The one national GST unifies the country's $2 trillion economy and 1.3 billion people into a common market, an exercise that took 17 tumultuous years.
'I see you as a man who has split the nation into two. Vajpayee or even Advani would hold it together. One senses you cannot do this. To heal, to apologise, and to glue together a nation seems beyond you,' Shiv Visvanathan tells the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Who is to take their place? Will a new generation of entrepreneurs start up with better business sense, or at least better luck? But the so-called unicorns are mostly copy-cat entrepreneurs whose cash flow is funded by overseas (including Chinese) money, notes T N Ninan.
Consolidation is the prime mood of the Indian equity market at the moment.
Indices reversed all its losses during late trades.
Almost half of that market is in India's villages.
Exercise. Check e-mails. Wake up to a cup of tea.
'I'm an unbalanced human,' the founding partner of AZB, India's top law firm, tells Pavan Lall.
Women have been and continue to be an integral part of Tata Global Beverages' business, across the world, says Cyrus Mistry.
Lord Paul made reference to Caparo's factory in Singur.
Bank of Baroda ended flat after sharp gains in the previous session.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
The growing importance of all things culinary and the hunt for credible faces as brand ambassadors are adding more power to the chefs' elbow.
So, how does Pompeo's check list look like? In a broad sense, he is coming here 'to make sure that we have economic openness'; to ensure that 'we have to deliver'; to understand that 'we have to execute' what we promised to do; and, to 'broach some tough topics', points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Though the markets have lost ground since the past few sessions, analysts do not seem worried.
Sensex climbs higher on favourable global cues.
'I asked a group of uniformed high school kids: Who was the one Kashmiri they admired?' 'I shouldn't have been surprised by the answer,' says Sunil Sethi.
'I sometimes fight with God and tell him, "Bahut ho gaya yaar, I should go now, call me".'
'Nobody in our team had any idea that these things will come out.' 'We need to do a social audit of all the shelter homes across the country.'
Relatively new brands of HUL, such as Closeup, play second fiddle to other legacy brands such as Colgate from Colgate-Palmolive and Vicco.
'The airline business is very dynamic. If you are unable to keep up and lead, you end up last.' 'This is what has happened to Jet.'
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.
Nifty, which has struggled around 8550-8560 levels managed to blast past this resistance and close above the psychological mark of 8600.
'We must delink religion from politics' 'Leaders with vested interests have brought religion into politics.' Netaji's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose, the BJP candidate against Mamata Banerjee, on the campaign trail.
Back in the thick of action, former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi will be in his element now
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Rental real estate aggregators can help you earn Rs 3,000-5,000 rent daily
Culinary legend Satish Arora hangs up his apron after almost 5 decades of service at the Taj group of hotels.
Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday.
'You will see more and more people working independently -- starting beauty parlours, driving cars, etc.' This is what we call the gig economy.' 'The same people who have been laid off in India or are unable to get visas to work in the US may be part of this gig economy.' 'India needs billions of jobs, and it can only be created by self-employment or the gig economy.'
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Narendra Modi has expressed readiness for a probe by any government agency to be completed within 30 days into charges by Congress leaders that he had spent Rs 10,000 crore on poll publicity and offered to write to the Election Commission himself in this regard.
Rediff readers share their Cash Crisis experiences.
'It's like your own private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself. This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'
Auroville just turned 50. Aurovilians who grew up in The experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.
A young IT grad jailed for visa fraud committed by his agent, gives an insider's view of life in jail.
Piramals are the largest investors in the Indian real estate sector after HDFC, with investments worth $3 billion already.
We bring you this excerpt from Shaili Chopra's book, When I was 25.
Ishita is helping the local community in Spiti lead better lives and build a sustainable environment.
Life inside the prime minister's official residence is highly regulated, but it comes with its perks, says Veenu Sandhu
Ananth Mahadevan takes on the audience.
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