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Russian firms expand their footprint in India. And take bigger steps to do business with India's private sector.
We have to move from E-governance to M-governance. M-governance does not mean Modi governance. It means Mobile governance, the PM said.
As India gets increasingly urbanised, one man tries to minimise its silent casualty.
'He selects certain portfolios that he has personal interest in, and he does not give them to a senior leader. The responsibility is given to a junior minister who then directly reports to Modi or to the small team of bureaucrats working with Modi.' 'I noticed this first in Gujarat where Modi worked mainly with two ministers, Saurabh Patel and Amit Shah,' says Aakar Patel.
The defence ministry has lost sight of what it intended to achieve -- which was to nurture private defence firms that would compete on equal terms with the 9 defence PSUs and the 41 Ordnance Factory Board factories.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
In 2006-07, TCS had employed 7,000 people in the eastern states.
Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens' associations, including NGOs, in social and political decision-making and development planning. Instead, our paranoid government bullies and terrorises them, says Praful Bidwai.
Modi is keen to restart big projects which are stuck for various reasons.
'This is part of our efforts to make it easier to do business.'
Globally, just 8 billionaires have same amount of wealth as the poorest 50% of the world population.
'If prices of everyday consumption don't come down, employment doesn't pick up, 2020 will not be a happy year for anyone but the super rich,' notes Sherna Gandhy.
Recent investigations into the telecom spectrum and coal scams have made bureaucrats very wary of taking decisions.
For India, the talks will work as another opportunity to sharpen its positions ahead of the formal UN negotiations.
'NSCN-IM leader Muivah warns that the NSCN-IM has come very close to an honourable solution to the peace process with the Government of India, but if it does not materialise, then the Nagas will go away so far that it would be difficult to bring them back to the negotiating table easily,' note Sandeep Pandey and Meera Sanghamitra.
The Narendra Modi-led government has issued around 50 fresh guidelines easing conditions for industry in about six months, beside launching an online system for applying environment clearances.
Aseem Chhabra picks 10 fascinating films he watched in Macao -- a blend of Asian, independent, Hollywood projects and even a 66-years-old classic Japanese film that still stands the test of time.
It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too.
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The decision to auction Taj Mansigh brings to an end a six-year-old tussle between the NDMC and Tata Group, which has operated the landmark property for nearly four decades.
Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi marched from the Congress headquarter in New Delhi to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former prime minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case.
Some 74 projects from Odisha and another 51 projects from Chhattisgarh have lined up before the Project Monitoring Group.
'What made him different was that he was not a banker at all by temperament.' 'He was a businessman, a typical lalaji at that.' 'He had to win at any cost.'
This measure will ensure that the price of a scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond a limit set for the day.
The US govt has urged the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court order on the Tata Mundra Power Plant in Gujarat funded by a financial wing of the World Bank
In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met the secretaries of all the government departments collectively and asked them to directly get in touch with him to resolve issues and expedite decision-making.
John Elliott, the author of Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality, on his Riding the Elephant blog, says the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata and Sons was in line with Ratan Tata's personal style of dealing with executives
'Poor home work, and a subsequent loss of nerve.' 'This sums up the Modi government's current travails, the stall in key sectors, fading momentum, irritability,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
Inter-ministerial programmes have run into obstacles as rules written by bureaucrats hamper rather than promote investments.
Images of the events that shaped the world last week.
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The Jalan panel has recommended to the RBI to keep shady entities out of banking licence race.
Promoters have not proved they mean well for the community.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
The world, he said, needs to move towards a transparent and flexible market for both oil and gas.
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At the summit, the US is able to play the role of a bully.
Despite the 6-month high, trade deficit has widened to a four-month high of $14.62 billion, as imports rose by 14.85 per cent during the month, reports Subhayan Chakraborty.
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