Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
'The household sector, which is still the largest contributor of financial savings, has been experiencing a decline in the last six years, and it has fallen below 8% of GDP.'
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.
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.
The former RBI deputy governor talked about the prospects of an economic revival, reforms in IMF, etc.
Lenders have lined up a number of home loan products that can fit every aspirant's annual income.
In 2015, the Reserve Bank of India cut interest rates by 125 basis points to 6.75 per cent.
Fund managers's compensation is largely tied to the assets they manage and scheme performance.
The 'Smart Cities' project is one that has faced many hurdles.
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
Sebi has long struggled with balancing the needs of small investors and those of the market.
The real estate sector is set to enter a progressive phase in 2015.
How investors can tweak their fixed income investments to earn more in the current environment.
About Rs 2,000 crore of realty money has flown into stocks in the National Capital Region in the months after demonetisation.
Indian markets ended on a lower note after the stimulus announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to meet expectation.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
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.
All this is happening at a time when aluminium prices in the world market are firming up.
'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.
SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said any rate cut by the bank would depend on a lot many factors.
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.
Markets climb higher tracking global cues.
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.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com lists 11 Modi flagship schemes that may have been gamechangers in the Lok Sabha election.
India Inc is encouraged by a determined Budget.
China's slowing means commodity markets are no longer overheated.
'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.
Investment in market leaders with a safety-first approach could yield reasonable returns across sectors.
Meet Srihari Sathe. Producer. Director. Professor.
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.
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 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.'
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.
Interoperability with other insurance companies - apart from banks, medical centres, among others - would be the eventual goal
'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.'
The BSE Mid-and Small-cap indices outperformed their larger peers rising 72 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively, during Samvat 2070.
