If you have a lapsed insurance policy, here’s how to renew it at the minimum cost.

Short-selling makes a comeback. It can be rewarding for investors, but there are downsides as well.

Yes, the stock markets have been on a roll for four years now and the Sensex is at 20,000 plus. But a surging economy is expected to keep the FIIs interested in India this year.

There are still quite a few undervalued stocks that could see big upsides in the new year. We shortlist 10 such gems.

My apologies if this begins a bit gloomily but I promise it will get better as you read along. Almost anyone you spoke to during the last few weeks of 2007 felt that year's outstanding performance by India Inc. and the Indian economy was unlikely to be repeated in 2008.

More people are warming up to credit—for buying anything from a dream home to taking a Swiss holiday. The credit fever shows no signs of reducing.

Millions of jobs in the manufacturing sector could vanish due to the dearer rupee hitting exporters across industries. Will things get worse before they get better?

India is on the threshold of a retail revolution. In fact, it has, in some segments, already traversed some way down that path.

Mumbai champs, Chandigarh Lions, Chennai Super Stars, Delhi Jets, Hyderabad Heroes and Kolkata Tigers. These are the names of the six teams that the Essel Group-promoted Indian Cricket League (ICL) has readied for a 20-20 tournament to be held at Chandigarh later this month.

With interest rates heading south, it's time to fine tune your debt strategy. Here's what to do now.

India Inc. has beaten the slowdown blues, and can look forward to more of the same.

Six months of survey and analysis, 94 final participants, and hundreds of days of reporting is what it took to bring you stories of India's best employers. Best companies in pictures

It couldn't have been a better day to have a panel discussion on the prospects for the Indian stock markets. The benchmark Sensex on the Bombay Stock Exchange has just shattered all records by recording its highest ever single-day gain of 789 points to hurtle past 18,000. Are we moving too fast?

Sitting in his Chennai office, Rafeeque Ahmad, Chairman, Farida Group, a leather shoe exporter, is a worried man. The appreciation of the rupee against the dollar has severely eroded the profit margins of his company, forcing him to contemplate drastic measures like reducing his workforce.

It’s 10 in the morning, and at the historic Azad Maidan, where The Mahatma used to address swelling crowds during the Civil Disobedience movement, another movement is slowly gathering steam.

There’s no telling where the Sensex will be by the time this article hits the stands—given the multiple 1,000 point jumps the indices have demonstrated of late. Stock market forecasting at the best of times has been tricky business.

Last fortnight, as Ben Bernanke lowered the Fed rate by 50 basis points, there was cheer in India as well. It has heightened expectations of a reversal of the rising interest rate cycle in the country.

It’s now raining inflows. Says Andrew Holland, Chief Administrative Officer, EVP DSP Merrill Lynch: “The Fed reduced interest rates and that has freed the credit market and also increased investors’ appetite towards risk marginally.”

India is just one destination, among many, for foreign institutional money. This fact becomes clearer every time the Indian market responds to global cues— be it the subprime scare in August or the 50 basis points cut in the Fed rate by the US Federal Reserve the next month.

Till about 2001, life insurance Corporation of India had a pension plan with tons of benefits for retirees. Jeevan Suraksha offered guaranteed returns as pension, reducing the ‘uncertainty’ of income in an otherwise uncertain period of one’s life.