Life Insurance Corporation of India has over Rs 7,000 crore in tax demand pending against it, the biggest across various categories.
The Sensex ended down 251 points at 27,351 and the Nifty shed 65 points to close at 8,228.
The Lodha Group has bought land parcels worth Rs 12,000 crore in Mumbai
'The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms.'
A steep decline in the Asian equities after crude oil fell to its lowest since September 2003 dented sentiments.
A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
This demonstration of technology is exciting, as is the fact that it has been done with so little expense, says M N Vahia
Preetisheel Singh lets us into some star secrets.
Analysts mostly prefer domestic plays beside select films with foreign exposure.
A large chunk of the Rs 8.8 lakh crore of investments the Patnaik government had attracted is in uncertain territory.
Back in the thick of action, former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi will be in his element now
Custodian banks are selling dollars for their foreign fund clients.
The market breadth in BSE remains positive with 1,554 shares advancing and 1,196 shares declining.
National Demorcatic Alliance ministry's list of assets is fairly wide -- from land and property to vehicles and, for quite a few, guns. Nivedita Mookerji reports
BSE Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durable, TECk, Power and Metal indices declined between 0.5-1%.
Corporate India's earnings in the past two quarters were largely driven by the rupee's sharp fall versus the dollar in the second quarter of this financial year.
The Sensex was up 70 points and the Nifty was up 20 points led by SBI on robust Q2 earnings.
Many see Nirma's Lafarge deal as some kind of second coming for the Patels.
Domestic and foreign companies pour in a slew of investments in Gujarat.
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Q1 results indicate more pain ahead, as slowdown has spread to more sectors, pricing power has come down and rising interest cost is eating into profits.
'Make in India' will be central to Mr Modi's visit to Europe and Canada. It is difficult to predict what will happen with the Rafale deal, but if it goes through, it will undoubtedly become the 'Mother' of all 'Make in India' projects,' says Claude Arpi.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
One does not need to be extraordinary to be a hero. Sometimes, cutting your hair can be enough.
Industry demands the basic customs duty on all steel imports to be raised to 25%
'Our body functions in a particular system. We pass urine. We pass motions. We swallow food. We drink water. We breathe properly.' 'If there is an obstruction to any of these things -- difficulty swallowing, difficulty passing urine, passing blood in the urine, passing blood in the stools or severe pain anywhere, lasting for more than a month, or for example the skin, which covers our body, has a few moles that start increasing or bleeding... then you need to see a specialist.'
Since many of Modi's urban policies were initiated in Ahmedabad, the city may act as a template to examine what can be expected in a country that is witnessing the biggest migration from rural to urban areas in the world
'This is not a Sanjay Baru or Natwar Singh type of book. It's not a memoir. It's not a book to reveal conversations, real or imaginary. This is not a book to position myself at the centre of the world.' Jairam Ramesh on his stint as environment minister.
While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore's Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time scale is not measured in decades and centuries, but in annual quarters, says Shivanand Kanavi.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
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