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Apre Budget panel discussion held by Business Today had most panellists express the view that this Budget would be dictated more by political compulsions than economic logic. With the General elections a year away, and several states scheduled to hol

Q. Biggest challenge you faced in your career A. Hailing from a small country like Nepal and nurturing a big dream can be a big challenge. But I was not prepared to be reconciled with the common notion that you cannot build a globally recognised mult

This is perhaps the first budget which brings the farmer and rural India to the centre of economic policy and fiscal allocations. It lays the foundation for India to achieve a high rate of economic growth, because all along what the country missed wa

enacted in 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has witnessed a lot of action in the last six months. However, there were many questions around the tax impact either on the Corporate Debtor (CD) or the Resolution Applicant. In his Bud

To expect the Opposition party to praise any government policy, especially the Union Budget, is quite unthinkable. In fact, political expediency necessitates open and hard hitting criticism by the opposition every time the budget is unveiled. And thi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has achieved a remarkable feat by announcing a slew of measures for rural and agriculture sectors in the Union Budget 2018/19. One third of his Budget speech covered just these two sectors. He also came up with the annou

In the backdrop of the US slashing its headline corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, there were expectations that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would also effect a cut for companies from the 30 per cent peak rate that they pay at prese

It was assumed all along that Essar group director Prashant Ruia's frequent trips to Moscow would conclude with the sale of Essar's oil refinery business to Russian oil giant Rosneft. But there is more to it than meets the eye. The Moscow visits seem

The focus of the last full Union Budget before the Narendra Modi led NDA government gets into poll mode before the 2019 elections has been on farmers and rural India. After all, the rural voter ensured that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to

When French yoghurt maker Danone (post its acrimonious break up with Britannia) started its second innings in India in 2009, it was considered the most innovative dairy player. With products such as smoothies, flavoured yoghurt (all packaged in UHT p

Keeping the focus on job creation, the Budget has made several announcements to boost micro, small and medium enterprises or MSMEs. But unlike what most people thought, it is not the reduction in the corporate tax rate (from 30 per cent to 25 per cen

1) Founders The eureka moment came when college mates Arpit Dhupar, Kushagra Srivastava and Prateek Sachan went out for a drink of sugar cane juice and noticed how a nearby wall was blackened by the fume spewed by a diesel generator. They joked that

The Union Finance Minister actually presents two different Budgets every year. The first is the Budget his speech is all about it focuses on the policy or political messages he (or more accurately, the Prime Minister) wants to convey to his audienc

It is finally happening. Even as marketers are steadily moving from conventional advertising platforms to digital platforms for advertising, within the digital space, too, there has been churn. Search, which was the predominant medium of advertising

During his election campaign in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to create 10 million new jobs if elected to power. In practice, unemployment has risen marginally under NDA rule, from 4.9 per cent in 2013/14 to five per cent in 2015/16

For the first time in seven years, the central government will achieve its disinvestment target of Rs 72,500 crore, thanks to a deal where public sector enterprise ONGC will pay it Rs 36,915 crore to acquire 51.11 per cent equity stake in another pub

Three years ago, the government launched a subsidised crop insurance policy to help farmers. The farmers now pay only a small 1.5 2 per cent of the sum assured for crops whereas the balance, the bulk of the premium, is shared equally by the Centre an

In a body blow to former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh, a single judge bench of Justice Jayant Nath of the Delhi High Court directed them to pay `3,500 crore to Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo that's 35 per ce

Nearly 60 per cent of government built toilets are unusable because they lack water supply and drainage, says a 2015/16 report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The situation in the education sector isn't much different. Poor student atten

Beyond the fancy neon lights and the usual razzmatazz, the 14th Delhi Auto Expo, being held in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, is exposing the soft underbelly of the domestic automobile industry. While there are always a few companies wh

On January 30, two days before the Narendra Modi government announced a rural and agriculture centric Union Budget, the NDA governments fourth Economic Survey for 2017/18 was tabled in Parliament. The document provides an analytical overview of the e

The season has just got over for us," says an exhausted Amit Tandon, looking at the deserted cubicles in a 4,000 sq. ft. ground floor Central Mumbai office. Tandon is the Co founder and MD of Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS), which pro

