Kolkata: At a time when most Indian firms have cut costs to improve bottom lines in a sluggish economic environment, a select few are taking a different route and investing substantially on developin

“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”— Jawaharlal Nehru

When the UPA-II was sworn in, there was great hope that the ‘dream team’ of Manmohan Singh, P. Chida-mbaram and bure

A Reserve Bank ‘intervention’ has taken the shine out of the firms extending finance against pledged gold, and made things difficult for people banking on these firms for such loans. Customers will no

*Name: Krishna Ram
* Job: Executive
*Age: 30 years
*Dependants: None
*Income: Rs12 lakh/year

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Mr Krishna Ram is aged 30 years and is employed with a manufacturing co

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said economic slowdwon in the country is a matter of concern but it should be viewed as a short-term phenomenon in the backdrop of the slowdown in the industrialised Western world.