The outgoing media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sanjaya Baru has called for softening of India's stance on reduction of farm subsidies by the US and the European Union at the World Trade Organisation forum, citing rising food prices.
Vikram Pandit, in his first quarterly result as Citigroup Inc's chief executive officer, marked down the value of the Old Lane LP hedge fund company that he sold to the bank less than a year ago.
When I was studying towards an engineering degree in Electronics at REC Trichy, one R Sreenivasan, head of training and placement had this Shakespearean quote inscribed on his door.
Mike Krzyzewski offered a novel approach to a vexing issue. Instead of encouraging athletes to upstage the Beijing Olympics politically, why not ask them to act it out on stage?
Transported across oceans by sea captains for over three centuries. Exported from the nineteenth century onwards to the new World. Today, a well-recognised name in over 100 countries.
India and Pakistan, as discussed in our last article, have new opportunities to intensify the engagement, even as the contextual incentive framework undergoes changes.
Spice Telecom, one of the cellular service provider of Punjab, has bagged the title sponsorship in a multi-crore deal for the Kings XI Team Mohali for the DLF IPL league. Mohali team will henceforth be called 'Spice Kings XI Team'.
Go green, even when you write and check mails. The theme runs as a leitmotif in the millions of mails the corporate world keeps churning out the world over daily with a simple message at the end of a note:
It's that time of the year when you make plans to head for cooler climes to beat the heat of the plains. Find out which are the destinations corporates and inveterate travellers root for when they think of a holiday
A penchant for style backed by a passion for profligacy has been drawing the archetypal Punjabi towards owning luxury homes delivered by the real estate majors on a hot platter up North.
All right, everyone under the age of 40, go run around the block or something. This column is not for you. It is for people like me, inching towards 50, who are, let us say, not technology-averse, but do not
I am interested in starting a new business of producing bricks. For this, I need to purchase land to the extent of about 10-12 acres and I need to construct a brick chamber and meet other expenses.
Buildings have a profound impact on the environment, which is why green-building practices are becoming the norm of the day. Real estate developers, architects and the public are increasingly becoming aware of the green house effect and the benefits of
The good old CRT television sets are slowly but steadily on their way to becoming relics of history. Not because they lack in quality, but because of their sheer weight and volume.
In July, the birth and death month of renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, multiplexes across six cities are slated to hold a retrospective of some of his best films, courtesy Palador Pictures.
The phone call was routine, the kind often made before big auctions. So the auction house contacted a Baltimore historian considered to be the world's leading Talbot expert and asked if he could grace the sale's catalogue with any interesting
