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

From the valuation angle, the market is showing similar signs of being over-valued without being in a bubble territory yet.

R-Day is a different sort of exercise for the defence forces and the security establishment. At one level it is an enormous tamasha, at another, it is a nightmare.

RBI is likely to have reached broadly similar conclusions since it did cut rates, presumably to stimulate activity.

Make in India campaign has huge potential.

The 102nd Indian Science Congress, which concluded last week, saw claims on ancient aviation and surgery, and created quite a stir

India must reckon with the possibility that it will struggle to attract higher overseas investment.

Hitting GDP growth of more than six per cent will require substantial foreign direct investment, especially if household savings largely continue to remain locked.

Inflation is down and there's every chance that crude prices will be subdued through the next year.

This will encourage exports and discourage non-essential imports such as precious metals

India's share of 2015 emerging market allocations will be driven by FII perceptions on likely growth and reform.

A rapid fall in crude oil prices has meant the RBI is a year ahead of its inflation-targeting schedule

For 20 years, the stock market headed nowhere, and this has created permanent aversion.

China is slowing down, Europe is barely afloat and the US is meeting a larger chunk of its own demand.

There has also been some easing of norms, allowing foreign direct investment to come into relatively small projects of 20,000 sq metres.

The longest winning streak was the six years between 2002-2007 when the Nifty moved from around 1,000 to over 6,000.

The Bank of Japan's action has nullified the effects of the end of the US' quantitative easing programme but the dependence of foreign institutional investors remains a concern

Some traders make a reasonable living playing the day-trading game.

If gender disparities are eroded with more women being better-educated, that pool also becomes smaller.

Technically speaking, US equities have seen net losses since January. India is strongly influenced by US trends.