Markets rose for the third consecutive day after investors cheered reduction of tax rates on 29 goods and 53 services by GST council.

Business Today Knowledge Forum on HR discusses staffing issues at start-ups and productivity challenges.

The Bharti Airtel stock closed 1.29 percent or 6.35 points higher at 499.15 level ahead of its Q2 earnings to be announced today. Meanwhile, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) is likely to buy Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) in a share-swap deal to become country's second-largest oil refiner.

Cognitive computing, automation, artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning are likely to make thousands of technology jobs redundant.

Describing note ban as \"a bold step\", former Nasscom Chairman B V R Mohan Reddy today said the upcoming Budget is likely to take steps to strengthen the demonetisation initiative by easing liquidity in the system and stimulating demand.

To promote a cashless economy, government, banks, financial institutions, payment intermediaries and companies will have to work together. All will need to make sure that the transformation of the Indian citizen from cash based economy to a cashless economy happens in a convenient and safe way.

Top Corporate honchos from Hyderabad participate in the LLOYD BT PRO AM 2017. By Vipul Hoon & Reynold Robert

After meeting companies such as Britannia and Infosys in Bangalore, the chief minister spent the day in Hyderabad meeting heads of companies ranging from those specialising in skill-building to hospitals, dairy and textiles.

Over 600 analytical firms in India, of which approximately 400 are startups, are positioning the country as an emerging hub for analytics solutions for industries across the globe, Nasscom Vice President K S Viswanathan told reporters.

Shares of Visa Steel closed the day 20 per cent up on BSE after the company reported that it would seek shareholders' approval for the merger of its JV firm Visa Bao (VBL) in an attempt to optimise costs and secure availability of resources for its ferrochrome business.

J. Michael McQuade, the Senior Vice President for Science & Technology at United Technologies, a $56.5 billion company with business interests spanning from elevators to climate control and security to aerospace systems, was in India recently.

It's not about being noble or politically correct - just good business sense. In fact, retaining the experienced woman employee has evolved to be at the heart of gender diversity efforts of companies across industries. The reasons are not hard to find.

IT firm Cyient, formerly known as Infotech Enterprises, on Thursday reported a 29.7 per cent drop in net profit at Rs 65.9 crore for the March quarter, weighed down by a one-time payment of Rs 84.3 crore.

The IT pack is expected to report a modest revenue growth of  2-3.9 per cent (in constant currency terms) in an otherwise traditionally weak quarter, with Infosys or HCL Tech topping the chart.

IT major Infosys added to 5 per cent gains from Thursday and was up 1.75 per cent on expectations that its better-than-expected earnings would help re-rate the stock.

\"we continue to expect the Nifty to remain within a small range of 8250 to 8050 whilst the 8250 mark is likely to act as a major hurdle for the bulls,\" said Angel Broking.

The entire project will be around Rs 1.5 lakh crore.  State officials expect the Centre to release at least Rs 1,000 crore annually for the next three years, but a big funding gap will still remain.