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Following is the full text of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's speech at FICCI's 86th annual general meeting on Saturday:
Recently, when TCS laid off a handful of employees, prominent trade unions rushed to offer their support to workers who had lost their jobs.
To a lay observer, therefore, India today presents two conflicting realities.
2015 will be a real test for Modi govt.
The market could be influenced by events elsewhere in the world and regardless of what happens to India's economy
Deadline to submit convincing reform plans is this week.
'If the Indian economy formalises, industrialises, urbanises and develops human capital, 10 lakh youngsters will join the labour force every month in the next 10 years.' 'It's not a bulb that will go off; it is a sunrise.'
With wages rapidly rising in China, all is still not lost. Wage costs in India are significantly lower and this fact could still help us turn the tide in our favour.
After one year in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pretty much on the back foot, even if he continues to display bravado in his public pronouncements. He knows within his heart that he has wasted a lot of his political capital without getting much in return, says M K Venu.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
Most top industrialists rate PM's first 100 days in office as 'good', primarily due to his intentions, not concrete policy measures.
Sanand has catapulted into the big league of automobile industry hubs.
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.
Election manifestos may have lost their earlier importance. But a closer look at them does reveal a lot about a political party's own assessment of where it went wrong and what its future policy directions will look like, says A K Bhattacharya.
This Budget plans for an increase to 10.3% of GDP from 9.9%.
The Budget has evoked mixed reactions from Silicon Valley investors.
FM should avoid proposals such as to tax financial transactions and fringe benefits
Constantly evolving rules and anomalies over tax treatment have constrained corporate programmes in the first year that the government's CSR mandate has been in force.
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To no one's surprise, the first question directed at Indian Ambassador to the United States Dr S Jaishankar -- at the end of his first public address since he assumed his duties in December -- was about the controversial Devyani Khobragade episode.
At present there is virtually no dialog between votaries of different various versions of economic democracy.
Money is being released and the government knows it will have to front-run private investment.
Govt is keen to push reforms in the insurance sector.
On the first anniversary of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, Sangh Parivar affiliates say they are annoyed with the ruling dispensation but can't live without it either
Government's reforms are too half-hearted. But Rahul Gandhi's Congress is too amateurish and inept to hold it to account.
Brands such as Gap, Primark and C&A which source some of their garments from Tamil Nadu say they do regular audits to ensure their suppliers comply with their codes of conduct.
Narendra Modi and his government should look at the emerging geo-politics realistically and not get sucked into having to make a choice between China and Japan. India has enough economic space for both, says Mohan Guruswamy.
Many placement agencies are fly-by-night operators in New Delhi.
Narendra Modi is squandering a mandate for change on feeble, unimaginative incrementalism.
Amartya Sen and Jagadish Bhagwati publicly sparred last year on the direction of India's economic policy.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
Tripura's popular chief minister shows up the failures of the elitist central leadership of India's Left, says Devesh Kapur
With China and Bangladesh losing their edge, textile exports from Tirupur are rising once again, turning the city into a job magnet.
The forthcoming budget is an excellent opportunity for the Government to fulfill its promise of high economic growth.
These automotive companies were afraid of competition and made wrong accusations on grounds of safety.
Modi government has to come up with a robust economic agenda to impress the masses.
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If the AAP wins 20 to 40 Lok Sabha seats, which is conceivable unless it botches up on governance in Delhi, it will become a significant bloc comparable in influence to or even bigger than several major regional parties, feels Praful Bidwai.
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