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With lower investments in Q3, industry clearly in wait-and-watch mode

Data on new investment announcements in the past decade in the first three quarters of the financial year shows that there has been no fixed pattern of such announcements in Q4

There's no such thing as self-reliance

For sustained growth India needs to use foreign capital and foreign know-how to produce goods that it sells in foreign markets. What's self-reliant in that?

Road to recovery

Hopeful signs in data, but medium-term outlook uncertain

Ministry of Corporate Affairs cautions investors against Nidhi companies

A Nidhi company is a non-banking financial company doing the business of lending and borrowing with its members or shareholders.

Entrepreneurship and the pandemic

Though business for majority of entrepreneurs is yet to return to pre-Covid levels, has the country's indomitable entrepreneurial spirit gotten over the Covid bump?

The skills India needs

Excessive centralisation of skilling programmes may hinder the ability of training institutions to effectively respond to Indian market requirements

Best of BS Opinion: Strengthening recovery, India's marine resources & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Professionals confident about progress despite uncertainties: Survey

Professionals in India are confident about their career progress despite growing uncertainties about the job market and financial future in the current environment, says a survey. According to the latest LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index, there has been a decline in India's overall confidence, as the composite score dropped from 58 in December 2020 to 54 in January 2021. The survey attributes this dip in optimism to the workforce's growing concerns about the status of the pandemic, surmounting expenses, and job availability in the present economic climate. This professional uncertainty comes right after the year-end holiday season, when India's hiring rate dropped to 17 per cent year-over-year in December 2020, according to the latest edition of LinkedIn's Labour Market update. The survey findings from January 1-29, based on responses of 1,752 professionals, noted that despite growing uncertainties 80 per cent professionals are confident about skilling opportunities, while 79 per

Big is beautiful in India?

Excessive focus on the biggest Indian companies could be counterproductive for employment generation

Strengthening recovery

Corporate sales must rise to maintain the momentum

India Inc likely to offer average salary increment of 7.7% this year

E-com, venture capital-backed firms to give best raise at 10.1%: Aon survey

Ventilator companies scramble for other ways to utilise capacities

Doctors are now shifting treatment protocol for Covid-19 at hospitals and invasive ventilation is not being preferred

Consumer sentiment in India's recovery

Growth that bounced back from -23.9 per cent in the first quarter to -7.5 per cent now seems poised to return to the positive zone in the third quarter

Vedantu bets on inorganic growth, acquires doubt-solving app Instasolv

Company open to other such deals in future, says co-founder

India business drives strong Q3 margin performance for Mahindra CIE

The management expects profitability to improve on the back of volumes, cost reduction

India Inc figures out new salary structures to meet labour codes

The new definition under the Code of Wages, 2019, includes three components: Basic pay, dearness allowance and retention payment.

India is well placed within EMs from an investment perspective: BNP Paribas

India has handled the pandemic rather well, companies have become more efficient, and there is a cyclical recovery underway, said Abhiram Eleswarapu, head of equities at BNP Paribas India

Sannareddy's share holdings in Megasoft reclassified under public category

Ravindra Sannareddy promoted Megasoft in 1999 and has been instrumental in the growth of the Company, to opt out of Promoter category.

Watch out for MSME risk build-up amid Covid-19 pandemic, says report

The default rates in September 2020 remained stable at 12.1 per cent, a level also seen in September 2019

Rating of audit companies may get more tangible to check frauds

The Centre for Audit Quality has already prepared an approach paper for the audit quality maturity model