Ashok Leyland, ITD Cementation India have more than doubled.
B R Ambedkar's fears about personality cults in politics and money power in elections seem to be coming true, says Nitin Desai
Investing in special situations can help you tap opportunities that arise during adverse conditions, advises Joydeep Sen.
'The mood in Beijing is already nervous and feverously watchful.' 'Developments in China will be scrutinised as intensely and nervously as the ones in Washington,' says Claude Smadja.
'The world is going to be more insular.' 'What India needs to do is develop the domestic market for domestic consumption.' 'The emphasis has to be on Bharat as against India.'
Company says integration of various businesses will reap fruit.
Dr Talat Ahmad, vice chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia suggests important reforms in the Indian education system.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
Don't worry about volatile, erratic cash flows, freelancers. Vishal Dhawan explains how you can invest and achieve your financial goals despite irregular income.
The Budget provides a reassuring message about Prime Minister Narendra Modi staying the course.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
In 5 years, the AMC has clocked a growth rate of 40% with its AUM up nearly 4 times.
"It would be my hope that people understand why this particular transaction is important for us," the EAM said in Washington, DC.
'We have not taught children their rights and responsibilities, nor life skills,' says Mitali Saran.
The transgender community in Tamil Nadu hopes the bill, once it becomes law, will give them a dignified status and make more private sector jobs available to them. Ramasubramanian reports from Chennai
Non-Performing Assets are a wake-up call for public sector banks.
'Swachh Bharat Cess imposed last year should be made broad-based.' 'Budget should be predominantly economy/ business-oriented and problem-solving rather than political consideration-based.'
The WTO toolkit provides various instruments to deal with such situations - anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties and safeguard measures.
The Nafed has outstanding dues of Rs 224.26 crore (Rs 2.24 billion) as of February 15.
'Once I was ready with my product I started looking for funding and realised people would not understand how a woman could, without a technology or an IIT/M background, be running the business alone.' 'Today when I connect the dots I feel grateful about how I have been able to overcome and learn with every failure.'
Taxpayer satisfaction is a part of the matrix of key performance indicators of the administration.
Banks in India must have a modern approach, suggests a panel comprising of banking bigwigs.
Times without count we have bought more complex procedures in the name of simplification, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Natco Pharma, Wockhardt and Marksans have rallied between 50 and 70 per cent in the year till date.
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'In any business you have to achieve short-term goals.' 'But at the same time you have to keep your broader perspective long term.' 'It is good for business survival.'
'My enduring memory of Lula is personal,' says Ambassador B S Prakash, our former envoy in Brazil. 'He was visiting India after retirement to accept an award.' 'At a private dinner in the Brazilian ambassador's residence, where I too was present, he was missing at the end of the evening.' 'We all went looking for him in the sprawling house to find him eventually in the kitchen talking happily to the cooks and servers.' 'He was thanking them for the excellent meal and service!'
Permissive communalism, as represented by the Sachar Committee report, cannot become the basis to counter the threat of majoritarianism, says D L Sheth.
'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi.
IMF members will also be examining whether China's heavy intervention in the yuan market was befitting of a freely convertible reserve currency
The government's negligence towards this 'treasure house of knowledge' can be seen from the fact that monkeys roam about freely in the reading rooms, disturbing the calm of the library, as well as putting the lives of the readers in danger, writes Sajad Ahmad Dar.
The apex court, which quashed the NJAC Act in an unanimous verdict, also declared as unconstitutional the 99th amendment to the Constitution to bring in the Act to replace the collegium system.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's has been trying to mollycoddle India with sweet nothings while having a very close relationship with Pakistan.
The Planning Commission has not been central to the policy making process since the mid-1960s, says Nitin Desai.
Budget is a populist one, wil lbeneift common people
Mr Modi must stop talking, and start writing
From the roll-out of GST to H1B visa problems, the government needs to quickly deal with various disruptions.
'...and defensive until the global macro headwinds turn more benign.'
Lakhs of students appear for it every year. How are you preparing for it?
