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Defence minister Rajnath Singh says India might revise its policy of "no first use" of nuclear weapons in national interest
Ravi Sashtri to remain head coach of Team India fro another two years
India defends move on Article 370, says entirely an internal matter
UN holds closed door meet on Kashmir but China fails in its attempt to censure India
Limited public transport service to be restored in J&K from this weekend
Educational institutions to reopen in phases from Monday in J&K
Government decides to restore telecommunications in phases in J&K starting with landline phones this weekend
PM Modi announces that India will have a Chief of Defence Staff soon
PM Modi says government worried about population explosion, will introduce schemes to control it
Prime Minister Modi explains the decision to read down Article 370 in his address to the nation on the occasion of Independence Day
All 6 accused in Pehlu Khan lynching case acquitted
Cricketers will now be tested for dope as BCCI decides to come under NADA after a prod from the government
NDTV promoters Prannoy and Radhika Roy prevented from travelling abroad. Channel says it amounts to subversion of media freedom
TMC spokesman Derek O'Brien questioned for two hours by the CBI on the party mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla'
Former finance minister Arun Jaitley has been admitted to AIIMS for breathing problems. His condition is said to be stable
India Commentary wishes all its readers a very Happy Independence Day. Jai Hind
Category Archives: Business
Overseas Bonds: Are They As Bad As Made Out To Be?
Breaking: Will There Be Mega-Mergers Of PSU Banks In A Couple Of Days?
MPC: Rate Cuts Are Fine, But The Need Is For Government Measures To Boost Consumption
Even Subtle Ways Of IT Department Lead To Terrorism
Time To Turn Attention Towards The Economy
Accounting Scandals Keep Tumbling Out
Cafe Coffee Day And VG Siddhartha: A Sad Turn Of Events
Cryptocurrencies: Making A Comeback
PMO Orders Review Of Proposal To Issue Overseas Bonds
Job Quota For Locals: Andhra Pradesh Takes Parochialism To Newer Heights
Amrapali Case: Supreme Court Bats For Home Buyers
Blood Bath In The Stock Markets
Welcome Amendments To The IBC
Yes Bank: Sinking Into A Morass
Who Will Compensate Service Providers After Waiving MDR?
NCLAT Confirms: NBFCs Not Covered By IBC
External Commercial Borrowings: Good Route If Used Wisely
Budget: Intention Without Funds Is Like Trying To Grow Trees On Barren Land
Economic Survey 2019: Acche Din Will Have To Wait
GST Council Meet: Routine Affair
RBI: Viral Acharya Resigns Months Before End Of Term
Unfair Practice In Online Flight Ticket Booking Must Stop
Bengaluru Ponzi Scam: Congress And Scams Cannot Be Kept Apart
Are We Moving To The Neo-Hindu Rate Of Growth?
RBI Cuts Rate, Changes Stance To Accommodative
SC: Sec 148 Of NI Act Can Be Applied Retrospectively
Modi: Only Two Castes Will Remain In India
How Will The Poll Results Affect The Stock Market?
Air India Tries To Address The Problem Of Empty Seats
Jet Airways: Nosediving Into Uncertainty
RBI Rate Cut: Lending By Banks Must Take Off To Revive The Economy
RBI's "One-Size-Fits-All" Circular Quashed By The Supreme Court
Shortfall In Tax Collection No Excuse To Harass Taxpayers
Banks Taking Big Haircuts To Sell Stressed Assets
Cheque Bouncing And Company Directors
Is The Economic Slowdown Intensifying?
Interim Dividend By RBI: Permanent Solution Needed
Anil Ambani: Trouble Comes In Threes
Falling Inflation: Good Or Bad?
Insolvency Code Constitutionally Valid, Says Supreme Court
Is Bitcoin Headed For Zero?
Was There Any Other Option For Urijit Patel?
GDP: Brakes on Economic Recovery?
Economic Data Should Not Be Window Dressed
The Bubble Bursts For Cryptocurrency
Cash Management Agencies Should Stop Scaremongering
IBC: Should Companies Be Handed Back To Promoters Who Ruined It?
Is Unsubsidized, Low-Cost Meal Business Sustainable?
Economic Offenders: Beginning Made, But Big Fishes Wanted
SBI Moves To Ease Liquidity Crunch In Financial Markets
Migrant Workers Flee Gujarat
Fuel Price Cut: Have A Fixed Formula To Spare The Consumer
IL&FS: How Will Uday Kotak Clear The Mess?
