Unlike most other FMGC products, the agarbattis have 11,000-plus exclusive distributors in the country, mostly running the business for generations

Overseas, Asian equities and the US futures were on course for their worst week in more than two months, following sharp declines on Wall Street overnight as investors awaited US jobs data

The aggregate advertising and sales promotion spending across all sectors in India during FY20 stood at Rs 39,000 crore, a level similar to FY19, revealed a CARE Ratings analysis of 833 companies across 38 sectors

The observations from a two-member NCLAT bench came as it upheld an order of the National Company Law Tribunal

As per the report prepared by the transaction auditor, the concerned transactions occurred during financial years 2006-2007 to 2018-19, DHFL said in a regulatory filing

HDFC Bank has managed to create massive wealth by focusing on retail banking, especially auto, gold and education loans. Expansion in rural markets helped in scaling up further

The unanimous prediction by experts is that the year-on-year contraction in GDP growth could be anywhere between 16 and 25 per cent

India's new unemployment allowance plan for lockdown-induced job loss would benefit a small fraction of organised workers; the new social security code in the works aims to expand social security to 100 million organised workers but contains no concrete plan for 437 million unorganised workers

Sumit Gupta has been associated with YES Bank since its inception and currently holds the position of Group Head - Large Corporates; Ashish Chandak is currently working with the bank as Group President II - Management Excellence and Governance

The banks have turned risk-averse in last few years as slowdown in the economy impacted asset quality adversely

If we can build a safe space for our people to share their opinions and reflect on them without judgement, it can create a paradigm shift in how we deal with bias

India's debt is likely to reach 91 per cent of GDP in FY21 and stay at around 90 per cent of GDP up to FY23, before moderating slowly to 80 per cent by FY30

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) took control of PMC last September after it was accused of fraud and concealing non-performing loans

About 32.9 per cent employees interviewed have opined that they are not satisfied with the work in the lockdown, with 20.33 per cent stating that work life balance needs improvement

High and middle-income countries that have consistently performed well in PISA, the global test of quality schooling, notably rely on public schooling and public funding of schooling. India, which participated in it once in 2009 and came second last, does the exact opposite

The green deposit will be available in rupee as a fixed tenure term deposit at a pre-agreed return and will offer similar levels of principal protection as a bank deposit.

India Stock Market Highlights Today: ICICI Bank, followed by IndusInd Bank, HDFC, ITC, Asian Paints and Titan were among the top losers today. On the other hand, NTPC, PowerGrid, Sun Pharma and Infosys were among the gainers.

No wonder the quality of education in Indian schools is very poor. The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) says just 16.2% students in Class I and 50.8% in Class III could read Class I text and 41.1% students in Class I and 72.2% in Class III could recognise 2-digit numbers in rural India

Sensex, Nifty Highlights today: SBI, followed by L&T, M&M, ICICI Bank, Sun Pharma, Axis Bank, ITC and Bajaj Auto were among the top gainers on Sensex pack. On the other hand, HCL Tech, Nestle India, Tata Steel, Kotak Bank and Infosys were among the laggards

From banking and logistics to governance, the public ledger technology is helping cut cost and time, enhancing efficiencies