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In the early 1990s, stock market trading took place through the BSE floor by open outcry. On a good day, BSE members did Rs 400 crore of turnover and earned 2% off buyers and sellers, thus bringing in

The country has become heavily import-dependent after the 2008 milk scandal

Life is full of uncertainty. Any business factors this in, especially if hedging and risk-mitigation instruments exist.

Mukesh Bansal’s life has started curving back to form a full circle.

After last week’s dramatic rout in global markets, investors are now facing a new, and disquieting environment in which long-held verities have been stood on their head.

For the new Governor, the trade-offs are difficult. Ultimately, the only instrument with RBI is interest rates

The global balance of power is slowly but surely shifting. America decided, earlier this year, to put its fiscal interests ahead of continuing the war in Afghanistan.

If one leaves out the smooth CEO succession at ICICI a couple of years ago, we notice that family-run businesses are being more proactive in planning CEO successions when compared to the professionall

Finance minister P Chidambaram last Wednesday assured the investors that he has drawn red lines and the fiscal deficit will be below the 4.8% mark in 2013-14

Government needs to start with the likely revenues, and then move on to allocate expenditure accordingly

Fiscal 2011-12 has been a very disappointing year for investments.

ICICI and HDFC are wonderful institutions with strong cultures of performance and ethics.

He can try the development plank to get urban middle class votes or go the mandir-masjid way. He can’t have both

President Barack Obama’s second term is likely to put the US on a somewhat different ideological path, relative to the 20th century American capitalism one is so familiar with.

Decentralisation and competition incentives can effect positive changes in the governmental machinery at the state and local level

The increase in the floor price of sugarcane by 19% is a bonanza for the Uttar Pradesh farmers.

Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget speech had its share of frank confessions. No I am not referring to the quote from Hamlet.

Whether it was with lovers or brothers, Bachchan or Shahrukh, in the 1950s or 2000s, Yash Chopra’s films remained ridden with the separation-anxiety of Partition.

Telcos in India are grappling not just with fierce competition or high customer acquisition costs, but a tough regulatory environment in which the soaring cost of spectrum is pressuring their balance

The companion piece to this article, a few days ago, sought some insights into why India’s inflation, initially manifest largely in food inflation, but now gradually disseminating to other components

The office of the low-cost carrier IndiGo is located in a swanky building in Gurgaon and, as we wait for the company president Aditya Ghosh at its office, everything screams ‘low cost’—the rickety rec

'The Bill, in the form in which it has gone through in the Senate, has tough provisions for companies like ours.'

As media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s empire battles its worst crisis ever, after the phone hacking expose in the UK, this once-almighty controller of information in the Anglo-Saxon world finds himself bere

UK Sinha talks about the need for enforcement measures to weed out non-serious MF players

Since Som Mittal took over as Nasscom’s president, he has seen industry growth wither and the US introduce 40 Bills with some type of protectionism—he may have just weathered the worst, he tells Sunil

The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) has recently released a report titled ‘Benchmarking Study of Production Costs

Political lobbying has been the subject of intense controversy in our country ever since the leaked Radia tapes first hit the headlines.

I did not write about this new year because of a sense of déjà vu. I had said in my Express column at budget time in 2011 that with a high interest rate coming and with investment and export growth sl