The difference between watching a movie on a laptop in your apartment and watching it on a big white screen is almost spiritual, notes Sreehari Nair.
Indian households database Consumer Pyramids answers why two years of high inflation did not matter to the consumers of the country.
'The focus for IT companies will shift from adding scale to building a smaller, more specialised, talent pool with specific domain expertise,' says Shyamal Majumdar.
The rediff quiz on aviation sector
Rajeev Srinivasan considers the legacy of the man who popularised strategic intent and the Bottom of the Pyramid.
C K Prahalad, one of the world's renowned management gurus, passed away on Friday. Associated with some of the top educational institutes around the world, the Harvard Business School graduate also was a consultant to many top global companies.
India first needs to innovate the solution itself, and then focus on the product.
A good entrepreneur can always find opportunity, even in adversity
'Over 27 million youngsters in their 20s lost their jobs in April.' '33 million men and women in their 30s lost jobs in April,' points out Mahesh Vyas.
Referring to the border with China, he said the armies of both India and China have issued new guidelines to their respective forces.
It has 18.9 per cent share of the market, down from 22.6 per cent for the third quarter of 2018 while Xiaomi has 27.1 per cent share.
Kolkata tops the list with 617 cancellations, New Delhi stands second with 203, followed by Mumbai at 190.
As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
Subbarao pointed out that the non-banking financial companies could also play a significant role in deepening the process of financial inclusion. NBFCs can reach out where banks cannot, he added.
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Bubble economies don't last, and crises bring you back to reality. The truth of both these assertions has become manifest in recent weeks.
Rising protectionist policies followed under Trump administration has prompted all IT services players to hire more locals in onsite geographies, especially in US.
At the end of their deliberations on the Kuselan issue on September 2 in Chennai, the distributors/theatre owners combine issued a joint communique stating that 'they had a frank discussion and decided to call off their earlier decision not to cooperate in future with films produced by Seven Arts/Kavithalaya, distributed by Aingaran Films/Pyramid Saimeera Films and films starring Rajnikanth.'
Recent reports indicate that Kamal Haasan's film, Marmayogi, might fall into the hands of the Ocher Studios-Warner Brothers combine. Kamal is said to have returned the advance amount to Pyramid Saimira and has reportedly initiated talks with Soundarya and Warner Brothers to associate himself with them.
Like so many other MNCs, it is targeting emerging markets, of which India represents a major chunk, as a critical growth area. But India is also rapidly becoming a key geography where some of the innovative products to address the market at the bottom of the pyramid are being developed.
Ferrying migrant workers back to their states would be the largest special service by any railway network in the world in one go. Here's how the transporter manages it.
Pyramid Saimira has agreed to extend the reimbursement to distributors and theatre owners of Karnataka and Andhra despite the producers of the movie voicing their opinion to compensate only in Tamil Nadu.
Pyramid Saimira's Tamil film Ayudham Seivom, starring Sundar C works well in the humour department but there's no impact.
The new form will only require a complainant to mention the product and GST identification number of the seller
Kamal Hassan's Rs 125 crore magnum opus Marmayogi will have not one or two but four beautiful heroines -- Trisha, Shriya, Hema Malini and two-time National Award winner Shobhana.
Compliance costs and legal scrutiny could rise.
India's housing shortage is fuelled by the immigration of millions of villagers to the cities.
YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, SBI, IndusInd Bank, and RBL Bank are amongst the banks, Jefferies says, are most prune to "high risk" emanating from ADAG, Cox & Kings, CG Power, DHFL and Essar Shipping.
William S Pinckney was arrested by the Kerala police for alleged violation of the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act.
Nirmal Kotecha is a self-confessed admirer of Harshad Mehta and a faithful follower of his technique.
India's economic condition is expected to improve by 2022 though the gap between the rich and the poor would widen, said C K Prahalad, management consultant and author of corporate strategy, including The Core Competence of the Corporation, said on the sidelines of the CII press conference.
Of the 3.9 million the sector employs, HR experts say at least 100,000 are likely to lose their jobs by the end of this financial year. Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan report.
'Wage earners are shrinking. In both, the organised and unorganised sectors. And, entrepreneurs are growing.' 'But the increase in entrepreneurship is of a kind that does not create salaried employment or daily wage employment,' says Mahesh Vyas.
Bollywood's hottest on-screen couple were spotted in Egypt, where they were shooting for a song for their film, Singh is Kinng.
India needs to focus on sustainable development and work towards improving the lot of its people at the bottom of the pyramid apart from its thrust on a higher GDP growth to be in the top league of nations in the next 15 years. Vijay K Thadani, chief executive officer of NIIT Limited and chairman of CII Education Committee, stressed on arresting school drop-out rate, enhancing enrolment ratio in colleges and universities and scale up penetration of information technology.
'So why didn't the police make it very clear that this is the line of investigation, this is what we are doing.' 'Nobody knows what kind of report was done.' 'Was she checked for (sexual assault)?'
Interacting with the athletes at the events he said, "Being a Maharashtrian, Gokulashtami has a very special place in my heart. While Dahi Handi has always been rooted in tradition, Red Bull Jod Ke Tod is instrumental in recognizing and elevating the agility, athleticism and courage of these incredible women and men participating."
A report released by the US-based Pyramid Research says India will add the most number of new mobile phone users.
However, the income profile shows a classical pyramid-shaped society with only 600,000 households earning above Rs 18 lakh per annum, according to the Mr and Mrs India survey by brokerage firm CLSA Asia Pacific Markets.
Neither the CAA nor the proposed NRC are important enough to stake the well-being of so many or stake economic growth. Getting growth back on track is more important, notes Mahesh Vyas.
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