From September 2007, when a tax notice was first issued to Vodafone, to January 2012, when the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict, the Vodafone case has been by far controversy’s favourite child! Shailesh Haribhakti writes.
In the past few days, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro, India's top three information technology service companies, have produced decent quarterly profit numbers.
N Madhavan writes.
Welcome to the hyper-information era. There is so much information around us that we don't know how to handle it anymore. Tirthankar Dash writes.
At the end of the year, I generally write about how the returns of the various categories of mutual funds and other investments have been during the year.
I am a single mother and have two sons aged 8 and 10. My annual income is Rs 8 lakh. I can save around Rs 20,000 per month. I have a fixed deposit of Rs 2 lakh and a few investments in mutual funds which will sum up to Rs 3 lakh. Surya Bhatia says.
Brands have always reflected the socio-cultural themes of our times. Ashish Mishra writes.
You know of home delivery when it comes to pizzas. But can you imagine doing your banking on Facebook? The day has come — and with it come profound questions on work-life separation in the age of the always-on Internet. N Madhavan writes.
From a savings and investments perspective, the big news of the moment is not from the usual suspects like the stock markets and funds but tax-free bonds from the National Highway Authority of India. Dhirendra Kumar writes.
Events over the past few days raised questions in my mind on the future of the Internet. N Madhavan writes.
In the good old days when digitalisation was a distant nightmare, brands had it good and consumer had it bad. You would call up your cell phone company. Vent over a problem. Get a complaint number and visit the closest temple hoping you would get a reply. Swapan Seth writes.
Not for the first time, SEBI chairman UK Sinha has called upon mutual funds to actively get into the pension funds business. Such products would fill a serious gap that is there in the range of retail financial products that are available, writes
Dhirendra Kumar.
Looking back at 2011, we could describe it as a great year for democracy — both on and offline. While the Arab Spring brought down totalitarian regimes, both in India and the US, anti-government protesters stood up for economic justice. N Madhavan writes.
Amongst equity analysts, there’s a great deal of talk nowadays about the markets’ valuation levels and what they say about the investment prospects. Broadly, lower valuation levels (indicated by a lower PE ratio) are supposed to provide an indication that compared to their profit levels, the price levels of stocks are cheap enough to invest in.
There are very thick lines between average, good and great brands. Between the memorable, the faintly forgettable and the magically missable. Swapan Seth writes.
How do you calculate the value of a US dollar in rupees? The old style is to look up the exchange rate and then multiply it, usually on a calculator.
N Madhavan writes.