With founder Subhash Chandra no longer in the driver's seat at Zee, the acid test for Punit Goenka would be to take the financial investors along with him even as he strives to weather the latest storm. The question, now, is how he will deal with the challenges of being a professional CEO rather than an owner-CEO in the aftermath of his family offloading most of its promoter stake to a clutch of financial investors. However, the silver lining is that Zee remains the most profitable of the top four broadcasters in India.
Practising Indira Gandhi's brand of socialism today will not just be anachronistic but also economically harmful.
India's track record of over-promising and under-delivering also leaves plenty of room for doubt.
In case of exchange, the automobile company offers the wholesale price on the old car, which can be 10-12 per cent lesser than the retail price.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
Right steps you can considerably reduce the tax outgo.
Lukas Podolski completed his transfer from Arsenal to Galatasaray on Saturday after the Turkish club agreed a fee of around 2.85 million pounds ($4.45 million) to finally land their man at the fourth attempt.
Rajasthan's teachers plan to teach Vasundhara Raje a lesson.
It's just not stocks and mutual funds that help you make good profits in the long run, says Sharath Komarraju, author of 'Money Wise' which, he says, is 'Aam Aadmi's guide to wealth and Financial Freedom'.
The continued rise in interest is a pressure on fiscal, but it is not an easy way out unless the government cuts back on populist measures and sticks to fiscal prudence as laid out in the FRBM, which the government missed for the second consecutive year.
The stock markets need not be an enigma - use resources at your disposal
The GST will subsume excise, service tax, value added tax, octroi etc.
An increase in sales across all categories in the automobile industry, has made need for higher working capital inevitable.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Sahara was to provide a bank guarantee from HSBC.
'Reports of hitherto 'atmanirbhar' breadwinners having to stand in line for a plastic bag of khichdi or, travelling thousands of kms with nothing but packets of biscuits, have not moved the prime minister,' observes Jyoti Punwani.
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan recalls a tussle between the government and RBI when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister and how it was resolved.
Can compassion, common courtesy or an 'emotional connect' win seats in the harsh realpolitik of UP, a state riddled with divisions of caste and religion, and confronted with a seemingly impregnable BSP-SP alliance? asks Sunil Sethi.
The decision in this regard, however, is expected to be taken by the new government.
The government had no option but to cut spending to meet its borrowing targets.
The senior RBI official, who assumed office on July 31, a day before he was to retire from the state-run Bank of Baroda as its chairman, said developments in construction technologies should make it possible for developers to bring down home prices.
While GST and insolvency laws are among the major achievements of the Modi government, the list of failures include demonetisation, toxic banks, manufacturing hiccups and most prominently bizarre job creation figures. Mihir S Sharma takes a look at the four years of Modi government.
Hyderabad-based Andhra Bank is aiming to get a significant proportion of the state government's business, to boost its share of low-cost deposits
It is expected to bring transparency and reinstate consumer faith in the industry, says Brotin Banerjee.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field on Friday
If tweets can do so much, why do we need an independent regulator and multiple committees discuss and recommend policy?
In a nation divided by many things, the 12-digit unique identity number is holding lives to ransom.
A lot of the factors towards which the government has pointed to justify its moves on Jammu and Kashmir are in fact valid. Only, most of them have little to do with Article 370, says David Devadas.
'Whichever option India chooses, it should be clear to the government that the China-Pakistan nexus poses a clear and present danger to national security,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
For India, it is business as usual with the government muddling along.
A day after the Prime Minister's Office sought to counter the perception that Manmohan Singh has been "weak" in his tenure, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Saturday took potshots at him.
Analysts, however, said the timing of the infusion was good.
The CPEC poses a clear and imminent danger to Indian security interests, says Kulbir Krishan.
'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.' 'But no one was asking the right questions.' 'The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S Murlidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
The river I bathed and swam in, has dried up. It's the worst drought in 140 years. First the mango trees died. Then the coconut trees. Finally the hardy palm trees have died.
Discussion paper fixes Rs 1,000 cr as minimum capital for these specialised banks
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Sahara group has sought extension of negotiation facilities in the Tihar jail here for its chief Subrata Roy by a further 45 days.
Officials said the government had no option but to cut spending.
