Growth

Recent research figures released by Ipsos, a world leader in market research, for the month of March 2012 pegged India to be the 2nd most economically confident country. More Indians believe that the current economic situation in India is…

Finally after 2 years of continuous upward revisions RBI, in its annual monetary policy for 2012-13, slashed the policy interest rates by 50 basis points surprising analysts and markets. They were expecting a rate cut of 25 bps, but RBI…

GSMA India has come out with a report that puts forth some interesting growth numbers for mobile Broadband connections in India. According to the press release India is slated to become 2nd largest Mobile Broadband market globally in next…

There was a ray of hope for the industry and investors alike when automobile companies reported record sales for the month of March 2012, as compared to March last year. Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor…

About a decade back, this discussion about women bosses in the Indian workforce may have been irrelevant. Today, India Inc has woken up to a surreal surge of women executives taking reigns of companies, departments and organizations and are…

Doomsayers and critics have made sweeping statements about how Samsung have caused the decline of Nokia and are on their way to beat Nokia’s supremacy in the mobile phone industry. However, latest press releases from PTI have declared Nokia…

The ‘B’-Day is approaching soon. But, the budget session of the Parliament has kicked off in a style with President Pratibha Patil’s addressing a joint session with unprecedented statistical figures about Indian economy, late morning today.…

While India has been struggling with double digit Inflation for past 3-4 years, it still boasts some of the cheapest cities in the world. Within India, Mumbai & Delhi are some of the most expensive cities to reside in, primarily due to…

Gujarat attracted maximum investment proposals compared to any of the 20 industrial states in India. According to the recent study undertaken by ASSOCHAM, Gujarat attracted investment proposals of Rs 16.28 lakh crore in year 2011. After…

Globally, Smartphone Market grew 61% in 2011 with total shipment volumes reaching 491.4 million units in 2011, a whopping increase of over 304.7 million units in 2010! Smartphones are replacing features phones at much faster rate than…

IDC recently released stats on Worldwide Smartphone market and its growth has beaten analysts expectations as well. According to the the IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, Smartphone manufacturers shipped 157.8 million units in 4Q11…

Let me ask you three questions. Question 1: Do you have high savings? Question 2: Do you save at the expense of putting off critical purchases? Question 3: Do you think that is good for the economy? Well if the answer to the…

India has added close to 11 Million Facebook users in last 6 months and has now beaten Indonesia to have the 2nd largest userbase on Facebook. According to stats revealed by Social Bakers, a social analytics company, India now has 43.5…

While doing business in India may not be the easiest (this doesn’t in anyway mean that India cannot improve its business friendly policies and initiatives), but it definitely is a place to be in for the future. And as business is a game of…

The power of social media has still not been harnessed in Indian classrooms as much as it should be. Schools and educational institutions are busy banning Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms rather than seeing how they can be…

According to the latest report released by Comscore, 60% of all Indian internet users visited a Online Ecommerce site in November 2011, with the number of online shoppers increasing 18 percent in the past year. Over past 1 year, coupon or…

Imagine that you are at this restaurant and the waiter puts two glasses in front of you. In glass number one he pours a dark liquid from an unmarked jug. In glass number 2 he pours a similar dark liquid but this time it is from a bottle…

Mobile Banking is the future of financial transactions going forward - With over 800 million Indian users carrying mobile phones, it becomes an ubiquitous platform to push financial inclusion across the masses. It is expected that Mobile…

Draft National Policy on Electronics was released on October 3rd and it promises to bring about changes that will bring about a major fillip to the Electronic sector in India. Electronics Industry is one of the fastest growing in the world…

The world is not only grappling with Economic Crisis, but an environment disaster as well. According to recent information released by UN based organization, year 2011 has been recorded as worst year for green house gases. If we go along…