to their business models in the next decade, while many European businesses are still undecided on their response to the recessionary conditions.
The new provisions strengthen the hands of minority shareholders and will improve corporate governance.
The time the companies have to get ready for GST is 6 to 12 months.
Consensus seems a problem before the current session of Parliament ends.
Indian companies Nicholas Piramal, Cadila, Shasun, Dishman, Jubilant, Matrix, Strides, Ipca and Divi's are into contract manufacturing business. In the future, Indian players would move up the value-chain in the contract business, KPMG said.
The mobile wallet player plans to add more Chinese sellers to its e-commerce platform and boost technology for its soon-to-be-launched payments bank
India Inc on Wednesday said the Reserve Bank's move to cut interest rate by 0.50 per cent is "pro-growth" and exhorted banks to transmit the lower interest rate to borrowers to revive demand and kick-start the investment cycle.
The report further added that 'the Indian entrepreneur today is optimistic, willing to take risks and is prepared to accept failure. India is on an entrepreneurial growth trajectory. The beginnings are already in place and steps have been taken in the right direction.' According to the entrepreneurial India state-level confidence index, Andhra Pradesh has the highest confidence score of 4.14 and is much above the national average of 3.31.
Falling jet fuel prices and a revival in domestic traffic growth offer the new CMD a once in a lifetime opportunity.
The central government's view of exploring public-private partnership (PPP) in the establishment of new institutes of higher learning has a private hand, right from the first step.
Gamification has the potential to trigger immediate positive responses to learning that an organisation wishes to impart.
As corporate India prepares to put its house in order, the transition raises concerns
Federation of Indian Airlines has appealed to DGCA to extend notice period of flyers from 6 months to a year