Farming and agriculture are crying out for a business model innovation, says R Gopalakrishnan.
'Overall, the Indian economy is doing well.' 'Our economic fundamentals are strong and the early signs of recovery are sustainable.' 'This is positive for the market in the long run.'
Things are expected to change dramatically in a few years for urban consumers.
'People do not want a 'maha milavat' (highly adulterated) government of those who assembled in Kolkata.'
'Another rejection of mediation between India and Pakistan will leave Mr Trump disappointed.' 'In that case, he is likely to point out the war-like situation on the border and press for direct talks which have been stalled on account of continuing terrorism from Pakistan,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
'It is very clear that Air India cannot be managed by the government.' 'Air India should be run as a separate profit entity.'
Patanjali Ayurved is also looking at entering the highly competitive dairy segment this year.
The sluggish legal system in India makes it extremely difficult for law-enforcing agencies in the ministry of finance to punish violations of foreign exchange laws. Unfortunately, it is not just FEMA. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act too has significant infirmities, say Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Pranati Mehra.
But, neither were the big companies interested in growing inorganically nor were the smaller ones ready to offer themselves for sale.
'I can snap my fingers and get 1,000 people overnight, but I can't guarantee that they will develop because there has been zero change in education in the country in the last nine years.'
'There will always be hiccups given that the Namami Gange programme is spread over different sectors and involves several agencies.'
'There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today.'
The concept of gold as an asset capable of getting anytime money is evaporating.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
The growth in imports was led by product categories such as diagnostic items, ultra-sonogram machines, MRI and ECG apparatus, syringes with needles, suture needles, digital thermometers, malaria diagnostic kits, and hearing aids.
Describing DBT for LPG as a 'tremendous success,' Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said the programme, when implemented throughout the country, would help save Rs 8,000-9,000 crore (Rs 80-90 billion) of subsidy from going to unintended beneficiaries.
With regard to his investment in Ola, Bansal said that on the one hand, the ride-hailing major had emerged as a global force in the mobility space and on the other it continued to build deeper for various needs of a billion Indians through its platform. This is the largest funding by an individual in the app cab.
11th-hour debt restructuring programme offered no concessions to creditors
Draft prospectus to be filed next week; second trust, with Panchshil, in a few months
'In a complex conflict like Kashmir, you can't just ignore the militants when you talk of a permanent solution.'
Amber Dubey explains why India needs to stop blocking competition if it ever wants to become the top aviation market.
Tehran plans to lift exports by 500,000 barrels per day
'The 'Off-with-Rajan's-head' brigade bases its arguments on mistaken beliefs, erroneous causalities, and even downright prejudice.'
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw talks to Nikita Puri about her book Mythbreaker.
Like pharmaceutical companies globally - which used to enjoy a preferential exchange rate in Venezuela - Indian producers have been left badly stung by the collapse of the bolivar currency
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News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Amitabh Kant tells Rahul Jacob how India could be made an easier place to do business in and why India's software smarts will give it an edge.
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
Formula One faces its biggest shake-up in decades with the announcement on Wednesday that US cable TV mogul John Malone's Liberty Media has agreed to take control of the cash-generating glamour sport.
In 1910 the who's who of Wall Street met in total secrecy in an American town to work towards the first draft of the bill that would finally give the United States a central bank.
Group still far from coordinating monetary/forex policy
Import in the first nine months of the current calendar year fell 20 per cent to 525 tonnes from 658 tonnes in the year-ago period.
According to the report, the demand for materials needed for infrastructure projects like metals, minerals, buildings and transport equipment is expected to increase as the country invests in building its civil infrastructure.
'We are primarily a domestic consumption story. We are less exposed to global forces.'
Gold demand in India is expected to be robust in 2014, likely leading to a further jump in smuggling if curbs on bullion imports remain, the World Gold Council (WGC) said.
IndiGo had debt of Rs 3,912 crore at end of the June quarter.
'If development, investment, employment, implementation, credibility and commitment are ensured, security will automatically improve and subversive and militant elements will lose ground and be neutralised by the people themselves,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Women are opting out of high-flying career due to family responsibilities, says a study.
'You want a steady, confident, self-assured and highly skilful hand at the till. 'It is a pity that the BJP has decided to deprive itself of such a hand at this politically sensitive time.' 'It is like sacking your surgeon in the middle of your brain surgery,' says S Muralidharan.
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