Anand Mahindra, chief executive, Mahindra & Mahindra seems to specialise the role of a Good Samaritan helping large global auto companies to set up shop in India. He seems to do it on the lines of venture capital companies, taking care of all the liaison and fast track clearances with government, Central and states, but finally opting out of large joint ventures...
Time was when one used to hear a lot on bonded labour. Today one should express concern over a bonded future. IE has been expressing concern over relentless huge increases in public debt that would cast a severe burden on future generations...
Facts from Figures is the title of a little paperback book on statistical analysis, simplified and reader-friendly. It begins with a riddle: "two fathers and two sons leave a village. The population of the village, however, is reduced by only three. Explain."
Interestingly, similar is the situation, especially when one finds it difficult to reconcile the huge...
Rane Engine Valves Limited (REVL) inaugurated its fifth and most advanced roduction facility for manufacturing engine valves in Pudukottai district, 38 kms from Trichy on the Trichy-Madurai national highway. The plant, which was inaugurated by Alexander M Seitz...
India and China, the two fastest growing economies, are being urged to take on a stabilising role in the current global crisis and contribute toward rebalancing the world economy as it entered a downturn in 2008. Far from ideas of resilience to stand up to external shocks and notions of 'de-coupling'
As usual the Union Budget for 2008-09 has been discussed and dissected at different fora by different stakeholders from their individual vantage points. What is most shocking is the deafening silence on the impact of high inter- national petroleum prices on the budget.
Even the US economy which is already suffering on account of sub prime housing loans is deeply concerned with the inevitabl...
A budget that will help the UPA government to leap - frog to comfortable position to campaign for a second term in power. The Budget 2008-09 has all the ingredients of a typical Bollywood box office thriller - guaranteed to rock the opposition out of slumber. Finance minister P Chidambaram's Rs 60,000 crore bonanza for farmers is a virtual sell out to the vote banks of the farm sector...
