Capex for next year expected to be up 25% to Rs 3 lakh crore
India has moved up 16 positions to rank 55th on a global index of the world's most competitive economies, where Switzerland remains on top.
Scams happen with high regularity because the price of getting caught is insignificant. Aggrieved investors run from the police to already clogged courts to find redress for issues for which financial regulators have been specifically set up. For over 3,750 years we have known what to do, but we don't do it, observes Debashis Basu.
The incoming government will have to encourage private investments, bring down cost of capital
NDA government has shunned populism.
Modi is also scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with Xi on Tuesday.
ICICI Bank on Sunday said there is also enough space for Chinese banks to play a complementing role in the India.
Indian states are preparing for a Rs 1.9 lakh crore (Rs 1.9 trillion) tax windfall this fiscal year.
Enduring harrowing days after her right hand was chopped off allegedly by her employer in Saudi Arabia, Kasturi Munirathinam arrived in Chennai on Saturday.
If a feasible business model is worked out for cable operators, they will not only build the last-mile networks, but also market them among the local population telling people the benefits as well as how to utilise them
Income from renting of properties is taxed at a flat rate of 10%.
Iceland's fairytale progress to the last eight of the European Championship is just what the competition needs to prevent it going stale and a model for smaller nations to realise their dreams, UEFA said on Tuesday.
Indian-American business leaders meet to discuss ways to make this initiative a success.
Sheridan and Waldron will stand in a match between Tea Tree Gully and Northern Districts in Adelaide featuring Australia's vice-captain Travis Head.
13 eminent economists, including former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and current International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, in a report have asked the political establishment not to resort to populist tricks.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley has delivered a Arun Jaitley delivered a bold, far sighted budget
'The trading community will be a priority for Modi when he forms the next government.'
Modi government expects cargo traffic at its ports to jump by two-thirds by 2021 as India ramps up exports of goods including cars and other machinery.
US Ambassador Richard Verma's tips to the Indian states.
China's economy, which suffered 6.8 per cent slump in the first quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic -- the worst in 44 years -- bounced back posting 4.9 per cent growth between July and September buoyed by the government's sweeping efforts to stimulate demand and consumption.
Moody's Investors Service on Friday projected India's growth at zero per cent for the current fiscal and said the negative outlook on sovereign rating reflects increasing risks that GDP growth will remain significantly lower than in the past. The outlook also partly shows weaker policy effectiveness to address economic and institutional issues, it noted in the update to its November 2019 rating forecast.
Iran's decision to keep India out and welcome China to the scene is a huge strategic setback for India, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Gold schemes are offering attractive returns to investors.
The development of the Rih-Tiddim road and establishment of numerous rural "haat" (flee markets) along the Mizoram-Myanmar border would also increase the trade volume, Modi said while addressing a public meeting at the Assam Rifles ground here after inaugurating the 60-MW Tuirial hydro-electric power project.
Data used for the graph and cited elsewhere in the column were obtained from various publications of the RBI.
Stock to watch: Shipping Corporation and Great Eastern Shipping
The government has spent a little less than one-third of the Budget estimate of capital expenditure, it can still spend about Rs 20,000 crore this year without disturbing its fiscal deficit target.
Shah said India's goal is to become a $ 5 trillion economy in the next five years and without contribution from the energy and petroleum sector, this goal can't be achieved.
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
'India needs to adopt a more proactive policy of triggering exports to China.'
Domestic investors have managed very well to minimise the impact caused by relentless selling by foreign portfolio investors.
This Budget plans for an increase to 10.3% of GDP from 9.9%.
Soft oil prices are expected to persist in 2015 and will be accompanied by significant real income shifts from oil-exporting to oil-importing countries.
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
The surge in deal value is largely due to the $12.9 bn Essar-Rosneft deal
The thrust will be on improving connectivity in economic corridors and remote and border areas with a view to hike trade and enable faster movement of cargo.
Though dubbed as the 'war hero', the role of Rajapaksa in ending the conflict with the LTTE with the death of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in 2009 is quite divisive as he stands accused of violating human rights, a charge he vehemently denies.
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Foreign investment cap in insurance sector raised to 49 per cent.
Raghuram Rajan optimistic about passage of GST
"This is the third year in a row that India makes to top 10 in Doing Business, which is a success which very few countries have done over the 20 years of the project, Without exception, the other countries that have done this are very small, population-wise, and homogeneous," Simeon Djankov, Director of Development Economics at the World bank told PTI in an interview.
