

Time to Relook At Spending On PMKSY
Private weather forecaster Skymet says the country is likely to witness a below normal monsoon this year.Old Private Banks Get A Makeover
The entry of a dozen small finance banks is changing the lending landscape with technology and innovative products.The fund-raising will help Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel cut debt and meet short-term capital requirements.Mukesh Ambani has acquired stakes in about 20 start-ups and half-a-dozen small firms.The estimated number of voters in the 2019 elections is 900 million, compared to 834 million in 2014.Forget written text and emojis; audio-based social networks may soon become mainstream.The Bengaluru-based B2B company offers a multilingual voice interface so that developers can sync it with any mobile app.The RBI will now likely issue a new circular or direction that can be used to restructure a loan.According to the Niti Aayog, 600 million people face high-to-extreme water stress in the country.Stress in indebted companies is spilling to debt mutual funds.

'For Make in India to be a success, Move in India has to be successful'
It is action time for the Indian logistics industry with regulatory changes making operations easier for organised players. Third-party logistics companies such as Mahindra Logistics are riding the wave. Pirojshaw Sarkari, CEO of the company, talks to BT. India's logistics sector is slowly moving towards higher efficiency.A national logistics policy, an integrated IT backbone, dedicated freight corridors, multimodal transport systems and a string of ports are poised to transform India's logistics sector.The logistics industry in India is likely to grow 9-10 per cent a year, but investments are not keeping pace.



India Needs Lighthouse Manufacturing
As early adopters of 4IR technologies, lighthouse factories can create value-added tasks and reap great benefits.'ABB India will be a key building block of the new ABB'
In December 2018, ABB announced a $11-billion deal to sell its power grid business to Hitachi. In his first interview after the announcement, Ulrich Spiesshofer, President and former CEO of ABB Group, talks to Business Today's Rukmini RaoState-run BSNL and MTNL, credited with laying the country's telecommunication infrastructure, are battling for survival, owing to mismanagement and mounting losses. Can the government rescue them?Attempts to increase yields are making fund managers shift towards riskier securities.Party manifestos are promising the moon. Will the costs work out?Powered by cutting-edge technologies, a clutch of Indian start-ups has developed out-of-the-box solutions to reduce pollution and generate clean energy.If the Rs 1 lakh crore organised dairy industry is growing at a robust 10 per cent year- on-year, and consumption too is growing, why are many dairy companies losing flavour?
