Mallya understood, astutely, that the Dhingras were very keen to acquire Berger Paints. He upped his asking price. The figure Vijay asked for was found to be much more than what Kuldip and Gurbachan had anticipated. A fascinating excerpt from Sonu Bhasin's Unstoppable: Kuldip Singh Dhingra And The Rise Of Berger Paints.
These 12 photographs show what a mad, mad world we live in!
Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to.
When Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia decided to convert her government's capital outpost into a hub of culture, she transformed Bikaner House into Delhi's premier cultural space, notes Kishore Singh.
'If standing in a bank or ATM line is a test of patriotism, why is not a single leader standing in that queue too?'
The Sindhis are a lesson in perseverance. Once uprooted, they've started all over, often reinventing themselves
For Make in India's success, Modi govt msut remove policy paralysis.
Some 800 million or more Indians gaze at their mobile phones all day. Whoever can crack what's news on the mobile phone for them and their families, for a nominal payment of Rs 10 a month, is a winner, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
'In their over-enthusiasm to clean up the system, both the banks and the regulator should not forget that the key to the insolvency law is revival of companies -- recovery of bank dues is an offshoot of that,' points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
People who have worked with Mukesh Bansal describe him as approachable and extremely polite but someone who likes to maintain a strict work schedule.
Discovering the charms of Manali's numerous eateries.
Shopkeepers are losing buyers in droves to e-tailers for everything from fashion to smartphones, and are struggling to find solutions.
His blind faith in astrology took him down a tragic path that has now come to define his life.
It's time to eat, drink and be merry.
Many of the industrialists profiled in the book are no longer riding the wave of success.
Start-ups are changing the way people take vacations.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
This issue assumes greater importance if you are a managed marketplace in the hypercompetitive online world.
Santosh Kaveri, a young inventor from Karnataka, is a sterling example of the 'Made In India' initiative. Find out why his dreams of being an innovator-enterpreneur shattered.
RailYatri offers a host of travel-related services to a 4.5 million user base. Shine Jacob finds out what's next for the app.
Down in the Indian Ocean, cricket turned out to be the great unifier and Archana Masih, only an intermittent fan, became its ambassador of sorts.
Odisha has claimed that Rasogolla originated from the Jagannath Temple in Puri
The city is waging a war against garbage, says Anjuli Bhargava.
The NDA candidate tells the Election Commission that the Maoists plan to kidnap him.
But the Robert Vadra firm, which held luxury apartments in top DLF projects, sees income and profits dry up since FY11.
Gujarat-based tea major will run a Rs 2-cr roadblock on Hindi and regional news channels.
This week's digest of stories that are weird and crazy!
A handful of online retailers have started offering alcoholic beverages through the e-commerce route since then. Letsbuydrink.com caters to Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Mumbai and offers imported alcoholic beverages for sale.
Despite the onslaught of international brands -- Coke and Pepsi -- the fizz has not gone out of India's very own cola brand, Surajeet Das Gupta.
Apple said it sold 51.2 million iPhones in its second fiscal quarter, down from 61.2 million in the same quarter a year ago but above analysts' estimates of about 50 million devices.
US retail major is in talks with Flipkart, Snapdeal, ShopClues and Grofers for partnership.
Manipur needs an integrated politico, military, socio-economic approach, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
All of us have made these mistakes, so let's begin by seeing how many of them we can avoid/minimise...
'I like the thought that I am competing successfully with writers much younger than me,' says Ruskin Bond.
'No cash,no problem,' says Aparna Verma who has survived without cash from the time PM Modi announced the 'note ban'.
They researched their companies well, didn't believe in the market chatter and advise to stay invested for long term.
Model Daljeet Sean Singh wants to give people a meaningful farewell.
'After Rajan is back in India, our resident dons are almost down. I won't say that they are out. So, now the obvious question is about Dawood, and the present government, I think, is more than willing to address that issue.' 'I think the political system made this kind of people; the corporate world made this kind of people. I have mentioned in my book that even the banks were using these outlaws to get their money back.'
New law could pose challenges of cost escalation, increased paperwork, fear developers.
Indrani's words were quick, her hand gestures quicker. She kept pointing to certain paragraphs in their consent terms.
