Tokyo has mostly delivered on that hope, despite some early teething problems.
While good news from several quarters has been trickling in, El Nino might be a dampener, says T N Ninan.
Modi ranks 9th on the Forbes list of 74 of the World's Most Powerful People.
Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui make a global statement on the power of Indian cinema, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Sapience offers an innovative solution to measure the productivity of office and mobile workers, with almost no manual inputs from managers or employees, says Romita Majumdar.
The freebies are now over, but Jio will need to notch up subscriber numbers and margins to prove its sceptics wrong.
The double-digit growth in itself is eye-popping, given the FMCG sector has seen low single-digit volume growth in recent times.
Mobile internet penetration has grown thanks to affordable data costs, investments in content and evolution of monetisation avenues
Together, they controlled nearly Rs 26 lakh crore of assets at the end of FY16.
The illicit financial inflow of $770 billion was 14 per cent of India's total trade of $5,500,744 million, the report said.
India must change approach and have better access to networks to fulfil its digitisation dream.
In 2017, absorption in co-working/serviced offices was 2.83 million sq ft, about 186 per cent higher than that of 1.52 million sq ft in 2016.
The Mumbai town planning agency has said it can't spare land in the commercial BKC area for a terminal due to demand from private firms
'For the first month, we have only had 5.5 million who have paid the tax.' '40 per cent have paid nil as tax; 95 per cent of the taxation for the first two months has come from only 400,000 assessees.' 'So even now, the tax-paying habit, of paying a marginal or negligible amount, or not paying anything at all, is quite prevalent,' reveals Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Quelling fears of a takeover by Ola, which is also funded by Uber's major investor SoftBank Group, the US-based cab aggregating giant made it clear that the company was not ceding its position in India, one of its core markets.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg launched a free Internet application in Colombia on Wednesday as part of a drive to bring developing markets online, but remained mute on when and if the company would look to move into China.
Neither pharma nor IT would have become the stars of the economy without the active but largely invisible hand of the Indian State, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
I-T dept launches Tatkal system for those who desire to help the victims of the earthquake in Nepal.
Companies like Ace Turtle are helping brands enable omni-channel retail, bridging the offline and online gap. Abhishek Jejani reports.
If the deal is indeed being considered, this will be the first time that Ambani will be putting his money in a print media venture since he and his younger brother, Anil Ambani, split businesses to form their own groups
Forty suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by the suicide bombers, have been arrested in connection with the attacks which shook Sri Lanka.
A Mumbai-Delhi air ticket is now available upwards of Rs 3,700 for next day travel on all airlines.
Life of air passengers was different in the 1970s.
This is one of the major corporate frauds in the country.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian's interview.
The government, however, amended the tax laws with retrospective effect to undo the Supreme Court judgement and claim taxes.
At the moment, data and broadband is small for BSNL: it contributes 10 per cent of the company's revenue, though its share is on the rise.
DCGI, health ministry initiate dialogues with foreign regulators, try to understand global best practices
Devastation struck Venezuela when oil prices started collapsing in 1982, following a global oil glut. The country's economy contracted overnight.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' stock market queries. Ajit will offer his unbiased views on a weekly basis
The referendum will have long-term implications for Indian companies, which earn a substantial portion of revenue from the region.
SBI comes second and Bharti Airtel is third
So far, inflation outcomes have closely tracked these projections.
'A bold, progressive step forward,' Kotak Mahindra Bank CEO Uday Kotak said of Nirmala Sitharaman's corporate tax breaks.
The government has received flak for allegedly shielding the corrupt ministers and slow pace of investigation in irrigation scam.
The delivery channel of India Post is being utilised primarily for small towns and cities.
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