The garment manufacturing unit owners that supply and outsource readymade garments like salwar suits, shirts, nightgowns, skirts etc, to various known and popular brands of India and abroad at affordable prices are running from pillar to post to obtain land for the complex for the last 16 years.

A country liquor manufacturer is set to launch the Radisson brand in Ranchi.

The aircraft costs nearly $45 million (nearly Rs 180 crore). The company owns a 12-seater Challenger 604 and a seven-seater Cessna Citation Bravo under the fixed wing operations.

DLF has entered the elite group of companies that have a market valuation of over Rs 2 trillion.

If you are investing in equities, you should have a minimium investment tenure of three years.

In Bangalore, there are 1.05 lakh (105,000) such households, while in Mumbai there are 1 lakh (100,000) households that belong to this elite club.

The membership of the Billionaire Club has touched 533 and their combined wealth stands at Rs 12.32 lakh crore. The top five are worth over Rs 50,000 crore each.

After consumer finance and real estate, the Indiabulls Group is set to step into the retail business. Indiabulls Wholesale Services Ltd, a subsidiary of listed firm Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd, will set up 30 hypermarkets across as many smaller cities in the country in the next 15 to 18 months with an outlay of Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion).

Indians are splurging to fly high on second-hand private jets. The cost of these jets (over 75 per cent of the business jets sold in the country are second-hand), are on an average up to 50 per cent cheaper than a new aircraft.

Golf Course Road in Gurgaon symbolises smart new India like almost everything does in this Haryana boom-town. Swish, glass-cladded IT, ITeS offices; big, and bigger, malls; and a series of premium, gated residential complexes along the broad, dusty avenues here -- DLF BelAir, Parsvanath PrideAsia, EmaarMGF's Palm Springs, etcetera, etcetera. It is thus only fitting that something called "Street of Dreams" should be located along this road.

DLF Ltd is acquiring the privately-held super luxury resorts and spa chain Singapore-based Amanresorts for around $250 million.

Reader responses to our NRI message board invite. Some symphathise with Indians in diaspora, while others express displeasure.

Subhash Chandra making headlines is no longer news. For some years now it has been for his no-holds-barred feud with the Board for Control of Cricket in India.

Bharti group's Sunil Mittal retained his fourth position, followed by Wipro's Azim Premji at the fifth slot.

The boom in real estate has made it a viable career option. Institutes are running specialised courses to turn out the professionals the industry needs.

'Some funds may be redirected towards "safe" countries'

A healthier future, but for whom, ask analysts, as investors and the corporate medical sector gear up to pour money into medical cities.

India's richest real estate entrepreneur Kushal Pal Singh on Monday became the country's third trillionaire in rupee terms with a sharp rise of four per cent in his group's flagship company DLF Ltd, pushing its market value to about Rs 1,14,744 crore

Passive income can help you earn more than a crore of rupees in 40 years. The only thing is you need to do is save and invest 10 per cent of your income.

Mumbai-based real estate developer, Royal Palms, is developing Mumbai's first Gem & Jewellery Special Economic Zones on a private land at an expenditure of Rs 400 crore.

These folks are insanely rich at a relatively young age.

Leading developer Ansal Housing and Construction Ltd is expecting a turnover of about Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) from its upcoming residential project in Haryana in the next 3-4 years.

Every year Gujarat is seeing a growth of 230 per cent in terms of people opting for golf as a leisure activity, or even professionally at times.

Chief executives are increasingly on the receiving end of some lush lifetime compensation deals.

The government is reviewing norms for investments by foreign venture capital funds in real estate, after the Reserve Bank of India coming round to the view that such funding is helping create an asset bubble in the sector.

According to a Credit Suisse report, Indian GDP at the current price level of the rupee (Rs 40.76 per $) stands at $1trillion. The strengthening rupee has now made India the 12th country to achieve this milestone.

As daunting as the prospect of public scrutiny and taxman inquisition is, India's wealthy seem to have a steadily expanding list of top-dollar extravagances.

Whether it is jumping from a plane at 10,000 feet or just working away at his latest hospitality project, real estate tycoon Vicky, as Oberoi is fondly known to friends, believes in having fun.

L N Mittal, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, and Azim Premji are among the 8 Indians who figure in the Forbes magazine's list of 100 richest people in the world.

The finance minister appears to be harking back to the seventies and eighties by prevailing on cement and steel manufacturers to hold the price line despite the hit they'll take on margins.

We gauge the Pune market and finds that real estate developers are queuing up for a slice of India's next boom town.

But is there adequate demand for this abundance of IT office space set to hit the markets, especially with the three bandhs that took place in a single month, December?

Even as India Inc lines up billions of dollars to invest in the country's retail sector, murmurs have arisen of fuzzy revenue models and a possible capacity glut.

The Indian real estate market is expected grow from the current level of $14 billion to $102 billion in the next 10 years

Since the bull run began in May 2003, the Sensex has gone up by 367%. The MoneyLIFE Index of lifestyle stocks has gone up by 507%. A major bull market for leisure, lifestyle and entertainment stocks has just begun.

The Indian capital markets continued the flamboyant journey in the fifth successive year and the bellwether Sensex entered into the elite 10k-club, rewriting history in many spheres during the year 2006.

Much demand and little supply has created a real estate frenzy throughout the country.

These days, there simply isn't enough housing in the area, with so many industries coming in.

Prospective buyers should look at peripheral location where infrastructural developments are happening that can be classified as growth corridors of the city.

South Africa beat India by 106 runs in the third ODI go 2-0 up in the five-match series.