'That the two sides allowed such a situation to arise exposed the level of inaction and inefficiency in China-India border management.' 'The Modi-Xi meeting in Xiamen initiated a process to to avert such contingencies in the future.'

Inflation is down, growth is headed for recovery. RIL and subsidiary Jio are on an upswing. However, stressed loans and impending job losses are the dark clouds, says Devangshu Datta.

Experts say one in every four mental health problems is due to depression and anxiety at the workplace.

The coming elections seem a tough battleground for the BJP in the wake of anti-incumbency, Patidar and Dalit agitations and implementation of the GST.

The 30-share BSE Sensex opened positive, but shed some ground to settle the session higher by 250.47 points, or 0.78 per cent, at 32,432.69, its biggest closing since August 2.

'Nobody laughed during the shooting. There were fights, swearing and what not. Tempers were high but the unit and the actors stayed on, and finally, the film was made. But it was like riding a wild horse!' Kundan Shah's last interview.

Sapience offers an innovative solution to measure the productivity of office and mobile workers, with almost no manual inputs from managers or employees, says Romita Majumdar.

You have to really bungle to produce 5.7 per cent growth under the conditions this government is currently facing, says Mihir S Sharma.

Modi said his critics were seeing slowdown in the last two quarters but were ignoring that the BJP government had brought down inflation from 10% to 2.5%.

At this point of time, the requirement of the economy is obviously more investment, which will create more jobs and increase purchasing power that will sustain a high level of production, says K M Chandrasekhar.

Market players said the sell-off was triggered by pessimism that the government may not be able to balance growth with macro-stability.

Does the Union government or the RBI see itself as Krishna beheading Shishupal and what will constitute the 101st or indeed the past many sins for which a Sudarshan Chakra will have to be used? More importantly, what are those sins?

'When we say we want to increase pension participation, do we want to increase participation through the savings route?' 'Or do we want people to save in specific pension products?' asks Renuka Sane.

What must India do now?

The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high

New Delhi and Beijing are the only two regional capitals that have commented on US President Donald Trump's speech on August 21 outlining the way forward in Afghanistan. The Indian foreign ministry statement was effusive in praise, while the Chinese statement has been one of cautious and guarded hope. Delhi has identified itself with Trump's Afghan strategy, whereas the Chinese stance is calibrated -- observant and objective, keeping a distance, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.

Infosys needs to be more innovative and disruptive with its product and services, keeping its focus on growth.

The founders, who hold 12.75 per cent stake in Infosys, together with a dozen leading institutional investors with a cumulative stake of about 10 per cent forced the Infosys board to bring back Nilekani.

Around 13 million people continue to battle "catastrophic" flooding and torrential rains in storm-ravaged Texas where Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc.

'It would give people renewed confidence in me as the industry goes by general opinion and consensus.' 'Even if Jagga gets critically acclaimed, it will do a lot for me.'

'GST is imperative for India's success.' 'Without GST India will be a less competitive country.'

As the funnel of good-quality early-stage companies are built, mid-stage and growth capital always follows, says Fireside Ventures founder Kanwaljit Singh.

'If the government had not spent an incredible amount of energy on demonetisation it may -- may, because it had not done anything the previous six months either -- have been able to pay attention to the deeper problems of low investment and job creation.'

The government in Budget 2017 has already mandated seeding of Aadhaar number with Permanent Account Number to avoid individuals using multiple PANs to evade taxes.

S&P BSE Midcap and the S&P BSE Smallcap indices gained 2% and 1.6% respectively

'There has been a lot of ups and downs, unexpected highs and unimaginable pain, almost thinking that I'm going to die.'

The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.

According to a new study, China, India, Indonesia, USA, Russia have the largest number of smokers.

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'I can tell you, Mr Chairman, from personal experience that there is nothing sadder than witnessing a close one, a loved one with mental illness at close quarters.' 'I have lived with a victim of mental illness. Like many in that condition, very often such people are in a state of denial.'

Exemptions, and the fact that farm income is outside the tax net, ensure that India's tax-GDP ratio stays low.

The final agriculture GDP numbers for 2016-17 are expected to be revised up, as rabi production is looking really good.

They believe that the key reason behind such a high growth rate could be "a steep downward revision" of the year-ago base period.

Crops including fruit, vegetables account for 60% of GDP in agriculture, forestry, fishing sector.

The following is the full text of US President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of the Congress on February 28, as prepared for delivery and released by the White House press office.

Meet Cassie de Pecol, a 27-year-old traveller from Connecticut, United States, who visited 196 countries in 18-and-a-half months, making her the fastest person to visit every country in the world.

'Demonetisation, is in principal, a mistake, because it involves a theft -- a taking of private property by the State.' 'It is one of those bad Indian ideas that has been tried twice in the past, with two failures for the record books.' 'This cloud over the economy will probably remain as long as Modi is in power.'

Attacking the note ban move, Yechury said the PM's assertion that it will impact terror funding has not yielded any result.

The Survey lists some of the challenges that might impede India's progress.

'The temptation of governments, to have a finger in the RBI pie will be just too great to resist, unless extensive amendments are carried out in the RBI Act treating it almost as the fourth branch of the government.'