Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has done a great job to try and break the Doha deadlock and get the leading players to now set a new deadline to get things sorted out, but if he is serious about things, India needs to change its tactics somewhat.
Domestic car market leader Maruti Udyog Limited, which had till recently refrained from making a serious foray into the diesel-powered segment, foresees 20 per cent of its sales coming from such cars by 2010.
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.
Import duty on a business jet is merely 3 per cent, on a yacht 10 per cent, but it's 60 per cent on cars and a mind-boggling 213 per cent on one's favourite tipple.
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.
After nearly a year of murmurs that JM Financial and Morgan Stanley would go separate ways, they have, joined the swelling ranks of joint ventures that have fallen apart.
On December 4 last year, the stock of the world's largest drugmaker, Pfizer, fell 10.6 per cent, wiping out more than $21 billion in market value in a single day.
Having moved into original research, they have attracted overseas professionals looking to come back, some nudged by MNCs' narrowing research.
There is a cluster of three buildings in Gurgaon that one can easily lose in the landscape of this Delhi suburb. But once inside, you cannot miss the smell of white powder or the rustle of some 1,400 lab coats.
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.
The overseas drive of the group has been accompanied by a change in Tata, the person, too
For some, India has become critical to global operations. It accounts for 10 per cent of StanChart's top line as well as bottom.
India's R&D spend trebled in a decade, but China's has grown even faster
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.
Chandra said WWIL, perceived as trailing the pack in Mumbai, had actually accounted for 75,000 set-top boxes in Mumbai out of the 150,000 installed in the new conditional access system environment being ushered into the city.
Even by the standards of vacillation of the government, the policy on increasing foreign investment levels in telecom has got to take the cake.
Typically, the population thronging the newsroom of any newspaper, news portal or news channel is diverse. However, there is a tie that binds them together: Google, the world's most popular search engine.
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