
In the recently published Hindustan Times-MaRS Consumer Satisfaction Survey covering 1,330 respondents across 10 Indian cities, Kingfisher Airlines barely edged past rival Jet Airways to the top position...

The latest Global Relocation Report from Brookfield GRS shows that China is the top relocation destination, cited by 19% of respondents. This was followed by United States cited by 17% and India ranked third at 11%. But many such expatriate placements fail...

Tata Chemicals is challenging Unilever’s India unit for the world lowest cost home water purifier, based on a rice husk ash filter. ...

Sir Ben Kingsley, who played the the title role in 1982’s Oscar-winning Gandhi (and much less remembered role in the worst movie of the 21st Century so far, the Love Guru) is soon to be seen in a Bollywood movie, Teen Patti ( three cards, or three-card poker). ...

A tablet device named Adam, designed by Notion Ink a startup, located in Hyderabad India, is capturing a tremendous amount of buzz in the lead up to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. Based on Google’s Android operating system. ...

India’s factory output rose 10.3 percent in October from a year earlier as government stimulus measures and domestic demand pushed Asia’s third-largest economy into its 10th straight month of industrial expansion. Th...

Pop sensation Britney Spears is visiting “God’s Own Country“, also known as the state of Kerala on India’s southern Malabar coast for her New Year’s eve celebrations. Forbes’ ...

The global production of banana is estimated at 48.9 million tonnes out of which 10.4 million tonnes, is contributed by India...

Growing up in north India, I was one of the few to attend a school with an American principal. I got to enjoy the prose of Mark Twain and the poetry of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. Whitman did not make much sense to back then. But re-reading his work in my current context as [...]

While half of India’s women are illiterate and many who are in poverty have little power and freedom, a different picture emerges at the highest echelons of power and education in the country. In politics, government and in corporate boardrooms women abound. ...

Michigan ice skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White’s have created a unique, Indian-themed original dance that is a hit all over the globe via YouTube and has deserved mention in the New York Times and an AP wire story. ...

India ranked 45th in the internationally respected 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index – which embraces social and political data to provide a wider measure of national success. ...

When Indians speak English, there is occasionally a tendency to say “few” when what is meant is “a few” or to say “little” when the intended meaning is “a little”. The indefinite article “a” does not exist in languages such as Hindi. Often this little ...

My book on Doing Business in India was published over a year ago. Major media and the public at large have been very kind to it and it is now established as the “go-to” primer on the subject, far ahead of other books on similar themes. I’ve been blessed to be mentioned in sources as [...]














