Crumbling roads, jammed airports, and power blackouts could hobble growth.
How an uncommon bureaucrat personally secured foreign funding and the cooperation of government agencies to build the Indian city's subway system.
Compared with its Asian rivals, India has been slow to make design a priority. But a new national policy commits to doing business with style.
A scarcity of young, college-educated engineers has turned recruitment in India's fast-growing tech sector into a free-for-all.
Despite the missive on the impact of foreign retail on the small kirana shops in the country written by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, everyone in the government knows that it was never to be taken seriously.
There is the larger issue of whether PSUs should be going through such elaborate tendering procedures when no private company follows the same procedures. In today's ultra-competitive world, it does seem an invitation to disaster.
Five years later, it is obvious Maruti is the better bet.
A third of firms said they wouldn't have existed had it not been for PE and over 62 per cent said they'd have grown slower.
On February 16, 2006, the Supreme Court supported the residents and ordered sealing of shops/offices located in residential areas, to start from March 29.
After a big initial public offering season last year, some 150 companies are expected to raise up to $10 billion in new listings in '07.
India's R&D spend trebled in a decade, but China's has grown even faster
India is one of the world's hottest mobile phone markets, but Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung must deliver cool handsets at very thin profit margins.
Education policy in India has got to be among the most bizarre ever seen.
Pratham's latest report on rural education has some good news, but it's mainly bad.
Even by the standards of vacillation of the government, the policy on increasing foreign investment levels in telecom has got to take the cake.
Asia's fastest-growing companies are midsize operations that have flourished on a steady diet of venture capital and liberalized policies.
TCS, Infosys, Satyam, and other Indian infotech outfits have been slow to take off in China. That may be about to change.
Stern says that we all know the pace of change has picked up in India
What's most interesting about the report is the manner in which it seeks to blow up all the perceived inequities -- even if you haven't read the report, the stories leaked to the media give a clear enough picture.
While Bharti's retail stores will be fully Indian, they will be able to take advantage of the tremendously low prices and technology advantages that Wal-Mart will bring to Mittal-Mart's sourcing.
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