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3 weeks ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
As vegetable prices continued to decline in May, the average cost of preparing a thali (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) at home got cheaper, shows an analysis by Crisil. Tomato prices fell 29 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) to Rs 23 per kg in May from Rs 33, due to a high base effect amid yield concerns last year. Similarly, prices of onion and potato declined by 15 and 16 percent respectively y-o-y over a high base.
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4 weeks ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
In May, the RBI transferred a record dividend of ₹2.69 trillion (0.75 percent of GDP) to the central government for FY25, buoyed by higher dollar sales. This compares to the dividend paid by the RBI of ₹2.11 trillion in the previous fiscal. The larger dividend will likely negate concerns about fiscal slippage and extra bond supply, say economists at Nomura.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
Also, India’s export growth picked up in April despite the initial imposition of Trump’s 10 percent tariffs, while import growth remained strong, driven by both oil and core categories. India’s trade deficit rose to a five-month high of $26.4 billion in April from $21.5 billion in the previous month. This was driven by a sequential increase in imports even as exports moderated after the ramp up seen in March.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
Also read: Exclusive: Raamdeo Agrawal on why global investors are turning to India, not China or the USAs part of the rejig, 11 stocks have been added to the MSCI Smallcap index while 22 stocks have been removed. The MSCI India Index is designed to measure the performance of the large and midcap segments of the Indian market. With 156 constituents, the index covers approximately 85 percent of the Indian equity universe.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
According to Amar Ambani, executive director, Yes Securities, the Indian markets jumped partly due to the India-Pakistan ceasefire, but mainly on the news that the US and China have eased tariffs and that the talks have progressed well. “A 90-day window for a trade deal has lifted sentiment, with investors hoping the worst of the trade war is behind us,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
There are three caveats, though, according to them. India needs to complement any tariff arbitrage with earnest ease-of-doing-business reforms; second, India still depends heavily on imported components from China for its assembly of electronics products and solar equipment; third, the trade diversion to India could include some rerouting of Chinese exports to the US and thus requires stricter “rules of origin” enforcement.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
Financial irregularities in Gensol Engineering and BluSmart Mobility—two companies previously celebrated for their commitment to green and sustainable business practices—raises questions about the true sustainability of green champions and brings under scrutiny the integrity of environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. The two companies with common co-founders are grappling with allegations and a Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) investigation.
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1 month ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
A sharp decline in the prices of vegetables lowered the cost of home-cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian food plates in April, shows an analysis by Crisil. In the month, tomato prices reduced 34 percent year-on-year to Rs 21 per kg due to a high-base effect amid low yields last year (tomato cost Rs 32 a kg last April).
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2 months ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana |Salil Panchal
“There was no differentiation in the academic ask from the boys and girls. The soft conditioning was that engineering was not a career path for women, even though gender equality was a conditioning in the family,” Dasgupta says. Click here for the full listBut when she failed to get into her dream passion medicine despite being a class topper, her love for math and her adaptability led her to a new path.
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2 months ago | 
forbesindia.com | Nasrin Sultana
Contrarian betsMarket movements can be unpredictable, and volatility forces investors to make a crucial decision: Should strategies rely on market timing, or should they be based on deep conviction with a medium-term horizon? “I tend to be of the second kind,” says Desai. “We use our macroeconomic path and bottom-up analysis to find true value.”Desai is known to hold bold and contrarian views with high conviction.
