Finance minister (FM) Jaswant Singh?s interim budget speech said that the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), recently converted into…
It appears that nothing pleases the market anymore. Jaswant Singh?s fresh round of concessions in the interim budget only led…
Is the initial public offering (IPO) market being hyped up and overheated due to financing by banks and non-banking finance…
The application of insider trading regulations in India have been flawed from the very beginning, and the long delayed order…
Last week, finance minister Jaswant Singh literally put his money where his mouth is. He displayed his confidence in a…
A bill to amend The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 introduced in the Rajya Sabha last December, by finance minister Jaswant…
This could happen to you. An under-40 magazine editor renewed his Mediclaim policy, went off to China on a work…
All over the world, capital market regulators strive to ensure uniformity of information to all investors. That?s why disclosure requirements…
At the Bank Economists Conference last week, Reserve Bank of India governor Yaga Venugopal Reddy expressed concern over the lack…
As corporate governance regulations pile on greater responsibility on ?independent directors?, it is time to question whether meaningful corporate governance…
For a long time now, Andhra Pradesh?s CEO Chandrababu Naidu, has been the poster boy for the Confederation of Indian…
The US corporate scandals of 2002 led to legislations that forced more transparency on American companies with special attention to…
In 1991, a journalist from a leading Marathi newspaper had called me up to ask if I?d like to take…
Great governance will simply not be achieved in large corporations if the concepts remain at 30,000 feet. Companies must have…
On October 30, the Securities and Exchange Board of India issued a clarification that was supposed to allay apprehensions about…
Now that the government has caved in to industry pressure and ordered the withdrawal the Companies Act (Amendment) Bill 2003,…
One way or another, the Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC) has been associated with many of the biggest and most successful…
A few weeks ago, when the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the stock exchanges decided to shift several…
