Saturday 23 Jul '11First the good news. India’s urban population grew by around 91 million between 2001 and 2011, accounting for more than half the people—181.4 million.
Monday 18 Apr '11At the outset let me announce my deep respect and professional regard for the four industry veterans—Ratan Tata, NR Narayana Murthy, AM Naik and YC Deveshwar—whose impending superannuation is creating much media noise of late.
Friday 25 Mar '11It’s become all too familiar. Take any set of numbers—income, consumption, production, inflation, poverty, sales to television ratings—and you almost always have a big argument on it.
Saturday 26 Feb '11In hindsight, the unravelling of the Rs 12,000-crore accounting scam at the IT major Satyam two years ago was overbilled as India’s Enron moment.
Saturday 08 Jan '11Though the jury is still out on whether the recent incident of the Rs 300-crore fraud by a Citibank wealth manager, Shivraj Puri, was systemic or not, of late cases of employee infidelity are on the rise with India Inc.
Saturday 01 Jan '11Corporate India’s two decade old journey, post economic liberalisation in 1991, is a story of many parts. The sudden opening up of the economy to global influences, as a result of balance of payment crisis, initially stunned the hitherto insular industry into immobility, even denial.