Its overall budget more than doubled to Rs 1.54 crore, the world's third oldest football tournament -- the Durand Cup -- has hiked the winners' purse from Rs five lakh to Rs 20 lakh for its 124th edition to be held next month.
The 'dirty money' myth seems to have finally been dispelled, after a new study has revealed that banknotes don't pick up enough bacteria to be dangerous.
Piyush Goyal's comments about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's investment in India reveals an inability to understand how businesses function, says Kanika Datta.
There is a vocal constituency of educated, well-to-do, articulate Indian elites who would rather go with the idea that too much democracy is a liability. That India needs a spell of benevolent dictatorship. Of course, they have never lived under one, points out Shekhar Gupta.
Pricing pressure in traditional technology services and slow growth in emerging technologies may turn out to be the spoiler for Indian infotech companies, says Ayan Pramanik.
At 10 per cent of the overall Rs 2,000-crore (Rs 20-billion) chocolate market, the premium segment is small. Yet, it is growing at a steady 30-40 per cent per annum, according to industry estimates.
With Indians proving their business acumen across the globe, many nations see Indian-born people amongst the richest individuals there. So here are some of them . . .
When United States President Barack Obama meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to India in November, Indian authorities expect them to talk about strategic issues, including the balance of power in Asia, according to sources.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal notched up the biggest title of his career when he clinched the US Open Table Tennis Championships crown, beating Keineth Thomas of Slovakia at Michigan.
Move over BMW, Mercedes and Audi. . . It's time for your richer cousin Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport to steal the lime light.
'We must all commit to sharing less nonsense and quarrelling less on social media.' 'We could use that time instead to meeting and speaking to our friends and family instead of 'liking' their posts.' 'Zuckerberg will be the poorer for that, but our lives will be so much richer,' says Rahul Jacob.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh addressed the media persons onboard Air India One on his return from G-20 Summit in Toronto.
Divide your investments properly for self-consumption, growth and income. Life will be simpler.
'The show is about women taking ownership of their lives.'
Scams happen with high regularity because the price of getting caught is insignificant. Aggrieved investors run from the police to already clogged courts to find redress for issues for which financial regulators have been specifically set up. For over 3,750 years we have known what to do, but we don't do it, observes Debashis Basu.
The United States argued that it had not had an outbreak of high pathogenic avian flu since 2004, while India had 90 such outbreaks between 2004 and 2014
If Modi's truly a reformer and a believer in minimum government, he would bury the Vodafone ghosts now. He would also then go to Bihar, campaigning on his politically controversial reforms. Both will need him to dip deep into his accumulated political capital and risk it, suggests Shekhar Gupta.
As the world adjusts to the dramatic rise of China, a string of surveys in recent years -- from rising religious feeling and the decline of Marxism to perceived strategic threats from nations like the US, Japan and India -- have served to concentrate the mind on the transformation taking place in this country.
The BCCI has always announced handsome performance incentives over the year whenever the senior or U-19 teams have done well in bilateral series or limited overs tournament but in current scenario, the richest cricket board's hands are tied as per Supreme Court order. The Supreme Court of India has passed an order that limits the BCCI's financial freedom and power until the board and its state associations comply with the Lodha Committee's recommendations.
Investors in Sensex companies turned richer in 2009, raking in returns of over 76 per cent on their investments, as the collective market valuation of the 30-blue chip companies nearly doubled to Rs 26.49 lakh crore last year, the Economic Survey said on Thursday.
Global wealth staged a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5 percent to $111.5 trillion, just short of the year-end peak set in 2007.
'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.
'Just as success is not real, I believe failures are also not real.' 'It's just like opinions of people who don't really know you.'
'It is sad that Kerala had so many Covid patients which is primarily due to the mismanagement of the Left government.' 'The technical committee was full of CPI-M leaders who happen to have medical degrees with no experience in public health.' 'They were advising the CM and we are paying for those mistakes.'
The government expects to collect this much tax from the cricketing event and has already mopped up Rs 110 crore (Rs 1.1 billion) in the first 15 days as tax deducted at source.
An unprecedented auction in Mumbai last year transformed the face of cricket between the first two Twenty20 World Cups. The IPL was a direct result of India's success with a team of tyros in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa two years ago.
'Better hygiene practices could lower a person's immunity and make the person susceptible to auto-immune diseases.'
Fernandes wanted Coca-Cola Company to not just transfer 60 per cent of the shares of its Indian firm but also the formula for its concentrate to Indian shareholders.
How does compounding work? Well, when you save Rs 100 and get an annual interest of 10%, you will have Rs 110 at the end of one year. Due to compounding the next year you will get a 10% interest on Rs 110, which will then leave you with Rs 121. The next year, interest will be calculated on Rs 121 at 10% and so on. In time, these savings will grow exponentially.
Richest 10 account for 41% of promoter wealth, up from 33% in December 2018, says Krishna Kant.
Besides coming back to power in the recent elections, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has more reasons to smile.
State-run coal behemoth has left behind the IT bellwether Infosys, power utility NTPC Ltd, the country's largest private lender ICICI Bank, FMCG major ITC and engineering giant L&T to enter into the club of top 10 most valued firms.
Reports have suggested Rs 400-650 as the possible IPO price
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who was the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate for Delhi assembly polls held earlier this year, on Sunday said that she will not contest elections again.
Not everyone complains about high prices at the gas station.
High crude oil prices in 2008 have left the government richer by a few thousand crore rupees. In 2008-09, the government earned "windfall profits" from the petroleum sector as crude oil prices spiked, touching a high of $147 in July 2008.
'Tiger reserves were created to protect areas from developmental activities.' 'If we go ahead with these projects, then it is a complete mockery of our institutions and our laws, it is against everything we have stood for, our Forest Conservation Act, our Wildlife Biodiversity Act.'
Among the current FTAs with significant trade deficits for India, five are with countries from the 10-nation Asean bloc. Exports to the 10 economies stood at $ 37.4 billion in 2018-19, up by 9% year on year. On the other hand, imports were higher at $ 59.31 billion, up by 25% from the previous year's $ 47.13 billion.
Another report by Oxfam had found that eight billionaires, including Bill Gates, from around the globe have as much money as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population.
Investors in Ranbaxy Laboratories got richer by over Rs 1,900 crore (Rs 19 billion) in a single day as the scrip surged by a little over 20 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday, a day after the pharma major announced a change of guard at its top management level.
