With the government asking the companies to operate with only 50 per cent staff strength, and exports dipping to almost zero, the truck and bus drivers idling at the petrol pump say they hardly have any work now. At a petrol pump on the deserted Bavla-Changodar highway near Ahmedabad in Gujarat, several trucks and buses are neatly parked in a row.
The revision was announced before Indian markets opened on Thursday.
The NDA govt launched the Mudra scheme to give unsecured loans of up to Rs 10 lakh to small enterprises with the objective to provide self-employment
'I am grateful to God that I am alive and he has made me differently-abled for a greater cause,' says Wing Commander Shantanu.
The Alibaba tycoon is all about Love Quotient, not IQ or EQ.
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
Stay ahead of the game; learn the tricks from Ecom king Jack Ma.
Zydus Wellness looks for a wider berth in the country's burgeoning beauty market, redesigns and rebrands its flagship brand
Sitharaman has completed just 19 days as defence minister and is also pre-occupied with the Gujarat assembly election, notes Ajai Shukla.
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
Corporate leaders said a stable government at the Centre will help boost infrastructure spend, address agricultural distress, and encouraging employment.
The cola major expands its portfolio of healthy foods under brands Tropicana and Quaker Oats, looks to bring down its sugar addiction by Apurva Venkat.
Of the 11,000 kg imported between July 1 and August 9, around 90 per cent was brought in by two business groups which took advantage of the favourable reduction in tax incidence under GST, routing their imports through Korea.
Not just e-commerce players, even spirits majors are banking on artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer newer, quicker, smarter services. Shivani Shinde Nadhe reports.
In another round of economic booster, Sitharaman announced steps to help homebuyers and push exports.
What is driving the digital-first approach of traditional, legacy brands? Apart from the growing adoption of the internet in the country, brands are drawn to the agility of the medium.
The FDA Maharashtra on Friday lodged an FIR against Snapdeal.
A quick bounce back of the Chinese stocks looks improbable now.
Manu Kumar Jain, India head, Xiaomi, tells Sangeeta Tanwar how the Chinese smartphone maker won over the Indian market.
'If the chief minister says there are areas in her home state where she cannot enter, where has she driven the state to!'
The prayer, Sarvejana Sukhinobhavantu, or let the whole universe of living beings be well, helps. So do profound and relevant Ancient Wise Words and aphorisms: Vasudaiva Kutumbakam, or the whole world is one big family, interconnected, interdependent. And a sense of humour, jokes, pranks, writing, conversations. And, last but definitely not least, the rippling waves of inner realisation on the background mind-track -- about the insignificance of ego, the importance of humility, the wasted opportunities in life, the wrong moves, the strokes of luck, the past 'sins', the what-ifs.
The company roped in Aamir Khan as its brand ambassador in March.
Despite Uber facing a ban across many states, including Karnataka and Maharashtra, for Lingaraju, a driver employed by the company in Bengaluru, it is business as usual.
CBD oil, found in marijuana, is gaining popularity for its pain-relieving properties. It's now legally available in India
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
Discount chain to expand to the east and west, continue with third-party brands.
'A nation can take a quick decision in a fit of passion or excitement that can be damaging to itself in the long term,' says Aakar Patel.
Bedi, in a series of tweets, shared her plan to make the national capital more 'economically vibrant'.
Estimates suggest about $100 million has been poured into these companies and a lot more is still to come.
India to become second largest smartphone market by 2016.
Turbocharged with technology is becoming the Holy Grail of retail.
After electronics and fashion, the next retail segment is food business.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
For growth in export, continuous gain in productivity is essential.
Customers, instead of visiting showroms, now do most of their decision-making in the comfort of their drawing rooms using internet
Trade has grown steadily since 2004, before flattening out in the past couple of years.
Today, more about 35 per cent of Amazon's traffic is through mobiles.
To mark Prime Minister Modi's seventh meeting with Obama and his historic joint address to US Congress -- the sixth Indian PM to do so -- India Abroad, the newspaper published from New York and owned by rediff.com, reached out to diplomats and strategic thinkers in New Delhi and Washington, DC, to assess the current state of the US-India relationship and suggest a road map for the future.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
Who invested how much into Flipkart in its latest round of $1 billion funding? Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com finds out.
