Survey reveals why telemarketers can't help calling.
Have inequality levels, as represented by the Gini coefficient, risen from 30.3 in 1983 to 34.3 in 2004-05?
Telecom companies with cases pending before the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal or those hoping to file new ones would be advised to hurry.
Prof B B Bhattacharya says his forecasts are more 'judgemental' today, along the lines of the forecasts of other institutions including the RBI. Excerpts from a conversation with Sunil Jain.
To BSNL's detriment, Raja emerges the clear loser.
For the country's poorest districts, the only hope of escaping grinding poverty is to increase farm productivity in a big way -- in most of these districts, around 85 per cent of those employed work in the agricultural sector.
Dikshit has to allow the huge tariff hike, or subsidise BYPL. There is no other choice.
The latest estimates of poverty reduction in the country, put out by the National Sample Survey (NSS), are unique in that they have not been welcomed by anyone.
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.
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.
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.
Even by the standards of vacillation of the government, the policy on increasing foreign investment levels in telecom has got to take the cake.
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.
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