Emission norms for automobile industry should be tightened.
Former AIIMS director Dr S K Kacker discusses the doctors' agitation in Maharashtra and West Bengal's crackdown on private hospitals with Veenu Sandhu.
The government has to take a call on reducing or retaining the excise rate.
Rediff Labs investigates the issue of child drug abuse in India in an attempt to quantify the seriousness of the issue.
The prime minister seems to have turned his face away from the business of introducing serious reform, says T N Ninan.
Any transaction where the value of Indian assets exceeds 50% of the FTC would attract taxes in India.
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
Keep these things in mind while buying a retirement plan to ensure that you have a smooth sailing in your golden years.
A six-point checklist to follow when lenders reject your home loan application.
In a start-up set up, nothing is fixed, not even your job-description
Sanjay Kumar Singh draws up a mediclaim policy checklist.
Under Sharma Axis Bank has also taken the lead in focusing on technology, which has now become core to almost every other lender's strategy.
Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed, says T N Ninan.
It is important to know the right details about your insurance policies while avoiding these mistakes, says Harjot Singh Narula.
Make in India has big shortcomings when it comes to natural resources.
Amartya Sen and Jagadish Bhagwati publicly sparred last year on the direction of India's economic policy.
Rbi cut rates for teh third time to ease economic situation.
This is Modi's first bilateral visit to Myanmar.
'You have the home-cooked food. But on top of that you are having the sugary drinks, the junk food, the mithais and whatever else....' 'People should not be frying in this sunflower oil, corn oil or eating any foods fried in this stuff.' 'They should cook in butter or ghee or olive oil. That is much healthier.'
Lower revenue collection puts upward pressure on government borrowing, ensuring that it deviates from the glided path of debt reduction
Entrepreneurship is about confronting brutal realities of life where you have to take the risk on a daily basis.
The average bank customer does not know about the Customer Charter because it was designed - under Mr Rajan's regime - to be a lame duck initiative from the start: violating the charter has no consequences, points out, Debashis Basu.
Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily has suggested pricking the ballooning oil bill with everything from a street theatre campaign encouraging lower fuel use, to shutting fuel stations, to increasing imports from Iran.
With election campaign ending in Tamil Nadu before it goes to polls on Thursday, N Sathiya Moorthy lists a few questions uppermost in the minds of voters.
- 'At no point did we back off. If at any stage that we had in mind that we might play for a draw, we would have lost by 150 runs' - 'I was playing positive and going by my instincts'
Even a 6 percent vote-share would make AAP an important player on the national scene. The key lies in strategically concentrating AAP's vote, especially in the cities, so that it can break Narendra Modi's momentum, besides defeating an already weak Congress, says Praful Bidwai.
With thousands of people receiving ransom messages from cybercriminals every day, Devangshu Dutta explains how you can defeat the hackers.
In five years, royalty payments have grown 31.1% yearly, much faster than rise in revenue and profit.
The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana has joined the saffron alliance in Maharashtra. Will the votes it brings to the table loosen the political hold of the entrenched Maratha-dominated sugar barons of the NCP-Congress in western Maharashtra?
A rightly chosen ULIP can be a competitive investment, but the investor needs to ensure that his relationship manager has put him ahead of the commissions that the product pays, says Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons.
An obscure Indian bank has been an unlikely beneficiary of Western sanctions against Iran, handling billions of dollars from frozen oil payments that boosted its interest margins, but is now having to prepare itself for life after the windfall.
India's Food Security Act entitles 82 crore people to 5 kg of foodgrains per person a month at Rs 1-3 per kg.
Mufti's political graph shows his fondness for courting unpopular, politically hazardous ventures in pursuit of his ultimate objective to vindicate his leadership. Towards the end of his life, Mufti's public profile had come to assume the dimensions of statesmanship. One reason being his willingness to learn from his experience, says Mohammad Sayeed Malik.
Apart from around 40 Japanese companies and five global vendors of MG Motor India, many other biggies are eyeing Gujarat for either greenfield opportunities or brownfield expansion.
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Because of corrections in property prices and oversupply in the office segment, the rich are investing in hospitals, warehouses, ATMs and other alternatives to traditional investment options.
'Underestimating its potential implications, in the event of an 'adverse' verdict, could turn out to be a huge political blunder,' says Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir.
Investors are sceptical that the economy could have picked up so much steam.
Six money lessons you can learn from the popular game
Home loan cover from the lender may not be the best option
After National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) this week suspended trading in forward contracts, the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), the commodities market regulator, on Friday sought to allay fears over the exchange defaulting on open contracts.
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