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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…

With more than 450,000 twitter followers, Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra Group certainly seems to be leading the way in using social media to reach out to the masses. A quick look at Anand Mahindra's Twitter…

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…

Better late than never! The much need Voice over Internet (VOIP) services have been approved by the Indian Telecom Commission and will be released in National Telecom Policy 2012 as per Mint, who have reviewed an internal DoT memo in…

True to the announcement made during Railway Budget that focus of this year’s budget would be Safety and Cleanliness - Indian Railways have made an announcement that the trains may soon get real-time GPS tracking system to avoid accidents!…

As a shareholder how many times have you actually bothered to sift through companies' annual reports packed with data, numbers, facts, information? Unless you are a Chartered Accountant, a Finance professional or someone who holds deep…

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…

According to statistics released by iPaidabribe.com, Bangalore comes out on top as the most bribed city in India. This is quite a surprising statistic, as one may have thought it would be either of the two metros, Delhi or Mumbai, who would…

Mystery shopping has been around in India for almost a decade now. For the uninitiated, it is a method of market research used by corporates or smaller businesses as a metric for the quality of their products and services, usually within…

I don’t like Rafael Nadal the Spanish world number 2 tennis player, but I still own a Babolat, a brand of tennis racquets that he endorses. Strange isn’t it, if I don’t like Rafa why do I play with a racquet he endorses? Similarly there…

In his Union budget 2012 speech, Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee started off by identifying 5 objectives relating to Growth, Investment, Supply bottlenecks, Governance and removing Malnutrition. Yet, he signed off with a warning that…

Today is the big day - Union Budget 2012-13 will be announced today starting in about an hours time. You are lucky if you have access to TV through the day, however it is difficult for a working professional to have access to Television to…

India is a unique country that has ability of surprising foreigner on pretty much every step. Indian retail sector is noticeably different compared to the one in Europe. While living in India, I was pleasantly surprised of how efficient…

The end of the financial year is upon us and fervent calls to chartered accountants and tax planners are bound to me made. If you want to avoid calling your accountant for knowing a few quick answers, put your Android smartphone to good use…

Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi was in a rather poetic mood today, while he announced his maiden Railway Budget 2012 speech. Clearly, his main focus is to achieve safety, modernization, consolidation and decongestion & capacity…

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.…

Employee expectations are a tricky thing to deal with. Too much will probably ruin a company's profitability while too less could result in high employee turnover. So how does a company or a manger manage employee expectations? Let's take a…

I am sure most of you must have read news one time or the other about the brutal punishments meted out to students in many schools in India. In my personal opinion, this is one of the worst ways to discipline a child. In most western…

The global stock markets are somewhat out of the woods – and this has thrown up some interesting set of numbers in terms of list of the world’s richest people. However, there is a twist in the tale – until now, we were familiar with the…