Explosive global business growth has raised a huge cry for talented top leaders, and with that, the need for highly skilled coaches. Professional coaches, who can prepare leaders to come through as peak ...

An Israeli embassy car on Monday exploded close to the mission here in a suspected coordinated terror attack after a car bomb involving an Israeli embassy vehicle in Georgian capital of Tbilisi was defused.According ...

The Reserve Bank of India's victory in reversing a sharp decline in the rupee may be short-lived and the currency will remain vulnerable unless the problems of a hefty fiscal and current account deficit ...

The international economic outlook is showing tentative signs of improvement, with the momentum shift spreading from the United States and Japan to other developed countries, the OECD's December survey ...

An estimated $500 billion (nearly Rs 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money of Indians is deposited in tax havens abroad, CBI Director A P Singh disclosed in New Delhi on Monday.Speaking at the inauguration ...

The Chief Executive Officer of LSI Corporation, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, Abhijit Talwalkar, 47 has topped the tech journal Dataquest's list of 'Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers'. ...

The BSE Sensex edged 0.14 per cent higher after a choppy trading session on Monday, as hopes of stability in Greece improved global risk appetite and offset weak corporate earnings at home.The main 30-share ...

India is weighing plans to route sales of iron ore through a firm, the latest of several steps aimed at curbing illegal mining as the country struggles to shape a lasting policy balancing exports against ...

A look at the recommendations of India Inc in the field of education. Dr Santanu Paul, CEO, TalentSprint A National Vocational Education Loan Scheme Needed : Large scale skill development and vocational ...

Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured ...

Asian shares and the euro gained on Monday after Greece came a step closer to securing a much-needed bailout fund and avoiding a messy default, though most of the recent optimism appeared to have been ...

French retailer Auchan has held talks with Dubai-based Landmark Group for a possible joint venture in India, the Times of India reported on Monday.A deal would depend on whether India moves ahead with ...

State Bank of India, the country's biggest lender, beat market expectations with a 15 per cent rise in third-quarter net profit as interest income rose.State-run SBI, which is exposed to some of India's ...

Lured by 30 per cent sales growth over the past two fiscal years, carmakers have pledged Rs 29,400 crore to almost double India's annual production to more than 6 million vehicles. But now sales growth ...

HSBC has downgraded Reliance Communications after the company's quarterly results to 'under weight' from 'neutral' and cut target price to 80 rupees from 92 rupees.Third quarter minutes growth for the ...

A former GE veteran, Tyagarajan is leading Genpacts transformation from a business process management services provider to an all-round IT player with consulting and IT-enabled services among its portfolio. ...

Not very long ago, during an informal interaction with a media outlet, Pramod Bhasin, the then managing director and chief executive officer of Gurgaon-headquartered Genpact, was all praise for New York ...

Once there lived a young boy in Miami. Every evening, he would sit with his single mother and the rest of his family to watch television serials and would let himself happily fly into another world away ...

T.N. Srinivasans contribution to economics has been remarkable. And this book, a collection of four of his talks, reflects his key arguments. Tracing the progress of the economy over the past six decades, ...

Days after the Supreme Court cancelled 122 licences for 2G spectrum, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday held consultations with senior Cabinet colleagues on its impact on overall telecom sector ...

Riding on the success story of social networking sites such as Facebook which is expected to become a 100-billion-dollar firm after it gets listed this year are incredibly diverse kinds of professionals ...

Y vo de Boer , former secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and KPMG Special Global Advisor speaks to BW's Yashodhara Dasgupta about the development and the inclusion of private sector ...

R. K. Pachauri , Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director General of The Energy and Research Institute (TERI), spoke to BW's Yashodhara Dasgupta about where India stands ...

Pico projectors, or pocket projectors as theyre more commonly referred to, have always walked a fine line, much like any other ultra-miniaturised product. Make them too small, and they typically scrimp ...