Jet Airways Flight Scare: Human Error Or Time Pressure?
Good Companies Free To Raise Salaries Without Threshold If Shareholders Permit
SC Asks NCLT To Stop Unnecessary Meddling In Resolution Process
Rajan Offers Sage Advice On NPAs
Tariff Barriers: Don't Go Back In Time
E-Commerce Policy: Putting Price Restrictions Not Government's Job
Overbooking Flights: Air India Denies Boarding To Table Tennis Team
Companies Act: Making Less Serious Offences Compoundable Is Sensible
One Year Of GST: Critics Must Eat Their Words
Monsoon Plays Truant, Planting Goes Down
Despicable: Molestation By GM Of Five-Star Hotel
The Mystery Behind 4 Million Jobs In 8 Months
Where Is The Economy Headed?
RBI: Inflationary Pressures Induce Rate Hike
Has The Price Of Petrol/Diesel Actually Risen Very Steeply?
Trai Makes Stricter, Technologically Advanced Rules For Pesky Calls
Will Mobs Guide Public Policy?
Tame The Oil Price Demon Fast
In A First, Chinese Bank Starts India-Dedicated Fund
Stocks Rise And Fall As BJP Falters In Karnataka
Has Walmart Overvalued Flipkart?
The Rs 1 Lakh Crore Maths
Walmart's Entry: Exciting Times For Ecommerce Marketplace
Electricty To All Villages: Make it Meaningful
City Co-op Bank: Why Should Depositors Suffer?
Cash Crunch: Print More and Manage Better
Regulating Online Media: Involve All Stakeholders
Film Industry: Golden Boy In Jail
Chanda Kochhar: Khayal Apka or Khayal Apno Ka?
Banking: Stop The Blame Game and Take Corrective Measures
Banking Scams Point to Systemic Deficiencies
Mediclaim Cannot Be Denied for Genetic Disorders, Rules Delhi HC
Allowing Private Commercial Coal Mining is Good Reform
TRAI Should Withdraw Amendement on Predatory Pricing
Fortis Healthcare and Singh Bros: Whither Corporate Governance?
RBI Issues Timely Warning on Fiscal Consolidation
Railway Board: Cutting the Flab
Advantage Assam Was Long Overdue
What Exactly is Unemployment?
Union Budget: Neither Here, Nor There
Budget in the Times of Revenue Squeeze and Impending Elections
PM at Davos: Much to Do Before Red Carpet
Skewed Wealth Distribution: Whose Fault?
Making GST Good and Simple
Fiscal Deficit, Extra Borrowings and GDP
Start Up Taxation Will Kill Innovation
A Different Union Budget This Year?
Lower MDR to Push Digital Payments
RBI-MPC Keeps Rates Unchanged
Build Airports, But Only After Proper Research
Support GST, Not Rubbish It
Gender Wage Gap: Change the Mindset
Beware of Fresh Highs in Stock Indices
RBI Might Maintain Status Quo on Rates
GST Tax Collection Enthuses Government
GST: Short Term Costs But Long Terms Benefits
Infosys: Narayana Murthy Meddles, Sikka Goes
End of "Black Money Bonhomie?"
Did You Lose Money in Stocks Last Week?
Stocks on Boil: Tread Cautiously
GST Will Make Traders Happier In The Long Run
Loans Gone Bad: What is The Way Out?
Pseudo Agriculturists Must Be Exposed
Financial Year: Is Jan-Dec Better?
RBI Keeps Repo Unchanged, Fears Inflation Ahead
Idea-Vodafone Merger: Welcome Consolidation
GDP Figures, Post Demonetization, Are Not 'Dressed'
Spectrum Pooling: Sunil Mittal is Right
Ecommerce Cannot be About GMV Alone
Is There a Future For Mobile Wallets?
Jaitley: Budgeting for Growth and Political Mileage
Budget 2017: Will Jaitley Put India First or Be Populist?
Cashless and Above Board Benefits the Economy
Welcome Solution to GST Tangle
Amazon: Avoid Hurting Sentiments in Selling Things
Formalize the Informal Sector
Noteban: Cash Must Now be a Dirty Word
Latest Deposit Restrictions Must Be Taken Back
Cash Deposits: Fear is Not the Key
Cash Trail: Catch the Culprits Now
Protection: Ola & Flipkart Want Government Help to Ward Off Competition
Is Double Counting Creating Bank Deposit Confusion?
