HDFC Life has a balance between traditional policies and Ulips
Once heavily dependent on the cigarettes segment, corporate behemoth ITC has diversified over the past two decades into many businesses that now generates 58 per cent of its revenue. Sanjiv Puri, chief executive officer, ITC, shares his plans with Arnab Dutta.
The future of the GM tech in India is still uncertain.
Did you know that India is among the top five countries in food processing?
'Modi's strategy to redesign India's economy was Make in India, but that has flopped,' says Aakar Patel.
There is ample fuel in the computer revolution to do many useful things.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, while addressing American Association of Physicians Of Indian Origin members, promised Narendra Modi-led NDA government's approval within 15 days if Indian-American doctors apply online for the area of choice where they want to serve. Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa reports from San Antonio.
Pai is the fourth Indian-American to become part of Trump's administration.
By facilitating instant changes on both Android and iOS apps, this platform allows mobile developers to fix bugs without user drop-offs or uninstalls. Abhishek Jejani reports.
He said India has also opened its defence industry 'like never before' and sought investments in the sector.
Strengthening of rules governing insider trading is among the key proposals in the agenda set by Sebi for 2018-19, along with making improvement to the Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations (PIT) and Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices regulations.
Promises have been made in the past about cleaning up bank boards, revamping processes, purging vested interests. How far away is that Promised Land?
Modi said that only governments and their initiatives will not make a New India.
US to fix the immigration system that keeps American firms from hiring the top world talent they need.
'They are geopolitical, commercial, educational, cultural and about innovation.' 'Also, they are about a common value system.'
'If there was ever a time to start up, it is the NOW and HERE!'
On the index, India has a score of 4.52 while that of Switzerland is 5.81
Mr Prabhu has a big challenge ahead in implementing trade reforms to regain the lost export momentum, says Jayanta Roy.
In March 2014, Nilekani quit UIDAI to try his luck in politics.
Here is a list of famous names from India as well as the world which are included.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Noting that the US energy dominance will be declared a strategic economic and foreign policy goal, Trump said America has 1.5 times as much oil as the combined proven resources of all OPEC countries
A committee suggested that CSR expenditure be made tax deductible, in order to incentivise spending by companies. It also said that CSR should not be used as a means of resource-gap funding for government schemes.
'We are calling for democratic accountability even as we talk about Digital India.' 'We are not against Digital India and it is important for India, but the government should not see what is applicable just to entrepreneurs but also to the vast majority of Indians who do not have the kind of advantages that many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have.'
Over the past year we have heard a lot about policy reforms to improve the ease of doing business in India.
The artificial intelligence-based system aims to authorise cashless claims within 60-90 seconds and bring the turnaround time for investigations down to a one day, or even a few hours.
Stating that recent agriculture reforms have opened new opportunities, the RBI Governor said the farm sector is emerging as a bright spot.
Stating that open markets mean more opportunities, Modi said during the last six years the government has made many efforts to make the Indian economy more open and reform oriented.
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
They can carry huge amounts of data, have a lot of bandwidth, but operate at short ranges, between 200 metres and 2-3 km reports Surajeet Das Gupta
The overall rank has been propped by the third criteria of innovation and sophistication, which have ranks of 59 and 57 respectively.
Chandrayaan-3's success is a must for India's space ambitions; we can't afford to lose out. And for realising our space dreams, the Indian private sector must be encouraged because if we lose this race, the moon, Mars, and mineral-rich asteroids will already be crowded before we reach there.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
A coalition of over 150 US-based academicians back Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Silicon Valley next week and counter refute 130 US-based South Asian academics who oppose the Modi visit and his Digital India initiative.
Indian IT giants are outstanding companies with great management teams, but they have been held hostage by their past success.
The telecom sector is in the midst of another major shift as voice gives way to data.
The accident data would be taken up at the next Kaya Kalp meeting.
He addressed a seminar on India and Sweden in Stockholm.
Budget proposals have set four goals to transform Indian Railways.
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