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That the savings rate of a country is important for its GDP growth has long been known. In recent years, both India and China have grown fast and have had high savings rates. But since 2011/12, the saving rate, measured as a share of gross saving to

While P.V. Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh are credited as being the architects of India's economic reforms, it was Atal Bihari Vajpayee who rolled out the economic template and policies that would be followed by prime ministers who succeeded him

1) The Founders Shachin Bharadwaj, Santhosh Nagarajan and Sheldon Dsouza who had previously worked together to set up their first venture TastyKhana.com. The trio made a successful exit when Rocket Internet backed Foodpanda acquired TastyKhana in 201

With the emphasis on putting America first and making America great again, President Donald Trump signed a broad tax reform legislation called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This comprehensive tax reform is termed as the biggest change to the tax code since

For India Inc., the first quarter of 2018/19 is turning out to be exactly what the doctor ordered. It delivered what every investor had been hoping for years strong signs of an earnings revival. An analysis of 717 listed companies (excluding oil &

Jaguar and Land Rover started life as independent ventures, both born in the UK a few years apart. In the early 1900s, the S S Company made a number of cars that were branded Jaguar. In 1945, the company renamed itself Jaguar Cars. It quickly became

Manish More used to grow sugarcane and onions on his four acre farm in Shiroli Khurd village, 80 km from Pune, until a few years ago. But with sugarcane yields falling from 100 tonnes an acre to 40 tonnes, he, Ganesh Hande, Pravin More, and a dozen o

Q. The biggest challenge you faced in your career A. Growing a small company into a particular size brings a lot of challenges. When I started heading the company 15 years ago, I faced the challenge of aligning the team with my vision. I had to make

An influential 'Baba' and his family with a weakness for materialism; two young businessmen loaded with nearly Rs10,000 crore from an asset sale; and a family confidante have together cooked a cauldron that Bollywood potboilers are made of. Their mac

What has been the focus of Incredible India 2.0? What are you trying to achieve with that? A: K.J. Alphons: I want people to come and see India. We are an amazing country. The new slogan is not just inviting people to see and experience India; we are

This ultra thin smartphone is an excellent combination of Xiaomis hardware and Google's unmodified Android Oreo/Android One operating system out of the box. Unlike many, Xiaomi has not adopted the fancy all glass rear or the notch display. Instead, t

MacBook Pros have always looked gorgeous, but of late, the likes of HP Spectre and Asus ZenBook Pro 2018 have started catching up. Apple fans need not be worried, though, as the new Mac, available in 13 inch and 15 inch, has been built as an ambitiou

Doctors usually list headaches under two broad categories primary and secondary. Primary headaches occur due to abnormalities or neurological conditions such as brain tumours, increased pressure or blood clots in the brain or other issues related t

Until now it has been the stuff of science fiction, movies and nightmares. With the startling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past two three years, could we soon reach a stage where we would be deftly manipulated by the technology w

Who would have thought that a stolen idea could be this successful? When Facebook copied Snapchat's popular Stories format in 2016, it had an idea that the format's popularity could skyrocket on Instagram. And Instagram reported in June this year tha

Last fiscal, contracts to build highways peaked and the pace of construction was twice as fast as in the previous five years. The government achieved this through policy reforms, which made EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and HAM (hyb

At a time when convertibles and hybrids were novel concepts, there was always a trade off. If you wanted superb portability (and no, a beefy phablet or a minimalist tablet was not your idea of the office workhorse), you had to compromise on performan

Ethnic Excellence When one goes searching for that perfect watch, it has to be Swiss as Swiss brands are rated as the best in the business. But closer home, independent watch brands have started making their mark. Jaipur Watch Company is one such bra

I started reading 1 800 Worlds a few months ago and then left it book marked and unfinished for a while as other commitments took over. But a chance conversation with a journalist friend in Pune about the new economy and the unconventional lives of

While taking charge of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in May 2014, Nitin Jairam Gadkari set himself and his ministry an audacious target to raise the pace of road construction in the country to 40 kilometres (KM) a day. This amounted t

Often, the huge scale of infrastructure projects can be a hurdle in itself. This is what is happening to Sagarmala a project for port led development by harnessing India's 7,500 km coastline, 14,500 km of navigable waterways and improving access to