A rejigging of the current three-tier income-tax apparatus, small tax concession for income up to Rs 10 lakh, new tax slab for high-income group,...

Businessman Azim Premji, the country’s second richest person after Mukesh Ambani, may be a well-meaning person, but his suggestion at the recent World...

The actual amount of foreign funds reaching the country’s NGOs every year remains a mystery. It is not known either to the government or the public....

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board’s (FIPB) latest year-end decision to summarily reject the joint venture proposal of Mahindra & Mahindra,...

Chakravarthy Rangarajan, who authored the official report recommending gold decontrol 25 years ago at the instance of the Rajiv Gandhi government and...

The year 2012 had been the year of scandals - political, business and media - and corruption in public life, in India as well as in the rest of the...

After Wal-Mart’s admission that it spent money on lobbyists to enter the estimated half-a-trillion-dollar-plus Indian retail market, the questions...

They may have formed the world’s most powerful financial forum, G-20, but how effective is their writ to discipline global banks and financial...

Wipro’s and CESC’s are two post-independent India’s fairytale entrepreneurial stories, probably unparalleled in the annals of modern business...

What was union minister Srikant Jena from Odisha’s Balasore doing all these years when illegal mining was taking place in next door Keonjhar?...

It promises to be India’s biggest upcoming financial sector reform, maybe, by default or by a more subtle design. The government stands to lose...

The government may disagree, but it has got its reform priorities all wrong. It has opened up the country’s services sector – banking, insurance,...