The United States-based business and consumer database provider infoGROUP has removed its Indian-origin founder Vinod Gupta from the post of its chairman, following a shareholder lawsuit against the company and a probe by the market regulator SEC.

Amid the displeasure expressed by the regulators and judiciary on high-handedness of agents hired by banks to recover loans, the country's biggest lender -- State Bank of India -- is planning to hire 3,000 marketing and recovery officers in its

The study revealed that 83 per cent of Indian business leaders believe to have fair to good understanding on the issue of climate change. However, just under half of these respondents stated they have a clear strategy in place to

Amidst the widespread anticipation that UPA government after winning the trust vote will initiate key reforms, rating agency Moody's on Wednesday said uncertainties pertaining to reforms persist, given the prevailing pressures and policy differences among its coalition members.

None of the air-carriers have asked us for either a deferral or cancellation...we are very comfortable with the market position," Boeing's Senior Vice President, Sales (commercial airplanes), Dinesh Keskar, said, while releasing the Current Market Outlook (CMO)2008-2028 report, in Mumbai

With the government emerging victorious in the confidence motion, the country would be signing the civilian nuclear deal with the US which has the potential to significantly boost India's nuclear energy production, says a report by Moody's economy.com.

By tradition, sequels are pale shadows of their forerunners. In this financial crisis, each episode in the saga seems even more potent than the last.

The shine of India is dimming. With high inflation, plunging stocks and a weakening rupee, the Indian growth story appears to have gone a little out of track. Banks confirm the bad news. The first quarter bank loan numbers surely

The sanctity of Parliament, as an institutional pillar, took a big hit on Tuesday when three BJP MPs shocked the nation by producing Rs1 crore in bundles of cash on the floor of the house in the midst of the

India's agriculture exports can be scaled up manifold through the adoption of the cluster model and increased investment in agriculture.

Researchers at Stanford University in California are using the plants as factories for an antibody chemical specific to the cells which cause follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

With the recent initiative taken by government to scrap the 14% import duty, the country may import about 5 lakh bales of raw cotton by end of the current season of 2007-08.

When Saarc heads of government meet in a few days in Sri Lanka they will do so at a time of slowing growth in the US and Europe and South Asia's economies remain amongst the fastest growing in the world

The Mayawati government, which has decided to sell of its entire equity in the Uttar Pradesh State Sugar Corporation, is ready to answer the queries of the five bidders who had shown interest, and provide them required information about the

Ahereditary Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He touches the sacred water. He dips himself in it.

Zee Entertainment is on a collision course with InCablenet, one of the leading cable TV services providers in Mumbai. According to Zee Entertainment, InCablenet owes Zee Turner, part of the Zee Network, a subscription fee of Rs 11.16 crore, from

For the country, for India's foreign policy direction, and for its political system's ability to force solutions out of deadlock, the trust vote result goes far beyond a victory for Manmohan Singh, although the PM deserves all the praise due

PM Manmohan Singh made a political speech to hit out at Opposition leader LK Advani and his prime ministerial ambitions besides training his guns on CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, asking both of them to do some introspection about their

The announcement that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, non-banks not even involved in sub-prime mortgages, will have access to emergency liquidity at the Fed may seem shocking, but it is the inevitable consequence of the marketisation of banking

Southeast Asian nations failed on Tuesday to mediate a smouldering border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, which grabbed most of the attention at a meeting of Asia-Pacific powers.