There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
The idea was that despite some defaults the high rates would assure good profits.
'The crisis-hit brand needs to react, and react without sounding outraged or angry. '
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
Indian IT giants are outstanding companies with great management teams, but they have been held hostage by their past success.
A new logo can harm image than doing good, say experts.
Parliamentary panel seeks 5-yr jail term and penalty of up to Rs 50 lakh if a celebrity-endorsed product misfires
'To become more Indianised we had to be more colourful,' Rahil Ansari, Audi's India head, tells Ajay Modi.
'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Today, Suzuki depends on Maruti for its place in the world
The company said it would appoint a US law firm to conduct a full investigation
The HRX story will be watched closely by many, for Bollywood stars have rarely made the transition from movies to business.
'At its peak, COVID-19 in Korea felt like half-disaster, half-disaster movie.'
'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.' 'But no one was asking the right questions.' 'The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S Murlidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
'We owe our existence to the men in uniform, and we owe it to them to cleanse the armed forces by driving away every bit of corruption that eats into it,' argues Sudhir Bisht.
'We have already sanctioned loans worth over Rs 3,000 crore to around 120,000 customers.'
The company is modelling its many ventures on Alibaba in China.
Exchanges believe its legal status may now change, with the government pushing for digitised transactions.
Shuma Raha finds out how writers are using social media to produce bestsellers.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
While using the family to save tax is legal and smart, ensure you use the ones where clubbing income laws isn't a concern, advises Bindisha Sarang.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
Low oil prices drove the growth in states' share faster than expected, says Abhishek Waghmare.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monogrammed bandhgala, which he wore at his meeting with United States President Barack Obama in January and which has been under auction for the last three days in Surat, has finally been sold for a whopping price of Rs 4.31 crore.
'The question is, how soon we can expect to re-attain the pre-lockdown levels of output and income.'
There is ample fuel in the computer revolution to do many useful things.
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
Lessons Nestle must learn from its big mistakes
From teaching to YouTube, these ideas will help students chase their dreams early on.
Surging value of dollar may be posing the biggest threat to US corporate earnings.
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
Mind/life coach, NLP trainer and Mental Health Guru Anu Krishna encourages you to talk about your problems and offers solutions.
In a recent lecture, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan dished out some frank advice -- don't get into 'jugaad', instead try for the long haul. Only that will sustain in the long-run.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
Is Being Human, the actor's apparel brand, an extension of his persona or is it a move to correct his bad-boy image?
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
'I can confidently say there will be another financial crisis soon enough, and probably more than one global crisis within the next century, given the increasingly integrated nature of the global economy.'
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Investors often forget that the movements in indices such as the Sensex reflects the performance of its constituent stocks; nothing else.
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