By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) “New Zealand’s Got Talent” fame singer Evan Sinton aka MAALA is nervous about his maiden visit to India for a multi-city tour next week. He says he…
Saurabh Katkurwar New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) A “normal” monsoon brought much-needed relief to farmers after two consecutive years of drought. However, the demonetisation drive during the harvest season has devastated them, with one expert…
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, Dec 31 (IANS) Global headwinds such as macroeconomic factors, currency volatility and disruptive technologies impacted the resilient Indian IT industry in 2016, forcing Nasscom, its apex body, to lower the growth…
By Biswajit Choudhury Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) The year 2016 has been the most momentous since India’s Independence for the Reserve Bank on account of a trinity of events — Raghuram Rajan’s exit from the…
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi/Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) A maiden integrated policy and over 20 per cent month-on-month traffic growth gave wings to the country’s civil aviation sector in 2016. The sector reaped benefits out…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee & Fakir Balaji Kolkata/Bengaluru, Dec 28 (IANS) The increasing use of digital technologies in buying and selling merchandise for convenience and mobility pushed e-commerce in India to an inflection point in 2016….
By Biswajit Choudhury New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The defining moment for the oil sector came towards the end of the year with the deal between OPEC and non-OPEC countries on cutting production, which immediately…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) As 2016 comes to a close, it was the second full year in the onward march of Telangana, which appears to be making rapid strides in different sectors…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 19 (IANS) It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian automobile industry that faced growth as well as tax, legal and government policy challenges, industry experts said. “It…