Maruti Suzuki hikes prices by up to Rs 20000
By Sharmistha Mukherjee, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) today said it is increasing prices of select models across its range of vehicles by up...
View ArticleRBI releases guidelines for ‘on-tap’ bank licence
MUMBAI: RBI today released the much-awaited guidelines for ‘on tap’ universal banking licence, but excluded large industrial houses as eligible entities from the purview, though they can invest in...
View ArticleLok Sabha passes bill for speedier recovery of bad loans
NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of Vijay Mallya episode, the Lok Sabha today passed a bill that provides for expeditious recovery of bad loans by the banks, with the government saying the country...
View ArticleProjects worth Rs 400 crore cleared for development work along Ganga
NEW DELHI: National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) today approved several projects, including that for the development of ghats, crematoria and riverfront, costing around Rs 400 crore. The...
View ArticleCoal India’s long term forward e-auction sees encouraging response
Debjoy Sengupta, ET Bureau KOLKATA: Coal India saw 13 million tonnes of fuel being booked during the first five days of auction for long term coal supplies to captive power plants. A total of 18...
View ArticleNADA clears Narsingh Yadav in dope scandal, wrestler set for Rio
NEW DELHI: In a sensational turn of events, Narsingh Yadav was today cleared to compete in the Rio Olympics after being exonerated of doping charges by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), which...
View ArticleIt’s time our VCs bought India story
By Rehan Yar Khan Two months ago, Uber announced a massive $3.5-billion fundraise, along with a $1billion allocation to China. Within two weeks, Didi announced an eye-popping $7.3-billion fundraise,...
View ArticlePM Modi has to find avenues to wed his approach on development with...
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay The Sangh Parivar has had internal differences on programmatic issues in the past. Self-destructive divergences had surfaced within the clan during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s...
View ArticleEconomic Realism
By: Richard Thaler I had an idea 40 years ago that there might be another way of doing economics, and it was a very subversive idea. I had to try to figure out a way...
View ArticleTo forgive is divine
By: J P Vaswani Rishi Brighu wondered who, among the Holy Trinity of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu, could be regarded as the greatest. Perhaps the one who showed the greatest degree of forgiveness?...
View ArticleManaging to innovate
By: Barry Libert ET AL Every industry is built around tradition-bound assumptions, behaviours and beliefs about how to create value — be it revenues, profits or investor returns — and the business...
View ArticlePhase out attachment
By: Swami Tejomayananda Dependence on material things, worldly relations and pleasure-seeking steadily decrease as our love for God increases. Interestingly, as we move towards the Lord with faith,...
View ArticleMitchell Johnson: It’s the fear factor
By: Joy Bhattacharjya Try this thought experiment. Imagine a plank about a foot across and eight feet long placed on the ground. The challenge is to walk down the plank without falling off. It sounds...
View ArticleNew Licence Policy will be Banking’s 1991 Moment
By: V Vaidyanathan Banking had a “clubby” feeling to it — if you got in, you had a licence to take deposits, lend loans participate in interbank settlements. What added to the feeling was that...
View ArticleBill passed, now focus on GST lawmaking process
By: Rajiv Memani The idea of a single tax that subsumes most other central and state-level taxes has tremendous appeal. The goods and services tax (GST) is expected to provide a boost to the Make...
View ArticleWith the Constitutional Amendment Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha, is India...
By: Rajeev Dimri With the Constitutional Amendment Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha, corporate India is keen to witness the historic development in the country’s indirect tax regime. The government has...
View ArticleIs Aadhaar voluntarily mandatory now?
By: Aman Sharma Make no mistake. Enrolling for Aadhaar is now mandatory if you wish to avail a government benefit or subsidy. The alternative mechanism to deliver you the service if you do not have...
View ArticleIncome inequality
By: Anu Madgavkar On income inequality, much work, including that by Thomas Piketty and others, has really focused on the very top of the income distribution — perhaps the top 5% of households or the...
View ArticleNever yield to fear
By: Shri Shri Anandamurti To accomplish anything, one must not only acquire certain positive qualities but also avoid certain negative qualities. The fear instinct is ingrained in our minds. When fear...
View ArticleIf it’s for the memory, it has to be Rio
By: Siddharth Saxena Sometimes you wish the Olympics were smaller. They’re huge. Not that they are bigger than the football World Cup, gargantuan by any stretch of the imagination which itself could do...
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