Despite lay-offs and the threat of automation, the industry will continue to be an important driver of growth in employment and GDP, says Ashok Soota.
Vikramank Singh looks back at the year gone by!
The old guard is still involved in broad corporate decision-making, but quite a few new business heads have started making their mark at the group
Sunita Iyer, lists the10 lesser known facts about the golden girl of Indian tennis.
Management guru, leading economist and founding dean of the Indian School of Business Hyderabad, Dr Sumantra Ghoshal, passed away in Hampstead, United Kingdom, on Wednesday due to brain haemorrhage, reported The Economic Times.
Indian business group Wadia is to join an ever-growing queue of companies wanting to launch a low cost domestic airline, the Economic Times reported Wednesday.
Not much is heard or read about Sun Pharma's media-shy owner.
Keshav Joshi's tongue in cheek look at Narendra Modi's mega plans.
The father of the Delhi gang rape victim said people should see the documentary, India's Daughter, because it "holds up a mirror to our society".
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is regarded as credible by global financiers.
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No. 2 software services exporter, said on Friday its board will consider on Sunday a plan to ‘sponsor’ an issue of American Depositary Receipts against existing equity shares.\n\n
Adulterated food can cause cancer, insomnia and other neurological problems, and adulteration is a growing concern across India
Countries with abundant resources are faring worse in terms of development than those with less.
Fears that Maharashtra, where the country's two biggest bourses are located, might increase a tax levied on speculative share transactions, could deepen a stock market slump, brokers say.
India's biggest petrochemicals maker Reliance Industries, whose shares hit a 15-month high earlier on Friday on a newspaper report it had struck gas at a new site, said it would make an announcement later.\n\n\n\n
Consolidation is the prime mood of the Indian equity market at the moment.
Lower crude prices mean less government outlay for India,
There is no clarity on the stand taken by the PM on many issues plaguing the aviation sector
Mr Modi must now work to win over the governor as a friend and learn to influence people credibly.
The challenge will be to force the officials of his government to own this vision.
Says India stands to gain by setting up a level playing field instead of creating trade barriers
Maharashtra and West Bengal lead the way in bank fraud.
It could be a matter of concern that foreign shareholders of the NSE are registered in tax havens such as Mauritius and Cyprus.
Being conservative is good, but not quite in a crisis.
Indian govt must tighten food safety norms to prevent controversies like the latest one on Maggi noodles.
'If you want to live a happy life, you have to help the downtrodden. You have to understand that you have been given a position which is a confluence of your own capability and the grace of God. You must use that position to exemplify to others what has to be followed.'
'It will take a long time for the effects of demonetisation to wear away, and I am not even sure that a year lost, can at all be even recovered.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to pull off what was unimaginable a year back -- adopting a much-needed centre-left approach, says Devanik Saha.
'Given his stint in Beijing, as India's longest serving ambassador there and that too through some challenging and interesting times, Jaishankar ought to have been appointed as foreign secretary in 2013 itself,' says Sanjaya Baru.
Around half of private hospitals and most of government hospitals in the country will have to close down in the next five years because of an acute shortage of nurses.
It would be a miracle indeed if we grow at 7/8 per cent a year over the current and next few years, says A V Rajwade
If error margins and confidence intervals are accounted for, even apparently decisive polls are not "sure things" and that brings us to bookies, who don't believe in any "sure things", says Devangshu Datta
India's enemies be warned: The Rafale deal will bring a sea change in India's defence preparedness.
The inability of the economy to create new jobs faster than jobs are lost to automation leads to unemployment.
At the end, however, Allen finds too much of what he calls positive thinking can boomerang.
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