The government is doubling down on existing 'temporary' restrictions on the import of gold. Some were introduced under the last administration, and had a transitory effect, reducing gold imports through the official channel.
Profits grow, but not because of recovering demand.
Suresh Prabhu must first work to repair damage to railways.
A look into the challenges of selling loss-making public units.
The lesson for Indian corporations, which otherwise like to pride themselves on adopting global best practices, is corporate America's proactive activism.
What is perhaps most fascinating is that Infosys was not the first large Indian IT company to raise its head, nor has it been the largest; but it has often shown a remarkable ability to market itself so that it has punched above its weight.
The expectation of a recovery will clearly be strengthened by the rapidly improving macroeconomic situation.
Shuji Nakamura was given only a tiny bonus for his invention and he had to sue to get the money due him.
Exceptions were made for ultra-mega power plants, such as the one at Sasan, which the court observed were not under consideration, and for coal blocks attached to the power and steel companies controlled by the central government.
Food inflation is still very much a problem and needs fixing urgently, but the bad monsoon apparently did not make it worse.
The key gain from using Aadhaar will be a drastic cut in impersonation and fictitious identities, thereby plugging a major loophole through which a lot of leakage in subsidy payment takes place.
In spite of Governor Raghuram Rajan's repeated concerns about inflation, many think there may still be a loosening of stance.
CPI inflation has declined by almost a percentage point from July, from close to eight per cent to just above seven per cent.
For August, CRISIL core inflation indicator stood at 3.6 per cent, a tad higher than RBI's measure.
Production grew by a mere 0.5 per cent year-on-year, a significant comedown from the 3.5 per cent clocked in June.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided that 10 per cent of the government's stake in Coal India Ltd would be sold. Similarly, the sale of five per cent of its stake in ONGC and 11.4 per cent in the hydropower public-sector unit, NHPC, has been cleared.
Indian loses chance to be research hub as domestic drug companies move R&D overseas.
If the power plants are reporting low coal stocks with them, it is largely because they have improved their power generation to meet higher demand.
RBI data show one-fifth of all the infrastructure loans are stressed and the share of such loans in overall stressed assets is nearly a third.
The problems facing India and its economy are far too severe and deep to be fixed in 100 days, and an excessive focus on the first 100 days might have indicated that the government had failed to understand that.
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