Physical security for women, the first step towards getting them into factories and offices, is all but absent in most Indian cities, notes Kanika Datta.
While overall employment rose from 456 mn to 463 mn between FY11 and FY15, with farm employment falling by 26 mn over the same period, the net addition to employment over the entire four year period was a mere 7 mn.
The interest it has generated among designers who are helping create new styles and uses for the product is likely to leave a lasting imprint on the future of khadi.
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Niti Aayog's plan to create a 'New India' in less than four years should invite scepticism, argues T N Ninan.
'A lot of people who quit felt they have been in the organisation for way too long and needed a better or challenging career role to advance in their careers.'
New Delhi has high average density of built up area, nearly twice the levels of wider New York metro area.
They combine financial protection and health and lifestyle management support for non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, cancers and tumours.
As IT majors face a decline in their legacy business, they are realigning their sales strategies to push up revenues from newer technologies.
Can Nestle go beyond Maggi? While recovery in the March quarter has been led by the popular noodle brand, the company hopes for a different revenue mix in five years.
On the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis, a multi-part series analyses the lessons learnt and those not learnt.
Banks can collapse, markets can be rigged, investment instruments can become worthless overnight, auditors can fail to blow the whistle, board directors can be asleep, and regulators can be incompetent, notes T N Ninan.
Modi had also said recently that there is a need to administer "bitter medicine" to revive the ailing economy.
Under this service, SBI will give services in person or through remote mode.
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'Mining jobs get created in the most backward districts of India's poorest states,' says Anil Agarwal.
As a tech services company, Ola has never been in hardcore manufacturing. And unlike in ride hailing, which is a two-player market (Uber is the only other competitor), in two-wheelers it faces many entrenched players. But most of all, rivals say Ola's targets are out of sync with most, even ambitious, projections.
50 million people are not connected to the cyber world in the US.
Manu Kumar Jain, India head, Xiaomi, tells Sangeeta Tanwar how the Chinese smartphone maker won over the Indian market.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
If the government seriously keeps out of business, the business world will know about it at a lightning speed; there would be no need for rock show-like events.
Despite Uber facing a ban across many states, including Karnataka and Maharashtra, for Lingaraju, a driver employed by the company in Bengaluru, it is business as usual.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
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The Monsoon Session of Parliament will begin on August 5 and the Bill, after its introduction, is likely to be referred to the Standing Committee of Parliament for examination.
In a letter to the Business School community on Wednesday, Nohria said he will step down from the position of dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) on June 30, 2020, after a decade in the role.
Nearly 150 companies visited the campus this year.
'The current crisis is one of incomes, driven by poor job growth, agrarian distress and poor investment sentiment,' notes Harsh Pati Singhania, director, JK Organisation.
The Credit Suisse report has estimated the middle class on the basis of their wealth rather than their income, says Prachi Salve ' IndiaSpend.
2019, however, will be a bigger test as the firm continues to deal with rising attrition and margin pressure.
Hindu and Sikh leaders will share stage with Pope Francis during a prayer service in New York
The Gupta case is SEC v. Gupta, US District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-07566.
Bali Padda will head the second-largest toymaker in the world.
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal on Friday said its executive vice president, member of the management committee and head of strategy, Bill Scotting will be the new chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining.
Women have been and continue to be an integral part of Tata Global Beverages' business, across the world, says Cyrus Mistry.
Banks in India must have a modern approach, suggests a panel comprising of banking bigwigs.
Mutual fund houses do have several challenges ahead to win more investors.
Government needs to focus on areas where reforms are much easier
Manufacturing in India accounts for about 16% of GDP.
Jaipur-based start-up Logic Roots aims to teach children math skills through board games.
IIM-A saw 36 per cent jump in maximum domestic salary in 2018 placements this year.
Piramals are the largest investors in the Indian real estate sector after HDFC, with investments worth $3 billion already.
