Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
E-auction or e-tendering moves the process of bidding for government contracts completely online, removing most manual procedures and, therefore, creating an accountability trail.
'A broad-based revival of private sector investment was likely in 2018-19 after businesses had successfully made the switch to the GST.'
'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?' 'Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players in e-commerce and all but one player in telecom -- and it is very hard to justify this perception that the BJP is business friendly.' 'There will also remain the real risk of ideas seemingly gleaned from the pages of Amar Chitra Katha, overlaid with PowerPoint presentations,' predicts Rahul Jacob.
$10 billion TAPI pipeline unlikely before 2020
The Delhi metropolitan area has one of the highest concentrations of population in the world, and suffocating the people of the area on an annual basis should be treated as a crime against humanity, especially when the cause for such suffocation can be controlled, says Arvind Kumar.
The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.
In the second of a six-part series, Sanjay Jog of Business Standard walks across the streets of Indore to find out how it has been hit by demonetisation.
The concept of gold as an asset capable of getting anytime money is evaporating.
'You can't take money from Shaktikanta Das (the RBI governor) and give it to Nirmala Sitharaman (the Union finance minister). She will blow it away on Modi.'
The most worrisome aspect is that most water woes are the result of mismanagement
A provision of Rs 15,000 crore has been made in the budgetary estimate of 2016-17 towards interest subvention.
The Centre will soon write to the states to bring uniformity in the Value Added Tax on oil products so that benefits of price cuts filter down to the masses.
Devakanta from Manipur shows the way in conserving and protecting the biodiversity of the state.
The farmers of Khentia are now working in tandem with the IIT team.
IOC is building a 5 million tonnes per annum LNG terminal at Ennore near Chennai which is to be completed by 2017.
The agriculture sector is likely to grow in the range of 5.2-5.7 per cent in 2013-14, nearly three times more than the last year as good monsoon has raised the prospects of bumper harvest, a CACP discussion paper said.
Building toilets, however essential, must not be confused with sanitation and the crying need for a revamp of India's sewage systems.
The prime minister had openly said the retail sector should be open to competition, domestic and foreign.
India's overall retail inflation eased to 4.41 per cent in September, helped by falling commodity prices, but rural inflation was at 5.05 per cent
Noting that farmers are suffering due to problems in the food supply chain, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said there is a need for ensuring better compensation for the farmers against their produce.
The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 1 points to end at 26,396 and the Nifty50 slipped 2 points to end at 8,109.
The move to ban Rs 500 and 1000 notes may not curb the root cause of black money.
Water from as many as 78,508 rural habitations is contaminated by arsenic, fluoride, iron or nitrate, finds out Chaitanya Mallapur/IndiaSpend.com.
'The Cauvery is not dependable as Karnataka will never consider our needs.'
The Council also discussed process to make return filing simpler with just one return to be filed every month.
The government has also announced a slew of measures to ease cash flow for the rural sector.
Indian Railways has plans to decongest network and become more self dependent.
Curbing the federal deficit is the government's absolute priority on February 28.
Auto, tourism exceptions but major sectors otherwise saw decline in FY13 inflows.
A government that confuses PowerPoints for policy is delaying structural change too much.
The US needs to do three things to help the newly elected Nawaz Sharif government in Pakistan, says Stanley A Weiss
This is the story of a biotechnology engineer who, at age 22, founded Terra Greens Organic -- a company that aims to engage at least 10,000 farmers in organic farming in the next one year.
Farmer suicides have nearly doubled in the drought-hit Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
Without cash flows, one can hardly aspire to better living conditions.
GST will make it easier for governments to spend more, says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
'Success will require political skill, not just economic expertise'
Loan waivers will never be enough. Reforming the agricultural marketing system is essential to addressing the concerns of farmers in a sustainable manner, says Nitin Desai.
Expectations are that the government will use the Union Budget to create an environment, which is conducive for growth.
Companies to hold rates in Delhi until new government is formed.
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