ONGC was the top performer while private banking major ICICI Bank extended gains
Company looking for acquisition of coal properties abroad.
The biggest challenge is not the airline's debt, but downsizing its 16,800 employees, says Surajeet Dasgupta.
Bureaucrats heading disinvestment and financial services usually don't get appointed as finance secretary.
Docomo is looking to expand its reach beyond Japan and sees India and Africa as key emerging markets.
There are actually great similarities between the two PM
Getting the balance between fiscal restraint and growth-contracting policy remains a problem.
Rajan strongly defends RBI's decision to hold the key rates in the absence of any new data points.
There isn't much Budget could do directly to help sectors.
This merger, Bhupesh Bhandari believes, will be watched keenly by management gurus the world over.
The lowest bid earlier had come for Madhya Pradesh at Rs 5.05/unit.
'When we say we want to increase pension participation, do we want to increase participation through the savings route?' 'Or do we want people to save in specific pension products?' asks Renuka Sane.
There are a couple of proposals, however, whose goals are not easily achievable.
It is not very easy to wriggle out of your role as a guarantor in case the original borrower defaults. Nevertheless, you can still come out of the situation with your credit record intact.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Sebi would develop new products in the commodity derivatives space apart from taking steps to deepen the corporate bond market.
The Ministry's decision comes more than a year after the payment scam at NSEL came into light in July 2013.
Jignesh Shah, the promoter of National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL), and its former CEO Anjani Sinha on Friday traded charges in connection with the multi-crore payment crisis at the crippled bourse which has affected over 13,000 investors.
Analysts say the Sun Network's fundamentals may be sound but the troubles faced by Maran have caused a lot of volatility.
Ranjita Ganesan and Nikita Puri chronicle the journey of Abhishek Poddar, one of India's leading art patrons.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley has delivered a Arun Jaitley delivered a bold, far sighted budget
Growth acceleration will be gradual and it is still early days for a sharp recovery, says Gautam Chhaochharia, executive director and head of India research, UBS.
Modi government has to come up with a robust economic agenda to impress the masses.
Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days
Similarities between NDA and UPA on some key policy issues are now becoming too stark to be ignored, says A K Bhattacharya.
'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,'says S Muralidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
Subrata Roy turned up at a New Delhi stadium, best known for hosting the Commonwealth Games, last week as part of his country wide Abhaar Yatra.
RBI might not cut rate on June 2 but will surely cut soon.
S Naren of ICICI Prudential says long-term investors needn't worry.
Despite the rating agency CARE withdrawing the ratings assigned to the bank facilities of FIPL "with immediate effect" following the receipt of a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the banks, Modi's company received uninterrupted letters of undertaking (LoUs) from PNB, which were honoured by other banks until a few weeks ago.
'Everyone is still trying to understand the quantum of impact demonetisation will have on the economy.'
'The whole country supports the government. The exceptions are only two -- those who thrived on black money and those who are inimical to Indian interests,' argues Major General Mrinal Suman.
Curbing the federal deficit is the government's absolute priority on February 28.
Air India must tighten costs to comes out of the red or it wil perish in no time, says experts.
With a sole mandate of inflation targeting, RBI wears many hats.
If receipts from disinvestment, tax buoyancy and black money scheme offset shortfall in spectrum sale, higher expenditure due to pay commission's recommendations and capital expenditure, then the government would be able to meet the target of controlling fiscal deficit at 3.5 per cent of GDP this financial year.
Sahara has ploughed at least Rs 1,500 crore from two of its credit cooperatives into the Aamby Valley resort project
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
The global economy may just be entering a new phase.
Unless Dr Urjit Patel starts clearing the balance sheets of banks, the investment cycle will not start. Unless the clog in the drain is cleared, further lending cannot happen. If further lending doesn't happen, the investment cycle also will not happen, writes M R Venkatesh.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 208 points at 27,057 and the 50-share Nifty closed 59 points lower at 8,094.
