A day after Dhaka was liberated on December 16, 1971, then United States President Richard Nixon was told by his strategic advisor Henry Kissinger that he had 'saved West Pakistan', according to......
They’re a means to an end: bridges are fundamentally a way to get from point A to point B. However, as designs get bolder, bridges have also become destinations in their......
Vice-President Hamid Ansari embarks on an important Latin American visit, heralding that resource-rich continent's importance to India. Nikhil Lakshman reports. Most readers may be too young to......
Always counted among the man-made marvels of the world by its admirers, the Taj Mahal on Sunday found pride of place in a new list of seven wonders polled by people around the globe.Following are......
A host of start-ups are basing entire business models on the presumption that content creators will drive the next wave of e-commerce. Deepsekhar Choudhury reports. First it was called content-led......
India does not regard gold merely as an investment, it is also the preferred form of hoarding tax-evaded wealth, writes Shreekant Sambrani. I had recently recounted in this space stories of Arjun......
A drop in sales growth and rise in interest burden in 2005-06 have dented the net profit growth of India Inc.A Business Standard Research Bureau study of 1,450 manufacturing companies, which have......
Foreign holding in satellite radio companies may be capped to bring uniformity in foreign equity limit across various media sectors. The government is evaluating a proposal regarding this.At......
EscrowTech India, an Indo-US joint venture, has become the first company to provide professional software and technology escrow services to clients in India. The joint venture is between......