Today, India is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce markets in Asia/Pacific along with China.
'Collateral damage during operations needs to be avoided.' 'Such an objective can be achieved more easily should stone throwers not gear up to en masse oppose security forces.' 'With the conditions being quite sensitive at this stage, the death of one of these boys could easily serve the terrorists in instigating violence,' notes Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
"We are concerned about the data localisation law and the new e-commerce regulations...they do not fully take into account the needs of all stakeholders, including American and other foreign companies," acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the US, Thomas Vajda said.
Zee and Star, the two largest media companies in India, are undergoing some radical ownership changes. What could it mean? Vanita Kohli Khandekar attempts an answer.
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Within hours of rate cut announced by RBI, United Bank has reduced the benchmark lending rate by 0.25 per cent, while other banks including market leader SBI have indicated that they would follow suit.
Market ended lower for the third straight session led by IT stocks amid downgrade by Citigroup.
The strategy of returning cash to shareholders through stock purchases could hinder their digital expansion plans
'2018 has seen a bi-polar market.' 'Thanks to gains in some key stocks, market returns are positive. But there has been huge wealth destruction in the small and mid-cap space.'
Bankers say it's a question of survival for debt-heavy companies.
Analysts said the higher capex by PSUs, along with government spending, could trigger a capex revival for the corporate sector by the second half of FY17
Jaitley said focus is on larger expenditure on social sector.
Under political fire and ecologists' ire, the group hires Suhel Seth, who will work closely with the promoters and the social media, corporate communications and external public relations team.
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The NSE Nifty too recovered over 100 points, or 0.96 per cent, to end at 10,576.85.
Nissan' exit from the light commercial vehicle joint venture has helped speed up consolidation and growth for the company
The stocks Radhakishan Damani enters or exits are closely watched by fund managers, says Joydeep Ghosh.
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'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Retail investors usually get caught up in the frenzy of a bull market and burn their fingers in IPOs, warns Tinesh Bhasin.
Investors booked profits at higher levels after the Sensex and Nifty hit all-time highs in the previous session.
M-cap of 35% of BSE-500 companies, excluding financial ones, is below their debt or just a shade above
More than 10% (40 of 498 companies) have lost at least half their market value.
India has more than 45 million SMEs, accounting for nearly 40 percent of gross domestic product.
'The focus is more on the outlook for global growth'.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 165 points at 29,044 and the 50-share Nifty gained 54 points to close at 8,834.
The BSE Midcap index has declined 5.7% thus far in May 2018. In comparison, the S&P BSE Small-cap index has lost 5.6%
As regards India, market valuations already reflect most positives.
The 30-share Sensex stayed in the green for the better part of the session and hit the day's high of 38,297.70 as buying pace gathered momentum towards the fag-end.
The RIL stock has halved from an all-time high of Rs 1,626 made (intra-day) on January 15, 2008, to on Wednesday's closing figure of Rs 800.55.
Unlike in the past, when old private banks compromised upon underwriting standards to take on the bulk, they've now realised that scaling up at the cost of quality isn't worth the while. These banks have also readjusted growth targets when required, and rebalanced books to preserve capital and asset quality.
The Nifty50 slipped 33 points to close the session at 8,509 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,587.
While the two high-profile exits in pharmaceutical and telecom have raised concerns over regulatory hassles in the country, Japanese investors are still keen to tap into India's consumer growth story and many more merger and acquisition deals are in the offing in this space.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
Budget-makers in North Block are looking to maintain this fiscal status quo, in spite of tax revenues nowhere close to where the government wants and in spite of possible higher expenditure commitments.
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
'Vodafone Idea has losses running over Rs 10,000 crore in the last four quarters.' 'It has long-term debt of about Rs 1.15 trillion.' 'Even post-issue, the debt service numbers won't be good,' points out Devangshu Datta.
Rebound in IT majors TCS and Infosys in late trades helped markets end higher.
Benchmark share indices gained for the fifth straight session on Thursday led by index heavyweight Reliance Industries.
Budget was a mild disappointment. Yet, the bull run continues.
