Mumbai : The business optimism in India has deteriorated with the country ranking sixth globally on the optimism index in the first quarter of 2018, said Grant Thornton's International Business Report (IBR) on Tuesday. According to the quarterly global business...
New Delhi : Sugar production in the country crossed a record 31 million tonnes mark this year and the total production will be around 32 million tonnes when the season ends, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said on Thursday. "Till April 30, sugar mills have...
San Francisco : As Apple posted a healthy revenue of $61.1 billion for its fiscal 2018 second quarter -- defying global reports of a weakened demand for its iPhones -- the company's CEO Tim Cook said he will now put great energy into the growing Indian market. During...
By Krishna SinhaChaudhury, New Delhi : Wire-free listening has its own perks and Apple's AirPods (Rs 15,400) and Bose SoundSport Free (Rs 18,990) cord-free earbuds have ruled the roost in the Indian market. Not any more. Denmark-based Jabra, a subsidiary of GN Netcom...
New Delhi : Bharti Airtel has approved to merge Indus Towers into Bharti Infratel to create the largest mobile tower entities worldwide with 1.63 lakh towers across 22 circles in India, a company statement said here on Wednesday. The combined company will own 100 per...
By Bappaditya Chatterjee, Kolkata : Amid problems of a fund crunch, shortage of workers and rising cost of production, Darjeeling's tea planters are keeping their fingers crossed for a relatively "better season" with favourable weather conditions, a stable political...
New Delhi : Trade, investment, technology and flow of people and ideas will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Britain next week, British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith said here on Friday. Modi and his British counterpart,...
By Simmi Sareen, New Delhi : Scaling up a business is hard work. While launching a start-up and raising initial seed capital is tough, things get more complex once you are past the proof-of-concept stage and are set to scale. The funds to start a business are almost...
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the union government scheme of Mudra Yojana for giving substantial impetus to the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector and said it is crucial for the country's transformation. Launched in 2015, the...
By Saurabh Katkurwar, New Delhi : The Narendra Modi government's flagship crop insurance scheme, launched with much fanfare two years ago, has witnessed negative growth this year as the coverage has reduced to 24 per cent of gross cropped area (GCA) in 2017-18 from 30...