W hat does sustainable development mean to your country?Sustainable development is actually a notion that is poorly mastered/grasped even by the decision-makers and particularly, it is little known to ...

D efine sustainable development? It is when you have development and economic growth in a society that is good for both social cohesion and for environmental cohesion. They are both key components to making ...

W hat does sustainable development mean to you?Sustainable development means being able to continuing what we're doing now even for the generations to come. I want to make sure that I manage the water ...

Flush with funds after the sale of his formulations business for Rs 17,000 crore, Ajay Gopikrishna Piramal has made yet another investment this time to raise his flagship Piramal Healthcares stake in Vodafone.On ...

H ow would you define sustainable development?It is to have everything in place and to consider the next generation. To use things today, we also have to have something for the next generation for them ...

Trai to recommend base price of up to Rs 8,285 crore for 6.2 MHz as per May 2010 suggestionBanks unlikely to entertain funding of additional cost of spectrum/licence 2-3 fringe players or their foreign ...

Stimulating the brain with an electrical current can improve memory, says a new study. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles studied seven volunteers with epilepsy who already had electrodes ...

W hat does sustainable development mean to you?For sustainable development, first of all, we need to have all three dimensions together - social, economic and environmental. It's when we have these working ...

The budget is just about four weeks away and when finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says he is losing sleep over rising subsidies, you know what that signals. Subsidies may cross the budget estimate of ...

After two-and-a half years of existence in the online electronics retailing space, Letsbuy.com founders Hitesh Dhingra and Amanpreet Bajaj realised they were burning cash faster than they were making it. ...

W hat is sustainable development?Sustainability is about a community that is living within its means. Living within your means used to be in terms of income. Ultimately, it means family, community, state ...

On 2 February, the Supreme Court cancelled 122 telecom licences granted by former telecom minister A. Raja, and ordered that fresh licences be auctioned off. The ruling has stirred a debate on whether ...

We will end annus horribilis (FY2011-12) with a growth rate of 6.9 per cent, says the Central Statistical Organisation. It is quite a fall from the 8.4 per cent of FY2010-11. A tight money policy, high ...

In a bid to turn profitable independent of its parent, Air India Express is keen on returning or subleasing four of its fleet of 21 B737-800 aircraft and reducing the revenue sharing with Air India from ...

W hat does sustainable development mean in the context of Maldives? What it really means for us is that we continue to use the resources that we have but we use it in the extent and in a manner that we ...

Yawn, yawn, yawn. Last week, I came across what must be the nth report on Air India (we need a Wikipedia on these) and its possible turnaround plan. This one is a critique of the latest plan prepared by ...

Courts of justice do not usually have much use for economics; as an economist, I should be happy that the Supreme Court has made use of it in the recent telecommunications judgment. When it cancelled the ...

Consider this: HCL Technologies has a three-level exhaustive exit interview to prevent attrition. In addition to this, the company has a retention council which works to retain high performance employees. ...

H ow is the concept of sustainable development been accepted in Ethiopia?When, as an environmentalist, I was asked to form a conservation team for Ethiopia, to design a way to deal with environmental issues, ...

W hat does sustainable development meaning in the context of Pakistan? For us, it is the kind of development that we can take into the future and leave for our children a better world. But it hasn't been ...

Tata Steel, the world's No. 7 steelmaker, expects demand recovery in its key European market to be volatile, but is hopeful the situation may improve in the second half of the coming fiscal year that begins ...

The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), India's country's biggest commodity bourse by turnover, plans to launch an initial public offering on February 21 to raise up to $125 million, two sources with direct ...

Reliance Communications reported a 61 per cent fall in quarterly profit -- its 10th straight quarter of declining earnings, but in line with market estimates -- as the country's second-biggest mobile phone ...

The robust growth momentum in India through the course of 2011 was plagued by numerous challenges both on the domestic as well as external fronts. The domestic environment has been clouded by several concerns ...