Elections 2009: Let the games begin

Imagine Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani working out and pumping iron before competing against......

Microfinance: A boon for slum-dwellers

Susheelma, an illiterate daily wage worker, and her husband were struggling to make ends meet. She wanted to be self-employed, but banks and money-lenders refused to lend without collateral.......

Rich farmers are helping India Inc mint money

An extraordinarily good monsoon has left farmers with extra money in their pockets. Companies eye this bounty as they move their focus away from slumping urban markets. The community hall in the......

Apollo to open four more SUGAR Clinics

The Apollo Group of Hospitals is planning to add four more SUGAR Clinics, its value-added service for diabetes management and care, in Hyderabad in a couple of months, according to Sudhir Diggikar,......

Rich-poor divide comes to fore at biodiversity meet

It was a virtual throwback to the rhetoric of the North-South divide. As the delegates at the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity here struggled to arrive at an agreement on how to find......

Mahindra Satyam raises salary 7-12%

Hyderabad-based consulting, IT services and engineering solutions provider Mahindra Satyam has started doling out wage rises in the range of 7-12 per cent for employees across the board."The......