While global competitors Amazon and Walmart are looking to explore B2B online in India, traditional Indian retailers like the Future group and Reliance Retail and e-commerce players such as Snapdeal and Flipkart have no immediate plans in this area.
The $10.5 billion arms and equipment deal helped to arrest the recent drift in the 'special and privileged' strategic partnership, observes Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Here is an explainer and a timeline relating to India's purchase of 36 combat jets.
RIL's standalone net profit rose one per cent quarter-on-quarter
'The much-awaited decision could be a welcome change at a time when the Indian armed forces are crying for self-reliance and the defence industry is looking forward to more indigenisation,' notes Nitin A Gokhale.
The ongoing corporate results and the Union budget are also making participants tread cautiously though the GST agreement provided some relief.
The Mumbai-based brokerage has constructed India Family Firm Index out of listed companies.
Nearly $120 bn will come from private sector
The telecom sector is in the midst of another major shift as voice gives way to data.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
Refining major optimistic on planned investment of $16 bn for expansion and new technology to post healthy margins
At its current stock price, RIL now has 8.4 per cent weight in the Sensex against Infosys' 8.8 per cent.
All major sectors -- real estate, e-commerce, IT, retail and consumer products, healthcare -- saw new all-time highs in value invested.
Perhaps, the group's leadership position and potential in the retail segment prompted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry to identify retail as one of the group's four growth clusters in his recent Vision 2025 statement.
Payments banks will mainly deal in remittance services and accept deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh.
'If the RBI blesses us with a banking licence, we would like to launch a successful bank.'
Monsanto has taken the government to court over the royalty.
The second-longest serving chairman introduced quite a few measures for the primary market and implemented a new corporate governance framework.
Russian firms expand their footprint in India. And take bigger steps to do business with India's private sector.
The prospects of India becoming a credible manufacturer of defence platforms or major weapon systems for export are remote, says Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
The Sensex and Nifty remained above their key levels of 36,000 and 10,900 throughout the session, indicating strong investor optimism after a prolonged spell of caution.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
A 15 per cent corporate tax rate for services companies in SEZs, setting up a fund for deep-tech startups and establishing clusters to demonstrate design-to-manufacturing capabilities of tech firms were some of the key demands made by the IT sector at the pre-Budget consultation on Monday. The participants shared their views and suggestions regarding Big Data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing digital penetration in rural areas, and corporate guarantee to startups for competing with other nations.
The one common theme across companies that have rewarded shareholders is consumption.
The strategy of returning cash to shareholders through stock purchases could hinder their digital expansion plans
Tata Group's CLiQ is the latest to join the e-commerce club, to compete with the likes of Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
In August, RBI allowed 11 business houses to start a payments bank.
Brokers like Vasudevan are struggling to keep themselves in tune with this super-informed, new-generation retail investor.
Anuj Rakyan, the entrepreneur behind Raw Pressery, has seen his business valuation grow 50 times in a little over 3 years. The sky is the limit, he tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
Seeking to boost the strategic ties, India and the US finalised the text of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Will private firms really boost Make in India in the defence sector? Ajai Shukla seeks answers.
The market could see a fresh round of tariff war, similar to what happened in the voice market a few years ago.
S&P upgraded India's credit outlook to 'stable' from 'negative' earlier.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has left no stone unturned this year after big industrialists, along with Union ministers, skipped attending the BGBS 2017.
In about a year, top e-commerce companies are expected to raise as much funds as the three sector leaders raised in about five years.
The two countries also asked all nations to stop cross-border movement of terrorists and asserted that a decisive collective response from the international community without 'double standards and selectivity' was required to combat the threat of terrorism.
In a first, a public transport facility is beating its own drum.
Seeing the potential of shale gas, Reliance Industries moved early to secure a foothold in the Marcellus shale reserves in the US.
Revenue was also boosted by robust growth in retail business which recorded a 73.6 per cent increase to Rs 11,571 crore
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