In a step that would enable states and stakeholders to refer to information about pharma firms, the health ministry has embarked on a project to prepare a national level list of pharma companies, which have been granted licence to manufacture

The finance ministry has set in motion the reforms of financial sector with the pension reforms Bill likely to be sent to the Cabinet next week and SBI Amendment as well as Banking Regulation Amendment legislation is being vetted by

When BP branded itself as 'Beyond Petroleum', and the fashionable colour among oil companies was green, Exxon Mobil stood aloof from the rush to embrace alternative sources of energy.

Putting a spanner in road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath's plan to create Indian Road Finance Corporation, the finance ministry and the Planning Commission have questioned the need to set up a separate funding body for highway projects.

Here we go again. Will RBI or won't RBI take a call on setting interest rates just that bit lower in the monetary policy on Tuesday. The interest naturally goes well beyond the actual rates set, especially for reverse repo-the

With the merger of the Jan Morcha in the Congress, the legacy of Vishwanath Pratap Singh, has come full circle. Twenty-two years after Singh quit the Congress, the Jan Morcha has dissolved itself into the very party it had been

Both the developed and developing countries need to make a compromise. Having a standard cut across the board for developing countries doesn't make sense, unless, as India has asserted, developed nations also agree to a significant cut of around 40%.

Well, one set of change when we started losing market share in the company. And there were many reasons for this, one was that we did not have the technology. And then we started corporate clients.

Majority of small and medium enterprises have demanded lowering cost of finance and additional fiscal support from the government to provide relief to the sector hit by the demand contraction in the global markets, a survey has said.

Ghana, a tiny west African country, has taken an initiative to emerge as a major silk producer on the lines of China and India. Interestingly, Ghana has taken technical assistance from India to develop sericulture industry.

Fearing oil regulator Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board may favour Adani Group for Noida's gas licence, Indraprastha Gas Ltd has written to the regulator, saying it is the sole entity authorised by the Centre and the Supreme Court for

The reason why no one saw the global financial meltdown approaching was due to "a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people", eminent economists told Queen Elizabeth II when she questioned why no one predicted it coming.

The Videocon Group is charting out a fresh investment outlay for Q2 2009-10 to the tune of Rs 700 crore to grow its oil business. The group is planning to infuse Rs 100 crore this year to expand its retail

Doing business in India is set to become easier, more convenient and investor-friendly, with the ministry of commerce & industry on Tuesday awarding the country's second-largest software firm, Infosys Technologies a project to enable budding entrepreneurs to obtain central, state

In a bid to ensure that the "informal ministerial" on the Doha Round of trade talks- in first week of September at Delhi- does not end up reiterating the defensive interest of developing nations.

The fate of the global telecom major AT&T's India entry as well as industry biggies like DLF, Sterlite group and Moser Baer's entry into the telecom sector would now be decided by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

India is fast logging into the clone age. Despite being a late entrant into the elite group of nations such as the US, United Kingdom, South Korea and China, which are at the forefront of animal cloning efforts, India has

IT wasn't supposed to be like this. Five years ago, in a flurry of manifest destiny, George Bush outlined a plan to return Americans to the moon in 2020, with an option on going to Mars later.

World's third largest computer maker, Acer has recently jumped into the smartphone market. Unfazed by a slowdown in mobile phone sales globally and disappointing earning numbers from mobile phone companies, Acer mobility division head Aymar de Lencquesaing is confident of

The software being one of the crucial intangible assets, it's surprising that so little attention has been given to its management. It is important to manage software well, just as any other valuable company asset, in order to avoid serious