Buying a house? Beware of builders' tricks

Everybody wants a piece of real estate. The sector has been growing at 25-30 per cent a year since 2003, fired primarily by low interest on housing loans and the rising affluence of homebuyers.......

It helps investors to place their bets on India

Business processing outsourcing, or BPO as it's known in the trade, offers a solid opportunity for investors.Many basic back-office operations can be handled more cheaply overseas, and inexpensive......

Indian hoteliers make it big in America

Sant Singh Chatwal did not exactly bootstrap his way up America's lodging industry by starting at a modest roadside motel, as have so many immigrants. His first fixer-upper hotel was in Manhattan,......

The new boom that's sweeping India

Boomtown Gurgaon has spends that step city New Delhi would envy, but it has (almost) no hotels -- little wonder that the highest room rate realisation in the national capital region is in Gurgaon's......

Muralitharan signs for Victorian Bushrangers

Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan has been signed by Australianclub Victorian Bushrangers to play in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash competition for the 2009-10 season. Bushrangers now have its......

US charges Allen Stanford with 'massive' fraud

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with "massive" fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped down on his US headquarters. In a civil complaint filed in......