Humans experience self doubt more often than they like to admit. It's thought of as negative and rarely encouraged as it means indecisiveness. Doubt serves an important function though: it makes you question and review an action or decision you are a

An electric car charging station in Central Delhi set up a couple of months ago at Niti Aayog's office has not been used for weeks. That hardly anybody at the think tank uses an electric car is an obvious but not the only reason. Set up to showcase t

Going by the influx of smart devices, we may never have to lift a finger again. Smart speakers from Amazon, Google and Apple are just the tip of the iceberg as far as smart assistants are concerned. The possibilities are endless when there is a conne

ON December 20, 2017, Business Today invited 11 of corporate India's visionaries to a roundtable discussion on India Inc's status in manufacturing and how to shape the future. The event saw passionate debates on solutions for fresh capacity investmen

Fashion bling it on Three weeks, fifteen hundred Swarovski crystals, all patiently put up by hand. Sculptor Dan Jacob's Air Jordan 1 Pinnacle 'Golds' are only made on order and cost $6,500. But lovers of bling will be happy to note that he has made a

If all is peaceful at work, there is reason for concern. Humans are designed for problem solving and if that is taken away, boredom and depression can set in quickly and devastatingly. Boredom at work has such a stigma attached to it that only few wo

Do you play the piano? Click photos? Do yoga? Taking up a hobby takes your mind off work, breaks the monotony of life and boosts your health and happiness, experts say. "A hobby, if pursued sincerely, can reduce stress and lower the risk of stress in

An inaugural keynote by the prime minister of the world's biggest democracy, India's Narendra Modi; the closing keynote by the President of the world's most powerful democracy Donald Trump of the US; interim sessions of the four day event graced by

Bandyopadhyay moved from Business Standard to Mint in 2008, where he has contributed over 600 columns in the past decade; this is a selection of 88 all but two from Mint. Most of the book is about the Indian banking system, but Bandyopadhyay also c

The recent buzz about Union Budget 2018 likely to be an election Budget, seems to be somewhat true. The Finance Minister, in his speech, paid adequate attention to improving farmers' income, development of rural sector, increasing infrastructure inve

This is perhaps the first budget which brings the farmer and rural India to the centre of economic policy and fiscal allocations. It lays the foundation for India to achieve a high rate of economic growth, because all along what the country missed wa

The focus of the last full Union Budget before the Narendra Modi led NDA government gets into poll mode before the 2019 elections has been on farmers and rural India. After all, the rural voter ensured that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to

Enacted in 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has witnessed a lot of action in the last six months. However, there were many questions around the tax impact either on the Corporate Debtor (CD) or the Resolution Applicant. In his Bud

Keeping the focus on job creation, the Budget has made several announcements to boost micro, small and medium enterprises or MSMEs. But unlike what most people thought, it is not the reduction in the corporate tax rate (from 30 per cent to 25 per cen

To expect the Opposition party to praise any government policy, especially the Union Budget, is quite unthinkable. In fact, political expediency necessitates open and hard hitting criticism by the opposition every time the budget is unveiled. And thi

During his election campaign in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to create 10 million new jobs if elected to power. In practice, unemployment has risen marginally under NDA rule, from 4.9 per cent in 2013/14 to five per cent in 2015/16

Three years ago, the government launched a subsidised crop insurance policy to help farmers. The farmers now pay only a small 1.5 2 per cent of the sum assured for crops whereas the balance, the bulk of the premium, is shared equally by the Centre an

In the backdrop of the US slashing its headline corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, there were expectations that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would also effect a cut for companies from the 30 per cent peak rate that they pay at prese

Nearly 60 per cent of government built toilets are unusable because they lack water supply and drainage, says a 2015/16 report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The situation in the education sector isn't much different. Poor student atten

On January 30, two days before the Narendra Modi government announced a rural and agriculture centric Union Budget, the NDA governments fourth Economic Survey for 2017/18 was tabled in Parliament. The document provides an analytical overview of the e

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has achieved a remarkable feat by announcing a slew of measures for rural and agriculture sectors in the Union Budget 2018/19. One third of his Budget speech covered just these two sectors. He also came up with the annou

FIIL's wireless over the ear headphones, launched in India recently, have the formidable task of competing against the bigwigs Bose, Sennheiser and Sony. Irrespective of how it handles that challenge, the headphones make a good first impression. Thes