The country may find it near impossible to operationalise the civil nuclear deal with the United States without convincing Japan to come onboard.

Upcoming events in February 2015

A pro-government union will stay away from Monday's strike to oppose sale of 10 per cent stake in Coal India, which is crucial to hit deficit target.

The refinery would process cheap, heavy crudes that are increasingly available to Asia as the shale boom has cut US demand for the grades.

Being the first budget in 10 years by a non-UPA government and that, too, coming from a coalition with a crushing majority in the lower house, expectations were high of a massively reformist Budget that would give the somnolent economy the jolt it badly needed.

Business Today organised a pre-budget panel discussion with Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group; Arvind Virmani, former chief economic advisor to the finance ministry; Satya Poddar, Partner, EY; and Dhiraj Mathur, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The bull run, fuelled by hope, may be over but the stock market can move higher. So stay invested in quality businesses.

With polling due in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and the United States later this year, the US social networking company Twitter plans to take its India lessons abroad to expand its foothold in the political arena and increase its user base.

Modi topped the elections-related terms in 2014 (till date) at 11.1 million, which was 20 per cent of all elections-related tweets.

Officers in the ministry are reluctant to endorse the minister's position. In private conversation they say, the outgoing minister has no right to push for the new pricing.

With the Sensex hovering at 22,000-mark, investors should be guarded on their optimism and keep room for safety. Rather than trading, investors should invest and stick to large blue-chip stocks.

With the Sensex hovering around 22,000, investors should stay guarded on their optimism and keep room for safety. Rather than trading, it will make more sense for them to invest and stick to large blue-chip stocks.

The Indian economy may be slowing but there has been a surge in inflows from foreign institutional investors. FIIs have deployed $11.3 billion in Indian equities in the first four months of 2013, up 31 per cent from the year-ago period.

Starring: N. Srinivasan, Swati Piramal, Enase Okonedo, Milind Kamat, Soumitra Dutta

Five leading thinkers on the economy joined Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag to brainstorm the options facing the finance minister.

The government on Thursday indicated it will present the budget for 2012-13 on February 29, the assembly elections in five states notwithstanding.

Shankar Sharma, Director, First Global, is known for his bearish view of the markets, but is uncharacteristically optimistic about the economy.