India is experiencing a strange dichotomy of not having sufficient jobs on the one hand and not enough skilled workers on the other - making labour force the biggest challenge for the country
Double tax exemption on wages paid to women can encourage companies to hire, retain and compensate women better, argues Nitin Pai.
Heading to the third year, will Urjit Patel be busy firefighting a currency crisis? Almost no governor of the RBI managed to evade it and Patel perhaps knows it.
The Reserve Bank of India kept its policy interest rate unchanged at a five-year low of 6.50 percent on Tuesday.
Adopting a "cautiously optimistic" outlook on the economy, leading economists on Saturday pitched for big-bang reforms and improvement in infrastructure to push up GDP growth to 8-10 per cent in the Eleventh Plan period. \n
All the fixes require either the enactment of a data-protection law, or the amendment of our existing competition law. This can take many years. However, there is an opportunity for the government to act immediately if it wishes to, says Sunil Abraham.
Prime Minister Modi took over power in mid-May with high expectations that it would strengthen India's fragile macro economy and faltering investment and growth.
China is keen to rebalance its economy towards higher consumption, services, technology use and value-added exports. The hope is that its currency will strengthen as the world embraces it as a global trade and reserve currency, say Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who leaves office this week, was tonight given a warm farewell dinner by Congress President Sonia Gandhi which was attended by a galaxy of party leaders and Union ministers.
Karachi is the world's cheapest cities to live in.
At the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek views of Chief Ministers.
He believed in investing in companies with strong cash flows
Telecom industry in India is in a mess and it is a result of thinking that more the competition better it is, Vodafone India CEO & Managing Director Marten Pieters said on Thursday.
Key economies like India and China are rapidly becoming the biggest trading partners of the Gulf countries as compared to other regions, a new study has said.
Bringing down government stakes would augment their capital.
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's aggressive stance in Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said he looked for "alibis' in his speech on the state of the economy and his words reflected "pessimism and negativism".
However, RBI would continue to nudge banks to cut lending rates
The findings revealed the biggest threat to firms comes from within.
An industry survey has showed that economic growth for the current fiscal may slip to 4.8 per cent from 5 per cent estimated earlier.
On being asked why he doesn't talk about his humble background like Modi, Singh said, "I don't want the country to take a pity on the basis of my humble background."
Makkonen never received any money from the invention of text messaging, never applied for a patent
In India we have to be careful not to copy any level of dependence on the financial sector and infatuation with the get-rich-quick syndrome, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too.
Despite the government claims of 'India Shining,' a leading survey has pointed towards low corporate investment, poor policy and high budget deficit which will constrain growth.
Stating that he had consistently held Singh in high respect, he expected the same from him.
A V Rajwade wonders if the Modi sarkar is pursuing price stability at the cost of potential social instability in both rural and urban India.
He was politely told not to bother, as it was a special flight for him.
Globalisation with small government has not been a successful pairing.
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The new Congress-led government under the economist-turned-politician Manmohan Singh got a shot in the arm with exports surging up by almost 20 per cent and infrastructure growth doubling to 9 per cent in April, the first month of this fiscal.
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