Kalam presents Padma awards

President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday presented the Padma awards to many eminent personalities, including Odissi danseuse Sonal Mansingh, ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, journalist Prabhu Chawla and......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Why India Inc still fears MNCs

Business reacted with caution to the reforms of 1991, and demanded protection from multinationals and imports.Twenty-five years later, traces of that demand can still be found, reports Bhupesh......

Rahul Bajaj's quick ride back into the Licence Raj era

The Licence Raj did not always mean that there was no competition - in the seventies there were half-a-dozen two-wheeler manufacturers - Ideal Java, Enfield, Rajdoot of Escorts and Lambretta -......

Sunil Mittal global industry body's vice chairman

Bharti Enterprises chairman and Group CEO Sunil Bharti Mittal has been appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, one of the world's oldest global business......