Real estate: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL)Ramesh Nair, CEO and Country Head, JLL IndiaWith an objective to help buyers in the affordable and mid-housing segments, an additional exemption of `1.5 lakh on interest paid on housing loan, over and above the existing `2 lakh, has been provided for...
The Economic Survey 2019 presented to the Parliament on July 4 – a day before the budget- has aroused some interest in the media and amongst the professionals. The Survey– primarily being authored by the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government- presents the economic thinking and perspectives be...
Asim Dasgupta, Leader, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Former Finance Minister, West BengalThe Budget should have had a social objective. The objective should not be only to increase the size of the economy or to reach the $5 trillion economy within few years. This total figure does not mean ...
The Finance Minister has covered almost all sectors in this budget, from agriculture to infrastructure, financial sector, and many others. She has pressed a number of right buttons – be it in terms of talking about a new education policy to revamp the education and skilling ecosystem, mitigating t...
In an election year, the central budget gets bifurcated into two parts - a vote-on-account and the full budget. While the goodies are generally packed into the first basket having an eye on the forthcoming ballot game, the latter gets the not-so-sweet or bitter pills. The Central Budget of fis...
“Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneurship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed”...
Company BackgroundPower Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC) was incorporated in 1986 - under Schedule-A Navratna CPSE (Central Public Sector Enterprises) and is a leading Non-Banking Financial Corporation in the Country. It is a specialised public financial institution in power sector and is the largest ...
Srei Equipment Finance Limited (Srei Equipment), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited (Srei) has received credit approval for $30 million from FMO, the Netherlands-based development finance bank. The loan will be fully dedicated to re-financing of green activities of Srei...
Proper pricing of insurance products is important for mass coverage. Tajinder Mukherjee, Chairman and Managing Director, National Insurance Company Limited, during an interactive session at Bharat Chamber of Commerce, explained how pricing can be different in different regions of a country at differ...
The economic history of India, which led to the change from the era of erstwhile Accounting Standards (AS) to the current Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) dates back to the late 1980s. Indian economy’s biggest highlight during the past three decades has been its ‘economic reforms’.After in...