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Top 10 Tax-saving Instruments for Investors!
Let me share with you a small personal tryst with investment in Equity-linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) for tax-saving purposes. Since I track stock markets closely, my preference is usually tilted towards direct equity investments rather than…
Movie rental in India falls flat before even taking off? [Media Monday]
That’s a question I have been asking people for quite sometime, not before I asked it on Quora (How Indian Movie rental services are doing? Subscription numbers for services like bigflix.com and seventymm.com?) and it was Sidharth’s answer…
Can cloning seeds solve India’s food problems?
Cloning has for long been there in the west in some way or the other whether for humans or for crops. The result has been a large variety of genetically modified foods (GM Foods) which have flooded the Western market over the years.…
Five Marketing Blunders you must avoid!
Marketing is one of most treacherous of all the business disciplines I know. Check out 5 of the most dangerous marketing blunders businessmen and entrepreneurs make: Blunder 1 – Believing that ‘Advertising is marketing’! In the year…
Top 10 facts about ICC Cricket World Cup !
We are just one day away from Cricket world cup Extravaganza. The cricket fever has gripped the nation. Most of the cricket fanatics know most of the when’s and where’s and who’s and how’s and why’s of this Tournament. All such data is…
Twitter – “not for sale”…
Internet is buzz with reports that Twitter may be acquired by Google. However, Dick Costolo, Twitter Chief Executive dismissed the talk of $10 Billion deal with Google as “Rumor” during his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress. But he…
India witnesses fierce Mobile Internet growth!
More than a decade ago, owning a mobile phone was a luxury. Not any more, though! In fact, now we expect every known person to own a cell phone as a basic necessity of life. This is called revolution – the cellular services have rendered…
DTH+3G: Can it bring the next big revolution? [Media Monday]
These days I’m in Mumbai, and as I entered here while coming from Delhi I found almost every slum house on the way fitted with Airtel DTH. That’s some awesome thing, isn’t? DTH subscribers are over 20 Million now and guess what? It added 10…
MMS Culture – Tentacles spread far and wide in Indian society!
This is not strictly a Business post, but I thought it would be interesting for readers, so putting it across... We have always been known to adopt things from the West from the fast food culture to the dressing styles to lot many other…
Enrollments in Indian Schools surge, but Performance drops!
Year 2010 has been a revolutionary one for the Indian education industry. The HRD ministry holds high ambitions for the industry to be taken at the global level to make it competitive and performance-oriented. In the year that passed by,…
Target Students – DRDO’s new strategy!
India is shining. The economy is shining and growth rates are shining too. Though FDI has gone down over the last year and there are many problems from inflation to black money and corruption, knowing our country, it will be fool hardy to…
Top 10 stocks to pick up in this falling market!
They say – stock markets are always right. But, then, they’re equally weird as well! Don’t you agree? Let me give you a glaring example on this. In its Q3 performance, IT bellwether Infosys Technologies posted 14% jump in net profit to…
App Bazar – World’s first India-centric Android app store coming up!
Google’s Android OS has finally crossed Nokia’s Symbian OS as the most shipped and most famous OS in the world. With this many more opportunities begin for upcoming Android centric phones as well as app developers in this field. For a…
Now Obama urges US businesses to feed on Indian Middle-class Population!
Well, you can say it’s almost an about-turn! The US President Barack Obama has come up with a view which now urges US business groups to target burgeoning middle-class population of India and China to seek demand for their products and…
Top 10 Expectations from Union budget 2011-12!
It’s back to February, the month of Union Budget – a blueprint for the allocation of finances for the ensuing year; and the ways and means of getting towards it. Though, this important document is framed in utter privacy starting few…
Govt to Allow more Television Channels – A boon or a bane?
How many TV channels do you watch on an average? 10?... 15?... 20?... 25?... Certainly not more than that, for sure. So, do we still have any scope for new television channel launches in India? Yes, of course! Over the last few years,…
Cricket World Cup is here – And so is ambush marketing!!
To the connoisseurs of the game who are dead against players doing anything else other than playing cricket, this article isn’t for you. Obviously there is no discussion regarding cricket but instead marketing and advertising. And no…
wow…Govt goes hi-tech! 12th Five Year Plan uses Web & Facebook for citizen Feedback!
I like this – I really like this. The next five year plan will be drafted with inputs and feedback from citizens like you and me – And to get that feedback, Planning Commission has not only setup an interactive website, but also Facebook…
Bharti Airtel Net Profit slips by 41% – but Outlook positive!
Bharti Airtel commenced its journey in India more than a decade ago with a promise of delivering world-class and affordable services. Now, the company has fulfilled those aspirations and moves on to the global stage with a new brand…
Top 10 reasons why Indian economic Growth may slowdown in 2011! [Part 2]
In the 1st part of the article on “Indian Economic Growth may slowdown in 2011” – we saw how high inflation, slow reformist movement, earnings slowdown, high fiscal deficit and volatile industrial growth can hamper the future growth…