RBI Monetary Policy: Status Quo in Uncertain Times
Rural India Post Demonetization: Empower the Farmers
Fake Notes: Where Have They Vanished?
Cash: Flushing Out Necessary to Stop Corruption and Tax Evasion
CRR, RBI and Demonetization
GST: Why Impose Cess?
Jio and 4G Speed: Testing Time
GST Council: Complicating Matters
Green Energy: Despite Increasing Usage, India Behind on Committments
Spectrum: Auction Flops Due to High Reserve Price
With Inflation in Check, Rate Cut Was Expected
Black Money: Stop Generation, Amnesty Schemes Are No Answer
India Should be in Top 10 in Global Competitiveness Index
The Economy is Not Growing Sufficiently
Bonding with Corporate Bonds Through Much Needed Reforms
Reliance Jio: Data-giri With Free Voice, SMS and Roaming
Ecommerce: Tweaking Strategy to Combat No Deep-Discounting Fiat
New Lending Norms Will Bring Transparency & Reduce NPA's
Shake Up in Ecommerce Marketplaces & Startups
Recognizing & Awarding Startup Brilliance
Rajan's Parting Gift: 'On Tap' Banking Licences, A Huge Reform
RBI Working Group on Digital Banking Should Address all Issues
Monsoon, Food Security and Inflation
Flipkart Has Got Jabong For Peanuts
India Beats the Brexit Blues
RBI vs. Government: Sustained growth more important than growth rate numbers
High Value Cash Transactions: Ban Not the Solution
Dr Rajan Should Not Have Been Hounded Out
Is the Startup Space Getting Squeezed in India?
Apple: Will SE Spoil the Party?
Low Benchmarks and Easy Satisfaction Lead to Gloating
UPI: Changing How Payments Will Be Made
Digital Wallets Gaining Currency
Principles for Entrepreneurial Success
Is the Ecommerce Cart Flipping?
Tax Those Converting But Spare Genuine Charitable Entities
Beware When Paying/Accepting Rs 2 Lakh or Above for Goods and Services
Right Time, Good Time or Time Over for Mallya?
The Curious Case of Vijay Mallya
TRAI Bats For Net Neutrality in India
Eashwar Committee Recommendations on TDS Should be Adopted
Medical Tourism Growing at 30% in India
Commercial Courts to Solve Big Business Disputes
Real Estate: Real Problems for Both Buyers and Sellers
Startup India Gets Overwhelming Response
New Bankruptcy Law May Be Passed in the Next Three Days
New PAN Rules: Will They Help in Checking Black Money?
Cheque Bouncing: Parl Adds More Teeth to NI Act
Fully Vetted, Simple Tax Laws Needed
Age Old Scam to Transfer Money Abroad
Noodles: Swadeshi and 'blessed' by Patanjali
There is Logic Behind RBI's Rate Cut
Call Dropping: Both Government & Mobile Companies to Blame
FSSAI Action on Transfats Welcome: Now Reorient Crop Policy
Land Pooling in AP: Excellent Initiative
Reforming PSU Banks: Cloud Covered rainbow
RBI, Monetary Policy & Inflation
RBI and the State of the Economy
Should Service Tax be Levied on Online Retail Platforms?
Telcos Start Backhand Campaign to Garner Support for Zero Plans
Housing.Com's Rahul Yadav: Young Philanthropist or Manipulator
Don't Let Airtel & Other Telcos Kill the Internet
Fiscal Deficit, Monetary Policy & Inflation
The Economic Survey Brings Good News
Prabhu Presents a Sensible Budget
Railways Need a Shot in the Arm
After Vodafone, CBDT Should Look At All Fruitless Litigations
Making APA Bilateral Would Speed Up Investments From US
PM Modi Calls For a $20 Trillion Economy
Will NITI Aayog Help in Transforming India?
Will Real Autonomy Happen For PSU Banks?
Spectrum release good for telecommunications
India Vindicated on Food Security
Reviews- Movies
Judgmental Hai Kya: Kangana Outstanding In This Dark Comic Thriller
In Depth
Pehlu Khan Lynching: Prosecution Stands Accused Of Weakening The Case
Editor's Pick
Accounting Scandals Keep Tumbling Out
