Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'Votes-for-notes no longer only means cash and goodies for fence-sitting voters,' points out Sunil Sethi.
'But I understand the need for this government move.' 'I completely support Mr Modi.'
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The charges against the diamond merchant centre around his firms Diamonds R Us, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamonds making fraudulent use of a credit facility offered by the Punjab National Bank, known as 'letters of undertaking'.
'I was seven years old in 1983. I never heard about that historic win because we did not have a radio set in our village.'
The Board rued that its efforts to resolve the concerns of the founders - who together own about 12.75 per cent stake in Infosys - over the course of a year through a dialogue have not been successful.
'In many parts of the country, the empty nest-and-empty-nest egg story is a painful boom-to-bust saga.' 'Among the old and young, it is hitting pockets hard, in a linked chain of debt-laden banks, corrupt politicians and builder mafias and disastrous government policies,' says Sunil Sethi.
The apex court said people value their privacy more than the value of the company which might be in trillions.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
'The BJP has shown signs lately of returning to its trader mindset.' 'Several strong emotions get meshed in this: Nationalism, protectionism, mercantilism, and arrogance,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
Indian states are preparing for a Rs 1.9 lakh crore (Rs 1.9 trillion) tax windfall this fiscal year.
'Vajpayee used to consult the Opposition; Indira Gandhi used to consult the Opposition. Which khet ki mooli is Modi?'
'The deeper problem is big government -- a giant monster with a giant appetite, which requires it to put more and more pressure on tax officials to extort. 'And the monster is getting bigger by the day. But then, Mr Modi too knows this,' says Debashis Basu.
In a world in which men still dominate the institutional landscape, gender-neutrality is as much their responsibility as women's.
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL), led by Sanjay Kirloskar, on Tuesday accused four firms under his brothers Atul and Rahul of trying to "usurp" its legacy of 130 years and trying to mislead the public, which has been refuted by the other side. As the family feud simmers, KBL in a letter to capital markets regulator Sebi claimed that recent press releases by Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (KOEL), Kirloskar Industries Ltd (KIL), Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Ltd (KPCL) and Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd (KFIL) "have sought to usurp the legacy" of KBL. Also, they attempted to pass off the legacy and track record of KBL as that of their own, the letter said.
Sprinter Revathi Veeramani is part of the 4x400m Indian mixed relay team in the Tokyo Games, starting July 23.
Aramco also plans to invest in building India's largest oil refinery on the country's west coast.
'The prime minister's advisers might have told him that going along with this AIADMK government will damage his image.'
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Experts believe that financial planning should always start as soon as we become financially independent. This helps in building a sizeable corpus over time and is also easy on our pockets
'I'm usually pretty chilled and cool, but there are random moments when the brain doesn't compute and I don't stop to think.'
HR Guru Mayank Rautela offers practical advice.
The RBI governor has to convert the zero-sum game with the government from a non-cooperative one -- which his two predecessors had made it -- to a cooperative one, explains T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against former chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji, and his wife on their plea seeking quashing of the summons issued by a Bengaluru trial court on a "frivolous"and "mischievous" complaint filed by an NGO alleging breach of trust and corruption in merger of three firms with a Premji group firm. A bench of Justices Sanjya Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy also issued notice to an NGO, Indian Awake for Transparency and others and sought their response. Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, A M Singhvi appearing for Premji and others said that the complaint was "mischievous" in nature.
The railways continue to lose market share with an actual fall in the number of passengers and stagnant freight tonnage, says Subir Roy.
Budget speeches have been replete with incomprehensible and even hilarious statements, says Rathin Roy.
'Mr Ronaldo has always maintained, as he does today, that what occurred in Las Vegas in 2009 was consensual in nature.'
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
'I fell in love with Amrita Singh from the day I saw Betaab... She is amazing'
The Modi government's record on governance is better than that of UPA-2, but not better than UPA-1, observes T N Ninan.
Accusing the prime minister of pushing a particular narrative in the media through the PMO, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said "Modi will not be able to deflect from real issues".
If the fight against black money seems half hearted, the same is not the case with gau raksha, says Subir Roy.
Dravid is allegedly conflicted as he is the NCA Director and also employed as vice-president of India Cements group, which owns IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings.
While Raghuram Rajan's departure under these circumstances is a pity, it would be wrong to conclude that the RBI or the economy cannot do without him.
Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings are most awaited.
Forget about interim Budgets, one cannot easily recall even a full Budget of any government in recent times having rolled out benefits of this order to such a large number of people, says A K Bhattacharya.
The court said the remarks made by Gandhi were far from true and he should have refrained from those and could have been careful.
Both have made factory jobs the centre of their economic agendas. Kanika Datta explains the practical limits to their ambitions.
RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka thinks aloud about what Vijay Mallya could or should do to get out of the current mess.
