The family office category was up 38 per cent, led by names such as Ratan Tata, Ronnie Screwvala and various Infosys co-founders.
It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too.
K Vaitheeswaran, co-founder of Indiaplaza, one of India's first e-commerce companies, shares the lessons he learnt from its failure.
It's aimed at new-age sectors like e-commerce and other startups so that they can spend less time in their recruitment processes
Home-grown taxi booking companies which have a business model similar to Uber's might have stricter security norms imposed on them.
Start-ups, especially the e-commerce players, are either staying away from these campuses or recruiting in much smaller numbers than last year
Both companies and individuals seek greater flexibility and freedom.
The NDA government was initially reticent about fleshing out its economic strategy for the future. But now that it has taken enough bold initiatives on the economic front it must have the confidence to tell us more about its approach going forward, says Abheek Barua.
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It is a pity that the Modi government, which began on the right note when it came to pricing issues, has changed colour and become interventionist in its impulses, says T N Ninan.
'Jobs will exist at very high levels or low levels of skill sets.' 'People, who are in middle level jobs, are the ones who are facing the problem as such jobs are fast disappearing because of technological advancement.'
At 42, Dizezny D'Souza trained with teenagers at a school ground to get back into running. She won silver and bronze for India in China.
PM app downloaded 2.5 million times, to see 20-fold growth in user base
With Uber dipping into its generous war chest to subsidise its service, its pampered clientele should sit back and enjoy the ride.
The US-based start-up developed a machine learning system that uses sensors in smartphones.
After raising $2.5 billion from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and his Vision Fund, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are back in the driving seat at Flipkart, the company they founded over a decade ago.
While the acceptance of cards, mobile wallets and banking apps is increasing, only 10 per cent of transactions take place through them.
The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market.
Maruti has plans to rev up sales of the Dzire, India's fourth most-sold car, by relaunching it.
Targeting Narendra Modi over his remarks that he wants to be a chowkidar (watchman) of the country, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said sometimes a watchman also "indulges in theft" so the "keys" of the country cannot be given to just one person.
Ironically, amid these struggles, interest in these taxi services has grown, as concerns over women's safety have escalated.
'For the likes of Zomato or Swiggy or Foodpanda or similar others, the customer has been sensitised for all times to the perils of the food pack being pilfered.' 'An important matter of trust has been exposed. And that really has been the biggest downer of this entire episode,' points out marketing guru Sandeep Goyal.
'There is a law that prevents the government from diluting its equity in the PSBs below 50 per cent.' 'That law has to be amended and given the parliamentary arithmetic of the political parties, it is not as simple to do that.'
Belgium became the first European team to qualify for next year's World Cup when a Romelu Lukaku header gave them a 2-1 win away to Greece on Sunday with the goals coming in a five-minute second-half spell.
The cab-hailing firm needs to jettison its baggage of dysfunctional corporate and gender insensitivity, finds out Ritwik Sharma.
Many believe he would soon start a new venture.
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
The company's India focus hasn't changed with the change in CEOs.
Arora was hired in July to run a newly created unit called SoftBank Internet and Media Inc.
The BJP's victory in the desert state was so absolute that the Congress failed to open its electoral account in 17 of Rajasthan's 33 districts! P B Chandra reports.
In one of his longest speeches, All India Congress Committee vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday tore into the Bharatiya Janata Party's poll manifesto. The BJP's manifesto was released on April 7 when the first phase polling of Lok Sabha 2014 had already begun. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports
Congress rivals have put factionalism aside for now. The party is betting on a series of well-received welfare schemes to return to power
Indian entrepreneurs increasingly looking to sell their products in US
In FY16, Infosys had 48 employees in India who were paid more than Rs 1 crore in annual compensation, as compared to 111 in FY15.
The past few years have seen the first cycle of mergers and acquisitions, exits, and track-records being created.
Now that the second phase of the odd-even scheme in Delhi is over, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wants to project it as a success, with an eye on the Punjab polls next year, says Kavita Chowdhury.
Most e-commerce firms with 'Singapore holding structures' would opt out of the new Sebi platform
Major rival parties in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh are literally waging a 'war of words' by coining meanings to alphabets to highlight issues of corruption allegedly linked to each other.
Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
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