India Growth Story

At a Pahle India Foundation event, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta said empowering women entrepreneurs is key to India's growth

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday called the state a prominent participant in the country's unstoppable growth story and said it is taking concrete steps towards achieving its goals. In his address after hoisting the tricolour at Mantralaya, the state secretariat, on the occasion of the 79th Independence Day, Fadnavis paid tributes to the freedom fighters, martyrs of the independence movement and the soldiers guarding the country's borders. Our security forces showed the world the country's prowess during Operation Sindoor by destroying terrorist and military targets in Pakistan. The world came to know what New India is, he said. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is progressing and has risen from 11th position to become the world's 4th largest economy, he said. No one can stop India's development. It has now also set its foot in space, he said, adding that Maharashtra is a prominent participant in the country's unstoppable growth ...

Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran highlighted three major transitions in the world, including shift to renewable energy, that are moving in line with India's strengths

For all its heritage and craftsmanship, the country has produced only a handful of global brands. But a new generation of creative entrepreneurs is changing that

Critical tweaks in laws, spirit of enterprise and the pandemic brought about this transition. Tech and innovation will now define the industry's future

India's trade relations with the world have evolved in the last 25 years. New partnerships have been forged, old ones have been strengthened, but challenges remain

India aims to be developed by 2047 and net-zero by 2070, requiring a transformative energy transition to achieve these goals

The fourth part of the series assesses what it will take to encourage domestic manufacturing, while also being an alternative to China

This series looks at India's progress over the past 25 years and future directions. The first part highlights the country's IT expertise, which became a talking point globally as the millennium began

Increasing women's workforce participation, the rise of a new class of elites without IIT-IIM education, and the JAM trinity are key socio-economic changes driving optimistic projections for India

"The potential of external demand can be leveraged by integrating into global supply chains," he said

Goyal argued some of the issues faced by companies in India revolve around land and lack of infrastructure

From declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi's third consecutive victory in LS polls, a collage of events through 50 Business Standard headlines since 1975

Industry players hail govt steps to boost space sector

It's more of a stock specific market rather than sectors now, says Kranthi Bathini, Director-Equity of WealthMills Securities

India is one of the rapidly growing markets globally, and South Korean tech firm Samsung sees huge growth potential in the country, a senior company executive has said. Jong-Hee (JH) Han, Vice Chairman, CEO and Head of the Device eXperience (DX) Division at Samsung Electronics visited the company's Noida factory on Monday. "India is one of the biggest and fastest-growing markets globally and offers a huge opportunity for Samsung. We were among the first companies to invest in India, and I am happy that the Noida factory has emerged as one of our biggest facilities, manufacturing not only for India, but for the world," he said. The company manufactures smartphones, tablets and refrigerators at its facility, for both domestic and global markets. Besides its Noida facility, the company has a manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. Han lauded the contributions that Samsung's India-based R&D teams are making in the development of new products and services for the ...

In the second part of the year-end series, we deep dive into a scheme redefining India's manufacturing landscape

At the 188th Foundation Day Celebration by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Jawa said in his keynote address that India's digital landscape is a key accelerator for growth

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said their aim is to make India a global growth engine and that the country will soon emerge as an economic powerhouse of the world. Speaking at an event to mark the completion of 20 years of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, Modi said they sowed small seeds of a "Vibrant Gujarat" 20 years ago, and today it has developed into a big tree. "We organised Vibrant Gujarat to make the state a growth engine of India. After 2014, our aim has been to make India a global growth engine, he said addressing a gathering of industrialists and businessmen. "We are standing at such a phase that India will soon emerge as a global economic powerhouse, he said. It is my guarantee to you that in a few years from now, in front of your eyes, India will be among the top three economies of the world, the PM said. Modi highlighted how from a humble beginning, the Vibrant Gujarat events have turned into an institution and many states later followed it by organising their

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that in the next 25 years, the country's Amrit Kaal as espoused by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India will strive to be a developed country and it is logical" that it also seeks to be a global power. Jaishankar, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations here on Tuesday, said India is now the fifth largest economy in the world, obviously your interests are more, your responsibilities are more, your contributions are more. The minister added that there will be many more countries and regions with which you are linked. So one part of it I would say really flows from the growth, from the rise of India. You actually see an India today whose footprint is more, whose interests and activities are more. The second is really the structure of the world itself. We have seen particularly over the last maybe four or five years in many ways, more openings, the nature of world politics has changed, he said, adding that the issues have changed, ...