Indian markets ended on a lower note after the stimulus announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to meet expectation.
'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.'
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.
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.
All this is happening at a time when aluminium prices in the world market are firming up.
Markets climb higher tracking global cues.
'If credit is not available, people will postpone buying. That's what has happened.'
In a fresh salvo at the Gandhi family, Narendra Modi on Friday said the country could not be run by a government working on "oxygen from mother and son" and a "dead, feeble and fractured" regime was not needed.
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.
Meet Srihari Sathe. Producer. Director. Professor.
China's slowing means commodity markets are no longer overheated.
India Inc is encouraged by a determined Budget.
'India cannot expect to be insulated from the crisis. Europe is India's biggest trading partner with two-way trade of E72.5 billion or Rs 530,000 crore last year,' says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Amitabh Kant tells Rahul Jacob how India could be made an easier place to do business in and why India's software smarts will give it an edge.
'If you allow Walmart to operate in India, our manufacturing will finish completely.' 'What will happen to Narendra D Modi's dream then? There will be no Make in India.'
Gains in key IT, capital goods, healthcare and metal stocks, after consistent buying by domestic and foreign investors, helped both the key indices to scale new peaks.
'The corporate sector says by 2022 they will create 300 million jobs.' 'In the last 70 years we didn't do it, how will we do it in 5 years?' 'Only agriculture can bail out the economy. Unfortunately, it is not being looked into.'
'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.
'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.
Interoperability with other insurance companies - apart from banks, medical centres, among others - would be the eventual goal
G C Murmu rarely speaks in public and when he does, his statements are always in lockstep with the thinking within this government.
The Sensex ended 229 points down at 27,602 and the Nifty ended down 63 points at 8,293.
Farmers have been availing crop loans upto Rs 300,000 at 7%.
The formula for success of farm economy is very simple -- farmers should be able to produce more from the same piece of land at reduced cost while minimising risk and be connected to market to get higher realisation for their produce, points out Siraj Chaudhry.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
The BSE Mid-and Small-cap indices outperformed their larger peers rising 72 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively, during Samvat 2070.
While many promises remain unrealised, power reforms and the creation of tens of millions of new bank accounts have helped Modi maintain his popularity
'We all wanted a strong Centre with a decisive mandate from the people, to allow them to take bold decisions.'
As global markets near all-time highs driven by liquidity, Marc Faber suggests most asset prices worldwide are inflated.
Sensex lacklustre, bluechips in focus.
Ambassador Venu Rajamony, who served as press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee during his tenure, salutes the statesman and political legend, who passed into the ages on Monday.
The buyer is well within his right to ask for a penalty clause in the agreement.
Contrary to the bragging that marked its two-year anniversary, the government's timidity on reform is simply astounding.
Cashi Crisis: Day 9: Aaj ki Taaza Khabar!
For India's upstream sector that has seen no new discovery coming into production.
Manu Kumar Jain, India head, Xiaomi, tells Sangeeta Tanwar how the Chinese smartphone maker won over the Indian market.
A good business school will put you through a battery of tests to improve your soft skills, says Dr Tarun Pasricha.
At this point of time, the requirement of the economy is obviously more investment, which will create more jobs and increase purchasing power that will sustain a high level of production, says K M Chandrasekhar.
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