Many of the real estate sector’s problems are its own creation
All the measures announced are unlikely to make anything more than a marginal impact on the export performance.
Banning single-use plastic will hurt a large part of existing investments in machinery and impact jobs in the plastics industry, but future costs of removing all single-use plastics accumulating in the environment will most certainly be higher than the costs of allowing this polluting industry to grow today.
Profits earned when insolvency proceedings are underway should belong to financial creditors is one view but acquirers will object as this upsets their calculations
The moon mission has stoked curiosity like no other. More to the point, another loop of success is in the making
The iPhone maker’s Rs 99 subscription plan for Apple TV+ could be a competition killer only if it can feed Indian consumers with local language content
Funding is the oxygen for real estate developers. Starved of liquidity, projects will remain stuck and builders will develop cash flow problems. That will lead to asset quality problems for NBFCs which in turn will exacerbate the crisis.
Like investigative journalists, investors too often run into harsh realities. The sooner we realise it, the better.
A fortnight back when Chief Minister Palaniswami left for the UK, he was just the ‘lucky first among the many equals’ in the AIADMK. On his return, the ‘accidental chief minister’ has become the ‘revolutionary leader’s heir’!
A single-stroke ban on plastic will not be effective. It needs the inculcation of a new culture and a change to our practices and routines. Awareness and commitment are the key.
Kerala’s International Women’s Trade Centre, a first in India, is pitched as a safe space away from home for women entrepreneurs who are eager to leverage their entrepreneurial abilities and for those who seek global exposure to their products.
Around 40 percent of the rise in IIP was contributed by an increase in mild steel slab production
The Coffee Day stock has been hitting the upper circuit for the past few days
The real thrust of the Chinese envoy’s efforts in the Indian media is to build a coalition against the US based on the narrative that the latter is against economic globalisation, is unilateralist and a threat also to Indian interests. India must be wary of this.
Retirement or not, Ma has his control, and he’ll always retain his power. A formal retirement and a relief from administrative duties would give him the chance to build his legacy beyond Alibaba as a do-gooder.
The people in Andhra Pradesh may well feel that many of the deals that the TDP government signed need scrutiny and that there may have been corruption in some, but action against Naidu and the TDP alone is not going to be enough to prevent from disillusionment setting in.
A multi-pronged approach is the answer as many job roles lend themselves easily to transferability
For the leaders it is a battle of egos and for potential candidates it is a matter of tickets. For committed party workers it is an existential battle with nowhere else to go and no one to look up to.
The government is proposing to build dis-incentives in the form of denying loans and grants for discoms that do not set their house in order and reduce losses.
Perhaps the most important reason for not giving a tax sop to the automobile industry is the technology it is based on, the internal combustion engine, is headed for a sunset.
For better transmission, the structural factors should first be resolved. That’s a tough task and prescribing interest rate formulae is the easy way out.
Mounting losses and expansion into several business areas could derail India’s first profit-making payments bank. For mobile wallet Paytm, banking could be its best pathway to an IPO
Assam has remained disturbed for decades on issues concomitant to citizenship. Undoubtedly, the NRC is fraught with stereotypes and biases against minorities, but now is the time to conclude Assam’s citizenship conundrum with the acceptance of the final list.
A market-based financial system is always welcome, but India would do well not to lose sight of the 2008 crisis
Patanjali’s Ruchi Soya acquisition gives it size but also sizeable debt. The financial structure and integration are crucial to make it work