Within six months, outlets carrying Vicks jumped from 60,000 pharmacies to 750,000 general stores. The trade boycott collapsed. Consumers were happy, finding Vicks now at every street corner. A fascinating excerpt from Gurcharan Das's Another Sort of Freedom.
When it comes wildlife, stock market investors can immediately identify with bulls and bears. But there are other animals in the stock market jungle too.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed the opposition alliance INDIA as a collection of arrogant dynasties who will take India back by two centuries as he exuded confidence that people will bless the "garib ka beta" with a record-breaking mandate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Hindalco has already bagged 4 mines in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh
Debashis Basu lists various reasons why laundering through the stock market thrives.
In our mystery the watchdog agencies are silent, but it is the market that has barked and has not stopped barking. Till such time as it continues to do so, this headache will not go away, notes Aakar Patel.
Blaming the nominal inflow of household savings into stock market on lack of confidence of retail investors, a Joint Parliamentary Committee has recommended strict accountability by listed companies through certification by their chief executives.
Adani group stocks have taken a beating on the bourses after Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation at the Gautam Adani-led group. The group has maintained it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements.
Capital markets regulator, I-T department suspect tax evasion and market manipulation
The investor is voting for safe investment avenues and is not impressed by the lucre promised by Dalal Street, says Mahesh Vyas.
Moitra brought two birthday caps in the House to press her argument that the businessman being most talked about had "topi-pehnau-ed" the government.
Rose Valley is one of the biggest money businesses after Sahara.
The meeting is believed to be called to chalk out the strategy of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
None of India's financial regulators has any interest in proactively dealing with pyramid schemes.
Analysts say the Sun Network's fundamentals may be sound but the troubles faced by Maran have caused a lot of volatility.
Following the money and freezing anything unaccounted is the only way to set an example for others, suggests Debashis Basu.
It is intriguing that the CBI has shown little interest in the most scandalous and biggest collective investment scheme ever, from the Sahara group, asserts Debashis Basu.
More, many market gurus expect the Sensex to reach 30,000 levels by December and 40,000-45,000 in three to four years.
There's merit in the premise of 420 IPC but Manish Gupta's flat execution never delivers its promise, feels Sukanya Verma.
Keep your nerve and don't exit at once. For all you know, there could be a turnaround story.
The Sensex is on course to ending calendar year (CY) 2019 at a price-earnings (P/E) multiple of 29x, the highest in 25 years. Current valuations are, however, lower than those seen in the early 1990s. The Sensex has risen close to 14 per cent in the last 12 months, while the index underlying EPS dropped 6.7 per cent during the period.
Uncertainty lingers in the minds of retail investors due to scams.
Scams happen with high regularity because the price of getting caught is insignificant. Aggrieved investors run from the police to already clogged courts to find redress for issues for which financial regulators have been specifically set up. For over 3,750 years we have known what to do, but we don't do it, observes Debashis Basu.
In Chanda's defence, one can always say, why would the Videocon Group take care of her husband as a quid pro quo to get a loan? After all, the group has taken money from the entire banking industry and ICICI Bank's share in the pie is not even 10 per cent. So, if it had a quid pro quo with Chanda to get the money, it must have had similar arrangements with other banks, too. If this is not the case, one must accept that it had got money from all banks, including ICICI, without any under-the-table conditions, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Department seeks investor database on the suspicion of fictitious investors.
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
The challenge before the management is ensuring simultaneous disclosure of key information to stock exchanges and investigating agencies.
'All regulatory agencies must be made Constitutional bodies like the Election Commission, the Supreme Court, and the CAG.' 'That way they will become independent of the minister,' recommends T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
'The Indian market has all the factors at the moment: Over-valuation, over-confidence, reliance on some source of massive fund flows and massive scams.' 'The trigger for a collapse could also have arrived.' warns Devangshu Datta.
Each scam that comes out in the open shows the regulators to be miles behind.
99 per cent of respondents believed that the biggest impact of corruption business was its tendency to skew the level playing field and attract organisations with lesser capacity to execute projects.
'It can't be a coincidence that he and his family, uncles and all, vanished from India only days before the scam was discovered.'
As economic policy making moves from pragmatism to populism, the bulls begin to make way for cautious optimists.
Investors in LIC's insurance and other schemes are receiving a lower rate of return because LIC is subsidising incompetence at best and malfeasance at worst in institutions such as IDBI Bank and IL&FS, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has debarred stock brokers Ketan Parekh and Kartik K Parekh and seven of their entities from trading in the market for 14 years after finding their involvement in the 2001 stock market scam.
Hindalco is currently one of the frontrunners in the coal auction
Apart from navigating the bank through the Covid crisis, Jagdishan may also have to deal with the latest development on the auto loan lending practice scam. He will be expected to deliver consistent profit growth of 20 per cent-plus quarter after quarter, irrespective of the operating environment.
India's gold obsession needs a correction.
Once a stock market darling, the jewellery chain heads for liquidation.
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