?After the NSE deal, everybody wants an Aishwarya Rai kind of valuation, but it is not going to happen,? says…
Over the last week, editorial writers have correctly denounced the government?s decision to suspend futures trading in urad and tur…
At this time last year, we saw a raging controversy over the proposed headcount of minorities in the armed forces.…
Some time last year, the ministry of company affairs? (MCA?s) ambitious, Rs 340-crore e-governance programme, called MCA 21, began a…
An ordinary person who wants to invest in the stock market or a mutual fund, or simply open a saving…
Nissan Copper is a scrip that few had heard about until the last trading day of 2006. On that day,…
When Sebi chairman M Damodaran questioned the efficacy of the quarterly earnings guidance last week, he was opening the doors…
Every time the market crashes, Finance Minister P Chidambaram rushes to inform the media that ?there is nothing to worry…
Pramod Mittal of the Ispat group is obviously in high spirits these days. Last week, he acquired CSKA Sofia, a…
George Santayana famously warned that ?those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it??a maxim that…
When there is open disagreement between the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank on interest rates or foreign portfolio investment,…
When will the finance ministry wake up to the fact that there is no point in targeting the same people…
At its board meeting last week, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) finally buried the moribund Central Listing…
In its 15-year existence, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has won kudos for creating a modern capital…
When Unit Trust of India (UTI) pitched to set up a bank in 1993, several sensible persons including the then…
In recent weeks, the quality of India?s IT security has been called into question several times. First, when London?s Channel…
The timing is uncanny. India?s notorious financial swindler, Dinesh Dalmia, got bail in a third case at the end of…
A zooming Sensex, a confident corporate sector and some global success stories?that is what Dr Manmohan Singh will see when…
