The company's net profit went up 27% in December quarter, sequentially better than peers; core IT services up 33%..
Players like UltraTech Cement more expensive than ITC and HUL; others catching up fast.
Indian companies typically have higher return on equity.
Insurer likely to support Ratan Tata; reduction in stake might have been profit booking.
In the broader market, the S&P BSE Midcap and the S&P BSE Smallcap indices added 0.6% and 1.3%, respectively to touch their fresh lifetime highs.
Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection, and time lag
A fall presents an opportunity to buy rate-sensitive stocks.
Is it a last ditch attempt to reassure consumers, or a way to gain the upper hand at the negotiating table, or is it just a way of exhausting the treasure chest before the lights go out
A car buyer must study various offers available while buyinga car
Beijing did not announce expected policy support over the weekend
The move comes within months of a crisis at JPMorgan Asset Management Company.
Enabling labour to become more globally mobile can produce higher remittances with powerful 'brain gain' dividends.
Feel the pinch of predatory pricing by e-tailers
Ten Indian states contribute a lion's share of 95% or Rs 12.25 lakh crore.
The roots of the cancellation of 2G telecom spectrum licences and coal blocks lie in two non-profit organisations - Common Cause and CPIL.
Is it just the glamour?
Heading Crisil would have been the peak of most people's professional lives. But Roopa Kudva felt that was the right time to change tracks.
A social media analytics firm, co-founded by two Indian-American entrepreneurs, has been acquired by Apple for over $200 million.
After a robust Q4 FY14, thanks to election spends on advertising across platforms, media entities might see slightly lower ad revenue growth at 12 to 14 per cent.
The prices of oilseed, coarse cereals & vegetables could also be affected.
India's $121 billion troubled debt pile, over $100 billion of which is on the books of state-owned banks, has come under close scrutiny from prosecutors, the media and politicians
There's a certain amount of drama to the profession. Sample these taglines: 'We can see the unseen'; 'I can plant my detective in your guest bedroom.' One agency has even ensured that all its phone numbers end in '007'.
Market regulator also announces measures for mutual funds sector.
In any case, Ghosh could take lessons from the best professionally managed companies all over the world that always groom the CEO successors well in advance.
Tight liquidity will hit over-leveraged and cash-hungry companies, spare conservative ones
Murthy no more chairman emeritus; founders do not want to be addressed as promoters.
Novices should enter markets via SIPs of equity mutual funds.
Sheikh Hasina's government has launched a relentless war against terrorism since the Dhaka cafe carnage in July 2016, but as Bangladesh's terror networks exploit new technologies and new tactics, the challenge to eliminate jihad gets tougher, points out Binodkumar Singh.
'Modi's recent decisions to improve India-China relations, adjust India's neighbourhood policies and to rebalance India's ties with the major powers are linked to his political agenda.' 'Of course, the good part is that this agenda is also in the national interest,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'People have a certain perception about my political leanings -- and rightly so.' 'But I am an actor first, and then an activist.' 'And I am not an accidental actor.' 'There was no way I was going to be dishonest with my acting,' Anupam Kher tells Veenu Sandhu.
In conversation with Walmart India president and CEO Krish Iyer.
Close on the heels of Boeing's defence of India to the US International Trade Commission's investigation into India's trade, investment and industrial policies, IBM has also sprung to New Delhi's defence in an otherwise sea of criticism of India's violations of intellectual property rights, local content requirements, among other issues of concern to US business and industry.
'Indians are great savers, but they are lousy investors.'
"There was not a single decision that I took during my second tenure without discussing it with Ranga and getting valuable input from him," says Narayana Murthy.
India's latest GDP numbers do not signal robust economic growth in near term.
But this might not be the best time to enter these, as probability of further reductions in near future is low
FIIs have offloaded stocks worth Rs 13,110 crore
The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin will attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Delhi with an agenda to develop a plan to bring together AAPI, NGOs and the government to provide access to affordable and quality health care. Aziz Haniffa reports
As for structural reform, there are signs if one looks hard enough.
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