India saw 4.2 million foreign tourists till May mainly thanks to visitors from Bangladesh
This September, Sachin Bansal picked 94 per cent stake in microfinance company Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services. His immediate plan is to scale up the company's operations as quickly as possible without making much investment in physical infrastructure and by leveraging technology.
The cost of luring buyers and sellers to its platform means the new funds won't last long.
Seeking stringent action against the perpetrators of the Pulwama attack, India Inc said 'now we have to make sure that the world knows that they can't mess with us'.
Jio's global partnerships took shape this year when Jio Platforms, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Jio which has invested in various digital platforms, was able to woo a bevy of marquee investors: Facebook, Google, Qualcomm, Intel, and a numerous PE funds.
The industry is looking at a promising 2016, though experts and even the investors anticipate correction on the valuation side
Adapting to the new hybrid normal of remote and office work, cautiously optimistic corporate are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in the new year as they step out of the pandemic-ravaged 2020. The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote workers became the new normal and for the professionals, online learning and digital skills took centrestage.
Given the school break, this is the peak travel season and companies catering to the 'friends and family' segment are expected to gain.
The amount you can raise via a gold loan is higher than you can get via a personal loan.
Ashok Gehlot can never be a challenger to the first son of the Congress party. The Scindias and Pilots will be Rahul's rivals should the party's fortunes revive, says Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
The online ad segment is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 25 per cent between FY'2011 to FY'2013.
The revision was announced before Indian markets opened on Thursday.
Estimates by retail consultancy Technopak suggest that direct subsidy to consumers because of e-commerce this year would be over Rs 12,000 crore.
The company roped in Aamir Khan as its brand ambassador in March.
From mass layoffs to acquisitions, here's how the Indian start-up industry kept us on our toes.
Infosys has been making bets on automation and other high-margin services like artificial intelligence to regain some ground
Flipkart Supermart is already live in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi
Recommends delisting of chana futures, open to lowering sugar import duty
Industry asked the government to be 'brave and bold' and said that it will rise to the occasion.
Industry bodies called for implementation of measures announced in the Budget to arrest inflation, saying these would pave the way for a stable inflation regime.
Looking at the response time, brands are proactively snapping ties with celebrities in the face of controversy.
Can business schools re-invent their role, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The prayer, Sarvejana Sukhinobhavantu, or let the whole universe of living beings be well, helps. So do profound and relevant Ancient Wise Words and aphorisms: Vasudaiva Kutumbakam, or the whole world is one big family, interconnected, interdependent. And a sense of humour, jokes, pranks, writing, conversations. And, last but definitely not least, the rippling waves of inner realisation on the background mind-track -- about the insignificance of ego, the importance of humility, the wasted opportunities in life, the wrong moves, the strokes of luck, the past 'sins', the what-ifs.
Deal values have been falling steadily since May this year, when it touched a high of $851 million.
Samsung eyes growth in consumer electronics business in 80 districts through its service vans, and adding over 250 service points and as many resident engineers.
Yulu founder Amit Gupta believes bicycle sharing is the next big thing.
If one were to go by the degree of clout, Jaitley was the undoubted No. 2 in the Modi government.
The Make in India Week has become a platform for two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states to jostle for the number one destination in India for investor funds.
'This solid verdict would further strengthen his resolve to drive forward the economic agenda to ensure that the fruits of the economic momentum continue to reach the poor, so visible during the last five years.'
While we are slowly moving towards a future where using hard cash will be obsolete, it is indeed a wise idea to start using E-payment cards for pocket money. We need to keep up with the times while we follow our children into the future.
The finance minister admitted that there was no quick-fixes to economic problems and the government is working to stabilise the economy which may take time.
With a decelerating economy that weakens India's hands on geopolitical issues, it will be interesting to know which way this trip will go.
'If we play our cards right, we may even benefit from the competition between the US and China as seen from increased investment from each of these countries into India.' 'The size of our market gives us an important lever of power which we shall have to play adroitly and intelligently,' points out Ambassador Gautam Bambawale -- who served as India's envoy to China -- in the Professor V M Dandekar Memorial Lecture 2019, delivered on March 8, 2019 in Pune.
'The meanness of the board statement apart, it nowhere answers the most fundamental and damaging aspects of the deteriorating work culture among top company executives to which Narayana Murthy had been repeatedly drawing attention,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Says India stands to gain by setting up a level playing field instead of creating trade barriers
In an era when the misguided youth of today are trying to build political careers by subscribing to divisive ideologies, they need to look to independent thinking icons such as Acharya Kripalani, says Mohammad Sajjad.
The 112-year old hotel chain has readied a three-pronged turnaround plan
As 2018 draws to a close and the white noise of 24-hour news cycles and Twitter storms fade into the background, it is already clear that history will remember only a handful of those people, each of whom has taught us something about ourselves and the rapidly changing world in which we live.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden speech from Red Fort last Independence Day outlined some grand programmes. Shehzad Poonawalla does a quick check on the progress made.
