Companies that use technology to improve farm production and distribution are attracting investor interest.

Taking precautions in the wake of IMD's forecast warning of a heavy downpour over the weekend, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has cancelled leaves of all the senior employees.

Big data and analytics can also help improve traffic management in addition to just monitoring pollution levels.

Banks and asset reconstruction companies are saddled with large number of such complex assets. When there is a huge difference between the book value and market value who will take the hair-cut?

Luxury hotels capture the minutest of details about guests. Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, for instance, records each detail of guests, including food/beverage preferences, allergies, housekeeping needs and preferred room temperature. Still, there are demands that leave them stumped.

Its steepest bull run in years has seen prices of U.S. raw sugar, the global price benchmark, more than double in less than a year, making one of the smallest commodity markets one of the best performing so far this year, outpacing two of the biggest, gold and oil.

In the last fortnight, investors across the globe were busy speculating the ultimate result of the EU referendum. All the polls and initial vote count showed a major lead in 'remain' camp.

Opinion polls have suggested that while big business is broadly in favour of staying in the EU, small firms have been evenly split in what looks like a photo-finish with one poll showing \"Remain\" at 45 per cent and \"Leave\" 44 per cent, with 11 per cent undecided.

That would mark the first time the nation has been a net importer of the sweetener in four years, with the switch likely to support global prices that have already been rising this year.