The stronger-than-expected recovery in remittances -- payments that are key to supporting the economies of many poor countries -- was driven by growth in Europe, Russia, and the United States.
Mumbai's alternative business district of Bandra-Kurla Complex was at 18th position.
"This will be the first dinner for a foreign dignitary at the White House under this administration. So, we think that's very significant," a senior administration official told reporters at the White House on the eve of Modi's arrival.
Following the entry of Tata-SIA and AirAsia into the Indian aviation market, the domestic aviation industry is seeing increased interest from private entities.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said government would continue reforms by taking executive actions.
She also addressed the Indian Community at a reception held in her honour in Jakarta.
Mr Modi has indicated he will carry on, and intensify, India's 'Look East' policy. But this start is hardly inspiring.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday reported an 8.4 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 6,586 crore for the second quarter ended September 30 and said uncertainties in environment had resulted in holdbacks in discretionary spend by customers.
Both Oberoi Realty and Ritz-Carlton refused to share further details of the management contract stating confidentiality.
Leading third party business process outsourcing player Daksh eServices Pvt Ltd plans to hire 900 people during the year to ramp up its total headcount to over 4,500, a top company official said on Friday.
"Protectionism is not new. The attention that is given is because there is a political and emotional element to it." TCS COO N G Subramaniam on why his company is optimistic despite global headwinds.
The US election campaign has provided plenty of ammunition for the CCP to make its case that its political system is superior.
As fliers find themselves spoilt for choice, airlines are looking at ways in which to position themselves distinctively.
The good folks at Visa have just released their most recent Visa Asia Pacific Affluent Study. And this is what we have learnt from it about affluent Indians.
BSE IT index was the biggest sectoral loser, down 1.5% dragged by TCS
'The success of the country's economic policies is affirmed by receipt of FDI of $15 billion last year, the highest in the Asia-Pacific after China and India, and well ahead of Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand,' notes Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad.
Between 2008 and 2015, India purchased defence equipments worth $34 billion, which is a distant second after Saudi Arabia's $93.5 billion, said the report 'Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 2008-2015' released by Congressional Research Service.
The Nifty PSU Bank pared losses to end flat after falling as much as 1.05%
Indian-American Amit Priyavadan Mehta has been confirmed by the US Senate as a federal judge in the District of Columbia, becoming the first Asian Pacific American to occupy this important position.
Young Indian entrepreneurs hope to share some of the limelight too at the Hyderabad event.
'Gotabaya will expect India to observe the red line.' 'He even dispensed with any gesture welcoming India as an interlocutor on the Tamil issue.' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
He was illegally probing a 2014 Delhi rape case using the victim's medical records to find out if it was a ploy by Ola to sabotage Uber's operations
The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, turned negative from positive
A year after Bharti Airtel launched 4G services, there are only 6.5 mn users in the country
Metal stocks were trading under pressure while IT, auto, realty stocks gained in today's deals
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
"As Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi said in his latest campaign, 'Modi hai to mumkin hai,' or 'Modi makes it possible', I'm looking forward to exploring what's possible between our people," Pompeo said in his major India policy speech at the India Ideas Summit of US-India Business Council on Wednesday.
The Kolkata-based firm already has a presence in 22 states with over 2,000 branches and 5.9 million borrowers.
'Notwithstanding the realisation among the Indian leadership to build up its navy for the force's expanding role, the Indian Navy was allocated only 15% of the interim defence budget presented in Parliament in February 2019.' 'The outlay for the navy's capital acquisition is not even adequate to meet its committed liabilities,' points out Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
China has taken a position of non-acceptance and non-participation on the jurisdiction by the International Court of Arbitration in a case the Philippines has brought against China's claims to nearly all of the South China Sea, Abraham Denmark, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for East Asia, told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing.
India's largest airline has also told its crew members -- who are working on flights connecting India with East Asian countries like Thailand and Singapore -- to wear N95 masks at all times when they are on ground.
'Our strategy should be to 'hold the line' in the north on the Sino-Indian land frontier, but maintain and, if possible, enlarge India's current edge in the maritime south.'
India transformed from a moderate to low indebted country with a fall in debt-GDP ratio to 20 per cent and foreign debt was slated to be at $102.3 billion in March 2003, a United Nations survey said on Thursday.
The breadth, indicating the overall health of the market, was slightly positive
Airbus is now confident of crossing 1,000 net orders (excluding cancellations or conversions from previous orders) in 2014.
The S&P BSE Midcap and S&P BSE Smallcap indices gained 0.4% and 1%, respectively
The company's revenue rose by 11.7 per cent to Rs 27,364 crore.
It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961, when United States President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Here are some lesser-known facts about the historic first mission:
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