COVID-19 has emerged as an important form of diplomatic currency around the world as nations try to showcase their soft power gains. In this race, India has an edge as India is already a pharmaceutical giant having produced some 60 per cent of global vaccines and now justly seeking to strengthen ties and expand its influence in its neighbourhood and beyond, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
A PhD from Chicago-Booth and a top-ranking IIT-IIM alumnus, Krishnamurthy Subramanian is one of the world's leading experts in banking, corporate governance and economic policy
Forex dealers attributed the fall to increased demand for the dollar.
Sunil Bhalla, a senior executive with Polycom, along with three others was named in fresh charges filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
In his opening remarks at a ministerial meeting in Tokyo of the Quadrilateral coalition, also known as 'Quad', External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India remained committed to a rules-based world order, respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, and peaceful resolution of disputes.
The chairman of Wipro Azim Premji would ring the Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.
The 104-storey building's opening marks an emotional milestone for the United States.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video game.
The offer comprises of 5.12 million primary ADSs, 1.75 million secondary ADS and up to an additional 1.03 million primary ADSs under the over-allotment option given to the underwriters, it said.
The rupee resumed higher at 59.10 per dollar as against the last Friday's closing level of 59.17 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market.
The shutdown was the longest in recent memory, and prompted US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White to call for a meeting of Wall Street leaders to help insure the 'continuous and orderly' functioning of securities markets.
Gupta, 66, is currently serving his prison term.
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The rupee resumed lower at 64.20 per dollar.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday shook hands on the sidelines of an international conference on Afghanistan, but there was no meeting between the two.
Premji said that the country was very innovative with fundamental R&D in the solar energy space, and not just a copycat.
Despite some debate on whether this is the best time to launch a new fund, Emerging Global Advisors, a New York-based research and asset management firm specialising in emerging markets, plans to launch the EG Shares Indxx India Infrastructure Index Fund within the next couple of weeks.
Telecom firm Windstream Corp has said it will acquire Q-Comm Corp, a privately held fiber-optic network operator for $782 million.
The company would hire over 1,000 people for its Gurgaon office in the country, the New York Stock Exchange-listed firm said.
Whitehurst talks about India expansion plans, its latest offering in cloud computing and India's most ambitious project Aadhaar.
Senapaty indicated that Wipro's acquisitions, whenever they are made, would be large, saying the company generally avoided very small companies because "the impact is not going to be felt."
"Outlook for wages and salaries... given the current scenario, we have no plans for increase in the course of the year," the Bangalore-headquartered, New York Stock Exchange-listed company's executive vice-president, Pratik Kumar said. On campus hiring in the current fiscal, he said the company would visit the colleges (only) in January-March (unlike previous years when they selected students a year before they got the degree) but gave no firm numbers.
Regretting that the Land Boundary Bill for exchange of territories with Bangladesh could not be passed in the last session of Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said there was still time to get it through.
In New York, the dollar fell against other major currencies on Monday after a December reading on the US services sector came in below market expectations.
The rupee is seen weakening against dollar in current week.
It will strengthen, because global economic conditions require the eurozone to run trade deficits.
The store segmentation approach that Shoppers Stop is taking is intended to improve its hit rate at a time when local and international fashion retailers are crowding the market with new merchandise across price points.
In the city to lead India's 70th Independence Day celebrations, M J Akbar called terrorism a major threat to human rights.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India said it is 'closely watching' investments made by New York-based hedge fund Galleon, whose Sri Lankan founder Raj Rajaratnam was arrested for alleged insider trading on Friday.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, artist Debjyoti Saha's animation video on the migrant crises struck a chord with many who shared it all over the Internet.
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.
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Banks and importers preferred to increase their dollar position at the current level, a forex dealer said.
The telecom ministry will decide on the merger between the state-owned telecom companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, only after the listing of the former.
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