Your promise to protect bankers for their commercial decisions is a huge confidence booster, but how does one define a commercial decision? Are our investigative agencies well equipped to dissect lending decisions of bankers?
'The Centre brought down expenses by as much as Rs 12,000 crore (Rs 120 billion).'
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The Tata Group says it is bullish on investment in India.
With development of the Vadhavan port, India will break into the countries with top 10 container ports in the world.
Kunal Shah is one of five of India-origin to have made the cut in Goldman Sachs in the 2014 class of partners.
A dipstick survey covering 30 villages in Rajasthan threw up some worrisome numbers. About 250 children missed their regular vaccination schedule in March alone. These numbers are alarming, since India has around 600,000 villages according to the 2011 census. Sohini Das reports.
'According to the government's Economic Survey, the Indian state's generosity is not restricted to its poorest citizens. In fact, in many cases, the beneficiaries are disproportionately the well-off.'
The Railway Budget has impressed industry watchers.
Offers 12.60% in revenue share to Cidco, while only other bidder GMR offered 10.44%.
Nearly 45 per cent of this value is likely to be delivered by 3 sectors - consumer goods and retail, agriculture and banking and insurance, the Nasscom report said.
After years of disappointing growth, the economy and the markets are poised for a breakout, notes Akash Prakash.
India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.
'2017-2018 will be one of the best years for the country.' 'The wheel has finally started moving in the right direction. It should pick up momentum in the next 8 to 9 months to have a positive impact on the economy'
Digital payments and financial services firm Paytm has filed a draft red herring prospectus for its proposed Rs 16,600-crore initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
A month after the government allowed registration of Limited Liability Partnerships, only 10 firms have availed this new form of doing business that provides advantages of a partnership firm and also a corporation. This is because the government is yet to notify key sections (Sections 55 to 58) of the law that would enable conversion of a partnership firm, private company or unlisted public company into an LLP.
It is time to take a few macroeconomic risks to kick start the growth.
Enunciating slew of measures initiated by the UPA to augment the sector, the finance minister said 19 oil and gas blocks were given out for exploration and 7 new airports are under construction.
'Prime Minister Modi has initiated a host of reforms in the right direction, and I would like to see that continuing.'
Investors booked profits at higher levels despite the growth oriented Budget.
in talks with defence industries, including Bharat Dynamics Ltd, and other private companies.
Alibaba's pervasive economic and social influence in China is seen as a threat to the authority of the Chinese Communist party, notes Shyam Saran.
Over 5 million alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai University and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, plan to raise Rs 21,000 crore to start the world's largest infection testing lab in Mumbai.
Those who have a long-range mission of true nation-building will pay close attention to World Bank's new action plan for fairness in all matters of land use, says Rajni Bakshi.
Critics who cannot stop gloating, pronouncing Modi to be a lame-duck prime minister, may be making a huge mistake, predicts Virendra Kapoor.
Delhi Development Authority's land deal to Reliance Industries throws up larger issues of governance.
The return of a BJP-Sena regime after a love-hate war and gap of 15 years, demise of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde, collapse of Congress-Nationalisy Congress Party alliance and rising cases of farmers' suicides dominated Maharashtra's political landscape in 2014.
The sale is key to meeting the government's disinvestment target of Rs 2.1 trillion in the financial year 2020-21. So far, the disinvestment exercise has fetched the government Rs 34,845 crore during the current financial year.
Will private firms really boost Make in India in the defence sector? Ajai Shukla seeks answers.
Fifty per cent of bank restructured assets were in infrastructure, steel, power and telecom sectors.
Over the past two years, some 30 mid-career bureaucrats are said to have joined the private sector as COOs, CEOs and partners in consultancies.
Budget will get a welcome reception from the international biz.
All credit to the finance minister for walking the fiscal and expectation tightrope extremely well in his budget speech, says Ganesh Natarajan.
The railways continue to lose market share with an actual fall in the number of passengers and stagnant freight tonnage, says Subir Roy.
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
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'On the tax front, most of the Budget proposals are sensible'.
As for structural reform, there are signs if one looks hard enough.
Containing infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan will be another key focus area.
A consortium of three US-based firms - AECOM, KPMG and IBM - was given the task of developing the master plan.
The Planning Commission has not been central to the policy making process since the mid-1960s, says Nitin Desai.
