The recent election of Barack Obama raises the question: can a single individual make a difference to how a large group such as a nation thinks and acts in the long term?
Chennai-based MARG Ltd, a diversified infrastructure and real estate development company, has been awarded the contract for the development and operation of the greenfield airport, proposed at Bijapur in Karnataka.
Artradis Fund Management Pte, RAB Capital Plc's Northwest unit and Cannizaro Ltd are cutting fees and locking up investors' money for longer in new hedge funds that will buy bonds after prices fell in Asia.
Stung by terror travelling in the country via sea route, the government is trying to plug India's porous maritime front. The home ministry has summoned representatives of all the ports in India to New Delhi to discuss existing security arrangements
The Bombay High Court's dismissal of the Vodafone petition challenging the income tax department "has strengthened the hands of the department," NB Singh chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes said on Thursday.
Havells, the market leader in domestic power distribution products is likely to face the wrath of the slowdown in the domestic as well as the global market.
Now on, investors in new close-ended mutual fund schemes can pull out their money only after the schemes mature. The Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) announced this decision on Thursday along with a string of measures to revive
Swiss Re, the largest reinsurnace company, has said that insurance in the emerging markets is expected to grow at a slower pace in 2008 and 2009, but its longer term growth prospects remain positive.
Prices of four commodities futures which resumed trading on Thursday after a more-than six-month-long suspension at all national commodity exchanges, showed mix trends.
Interpol, the international police organisation, is expected to join investigations in the Mumbai terror attacks as the probe has begun acquiring an international dimension.
General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC executives are considering accepting a pre-arranged bankruptcy as the last-resort price of getting a multibillion-dollar government bailout, said a person familiar with their internal discussions.
The Centre has stepped in to sort out issues regarding gas allocation for the 2,150 megawatt Ratnagiri power project, previously known as the Dabhol project.
Though developers in the realty sector are facing an unprecedented pressure due the global economic slowdown and are being forced to think on the lines of reducing prices of their housing projects...
With the country's top direct-to-home players, including Dish TV and Tata Sky, planning to expand their channel portfolio, Indian Space Research Organsiation...
Failure of global rating agencies to do due diligence on the risk inherent in exotic mortgage-backed securities was a key catalyst for the sub-prime crisis.
Both the economy and the financial markets of India are under the grip of a global recession. The intensifying recessionary trend in the US is likely to pose further challenges India in the coming days.
If the worst fears of a severe global recession are realised, historians may look back and wonder why the region with the most scope to allay a downturn seemed unable to exploit it.
The past was prologue. The present is panic. The future: a conundrum? Banks in every country, along with their industry counterparts, are queuing up for liquidity, capital, or guarantee assistance.
Even as sources on Thursday said the government has proof that Pakistan's ISI was involved in planning last week's terror attacks in Mumbai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Islamabad would "take strong action against any Pakistani elements found involved
A proposal to allow Air India set up joint venture firms with a leading Singaporean aviation company for ground handling and cargo operations at various airports, would take some more time for approval.
