MUMBAI: If order inflows are a harbinger of an improvement in the investment cycle, India Inc has reason to feel happy. In the quarter ended September this year, companies received about Rs 67,000 crore…
SINGAPORE: India’s state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd aims to double its refining margins once it completes the expansion and upgrade of…
By Kalyani Shankar Will Delhi go for fresh polls or is the BJP in a position to give a stable…
By Nora Chopra The much awaited reshuffle of the Congress party is likely to be deferred indefinitely till the organizational elections…
By Anjan Roy It began with a bang and appears to be ending with a whimper. The huge noise about cash…
NEW DELHI: The government has relaxed the norms for allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the construction development sector. It is…
Mumbai: Credit in the banking system slipped marginally despite the festive season. Data from the Reserve Bank of India suggests that…
BANGALORE: State-run power generator NTPC is awaiting forest department clearance to set up its first wind energy project in the country.…
New Delhi: The geopolitical wrangling and heartburn over India’s mother of all defence deals, the lucrative $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role…
By S. Sethuraman Entering the sixth month post-bifurcation, Telengana and the truncated Andhra Pradesh are still in such unsettled conditions that…
By G. Srinivasan The Modi Government is overly obsessed head over heels with economic reforms so much so that even before…
From L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After Assembly and Lok Sabha elections Madhya Pradesh is again in election mode. While Madhya Pradesh…
NEW DELHI: Life Insurance Corporation of India, the country’s largest insurer, will consider increasing its holding in companies in which the…
New Delhi: In a bid to take advantage of the bullish stock market sentiment, the finance ministry has kicked off the…
NEW DELHI: Private-sector power plants with a combined capacity of over 1 lakh MW, including plants of 36,500 MW that have…
NEW DELHI: ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, on Tuesday signed an agreement to…
Mumbai: In the first big boost to the government’s “Make in India” initiative, aimed at making India a manufacturing hub, Airbus…
By Amulya Ganguli The writing is on the wall. To save itself, the Congress has no option but to bid…
By Praful Bidwai With its impressive performance in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has clearly reconfirmed…
By Subrata Majumder There were two intent of Prime Minister Modi’s labour reforms. One, it was to protect the lower category…
Shares of Indian companies with key markets in Europe such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Bharat Forge, Motherson Sumi and Crompton…
New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Monday scrapped the selection of six chiefs of public sector banks, recommended…
NEW DELHI: The NDA government has finally taken the first step towards formulating a policy for hydropower projects on the Ganga…
By Nantoo Banerjee It is very heartening that the government has, for the first time, equipped itself with a clear…
By Ashis Biswas Relations between India and Bangladesh are on the upswing if recent Dhaka-based media reports are any indication.…
By Harihar Swarup Will Congress fade away? Will the 128-year old party, whose leaders fought for independence, a party having deep…
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An unfortunate war of words and articles has erupted between the CPI and the CPI(M), which can…
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to an improved relationship among neighbouring countries in the Indian sub continent, goods transport and power…