Indonesian coal making its way to India provides about a third less energy than supplies from South Africa or Australia.
An increasing number of contractors managing parking lots at malls, multiplexes and five-star hotels are buying parking insurance covers
Ritika Gupta, a study abroad expert and founder of Aaera Consultants, explains how Germany's new visa rules will affect international students and working professionals.
The other trend is towards the big and bigger, especially in the retail sector. Take The Great India Place in Noida, Unitech's 15 lakh sq ft "shoppertainment" destination which opened earlier this year.
Can you survive in the job market only with a graduation degree? A reality check.
The demand for aircrafts and hospitality industry is poised to treble by 2009.
Among the international companies that are increasing their investments is the Japanese paint major, Nippon, which is putting in about Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million) for manufacturing facilities in Gurgaon and a 25-acre unit in Chennai.
CapitaLand, the Singapore state-owned developer, is set to make one of the biggest bets by a foreign company on India's retail property boom, investing in 15 shopping centres worth S$2.1bn ($1.46bn) in association with two Indian construction and property groups.
Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the country is poised for a grey revolution or construction boom, fuelled by road development initiatives, which have generated huge employment opportunities in villages.
Companies, which are jumping into the bandwagon, include MNCs. For instance, the world's leading component company Bosch has committed an investment of Rs 2,650 crore (Rs 26.50 billion) through four subsidiaries in India. Funds will be used to set up manufacturing facilities for gasoline systems, electronic control units and ABS systems.
The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that it is keeping a watch on a person who is suspected to have used the booming Indian share market for terror funding. "Recently, a case has come to our notice. It is suspected that it may be linked to a person under watch. I cannot divulge further details," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
Textile industry is all set for a big boom. According to Central government sources, the textile industry will require an investment of Rs 1.94 lakh crore by 2012 to become an overall sector worth $110 billion.
'Right now, silver -- and especially platinum -- are very cheap compared to gold. If I were buying today, I would choose platinum.'
Major international luxury goods manufacturers are riding high in China with the luxury goods market booming, despite a slowdown in economic growth.
China's poverty line of $85 per capita net income a year is too low for subsistence and fails to deliver to 100 million poor the benefits of the country's unprecedented economic boom, a senior official has said.
Like with all great crashes, some had noticed the cracks. "... cash balances (of banks) seem, from the available indications, to be hopelessly inadequate; and it is hard to doubt that in the next bad times they will go down like ninepins. If such a catastrophe occurs, the damage inflicted on India will be far greater than the direct loss falling on the depositors," said John Maynard Keynes in his May 1913 work "Indian Currency and Finance", written before his path-breaking work in macroeconomics laid the foundation of dealing with global crises.
Scenes away from the action when the Mumbai Indians played the Lucknow Super Giants at Brabourne stadium in Mumbai.
In the midst of an unprecedented stock market boom, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday cautioned that markets can at times lead to marginalisation of the poor
From premium electric motorcycles to mass-market scooters, manufacturers are rapidly expanding their portfolios to capture a larger share of the booming market.
Because the aftermath of what happened before continues long after. War breeds hostility and hatred and creates mistrust and greed. It extinguishes humanity and breaks the human spirit, argues Aarti David.
The booming East China region as well as Shanghai metropolis has wooed top Indian firms like Infosys, Satyam, TCS, NIIT, State Bank of India and Reliance to set up software development centres or representative offices.
Growth in demand for diesel, India's most consumed petroleum product, fell to its lowest since the pandemic in the financial year ended March 31 as the economy expands at a slower pace and consumption shifts to cleaner fuels. Diesel consumption rose 2 per cent to 91.4 million tonnes in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025) fiscal, according to provisional data released by the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Oil Ministry.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings, two sides chasing their first IPL title, will square off in a tantalising Qualifier 1 encounter on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
The domestic retail industry is expected to attract about Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) investments in the next two-three years and the retail boom will percolate to smaller cities with population less than 10 lakh, according to a new study by consu
Liverpool roared back from a goal behind to thrash Tottenham Hotspur 5-1 and wrap up the English Premier League title in style.
Professionals will be required to either learn new tech skills that focus on AI, cloud computing, or risk becoming obsolete, says Arun Prakash M.
In India, there are several examples of earnings never catching up with the valuations of the eye-popping boom era deals.
More than 85 skyscrapers are set to adorn the Mumbai skyline in a few years.
Millions of procedures are performed around the world every year.
India is currently home to 52 unicorn startups and one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems.
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