A year ago, when cement prices pierced the Rs 200 barrier (for a 50 kg bag), Finance Minister in his Budget speech attempted to keep manufacturers in check by slapping an excise duty on the product if its price crossed a particular limit. The move backfired, what with cement producers simply passing on the increase in excise to customers.

The United Nations has registered the Metro (guided largely by Managing Director E. Sridharan, pictured alongside) under the clean development mechansim, enabling it to claim carbon credits.

This has all the makings of a picture-perfect dream. Punj Lloyd’s Chairman Atul Punj has launched the group’s Photographic Foundation and its first limited edition calendar for the year 2008.

Prasoon Joshi is emerging as the Indian star in the international ad fraternity.

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When you buy children’s insurance, keep your goal and her needs in mind.

Stereotypes are easy to form but notoriously hard to break. So, when one thinks of the typical Chennai man, the image that most comes to mind is of one dressed in veshti, vibhuti smeared across his forehead, extremely conservative in his outlook and, of course, partial to rice—with sambar, ideally.

The rising rupee has certainly not gone down well with industry. Recently, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath informed Parliament that the problem was severe, having already scalped several thousands of jobs.

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s report card on tax collections over the last seven months has earned applause from all around.

The economy is slowing down, but the long-term story remains intact.

The worst fears of people holding ESOPs (employee stock option schemes) have come true. As it is, they have been reeling under the anxieties of an overstretched Dalal Street that could see a sharp correction.

On the University of Michigan’s website, C.K. Prahalad’s faculty profile is two sentences long.

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Idle funds are bad for business, and worse still for the economy. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has finally sorted out the issues to set aside a portion of the swelling foreign exchange reserves for developing the country’s weak infrastructure.

Recently, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram gave away sops worth Rs 5,300 crore to the export sector, but not before quipping that trimming staff strength was a short-sighted approach.

319 million: The number of Indians who live on less than a dollar a day, according to the World's Most Deprived report

India’s microfinance movement— arguably the most comprehensive attempt ever at achieving ‘financial inclusion’ for India’s poor—is pacing ahead.

Starring Brian Tempest of Ranbaxy; Finance Minister P. Chidambaram; Former US Fed Chief Alan Greenspan; Former SEBI Chief G.N. Bajpai; Bakul Dholakia, Director, IIM-A; and Air Deccan’s G.R. Gopinath.

Far too often the investments that the world’s major corporations make in India, and the resulting development, do not extend beyond India’s boom towns: Charles Prince

FBT on ESOPs may blunt this retention tool.