'I was always told that one day your beauty will fade.' 'Hence, what's important is how you make people feel and how you treat them.' 'Are you kind? Do you have good intentions?' 'If that quality is there in you, no matter what you do or where you are in your life, people will always remember you.'
'For equities, inflation trending upwards but within the range of expectations can actually be a big positive as it helps earnings and may shift flows from bonds to equities.'
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
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And what if all this happened so fast and so extensively that we never quite had the opportunity to call the broker and say 'Sell'?
India will surpass China as the world's fastest growing economy in the next 2-3 years, says RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani.
Nilekani said new-age technology markets work on a winner-takes-all basis.
Softening inflation, Das said would make available more policy space to the central bank to address risks to the growth going forward.
Markets climb higher tracking global cues.
Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex closed 30 points lower at 21,140 levels.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your stock market queries.
A bleak demand outlook for steel in the domestic as well as global market is also another reason Tata Steel may be looking to have additional liquidity as margins are expected to take a hit in the coming quarters.
'Now is the time for India to course correct and for the government also to course correct,' says businessman Mangesh Khatri.
Govt keen to revive business sentiment in india.
The upcoming Budget gives Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a chance to let states boost spending.
Marico Chairman Harsh Mariwala shares his career lessons and success mantras.
Emission norms for automobile industry should be tightened.
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech for 2021-22, announced a total of Rs 2869.93 crore for the ministry, Rs 230 crore less than the last fiscal. Officials said the outlay has been lesser this time as the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Petrol attracts a total excise duty of Rs 17.46 per litre.
'This market is very expensive in some pockets, dirt cheap in some, and the belly of the market is reasonably valued.'
India has received $1.35 billion foreign direct investment from the US during April-November 2014 as compared to $806 million in 2013-14
In a late-night tweet in capital letters, he said Iran must 'never, ever threaten the United States again'.
'The creation of Pakistan was integral to Britain's grand strategy.' 'If they were to ever leave India, Britain's military planners had made it clear that they needed to retain a foothold in the NWFP and Baluchistan because that would provide the means to retain control of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.'
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These consistent performers are expected to maintain momentum.
The forthcoming budget is an excellent opportunity for the Government to fulfill its promise of high economic growth.
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
In 2012, India attracted $22.78 billion of FDI, according to the data by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
Investors have turned cautious ahead of the policy meetings of central banks in Japan and the US
Amazon has shot off yet another letter to market regulator Sebi, accusing Future Retail of insider trading and called for an investigation as the US online retailer looks to ratchet up pressure against the Future-RIL deal. Future Group, however, vehemently denied the charges, saying these allegations were "Amazon's ill-motivated attempts to throw everything at the situation to stultify the transaction."
He said both countries are opening new areas of cooperation in the energy sector, telecommunications and science and technology and they have set up funds to facilitate investment in high technologies.
"We are concerned about the data localisation law and the new e-commerce regulations...they do not fully take into account the needs of all stakeholders, including American and other foreign companies," acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the US, Thomas Vajda said.
This weakness is likely to continue in the near-term.
Harvey is the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States mainland in 12 years on Saturday made landfall in central Texas coast with winds of 195 kmph.
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
Index heavyweight RIL surged 3% to end above Rs 1,000 mark while IT majors were also the top gainers.
The top losers from the Sensex pack are ONGC, Coal India, Vedanta, Reliance Inds and L&T.
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