With Japan and Canada partnering and 120 countries including USA,UK, Australia and the Netherlands participating,the 6th edition of India’s biggest global trade show in Gandhinagar last mont h spread over a la k h sqm displaying 25000 global products had only one underlying theme – "A Vibrant Gujarat".

07/02/2013 Finance Minister Chidambaram has always been delight for business journalists. Come the annual budget and he ensures a host of headlines in the run up through strategic sound bites fuelling speculation of what announcements can be expected at the…

01/02/2013 What goes up and never comes down? The conventional answer would be age. A more insightful one would be the enthusiasm of the buyer on the stock markets. Last year saw economies across the world being put to test.…

01/02/2013 The year 2012 was a year of anger in India – starting with Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement (a follow up of 2011), involving a series of country-wide protests intended to enforce accountability through a strong legislation – the Jan…

01/02/2013 The last fortnight of 2012 woke up Delhi and India to the country’s callous attitude towards women. The gang-rape of a 23 year old medical student that shook the sensibilities of Indians across the globe, made apparent the lack…

26/11/2011 Remember Red Riding Hood ? The fairy tale about the girl who walks through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother and is deceived by the wolf who wants to consume her. She is saved by a…

11/11/2011 As a lazy cub reporter one of the greatest joys was to get a simple story that was bound to make the headlines - like the one that did last week - petrol prices on a high five (…

5/11/2011 Nine months is what it takes a mother to have a daughter. Typically,thirty times that, is what it takes for that daughter to become a mother. India is different; it has taken 54 years. The last time the name…

19/10/2011 Last week the RBI warned banks to check bad loans. This follows the downgrading of SBI by Moody's, yet another interest rate hike and a caution by CRISIL on the impending slowdown. There was a special word of caution…

12/10/11 So what do Steve Jobs, Bob Dylan  and Warren Buffet have in common. For one they are successful American Icons. More importantly, each of them have been advocates of change – through their work, words and worth (wealth) respectively.…