Corporate India, which has grown globally in stature, is still a far cry from the professional management as family-owned monoliths in the country still prefer insiders and relatives
Indo-Asian News Service: Shrinking Himalayan glaciers will turn the Ganga in India and the Yangtze in China into seasonal rivers that dry up in summers, massively reducing grain harvests, and may cause "politically unmanageable food shortages" in the region, a leading US environmental expert has warned. Climate-driven shrinkage of river-based irrigation water supplies in China and India, which produce half of the world's wheat and rice, could be "civilisation-threatening". The scary scenario can become a reality ...
A deepwater pipeline designed to transport large quantities of natural gas `economically` from the Gulf region to India, straight across the Indian ocean is now feasible, an expert has said.
The emerging markets, which have been dragged down by a US slowdown, dizzy oil prices and shock inflation, may rebound in the third quarter, led by Russia and Brazil.
It is not by accident that the most violent clashes in Kerala in recent times have been the Muthanga adivasi struggle in Wayanad and the communal flare-ups in coastal Maradu. Kerala’s famed model of development left the tribal-dominated hills and the coastal fisher communities socially, politically and economically marginalised, leaving the coast clear for communal forces to enter