Lenders have lined up a number of home loan products that can fit every aspirant's annual income.
Markets have witnessed a gap down opening mirroring losses in the global equities with US markets taking a hit on worries about the health of Chinese economy.
Fund managers's compensation is largely tied to the assets they manage and scheme performance.
Make in India has few advantages and some disadvatnages too.
Govt keen to revive business sentiment in india.
'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon.
Investment in market leaders with a safety-first approach could yield reasonable returns across sectors.
Investors in LIC's insurance and other schemes are receiving a lower rate of return because LIC is subsidising incompetence at best and malfeasance at worst in institutions such as IDBI Bank and IL&FS, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
Ahead of the assembly elections next year, the BJP has been wallowing in a welter of ideas that has resurrected the debate on populism versus pragmatism, as it has to pander to two important but incompatible constituencies, of the freebie consuming masses and Bengaluru's heavy hitters craving for even roads, pristine lakes and unbroken power supply, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
Stocks of companies having operations and exports to Europe were the top losers.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
Karan Choudhury reports on the implications of the strict Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act and the prosecution of Unitech MDs, Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, in an alleged fraud case.
A total of 16 secretaries have been appointed to various central government departments.
'India's economy is growing faster compared to the developed economies of the world.' 'More importantly, it is growing faster compared to most of the developing economies.' 'The monsoon is not the only thing that drives the rural economy and certainly not the national economy.' 'It is too simplistic to reduce everything to the monsoon.'
The contraction in M&A activity in India contrasts sharply with the upbeat global picture, much of it led by a reviving US economy.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com lists 11 Modi flagship schemes that may have been gamechangers in the Lok Sabha election.
In 2015, the Reserve Bank of India cut interest rates by 125 basis points to 6.75 per cent.
Lenders have lined up a number of home loan products that can fit every aspirant's annual income.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
'What has gained prominence are 'human' skills like creativity, originality and initiative, critical thinking, persuasion, and negotiation, as well as attention to detail, resilience, flexibility and complex problem-solving.'
About Rs 2,000 crore of realty money has flown into stocks in the National Capital Region in the months after demonetisation.
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
The former RBI deputy governor talked about the prospects of an economic revival, reforms in IMF, etc.
The 'Smart Cities' project is one that has faced many hurdles.
How investors can tweak their fixed income investments to earn more in the current environment.
Sebi has long struggled with balancing the needs of small investors and those of the market.
'If credit is not available, people will postpone buying. That's what has happened.'
The real estate sector is set to enter a progressive phase in 2015.
Indian markets ended on a lower note after the stimulus announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to meet expectation.
Immediate NSG membership will not help India realise its nuclear ambitions any faster. It could have easily left the process take its own course, instead of running a high-stakes campaign to get in, says B S Raghavan.
G C Murmu rarely speaks in public and when he does, his statements are always in lockstep with the thinking within this government.
A combination of externalities such as global trade wars and slowing growth, continuing glitches in accessing offsets under the GST regime, which has created a liquidity crunch for smaller exporters, and the growing competitiveness of smaller countries are causing the slowdown.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
The Parsi community runs India's respected corporate houses like the Tata, Wadia and Godrej groups.
Govt must take few steps to improve business environment.
SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said any rate cut by the bank would depend on a lot many factors.
'With the big political job done, the time has come to pay attention to the economy, which is the main problem now,' argues T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Markets climb higher tracking global cues.
All this is happening at a time when aluminium prices in the world market are firming up.
'The new government will have to contend with slowing economic growth, weak private investment, anaemic exports and vulnerable external imbalances, a stressed financial system, mounting fiscal pressures (including high government debt-to-GDP ratios) and an exceptionally bad employment situation,' says Shankar Acharya, former chief economic adviser to the Government of India.
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