Live commerce, quick commerce, group buying, WhatsApp commerce, dukaantech have made their mark.
Market regulator also announces measures for mutual funds sector.
The road ahead is not expected to be easy for one of India's best-loved brands.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is hoping to get more than 30,000 consumers through its e-commerce pilot project that will be launched in the first week of July.
The strategy of returning cash to shareholders through stock purchases could hinder their digital expansion plans
The breakdown of talks between Greece and its international creditors raised fears of Greece's exit from the euro zone.
Many chief executives said they were talking to people at the top level in their organisations to find how their companies can help the flood victims.
Asian markets were trading mixed with the Nikkei gaining after the US dollar strengthened against the yen.
Most analysts expect growth in the sales of Nifty-50 companies to decelerate, albeit marginally, in the quarter ended December compared to the corresponding period of 2013-14, with metals and real estate companies pulling down earnings.
Given the escalating cost of doing business, the revenue opportunity is decreasing and consolidation is an inevitable part of the industry.
The economic slowdown has made it difficult for companies to record financial closure of a few awarded projects.
The govt auditor also indicts DGH and management committee of D1 and D3 fields
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
Budget has already bombed at the box office and passing it without a revisit will be a mockery of the exercise though any modification may be short lived and perfunctory, observes V Ranganathan.
For some, he is a visionary who grew his one-channel firm into a media giant by the sheer dint of his courage; for others, he is a compulsive risk-taker.
How did marquee Dalal Street investors fare in the Jan-Mar quarter that saw the BSE Sensex tank 10 per cent?
Clamping down on the delays in repatriating foreign exchange earnings, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened norms for special economic zones (SEZs), asking them to realise and bring back full value of goods and services to India within a year from the date of export.
News media takes a beating from the economy, advertisers and the rupee. To stay afloat, publishers are reacting by folding up businesses and axing staff.
The rally in most of these stocks is partly attributed to impressive financial performance.
Akhilesh Yadav is now seeking to devote the remaining 18 months of his tenure in casting the state in a new mould.
This is largely on the back of Tata Steel's expansion at Kalinganagar, as well as JLR's in China and Brazil
With mobile data getting cheaper, insurers are introducing technologies that eases buying and lodging claims.
Execs of RIL, Essar, Cairn India, Jubilant Energy, ADAG detained.
Rajesh Bhayani examines what SEBI's approval of diamond futures trading means for the diamond market players.
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The Management Committee headed by Director General of Hydrocarbons R N Choubey refused to take a view on appointment of renowned reservoir consultants Ryder Scott, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Gaffney, Cline & Associates or Netherland, Sewell & Associates to ascertain if RIL's claims of fall in reserves are actually true or the firm was hoarding gas by producing less, official sources said.
Several of the mutual fund schemes have plans like dividend, growth and bonus.
Govt notification on $8.4 a unit price likely by month-end
'Rahul is only making a pathetic public spectacle of his lack of judgment and good sense by hallucinating that somehow, the Congress, or whatever political combine is cobbled together, will displace the BJP at the coming Lok Sabha election by constantly harping on the Rafale deal,' argues retired civil servant B S Raghavan.
'India is so poor that political parties will not be able to wipe out poverty from our country in another 100 years. I am of the opinion that development can come only through corporates.' 'Tomorrow, if Tata or Birla or Reliance takes up another 500 panchayats, it will boost the Indian economy also.' Sabu M Jacob, managing director of the Kitex group whose NGO Twenty20 has just won a panchayat election in Kerala, speaks to Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com
'I sat down and asked them what they would want in their new school. One student said a football field, another one asked for computers. One little girl came and sat next to me and said, "A separate toilet for the girls." I think these small things make a huge difference in the future of education in India,' Nita Ambani tells Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com
'The focus is more on the outlook for global growth'.
The lowest bid earlier had come for Madhya Pradesh at Rs 5.05/unit.
In the not too distant future, you could see 5G technology being used for functions such as remotely-performed robotic surgeries, mine equipment operated remotely or cars driven by someone sitting hundreds of miles away. While these ideas will certainly find application globally, the urgent need for them in India could spur swifter adoption here than elsewhere.
While brick-and-mortar retailers have been the most vocal in their protests, e-tailers do not seem to be in a hurry.
CEOs fear any change in status of the mines will mean disruption in production, loss of investment and increased production cost for user industries.
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Of the 11 licence holders, only eight remain in the fray as concerns about profitability and rising competition are making them think twice before jumping in.
'Whenever a cop film is made, people will either draw comparisons with Dabangg or Singham. If the look and part is serious, then Singham. If entertaining, then Chulbul Pandey.'
While debt funds have emerged as the flavour of the season, not all investors understand debt funds. So the best they can do is put trust in the fund manager and the fund house.
After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
'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.
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