8 of the world's most amazing bridges

They’re a means to an end: bridges are fundamentally a way to get from point A to point B. However, as designs get bolder, bridges have also become destinations in their......

Hamid Ansari sets out to conquer India's last diplomatic frontier

Vice-President Hamid Ansari embarks on an important Latin American visit, heralding that resource-rich continent's importance to India. Nikhil Lakshman reports. Most readers may be too young to......

Software escrow services now in India

EscrowTech India, an Indo-US joint venture, has become the first company to provide professional software and technology escrow services to clients in India. The joint venture is between......

Profit pangs for India Inc

A drop in sales growth and rise in interest burden in 2005-06 have dented the net profit growth of India Inc.A Business Standard Research Bureau study of 1,450 manufacturing companies, which have......

Will content creators drive the next wave of e-commerce?

A host of start-ups are basing entire business models on the presumption that content creators will drive the next wave of e-commerce. Deepsekhar Choudhury reports. First it was called content-led......