How Kumar Mangalam Birla built a $40 billion business empire

About the secret of Birla's success, old-timers recall that one of his first moves was to set the retirement age for group executives at 60 years. Image: Kumar Mangalam Birla . Photograph:......

Information Technology: Light at the end of the tunnel

For the quarter ended September 2013, most Indian and offshore-centric IT services companies reported better-than-expected growth, led by the North American market, which accounted for about 60 per......

Can India be a great power in the post-Lehman era?

If India counts itself as a 'great power', it will have to play a role in framing and enforcing new global rules, says T N Ninan. When is a new generation born? The cheeky answer is, around 10 p.m.......

Why the women of Wall Street are disappearing

Nadine Mentor, 29, had just landed in New York--and found out, she says, that she'd bagged one of the biggest gets of her career at Citigroup: a role for the bank leading a bond offering, valued at......