Accelerating quantity and quality of entrepreneurship towards benchmarks from high-performing countries and Indian states can create over 30 million women-owned enterprises, of which 12 million can generate employment, a joint report by Bain & Company and Google said.
Corporate leaders said a stable government at the Centre will help boost infrastructure spend, address agricultural distress, and encouraging employment.
Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The country's new economic roadmap highlights the importance of creating a virtuous cycle of investment, savings and exports in order to sustain rapid economic growth over the next five years.
In an interaction with former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on the impact of lockdown on India's economy, Rajiv Bajaj, MD, Bajaj Auto, said India tried to implement a hard lockdown which was still porous and ended up with the worst of both worlds.
'What has gained prominence are 'human' skills like creativity, originality and initiative, critical thinking, persuasion, and negotiation, as well as attention to detail, resilience, flexibility and complex problem-solving.'
Modi urged the Swiss business leaders to explore the investment opportunities in India.
If an entire business is constructed on the platform of one brand ambassador, there is inherent risk of life-after.
India has remained obsessed with cheap capital and infrastructure spending when instead the central constraint on Indian development remains the abysmal quality of Indians' skills, says Mihir Sharma.
He said India has also opened its defence industry 'like never before' and sought investments in the sector.
The lockdown that crippled the entire logistics, delivery and supply chain network to near zero, was enough to deal a body blow to India's fastest growing unicorn whose very business model saw a severe disruption, like several other firms and sectors.
What caused credit markets to seize up was Henry Paulson's refusal to bail out Lehman Brothers.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay offers some unsolicited advice for a government wh,ich came to power, with brute majority and the nation's pragmatic chief money man.
Over 10 Indian start-ups with total valuations of $84 billion (some are planning fresh fund-raising) are bracing to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) in the next 36 months. While the size of their IPOs is under discussion, estimates are that they would together raise a minimum of over $8-10 billion during the initial listing.
'The first year of the Modi government's second term has laid the roadmap for the future and we will embark on it with gusto,' promises Gopal Krishna Agrawal, the BJP's national spokesperson on economic affairs.
Standard Chartered Bank on Monday launched in India its Visa Mini card, which is almost half the size of a regular credit card, targetted at the growing young-earner segment.
The bank plans to raise unsecured and rated Rupee Innovative Perpetual Debt Instruments, upper Tier or Lower Tier II subordinated debt during the remaining part of 2008-09 and 2009-10, SBI said in a filling to the National Stock Exchange. The fund not exceeding Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) would be raised in tranches with a minimum maturity of over 60 months as per the RBI guidelines through structured deals or by private placement, it said.
The $306-million investment in Ola Electric Mobility by SoftBank Corp, Arun Sarin Family, Ratan Tata and Matrix has been the biggest funding in this space in value terms this year.
Nilekani said new-age technology markets work on a winner-takes-all basis.
Nivedita Mookerji explains why a timely rollout of 5G may not be easy in India.
Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Although large companies like Nestle, Dabur or HUL have been impacted by this slowdown in demand, it was the small, local players that have been hit harder.
Uber started its business three years ago in India and is now operating in over 20 cities with thousands of cab drivers.
Cos ask US treasury to discuss data localisation norms with Indian officials at all platforms the two countries would meet, including G-20, US-India Strategic Dialogue, and IMF Annual Meet.
The Walmart chief stated that the values of the two companies were "very much aligned"
In order to make it hassle-free, various start-up support groups such as TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) and India Angel Network (IAN) are partnering with the digital NBFCs to extend debt finance to their member companies.
The RBI panel has also recommended a government-sponsored 'fund of funds' of Rs 10,000 crore to support the venture capital and private equity firms investing in the MSME sector.
India's plant-based meat market is estimated at $30-40 million, largely driven by consumer packaged food. The market size in India is likely to touch $500 million in three years.
It is mind-boggling to find our prime minister putting exports on the back-burner, says Jayanta Roy.
A senior RBI official said the regulator was focusing on performance of banks' statewise and in each district.
'Considering that an Internet company's market value is largely determined by its direct access to consumers for digital services, and largely served outside a sovereign country's control, it would appear reasonable in trade terms to discuss fees for a seat at the proverbial 'table' of opportunities in the largest open consumer market,' argues Venki Nishtala.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
The e-commerce sector gave a much higher average hike of 16-20 per cent to its executives.
Though he loves gambling, he cautions against undue risks and says non-professional investors like the salaried class should invest through the mutual funds route and keep aside not more than 10 per cent for self-investing.
'A lot of people who quit felt they have been in the organisation for way too long and needed a better or challenging career role to advance in their careers.'
Every year Fortune honours 10 innovators, groundbreakers and game changers as 'Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs'.
The company expects around $40 million annualised revenue from the acquisition but declines to share financial details of the deal.
Manu Kumar Jain, India head, Xiaomi, tells Sangeeta Tanwar how the Chinese smartphone maker won over the Indian market.
Stating that open markets mean more opportunities, Modi said during the last six years the government has made many efforts to make the Indian economy more open and reform oriented.
It is eyeing the transportation and infrastructure modernisation opportunity in the country, expected to attract $500 billion in investment over the next five years.
