Finance hub? Budget may snub Mumbai

Many financial sector reforms suggested by the Percy Mistry Committee on making Mumbai an international financial centre may not figure in Budget 2008-09. Finance ministry officials say the......

Mumbai needs a fully empowered 'manager'

If India is to have an international finance centre, it will emerge in a city that is already India's domestic financial fulcrum. In looking at infrastructure and governance, the MIFC Report leans......

Mumbai a finance hub: The right path?

A High-Powered Expert Committee (HPEC), set up by the Ministry of Finance, submitted its report on making Mumbai an International Financial Centre (IFC) in February 2007. The report and other......

The Mystery Report

One fine October morning nearly 36 years ago two young Indians landed up at the personnel department (now would be called HR) of the World Bank in Washington to sign on for the Bank's Young......