The dragon of inflation The Hindu | Amar Singh | It is time we fixed responsibility for the menacing situation that has come to exist in India on the price front. | Life for the aam aadmi, or the common person, is becoming increasingly difficult owing to the all-round price rise across the country. It bites into the real incomes of ...
Narendra Modi pitches for right to negative vote Zeenews Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a pitch for introduction of a negative vote for the electorate, a week after his government secured passage of a legislation seeking to make voting compulsory in elections to local self-government bodies. | "The measure (negative vote) wi...
Pantaloon rejigs retail portfolio Asian Age | Age Correspondent | With agency inputs | Mumbai | Jan. 1: Kishore Biyani-led Pantaloon Retail (India) on Friday said that it will transfer its value retail business to its group company, Future Value Retail. | The company’s committee of directors...
Dawn of a decade Khaleej Times Who doesn't love predictions and prophesies? Our columnists rub their crystal balls and tell you what to look out for ' in the year 2010 | Traveller's paradise | (Travel) | Tom Hall | The next 12 months are going to be a great time to get away, with ...
The dragon of inflation The Hindu | Amar Singh | It is time we fixed responsibility for the menacing situation that has come to exist in India on the price front. | Life for the aam aadmi, or the common person, is becoming increasingly difficult owing to the all-round price rise acro...
Rajasthan to prevent exploitation of tourists The Hindu | Special Correspondent | CHENNAI: The Rajasthan government will come out with a 'Tourism Trade Regulatory Act' by March-end to prevent exploitation of tourists by touts, hawkers, tour operators and others, Secretary, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Usha...
Reliance Retail plans 85 jewellery stores over next three years DNA India | Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail Ltd plans to open 85 stores of its jewellery retailing business -- Reliance Jewels -- across India over the next three years. | The mult...
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India's Copenhagen Envoy Unyielding on Costs Business Week | (Bloomberg) — For Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, United Nations climate-change talks in Copenhagen are as much about easing poverty in his country as preventi...
2020 vision: Our team of futurologists peers into mists of time The Independent | UK politics | Labour triumphs after the Cameron years with Britain's first black PM - and a familiar face... | If the decade began with David Cameron on the verge of historic victory, it ends, this month, in his humiliation and failure. The 53-year...
Power Play The Telegraph India When Volkswagen decided to set up a car factory in India, it had no certainty of how much it could sell and how much profit it would make. The company had confidence in its products based on successful and profitable performances in many other countr...
Sunny side up! Deccan Herald | 2009 has been an incredible year and it also marks the end of a remarkable decade. Looking back, here’s a compilation celebrating the highs of a hectic twelve months. | General elections | The general elections in India, the world’s largest d...
Sensex surges over 127 pts, reaches 23-month high The Siasat Daily | Mumbai, January 05: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index Sensex today surged by over 127 points to touch a 23-month high on sustained buying by funds in heavyweight stocks led by metals, mostly copper and aluminium stocks. | The Sensex had a gap-up opening of over 171 points today and closed the day with a gain of 127.51 points to close at 1...
RIL raises Rs 2675 crore via treasury stock sale The Times Of India MUMBAI: Reliance Industries (RIL) on Monday sold a part of its treasury stock for Rs 2,675 crore, the second such transaction in less than four months. The amount raised by the sale of shares, which were held by a trust, would add to the war chest for its proposed acquisition of LyondellBasell, the Netherlands-based petrochemicals company. | RIL so...
