The Indian obsession with jewellery continues unabated. But people have also started looking at other forms of gold as an investment.

Closed-ended funds have become fashionable again. Should they find a place in your portfolio?

The adoption of e-ticketing by many airlines and above all, by the Railways, has been a big driver. Given spends across travel tickets, books, movies, music, gadgets, hotel bookings, jewellery and apparel, it's obvious that e-consumers aren't lacking in a sense of adventure.

Living in a city and owning a house in a hill station is no more a dream. However,a maze of local bylaws can turn it sour for a prospective buyer.

THE NEW ACT WILL COMBINE ALL DIRECT TAXES SUCH AS INCOME TAX AND FRINGE BENEFIT TAX INTO ONE DIRECT TAX CODE

The tax rate on short-term capital gains on sale of shares will depend on whether the shares are sold through a recognised stock exchange or otherwise.

India becomes a hot market for optional vaccines.

Two years after it slammed into a US regulatory wall, Ranbaxy Laboratories, under its Japanese owners, is working the hard way to be back among the stars.

To harness the potential of innovation, companies need to understand that innovation is a discipline, and one that - while integrative - still has specific and robust elements that can be embedded within organizations and practiced routinely.

Malvinder and Shivinder Singh shocked India Inc. when they sold out Ranbaxy two summers ago. Their next stunner: build a financial giant with $100-billion assets and grow what is already Asia's biggest hospital chain.

A bevy of new businesses is raising money from the primary markets. As an investor, you can choose to be adventurous but after lots of diligence.

In the auto industry participants typically keep production up, flood the market even during a slowdown and put a discount on the vehicles.

The entry barrier of huge capital costs— people forget running costs are virtually negligible—can be addressed by innovative financial structuring.

An estimated Rs 100,000 crore might be invested in the coming five years to expand production capacity in India.

After a bruising year, an aggressive disposal of assets and going beyond non-premium housing helped Unitech bounce back.

Transparency is a standard operating procedure for communications during a downturn.

Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, CEO & President, Timex Group BV, speaks on expansion plans in India and new strategies to attract the young.

Some of India’s biggest companies - and at least one global buyout firm - have trained their sights on the 80-year-old's chemicals business.

The patriarch, who once doggedly pursued joint ventures with global majors, now wants his son and daughter to build their own tech-savvy next-gen brand.

At the close of the UPA’s last term in April, BT rated its top economic ministers. Our conclusion: the good, the not-so-good and the bad individual performances collectively drew a zero. Still, voters handed it another—stronger—mandate. Here’s where the new ministers stand for earning a 10 for UPA’s second tenure.