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Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys, once quipped that one of his worst fears was that the young employee who ‘walked out of his campus at 5 ...

The Canadian Federal government has pledged several hundred million dollars as financial support to growers in Saskatchewan and other prairie regions ...

Monetary policy is moving rather too fast on the inflation front, while government action on the supply side continues to be glacial. The RBI did wait for supply-side improvements before reverting to its historical sharp tightening.

Partners have to be accorded an equal status and show trust in each other. - AKHIL KUMAR

Two write-ups recently came to my notice, purporting to set out new, and even game-changing, approaches to management of organisations, with the aim ...

Greater competition in the fertiliser market is perhaps the only way by which the subsidy bill can be capped.

By their corrupt acts, politicians are snatching morsels from the mouths of hungry, malnourished children, and denying a lifeline called education to millions of others. For how long are we going to tolerate this shamelessness?

One striking feature of the latest National Sample Survey round results is the apparent decline in female employment in 2009-10 compared with 2004-05. This edition of MacroScan examines this feature in more detail to isolate the important processes and factors at work.

S&P has, in effect, told lenders, ‘lend to America if you must but it is your funeral'. A funnier joke one has yet to hear. If you won't lend to America whom will you lend to? North Korea?

At a time when the print and electronic media are vying with each other in ferreting out and giving publicity to classified official documents in an ...

On July 28 thousands of mill workers marched from Byculla in central Mumbai to Azad Maidan further south to press for free housing. In itself, the ...

The RBI may continue with the policy of leaving the rupee alone. There could be capital inflows for taking advantage of the interest differential between the US and India.

It was turmoil in the financial markets last week following a combination of heightened concerns about global growth prospects, sovereign debt issues ...

Comex gold ended higher on Friday, as an upbeat US payrolls report and glimmers of hope for an end to the euro zone debt crisis failed to move ...

The next level of optimisation for organisations to sustain their competitive advantage is their workforce, declares Sumeet Doshi, Head Marketing - ...

Knowledge translation, of which technology is a part, pours it out of the bottle for you.

Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives exchange ended near one-month low on Friday amid a broad-based sell-off in ...

By imposing a large-scale ban on iron ore mining in Bellary, the apex court seems to have created a crisis in order to push the government into taking corrective steps. The setting up of mining regulators can work as a lasting solution.

The 15 per cent tax on dividend from abroad has gone down well with the industrialists and one expects a sizable foreign exchange inflow on this count. Some may call this official laundering scheme.

Till the last century, few handicraft producers, or even traders, ever went out of the Valley, writes Renuka Savasere in one of the essays included ...

Model by-laws of housing societies should be so adapted that the society has the discretion to apply a suitable basis for allocating charges, keeping alive the spirit of cooperation and minimising the scope for litigation.

By and large, the country's political class, pressured by public opinion, demands in Parliament or judicial activism, has taken action against ...

While Ms Hina Rabbani Khar conceded nothing but bought time, Ms Hillary Clinton focused on India's ‘Look East' policies and energy security.

Every annual report is an opportunity for the company to showcase itself as trustworthy to the investor.