As the markets slide to 4 month lows and poor Q4 results project a grim outlook for the Indian economy in 2012. However United Nations, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) report outlines defining factors that project…

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…

BSE Sensex is back to its winning habit – the Indian benchmark index has crossed a key psychological resistance of 18000 to be comfortably perched at the highest level since August 2011, backed by emergence of favorable macroeconomic…

Before answering the question as to where are interest rates headed, let us first try and understand what determines interest rates and how it affects us. Well as we know that interest rates are determined by RBI, with help of tools like…

Here is a quick wrap-up of some of the buzzing posts of last week that were published on Trak.in & TGF. Inflation has been so high so consistently that Indians have no choice but to get used to it. The only thing they can do is…

Not all of us are informed and aware of the terms that are used in a home loan or how a home loan will affect our lives in the future. People who are not from a finance background may not even understand some of the most basic home loan…

Inflation is currently the worst nightmare for the Indian finance ministry and despite interest rate hikes, things don’t look very good. Even during the 2008 recession, when the developed countries were struggling with a bleeding economy,…

For a long time there have been questions on India's ability to retain its talent. The fact that countries like U.S. provide better opportunities for both studies as well as jobs gave way to unabated brain drain with India ending up on the…

Apparently it is already a reality. Bombay High court has suggested that wage hike has to take into consideration the price rises in basic commodities. HUL workers union was the first beneficiary where Bombay High Court directed the…

It is strange, but looks like India is not able to keep up with world when it comes to competitiveness - For 3rd straight year, India has fallen on competitiveness rankings. In 2009, India ranked 49th amongst 142 global economies in…