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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to revamp KVIC and promote khadi did help the state-owned entity in getting business, but what really helped is the marketing of swadeshi by yoga-guru-turned-businessman Baba Ramdev.
Employment increased in both manufacturing and services while input prices remained soft
Devotees of the consumption story argued that there were no alternatives to most of the well-established players in the sector
The damage that foreign deep pockets have done in India is substantial and probably irreversible
The BJP’s Mission 123 is a plan aimed at winning as many seats as possible in the 123 Lok Sabha seats that the party could not win in 2014 despite the ‘Modi wave’.
If the government wants to stick to its fiscal deficit target it will have to slash expenditure
Outright privatisation will be the best option for state-owned banks, but the least the government should do is consider overhauling governance and management structures.
The Meghalaya mining disaster shows how India has woken up again to the proliferation of illegal mining.
The slowdown is not confined to China. The US manufacturing PMI for December 2018 was the lowest in 15 months. The reading for the Eurozone was the lowest since February 2016
The new rules come just as Amazon and Flipkart’s parent company Walmart threaten to reprise their rivalry in the US here in India, and could stop them from bringing their worst practices to the Indian market.
Corporate historians, rewinding to 2018, will pensively remember nothing more than heart-wrenching fiddles.
The Nikkei India Output Prices sub-index indicates that prices have fallen from the previous month, the first time this has happened since July 2017.
Outsized trading volumes in options contracts is no reflection of a vibrant capital market. But imposing mandatory physical settlement without supporting infrastructure is no solution either.
Sebi’s right hand doesn’t know what its left hand is doing
The MSME sector is clearly in stress after demonetisation and GST. But a loan recast is no solution. Simpler government regulations, structural reforms are key to MSME revival
In the light of Mayawati’s ‘warning’ over support, Congress President Rahul Gandhi should reconsider joining the grand alliance
RBI's Financial Stability Report projects current account deficit of 2.1% of GDP in the second half of FY19 and 3.4% of GDP in the first half of FY20
The share of frauds in banks under the prompt corrective action framework far outweighs their share of total bank capital dedicated to operational risk
The Left, the Congress and the BJP are focusing on women’s issues in a state where women outnumber men.
The gross non-performing assets in agricultural bank loans went up from around 5 percent of advances to the sector in March 2017 to 8.4 percent by September 2018.
Put options open interest is much higher than those on the call side suggesting a downward bias in the market.
The whistleblower allegations have raised governance concerns at Sun Pharma. Investors are better placed in proactively raising their concerns with the board, to ensure that the new governance structure at Sun Pharma is robust, in their compliance and intent
The behaviour of equity markets across the five-year election cycles since 1980 provides a clear pattern — a very relevant one that too.
Sit tight and ride the volatility rollercoaster through prudent asset allocation till signs of stability returns in India and globally markets.
Bank profitability continues to erode and capital adequacy ratios are projected to come down. PSBs will continue to be hamstrung for growth capital for some time.
