On Thursday, the UN pegged the calender 2013 growth at 6.4 per cent, while the ADB last projected that the domestic economy would reach 6 per cent in the current fiscal.
Yahoo Inc's first quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street targets, as the Internet company continued to feel the effects of declining traffic to its Web properties and of falling display advertising sales.
The younger brother of jailed hedgefund manager Raj Rajaratnam Monday pleaded not guilty at a US court to charges of conspiring in an insider trading scheme to cheat on Wall Street and earn nearly $1.2 million illegally.
Monika Halan is editor of Mint Money, India's second-largest business newspaper, which has an exclusive partnership with the Wall Street Journal.
Kodak is prepairing to file for bankruptcy.
After Vodafone and Shell, it seems to be the turn of Cadbury.
The money stashed away in tax havens is estimated at between $5.6 trillion and $32 trillion, numbers to make your eyes pop, asserts T N Ninan.
Did the Pakistani officials mistakenly sanction the deadly NATO strike on their own border outposts killing 24 soldiers? According to a Wall Street Journal report, that is what happened on the fateful Saturday.
The Budget will be keenly watched (to see) whether there is a credible plan for reducing the fiscal deficit and whether populist measures can be avoided before the 2014 general elections," the Wall Street firm said in a note.
Facebook, which has about 800 million users worldwide, is currently in 'internal discussions' with US regulator Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the timing of its initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Afghanistan forces came under fire from across the Pakistan border before they called in a deadly air strike on two Pakistani military posts that left 24 soldiers dead, media reports quoted Afghan and western officials as saying.
US federal investigators are probing whether investment banking major Morgan Stanley misled investors about mortgage-derivative deals, says a media report.
Michael Dell struck a deal to take Dell Inc private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis, partnering with the Silver Lake private equity firm and Microsoft Corp to try to turn around the struggling computer company without Wall Street scrutiny.
Stepping down as the top American diplomat at the height of popularity, Hillary Clinton could announce her 2016 presidency bid by 2014, a media report said on Friday.
Residents in these 10 spots are experiencing the most economic upheaval.
Despite recent enthusiasm for RIM's new BB10 devices, we see limited scope for traction in the hyper-competitive smartphone market.
In secret concessions to Pakistan, the US has tightened rules on drone strikes inside the country, apparently making them more selective as part of efforts to shore up its fragile relationship with Islamabad.
BSE market breadth was positive. Out of 2,972 stocks traded, 1,203 shares advanced while 986 shared declined in trades.
Rajat Gupta, one of the most successful Indian Americans on the Wall Street, was on Friday found guilty of passing confidential market information to Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, in one of America's biggest insider trading cases.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a slim lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump, a new poll shows just over a week before the epic United States presidential election.
He might have presided over assets worth billions of dollars, but Raj Rajaratnam will have to work for 12 to 17 cents an hour cleaning the kitchen or the toilet in prison.
It went up 51 per cent in third quarter compared to last year.
These are the television shows that will crackle and pop a lot longer than anything you'll get your paws on.
For the fifth year, the Wall Street Journal partnered with Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, on its annual survey of CEO Compensation.
America used to "drive the bus" in global economic terms; now other areas of the world are getting more attention. The U.S. consumer used to be unstoppable; now the cracks are starting to show. The U.S. financial sector used to be a massive profit center; now it is more like a massive black hole.
India is willing to advance its peace talks with Pakistan and discuss the Kashmir issue, but the main stumbling block is Islamabad's failure to clamp down on militant groups, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai has said.
The various official growth forecasts for the year have moved from 8 per cent-plus to 8 per cent-minus, with only the pessimists saying it will fall to as low as 7 per cent -- which the country can live with in a downturn.
No one knows what Rajat Gupta gained from leaking insider information to Raj Rajaratnam. The irony is that he did not make any money.
Tuesday's opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange will not only kick off a day of trade on Wall Street, it may also herald the end of an era at Manchester United, who are rumoured to be on the brink of announcing manager Alex Ferguson's retirement.
BSE Metal, IT and Consumer Durable indices surged by nearly 2% each. However, BSE FMCG index declined by nearly 1%.
China's growth model is based on the oldest rapid economic growth hormone available: debt.
Tight undies, ill-fitting bras are just some of the garments you must give a pass if you want to stay healthy.
A call centre's workers in Gujarat posed as US law enforcement officials and made nearly 8.5 million threatening calls in just eight months to consumers in America, US federal authorities have claimed.
A call centre's workers in Gujarat posed as United States law enforcement officials and made nearly 8.5 million threatening calls in just eight months to consumers in America, US federal authorities have claimed.
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney currently is valued at $20 billion on Citigroup's books, which is $ 5 billion more than it is on Morgan Stanley's, the report said citing Credit Suisse's analyst Howard Chen.
The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as their stepped-up violent campaign to avenge Osama bin Laden's death has renewed fears that the country's warheads could be vulnerable.
While the United States is demanding that Pakistan launch an offensive against the Haqqani network, the Inter-Services Intelligence is instead wooing the terrorist group to join nascent Afghan peace talks, according to a newspaper report.
The fate of The Reluctant Fundamentalist at the Toronto International Film Festival will determine its future.
An influential American daily on Thursday claimed that there are signs that slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was being protected by some elements of the Pakistan's notorious spy agency Inter Service Intelligence.
