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Dream your way to success

14 Sep 2012 | Marc Le Menestrel

It’s not all about business plans and spreadsheets and getting to the next goal. The picture of real success is at least partly in your mind.

A paradigm shift will help solar energy gain its rightful place

13 Sep 2012 | Om Prakash Periwal

With about 250-300 clear, sunny days in a year, India's potential to generate solar power far exceeds its current domestic requirements.

GAAR & the future of Funds in India – Another lifeline!

07 Sep 2012 | Anil Talreja

There is a clear signal to the government to amend its laws to make it tax friendly in the backdrop of bringing in certainty to investors.

Banksters: The scandals continue

05 Sep 2012 | N. Craig Smith

Is there something about banking that attracts people who readily adopt a practice of “casual dishonesty”?

The Indian consumer: Bloodied but not broken as yet

04 Sep 2012 | Rakshit Ranjan

Consumer demand and premiumisation trends have remained strong in Jul-Aug 2012 in a few categories, a B2C distributor survey shows.

GDP: Growth at decadal low

03 Sep 2012 | Sujan Hajra

The broad-based and prolonged investment slowdown, especially the sluggish corporate and manufacturing investment, clouds India’s growth prospects.

Indian IT cos' sales & profits up, valuations down

27 Aug 2012 | Gaurav Sharma

Going forward top tier IT companies would need to focus on very large acquisitions that significantly add to skill sets, establish deeper domain experience and develop or acquire IP of significant value.

India: July inflation at sub-7%! Too good to be true?

14 Aug 2012 | Siddhartha Sanyal

In a way, even though the sub-7% headline inflation print for July 2012 remained markedly lower than expectations, one needs to be careful about trends in the same in subsequent months.

RBI continues to spring surprises - holds repo rate, cuts SLR

31 Jul 2012 | Siddhartha Sanyal & Rahul Bajoria

The bigger surprise came in the form of a 100bp cut in banks' statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) requirements, which was reduced to 23% of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL).

Crowd funding - A panacea for startups in India?

26 Jul 2012 | Prashant Kataria

The need of the hour is for the Indian government and regulators to carve out specific exemptions for crowd funding with effective checks and balances.

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