'I get enormous pleasure from seeing the uplift of an underprivileged or poor person.''I feel elated when I walk on the street and see someone who pushes a handcart talking on a cell phone.'A......
Vickram Bedi will be tried before a New York court on Thursday for allegedly defrauding a Grammy Award-winning musician of millions of dollars. But the facts of the case sound like the plot of......
I was the currency officer atthe Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, in 1982 when Dr Manmohan Singh was appointed governor.Before leaving for Mumbai, he wanted to visit the Delhi office's currency......
Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies has rejigged his equity portfolios. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com In his Asia ex-Japan long-only portfolio, he has added Axis......
'Oil companies like IOC, BPCL and HPCL have to set up world class systems where they are always two steps ahead of the crooks,' says Sudhir Bisht, a veteran of the petroleum industry. Nine years......
The dollar moved higher, while prices for US government debt fell, as traders ramped up bets the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in March US payrolls surged in December and the job......
The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter on solid domestic demand, showing fairly strong momentum that could still allow the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates......
The Fed has kept overnight rates near zero since December 2008. Officials from the US central bank will meet on June 16-17. US job growth accelerated sharply in May and wages picked up, signs of......
The 'Made in Nigeria' label has been decidedly shunned at the All-African Games in Africa's most populous nation. Everything, from cooks and T-shirts has been imported for the occasion.Even the......