Why bank branches are important even in Digital India

Despite the increasing adoption of digital transactions in the past three to five years, brick-and-mortar interaction across geographic catchments remains a potent distribution channel. Though the......

FMCG firms brace for new rural reality

Last month when Nitin Mathur, an analyst with Mumbai-based research firm Espirito Santo, was on a four-day field visit to the national capital region and parts of rural Rajasthan, what stuck him......

Cross-sectoral fund allocation in a limbo

Among the plethora of funds announced by former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, the Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) Infrastructure and Manufacturing Fund, is still in a limbo. Even the other two......

Corporate leaders whose moves will be most watched in 2015

Few leaders from India Inc that will make India proud in 2015. Arundhati Bhattacharya: New-age leader of SBI She is the first woman chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), where she has held a......