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On April 26, India’s Sensex—BSE’s benchmark equity index—closed at its highest level ever at 30,133.35 points. The index has risen some 1.3% during this week (April 24-27) alone. Nifty 50, NSE’s key index, too, ended at a record high on that day. At the BSE office in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, brokers celebrated the great rally with balloons and cake.

The patriarchal and conservative attitudes of young Indian males could dampen the country’s consumption story as they keep women away from the workforce, locking up a huge chunk of demand.

A small tweak in the savings and investment habits of Indians could result in big returns for them.

It’s tough to keep up with technology. And India’s finance sector knows it too well.

On April 08, Anupam Sinhal, co-founder of domestic help recruitment website BookMyBai, created a blog post in which he said he didn’t want any more celebrity clients. Sinhal said his decision was prompted by a slew of incidents involving physical and mental abuse of maids by Bollywood stars availing his company’s service.

Does Vijay Mallya’s extradition mean all his debts will be cleared?

Vijay Mallya, India’s most-famous defaulter, was arrested in London by Scotland Yard on April 18.

Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka believes that India’s $150-billion IT industry must reduce its dependence on visas.

Convocation speeches are often candid. And Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma’s recent one at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), was definitely candid. In fact, Sharma went beyond the usual work advice; she spoke on even choosing the right life-partner.

India’s online retail segment is in consolidation mode.

India’s largest online seller, Flipkart, has broken its own record by raising $1.4 billion in its latest round of funding. In 2014, the e-commerce company had raised $1 billion in a single funding round, which was till now the highest investment into an online startup in the country.

Flipkart’s big billion days are back.

India is home to 10 unicorns—startups valued at over $1 billion. And, studies indicate that the country’s rapidly growing startup ecosystem could produce at least 50 more in the future.

On March 29, billionaire banker Uday Kotak welcomed reporters to a press conference in Mumbai with a wide grin. Indian media was rife with speculation of a big-bang merger announcement by Kotak Mahindra Bank, the country’s fourth-largest private lender.

The fat compensation packages of C-suite executives have for long been a subject of public debate. Do they deserve huge salary jumps when the rest receive an average hike, or, even worse, none at all?

The Narendra Modi government has embarked on the final lap of ushering in the ambitious goods and services tax (GST) regime in India. This would be the biggest tax reform in the country’s history and is expected to be a game-changer for businesses as well as the economy. The primary aim of introducing the GST is to have a uniform indirect tax structure—India currently has multiple layers of state and central taxes—and to increase compliance rates.

To get noticed by Silicon Valley’s startup machine Y Combinator is every budding entrepreneur’s dream. One of the world’s most influential and renowned accelerators, which now also engages in seed funding, it has backed successful startups such as AirBnB, Dropbox, and Reddit. Its screening of startups is said to be “nerve-wracking.”

Avenue Supermarts, the parent company of Indian retail chain D-Mart, listed on the bourses on March 21. It made a blockbuster debut, the best in five years at least, according to data from PRIME Database, a capital markets information provider.

Netflix isn’t having it easy in India.

India’s elderly are slowly turning to professional help to cope with the loneliness and difficulties of old age.

It’s been a great week for the Indian rupee.

Indian roads are not the same as those in the US in many senses, and Travis Kalanick knows it.

India’s unique identification number (UIN) system, Aadhaar, is a good example for the rest of the world to follow, according to Paul Romer, the World Bank’s chief economist.

Getting a job is tough if you are a woman in India. For many, though, finding one is only the beginning of the nightmare.