Tamil Nadu has time and again proved that it needs a decisive leader even if corrupt, rather than an indecisive leader, however good-hearted, good-natured and honest he may be, writes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The central bank has been intervening in the foreign exchange market by buying dollars, and this is capping the rupee's gains.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
While funds will not be a constraint, the challenge for Aasaanjobs will be to reach out to people with no internet, says M Saraswathy.
Sunil Sethi raises five questions to avoid the pitfalls that ended his ignominious earlier tenure as chief minister exactly a year ago
'The disquiet in the Sangh is, of course, over demonetisation.' 'But more than that, it is about the growing centralisation in the running of the government and party,'
Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly explain why the US treasury should intervene if the overvalued greenback continues to rise.
GST will yield 'better value for money' for car buyers, increasing automobile industry demand, says Sandip Neogi.
The Unnao gold hunt is an exercise in softening Hindu sentiments in the bigger dig for votes in Uttar Pradesh in 2014
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
Nobody is clear what 'minimum government maximum governance' means.
More than 250,000 gram panchayats are yet to be connected through broadband.
One popular strategy is to hire contract workers.
'We had a great product for the global market and we could sell it globally resulting in this amazing growth.' 'When customers come online and buy a product, they don't look at whether it is created in India or somewhere else.'
India is likely to attract increasing notice from global investors.
'There is simply no evidence of any new or clear policy direction in internal security, and mounting evidence of policy incoherence.' 'Worse, the promise of giving the common man -- and, more importantly, woman -- a greater sense of security has been utterly belied. Indeed, with an escalation of communal posturing and rhetoric, there is a broader sense of uncertainty,' says Ajai Sahni.
'End of the day, my thing is, entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.'
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has been asked to open up bookings of SpiceJet till March 31, 2015, while airport operators have been asked to provide 15 days to the airline company for making payments.
By region, Thiruvananthapuram leads with 247 defaulters, followed by Kolkata with 173 and Bhubaneswar with 115
The proposal to levy a 'super-rich' tax, at the rate of 35 per cent, on those earning more than Rs 10 crore a year might not receive support of the Union Cabinet.
Macro environment, tech shift main challenges now: N Chandrasekaran
Will Arundhati Bhattacharya be the RBI's first woman governor? Or will Urjit Patel succeed Raghuram Rajanas RBI governor when his term ends on September 4?
HNI equity folios up 46% in the first half of FY15.
The appraisal season is over... and it probably didn't go very well for some of you. So what do you do when you haven't got what you think you deserve? Virender Kapoor has these suggestions.
'Employee first and customer second' continues to be a very strong philosophy of HCL.
Formidable challenges including funds for the farm loan-waiver, and law and order stare him at his face, with the opposition claiming the misses have outnumbered the hits.
Even as Infosys posted healthy growth for October-December 2013 and raised its revenue forecast for FY14, S D Shibulal, the managing director and chief executive officer, says it's still work in progress.
This works only for longer-tenured ones such as income funds, as the element of interest rate risk is reduced.
Business reacted with caution to the reforms of 1991, and demanded protection from multinationals and imports. Twenty-five years later, traces of that demand can still be found, reports Bhupesh Bhandari.
Siddharth Roy Kapur will take charge as managing director of the Walt Disney Company India from January 1.
As part our series on dealing with the pink slip, we spoke to financial planner Sridhar Vetapalem on how to get your finances in order.
Let the world know you are strong enough to achieve anything. The layoff hurdle is nothing but a matter of time, says an anonymous reader, who shared his 'layoff lesson' with Rediff.com.
His compensation in FY17 was more than the combined salaries of the entire boards of TCS, Wipro and Infosys. 'I am a self-made man from a very modest background,' Tech Mahindra's CEO C P Gurnani tells Shyamal Majumdar.
Indians are election junkies, and that includes all of us -- political parties, aspirants for seats, pollsters, pundits parsing straws in the wind, says Shreekant Sambrani
Qimat Rai Gupta's roots were truly modest. Early in life, he had even sold oil on a cycle in the villages of Punjab.
Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk speaks to Claude Arpi about his journey, his fights, his hopes and how he became an inspiration for the Bollywood blockbuster.
'This has to be seen in the context not only of the legacy we inherited, but also of global economic weakness.'
'If after inheriting the very bad situation we have reached this level despite consecutive years of drought and no growth in the world economy, it is no accident.' 'It is a result of the sound macro economic policies followed by this government.' 'We have eschewed populism and stuck to a path of fiscal prudence.'
For FY16, MTNL's standalone net loss was over Rs 2,000 crore.
APAs are part of govt's aim to move to a non-adversarial tax regime.
