Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
New head of the Confederation of Indian Industry speaks.
CEOs are not happy with scorecard so far but are ready to invest more as they think one year is too short a time to revive the economy
Commerce ministry monitoring remedial measures to promote exports in key markets.
The tax dept has served notices on about 36 foreign investors.
Markets and blue chip stocks may see a downward correction in short-to-medium term.
The Modi government has ambitious plas to achieve 10% growth, but there is no assessment of how much money is needed for the whole package of measures, and where it will come from. In short, there is no plan for how to get from here to there, points out T N Ninan.
This means taxpayers might continue to enjoy exemption on maturity of their investments
Many hurdles that investors could have faced after enrolling for the scheme have been removed.
'The government has done extremely well.'
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The challenge for the RBI in 2024 is likely to be less about containing elevated inflation and more about curbing excessive financial market exuberance and a 'problem of plenty', notes Sajjid Chinoy, Chief India Economist JP Morgan.
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
Their rematch, long anticipated, but hardly clamoured for, is broadly expected to mirror the 2020 campaign, though Trump will run this time under the spectre of 91 felony charges.
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Banking and telecom will see the highest impact of this transition.
Markets finished the session on a dismal note with Sensex closing at its lowest level since August 2014.
Call for balance in assessing the first year of the PM -- and less prickliness on the part of the BJP
Portfolio management services (PMS), catering to higher networth individuals (HNIs), are facing tough competition from emerging alternative investment funds (AIFs), evident from their dwindling client base. In May, the number of clients for the industry stood at 125,390, down 20,528 in two months, shows data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). "PMS managers also have a high active ratio, which means their portfolios are quite differently positioned and more actively managed, compared to the benchmark, which is also a highlight for long-term investors.
All credit to the finance minister for walking the fiscal and expectation tightrope extremely well in his budget speech, says Ganesh Natarajan.
A prudent guideline for self-employed individuals is to target at least 10 to 15 times their actual annual income when determining life insurance coverage.
The new tax regime proposed by the Modi government may not have acceptance from all corners.
As corporate India prepares to put its house in order, the transition raises concerns
India's exports are estimated to have remained at around $312 billion in 2013, while the final figures for 2014 could be around this figure only.
While equity savings funds could offer higher returns over three-five years, they would also be more volatile.
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Budget 2016 may hold some answers to start-up cooncerns.
Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at various border of Delhi for almost four weeks now as formal talks between the government and representatives of farmers' unions remained deadlocked with protesting peasants refusing to accept anything less than a repeal of the newly enacted laws.
His value lifestyle brand Zudio signals a coming of age of retail in small town India.
Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) stating that a recent complaint against it by Bharti Airtel is a deliberate, malicious attempt at defaming RJIL's consumer-friendly tariff. RJIL has also asked the regulator to warn Airtel against 'making such frivolous complaints in the future'. The move is in response to Airtel recently requesting Trai to bring content aired through broadband under the regulatory fold and keep a check against discriminatory bundling tactics.
Special Economic Zones are likely to be central to realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Make in India agenda.
Database to contain taxable financial transactions and history of any tax-paying individual.
The government will release the Index of Industrial Production for July 2015 on Friday, September 11, 2015.
Balanced advantage funds have the potential to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for the investor and offer a smoother investment journey.
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
Security remained tight at the Delhi borders with hundreds of personnel deployed at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri as thousands of farmers have been staging their protests at the borders for nearly a month now. This has also led to traffic congestion forcing police to divert vehicular movement.
Low consumer demand, a slide in investments and troubles in the banking sector should prompt the government to recalibrate taxes and expenditure. It is also important to ramp up spending on health care and education, says CII president Sumit Mazumder.
Finance minister attempts a clean-up job, keeps projected expenditure growth low.
No one expects the government to publicly concede policy mistakes. But it can shed denial; and, stop the point-winning debating style to the formulation of public policy, says Rahul Khullar.
