Trade deficit will continue to remain under pressure in May: M...

Your stakeholders have an impact on your performance at work. A lowdown on how to handle them Charu Sabnavis Don't forget to understand what motivates the people who have a bearing on your success. Illustration: Raajan/Mint Imagine these scenarios.

Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist, CARE Ratings A question asked today in banking circles is, How sound are Indian banks? There is a concern over rising NPAs, debt restructuring and pressure on margins. At the same time we know that the global economy ...

The world's transition away from coal and oil depends crucially on national political structures Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's eighth Budget did not disappoint those who wanted the government to send out a strong and unequivocal ... The ...

The government urgently needs to consider 5 'Ss' before it launches itself into this commitment, notes Madan Sabnavis As a rule, the government likes creating new structures without fully understanding their implications and then disbanding them once criticism inundates the newspaper columns. A lot of time and money is invested in creating these structures and, often, these costs could be higher than the cost they are trying to lower to begin with. The direct cash transfer scheme runs a ...

India's industrial production , as represented by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), expands 2.4% in January 2013 above market expectations of 1.2% growth. IIP for the December showed a contraction of 0.5%, revised from negative 0.6%. Mining registered ...

The projected fiscal deficit for the financial year 2014 at 4.8 per cent is more on the expected lines though it will need to be seen if the revenue collections would be according to schedule.

That's Economics 101. But economics is not physics. And what sounds true may not be true. dated 12 May 2013 which points out that the US agricultural department and-the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have predicted record global output of ...

Source: IRIS (10-MAY-13) Comments | Post Comment Most experts are of opinion that recovery in industrial production would be mild during 2013-14. industrial production, as represented by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew 2.5% in March ...

day afternoon, the conference room in the New Delhi office of the Earth Sciences Ministry was bursting at the seams with journalists. Struggling to make his way into the room, S. Jaipal Reddy, Earth Sciences Minister, joked that one would think a ...