Does the Union government or the RBI see itself as Krishna beheading Shishupal and what will constitute the 101st or indeed the past many sins for which a Sudarshan Chakra will have to be used? More importantly, what are those sins?
'The government should refrain from 'adventurism' and 'megalomania'.' 'But this should be true of reckless government action against every Indian, whether or not they are wealthy or have access to the finance minister even when he is in hospital,' says Aakar Patel.
'More than 900 companies believe that the majority of their employees worry about AI's role in potential job losses.' 'It makes employees anxious about working with machines or AI applications and fuels resistance to change,' says a Capgemini report.
Encouraged by foreign exchange reserves touching record levels, the Reserve Bank on Tuesday doubled the annual overseas investment ceiling for individuals to $2,50,000.
Recalling the monumental upset when the mighty West Indies were stunned by India in the 1983 Prudential World Cup final, pacer Joel Garner said that the loss was the biggest disappointment of his decade-long cricket career.
The Reserve Bank on Thursday said it has put in place contingency plans to infuse liquidity into the system to deal with any possible volatility in markets on Friday in view of the election results.
The net non-performing assets on December 31, 2016 were Rs 20,155 crore compared to Rs 16,483 crore at September 30, 2016
In the 52 newly listed companies since 2014, fund managers have a total investment of a mere 2.5 per cent of their assets under management.
During the current financial year, 25 companies have raised Rs 28,220 crore through IPOs
LIC is one of the largest Indian shareholders in the country's largest car maker, with a 6.93% stake.
SBI, which has been operating in the UK for 95 years, said it is prepared to set aside 100 million pounds in ring-fenced capital and restructure its operations if that is necessary to keep operating on the high streets.
Since you are betting only on a few stocks, the risks are high.
Sharma would be 60 in November 2018, and would have completed 10 years as Axis Bank's CEO the following year in June.
General, life insurers with 8 & 10 yrs in biz, respectively, may have to list
"A significant decline in the growth number for this quarter is highly likely, but for the fiscal year as a whole the decline may still be relatively moderate," Fitch Asia-Pacific Sovereigns Group Director Thomas Rookmaaker said.
Recently, United Bank of India declared Kingfisher Airlines as well as some three of its directors as wilful defaulters.
The move will have cascading effects for lot of related sectors
In his address at a conference of state secretaries, Rajan stressed the need to strengthen state-level coordination committees by ensuring participation, conducting meetings more frequently and sharing quality information among all stakeholders, including state government agencies.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to impose stricter limits on how much a bank can lend to a single corporate group, a move aimed at curbing risk in the banking sector at a time when bad loans are on the rise.
Two straight years of less than 5 percent economic expansion have led to a surge in bad loans for Indian lenders.
'Without appropriate supervisory constraints in place, banks are in a position to delay the recognition of losses and engage in ever-greening or zombie lending, which is essentially the rolling over of debts of unviable borrowers that would have otherwise defaulted,' points out RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya.
While debt funds have emerged as the flavour of the season, not all investors understand debt funds. So the best they can do is put trust in the fund manager and the fund house.
Don't sidestep the idea of investing in term insurance. Here's why.
The big names in the Aussies squad were tricked into partying hard a night before they lost to rookie, cricket-loving Canadians in a one-off One-day match.
Given the macro setting, the outlook remains positive for each of the four key parameters - inflation, current account deficit, fiscal deficit and currency stability, says Rahul Bhushkute.
There is a dearth of talent in the Indian banking industry. A testimony to this is the two new CEOs in the private sector -- Sandeep Bakhshi in ICICI Bank Ltd and Amitabh Chaudhry in AXIS Bank Ltd -- have come from the insurance sector, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
ICICI Bank puts up a good show in Q4.
Voices from the Treasury are clamouring for lowering rates as this would boost demand.
To be fair, one year is too short a period to judge the schemes' performance.
Draft guidelines for Small Banks and Payments Banks were issued by the RBI in July and comments were invited till August 28.
A day after applying for a bank licence, Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on Wednesday said the new bank licence norms announced by the Reserve Bank are not discriminatory towards large corporate houses.
Money flowing into the equity schemes of mutual funds is back at a level last seen before the 2008 financial crisis, when the stock market tanked 60 per cent.
In 5 years, the AMC has clocked a growth rate of 40% with its AUM up nearly 4 times.
Gains in financial shares capped further downslide.
Lenders can now review a borrower account within 30 days of default. Earlier, the banks had to start resolution within one day of default.
HDFC Life has a balance between traditional policies and Ulips
'A fund investor could pick, say, three of the top active funds in any given category.'
The SBI auction will be the biggest nationwide online sale.
Equity fund managers say large-caps offer higher relative safety, especially in such times.
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