The Japanese electronics firm has bagged city surveillance projects in Bhopal and Ludhiana. It is now eyeing projects under Smart Cities mission in Guwahati and Jabalpur.

If Digital India delivers on its promise, rural Indians are likely to outnumber urban Indians online.

Yes Bank has seen a 30.2% increase in its net profit for the March quarter, due to strong growth in advances and growth in low-cost CASA deposits.

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The latest launch by Samsung will compete with Apple's iPhone as well as products from Sony, LG and Asus.

It has been proven that portfolio allocation leads to long-term optimum results on investments. Awareness among investors is gradually increasing on the imperative of allocation.

The offer at `275 per share is 17.6% less than its closing price of `334 on Monday.

Aggregate recast loans worth around Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 49,332 crore) failed at the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell in FY17, taking total failures since the inception of the cell in 2001 to Rs 1.37 lakh crore.

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Manpasand reported a healthy quarter overall albeit EBITDA/PAT were below our estimates. Overall, FY2017 was broadly in line with company guidance at start of the year and both Mango Sip and Fruits Up posted robust growth.

The bench said SBI’s petition had not been drafted properly and suggested a “lack of seriousness” on the part of the petitioner.

Investors in ACC have reason to cheer as volume posted double digit growth in Q2CY17, up 10% y-o-y, after a gap of >5 years and is set for ~10% jump in CY17, on low base of ~9% dip in H2CY16.

Bharat Road Network, a road and highways BOT company, has priced its initial public offering (IPO), aimed at raising Rs 600 crore, in a price band of Rs 195-205.

Farm loan waivers by state governments have potential to crowd out corporate borrowing if financed through state debt issuance, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report.

Kuldeep Yadav performed brilliantly in the first T20 against the Windies to ensure India registered a comfortable win over the visitors.

As per SOPA estimates, the actual area in Maharashtra is 36.390 lakh hectare, which is 10% less than the government estimates of 40.433 lakh hectare. Soyabean output in Maharashtra is estimated to rise by 32% to 38.4 lakh tonne for this year.

In contrast, Indonesia’s improving fiscal status and aggressive monetary policy stance in the face of global headwinds have burnished the nation’s assets in the eyes of investors.

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.

NII is the difference between interest earned and interest paid by a bank. The lender’s asset quality improved q-o-q with gross non-performing assets (NPA) of 17.36%, down 10 basis points over Q2FY19.

The initial price guidance stood at 210 bps over the US Treasury. The bank indicated that with 3.5 times over-subscription, the final price tightened by 25 bps.

Popley Group has launched a special edition of gold coins, which are being offered at cheaper rates, and is also selling luxury watches at a 25-50% discount.

CAI’s current estimates for the North Zone, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are lower by 1 lakh bales each compared to its previous month estimate.

To make matters worse, a sizeable number of labourers from Odisha are employed in the Surat textile industry, said Ashish Gujarati, president of Pandesara Weavers' Association.

The total corporate bond issuance in FY19 was Rs 6.1 lakh crore, just slightly higher than `6 lakh crore mopped up in FY18.

Last year’s cotton sowing was estimated at 126.44 lakh hectare. Scientists say that early cotton sowing may be responsible for pink bollworm attack.

There is nothing further the government can do, Kumar said, adding that there is liquidity, partial credit enhancement and interest rates have moderated. Asked about the progress made in the resolution of stressed NBFC Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL), Kumar said: “That you should ask the company.”

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Traditionally, our response to laws failing to arrest healthcare violence has been to simply increase the quantum and severity of punishment the next time.

“The export without permission would have violated the law, thus, enforcement of such award would be violative of the public policy of India”, the SC said.

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses on broad-based development in laggard eastern states.

Amended FDI regulation is problematic under the WTO law. India should adopt a more facially neutral regulation

In the long term, the govt will have to deepen its procurement operations, expanding from the wheat-paddy complex.

A good ventilator must be a high-precision product, a combination of top-class engineering efforts, optimum manufacturing capability, and robust financial backing.

This trend continues even for local governments, which come to rely more on state transfers to run the administration.

Just seven of India’s 993 Universities have online-education licenses; Meanwhile, as the Lockdown shows, Foreign varsities make hay of the Indian demand for online courses.

It is not just the lungs, it affects the heart, kidneys, brain... this is making treatment—and a lasting cure—difficult.

An RT-PCR test takes several hours for the result to be available. We cannot make a patient who comes with a non-Covid-19 problem wait till that result is available.

Globally, experts are looking at “excess mortality” or mortality gaps as another measure of the coronavirus death toll. This approach compares the number of deaths during a certain period to the historical average.

Extending the lockdown well beyond mid-May would shave 8-9% off the real GDP. but, the damage being done doesn’t seem to be filtering up to those in charge

Today, when the US, China, UK, France, etc, which spend much more on healthcare than other nations are facing a crisis, one can very well understand how bad the situation could have been if the outbreak was in the third world, where a majority of global poor live with very little or no access to public health care. The situation would have been much worse.

India’s Achilles heel on ratings is its parlous state of fiscal affairs and the risk of a sharp deterioration of government debt to potentially ~75-80% of GDP.

The world must use this opportunity to fund global public goods and rebuild global systems to fight the right battles.

On May 3, the governments would have got 40 days time to do those things; the question is, do governments need more time?

In India, which is the biggest democracy in the world with over 1.3 billion people, the question of public health has never been debated in public.

The lockdown is an opportunity to mainstream sustainability in economic policy as it has made citizens amenable to decisions that have a high discount rate.

We should continue to implement all the needed public health measures instead of projecting testing rates as the sole path to salvation

The basic decision making on the ground must be left to the states and should involve municipal corporations and wards.

With crude price low, the govt should think of moving completely to DBT for food, fertiliser and power.

Lack of PPE & shortage of testing kits is a real issue.

India’s share of world manufacturing output is just 3%; it can easily be raised to 6% in 3-4 years, and 15% by 2030