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It's very rare for low cost carriers to survive on business traffic, so most of them induce leisure travellers to fly on them.

The RBI is expected to pronounce IFRS-compliant standards for banks, for which it will expect base standards from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

The size and unorganised nature of agriculture may discourage capital providers to invest in the sector.

Scientists have claimed that hip replacement patients could face an increased risk of cancer and genetic damage, raising fears about the surgical ...

It’s now confirmed. Plants can talk. Researchers at Exeter University in Britain claim to have found that plants can communicate with one another — in ...

The proposal to set up a preventive customs commissionerate at Kakinada is under the consideration of the Union Finance Ministry and in all ...

...with composer Matt Dunkley.

No one says it better than John Lennon: “Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans.” A 50-year-old professor desiring to ...

General managers of star hotels describe the challenges involved in launching a new property, and the daily grind behind all that glamorous hospitality.

Displaying a unique brand of enterprise in a male-dominated society, she braves several odds in the strife-torn Valley to keep her roadside stall running in Srinagar.

Industrial tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani's memorial in Chorwad town in Gujarat's Junagadh district will be thrown open to public from February 3 in the ...

Kolkata Book Fair today witnessed a high pitched drama over launch of the autobiography of controversial Bangladeshi author, Ms Taslima Nasreen. While ...

Turning on to the prestigious Race Course Road in Coimbatore, I catch a glimpse of blue glass windows against a pure white background, the kind of ...

Until some time ago, people of Indian origin or visitors from India would complain that the so-called ‘Indian’ food available in Britain is not the ...

Doctors should measure blood pressure in both arms as routine, as a difference between the left and the right arm could indicate an increased risk of ...

An accounting issue that could arise for RREs is that the time-lag between the incurrence of costs and recoveries could vitiate the matching concept.

Independent directors must not only be independent according to the legislative and regulatory yardsticks, but capable of taking decisions without being influenced.

There is a huge business case for an NPA being handed over to professional turnaround specialists to nurse the company back to health.

Section 80-IB(10) of the I-T Act does not postulate that to claim deduction the taxpayer must be the owner of the land on which the housing project is being developed.

The controversy is whether the consideration paid for purchase of standard software from overseas suppliers is taxable in India or not.

There is a distinction between legitimate tax minimisation and abusive tax avoidance.

The Ernakulam Branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, under the aegis of Investor Awareness and Protection Fund of the Ministry of ...

Seeking relief for home buyers, accounting regulator ICAI has asked the Finance Ministry to double the tax exemption limit on loan repayment to Rs 3 ...

Just can’t wait. Want to find out where the nearest public toilet is during a trip to the Netherlands? Don’t panic. You can now easily locate it using ...