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Land Rover is an iconic brand in Europe, specifically in the UK – And now this brand will sport a tag of “Made in India,” according to a report in TOI. Tata Motors has done wonders to the sagging fortunes of Land Rover & Jaguar brands…

Shale gas, which is locked in organic-rich sedimentary rocks, is found below the surface between two rock formations where shale acts as source for the natural gas. Earlier, the commercial exploitation of shale gas was largely uneconomical…

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is an industry that people relate with the operation of outsourcing business mostly based in Tier I and II cities of the country. However, this thought has been rendered as a mythical view in the recent…

Better late than never! That’s the phrase that came to my mind when the Manmohan Singh government, finally, decided to partially decontrol the fuel prices yesterday in order to bring down the burden of subsidies from the increasing…

Rupee Symbol will be announced today – 5 of them are already shortlisted from thousands of entries that were received last year when the Government of India went public with the competition to design new rupee symbol. Following are the 5…

By now, I am sure you may have heard about Air Car. We had covered Tata Motors backed air car couple of years back. People have been quite interested in this clean, green air car, but it has yet to see the light of the day. Now, I doubt…

It is quite surprising to see the wealth of High Networth Individuals soaring  drastically even though we are just coming out of a global recession. Last couple of years have been tough economically through-out the world – but the wealthier…

I am sure all of us have done this one time or the other, especially employees to either save taxes / or for submitting it to the Employer for reimbursement of  House Rent Allowance, or HRA. Although, to be entitled for HRA, the…

Basketball Really? Even i was surprised but when the name Reliance is involved it does not take long to believe, does it. RIL group has signed an agreement with sports agency IMG for the formation of Indian Professional Basketball League…

Tata Nano – the car has been in the constant news either for its ultra-cheap price, petit model or the back-to-back fire incidents that gutted the vehicle more recently. Prima facie, Nano has its value deeply rooted in terms of innovation…

During the first year & half of this blog, when I was in U.S, I did miss something – Indian TV Advertisements (Ads on U.S Television are outright bland..except for a rare one..). Indian TV features all kinds of ads, many of them are…

Google has taken the numero uno position when it comes to the best companies in India to work for. The survey released jointly by Great place to Work Institute & Economic Times puts Google as the most preferred company for employment.…

In this competitive era, the corporate world is increasingly looking to squeeze in maximum possible benefits from their current set up of infrastructure and support services. If your reach is spread across the most diverse geographical…

Here are some of the buzzing stories of the last week. Number of articles were discussed quite a bit, if you have missed them…go ahead and give them a look.. Best posts of the Week Twitter has been introducing number of new features,…

Online shopping has had a rather slow and tumultuous journey in India, it has not picked up as much as it should have primarily due to the fact that internet penetration itself is quite low and  secondly (and importantly) the online…

Changing climate and growing concern over carbon emissions have led to immense focus on the development of Green/Clean technologies. It is well understood that these clean/green technologies posses the key for the future growth and…

The death sentence is out officially! India has officially discontinued use of type writers in all its day to day operations!!! Type writer is no more!! Let’s pay our last tributes to this incredible machine. For the generation who grew up…

The reconciliation between the estranged Ambani brothers was followed by the scrapping of the non-compete agreement allowing both the group companies to foray into newer industries (except that Mukesh-led companies should not venture into…

Southern India stands out when it comes to general well-being of citizens, so does Western India as compared to other parts of the Country. In eastern parts of India people lack well being, while in North India scores very low when it comes…

The much-awaited revised discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) is set in the public domain by the Manmohan Singh government. The earlier discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code Bill was released in August 2009 to receive public…