Flip the perceptions of 'leadership traits': Women can bring a lot to the tableThis International Women’s Day, discard the age-old stereotypes to instil hope for women.
View: Categorise districts by their disease-load and projected growth against potential economic gainsWhile agriculture has been exempted from lockdown, countrywide lockdowns are impeding farm activities.
No longer the Reserved Bank of IndiaThe RBI has been keen on preventing concentration of ownership in banks. But some episodes such as permitting higher holding for Uday Kotak...
Auditors must use latest tech tools for quality audits: CEPRAccording to the report by Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a rapid increase in the volume of data requires auditors to be equip...
Audit committees need to play more active role: CEPRThere is a need to clearly define the responsibility and accountability for the auditors as well as the audit committees, the CEPR said in ...
RBI-Kotak stand-off: Review panel for ownership norms among key proposalsThe move is significant as it comes in the wake of the regulator having been dragged to the Bombay High Court by Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Kotak Mahindra Bank case to come up for hearing amid clamour for change in ownership rulesThe rules require a bank to cut the promoter stake to 40 per cent within 3 years, 20 per cent within 10 years and then to 15 per cent withi...
RBI's ownership norms for private lenders impeding expansion of large financial institutions: CEPRThe report blamed the complex rules for the lack of interest among Indian institutions to set up new banks.
PSBs should have operational freedom like private players to deal with issues: OfficialMost of the problems in the banking sector are due to operational issues rather than ownership issues, he said at the banking conclave orga...
Italy's youth unemployment just hit a new record high - here's what's going wrongItalian unemployment overall is higher than eurozone unemployment, at 12.7 per cent - the figure for the whole bloc is 11.1 per cent.
Not taking vacation could soon be illegal in JapanPrime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan is of the belief that Japanese people are working too hard. And he has good reason to believe so.
- EC gives up investor protection plan as London refuses to bond
The European Commission is rolling back a plan to provide greater protection to investors in the $15-trillion European market for corporate...