'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.' 'It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,' External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar points out when delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture-2020: India and the Post-Covid World.
Rajan has been facing continuous attacks by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy and some other sections, who have alleged that he has failed to lower interest rates and boost the economy
'Without doubt, Narasimha Rao confronted huge challenges. Yet, in the very brief period I saw him at the closest of quarters, I have to say that he was simply magnificent. A lifetime of circumspection gave way to courage.'
Compared to their Indian peers, MNCs have higher return ratios.
'Sometime back, there was not much empathy for communal sentiments or traditions in Kerala.' 'The situation is totally different now.' 'The forces which were not so powerful earlier are getting more powerful now.'
'65 per cent were males.' 'Age group of deaths: More were seen from age 51 to 70.' 'Saw some deaths from age 21 to the 40s.' 'About 76 to 77 per cent of patient deaths had some kind of a comorbidity.' 'The main comorbidities were the presence of diabetes, hypertension, some kind of heart diseases.'
"I never expected it. It was too good to be true," says the 20 year-old.
A bit of good news is that it has already mopped up $19 billion in forwards in May.
There is a great need to introduce a transparent process to select information commissioners, who are expected to oversee transparency, says former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
In five years, Naezy aka Naved Shaikh went from being a gully boy living in a Mumbai slum to rocking India's underground rap scene. When he started off his rap career with Aafat! in 2014, he knew he would find success. Little did he imagine the obstacles he'd have to encounter.
'To be fair to Arnab Goswami, the television camera is his only fix.' Unlike other TV stars who rule social media, Arnab is nowhere to be found.' 'While they hold forth in newspaper columns, maybe having realised that true gravitas is earned via newsprint not digicams, he does nothing of the sort.' 'He breathes and lives TV news,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
A mix of financial and strategic mistakes combined with poor expectations of the management are the reasons for the downfall of Indian airlines. For Jet, the deathly potion was even more toxic on account of the bitter squabbles between promoter Naresh Goyal and strategic partner Etihad Airways.
Sex education is way too critical as a life skill to be ignored or postponed, writes Tanuja Sodhi.
During her nearly 17-minute speech, she did not mention Pakistan.
'Favourable conditions determine the slots whether it is Nos 6, 7 or 8. It can be any position as per the team management's call'
Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days
In her weekly column, mental health guru Anu Krishna offers advice on how to take charge of your life.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
'Even though the film focuses on caste discriminations in rural India, it is first of all a riveting police procedural, and one of the best made in India,' says Aseem Chhabra.
'When a person is capable of infecting 50 others, will you think about the privacy of the person or about protecting the lives of people?'
Weight loss might not necessarily mean that you have lost the excess fat as well, says Jitendra Chouksey.
Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily has suggested pricking the ballooning oil bill with everything from a street theatre campaign encouraging lower fuel use, to shutting fuel stations, to increasing imports from Iran.
Sticking to smaller and mid-cap companies can be more fruitful, suggests Devangshu Datta.
'There's so much in favour of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on. You bowl a 'no ball' and it's a free hit. But I have never seen a rule change that favours the bowler.'
'Institutional ownership, by December 2018, had increased 37.5% from approximately 22% in early 2009,' points out Amit Tandon.
So what if your bank has imposed/will impose a transaction fee of Rs 20 for using ATMs after your fifth visit in a month? You can still remain within your free transaction limits and avoid being charged at all. Wondering how it is to be done? Read on.
The Hinduja Group, Mukesh Ambani, Murugappa, and the Adani groups were the other gainers in the Modi regime, while Naveen Jindal and Sun Pharma groups saw the most erosion in their m-cap in the last five years, reports Krishna Kant.
investors will look to the new governor to continue the banking sector clean-up with the same urgency as Mr Rajan, who was targeting fully cleaned-up and provisioned balance sheets by March 2017
Eleven years into the league and after a 70 per cent year-on-year growth in merchandise sales over the past three to four years, albeit on a low base, the franchise owners are coming up with innovative games and shows around their teams besides spinning a wider range of merchandise around their star players.
'If the government cannot deliver the goods for the tribal people, then definitely they will lose faith in the BJP.'
These books, written by women authors will inspire you to become leaders and pursue success.
'Urbanisation results in heavy rainfall events.'
'Infectious disease is a given of humankind. There will always be another around the corner.'
Supremely versatile and unique, Ravindra Jadeja is now an indispensable part of the Indian Test set-up.
The conservative bureaucracy that influences the political masters is clearly not concerned with the vision documents prepared by defence chiefs to bring India's military into a state of preparedness, says Seema Mustafa
It all began at the WTA event in Mumbai and a phenomenal Fed Cup, where she remained unbeaten in singles and also beat a top-50 player. The performance brought about a change in perception about her.
The BJP knows the CAA, combined with a fresh nationwide NRC process, is an idea that's dead on arrival. Where it lives on is as a divisive, polarising instrument as its rivals have to take a position against it and thereby be exposed to the charge of 'Muslim appeasement' again, points out Shekhar Gupta.
The RBI has been critical of banks for using restructuring schemes to hide the stress.
This young, beautiful and talented girl from the Assam, India is sure to melt your heart.
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