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India moves to stem inflation with futures ban (08 May 09:45) |
| India has extended its futures trading ban to four more food commodities despite warnings, including from the government appointed market regulator, that such measures will do nothing to que... |
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Thain warns retail banks on subprime (08 May 12:15) |
| The pain from the subprime crisis has largely worked its way through the investment banking world but might only be just beginning for retail lenders, John Thain, chief executive of Merrill ... |
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Alibaba.com set to take top spot in India (07 May 09:35) |
| Alibaba.com, China's biggest business-to-business website, on Tuesday said it was poised to become India's top online marketplace by number of users as it launches its first major overseas e... |
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India futures ban mere 'posturing' (07 May 07:10) |
| India's threat to impose a blanket ban on agricultural commodities futures trading would not ease food prices, analysts, traders and food executives warned on Tuesday, describing the measure... |
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Exploration and production: There are still jobs for life (06 May 09:40) |
| Looking out on to pristine coastlines in Asia while helicopter blades pulsate overhead; avoiding snakes and herds of oxen in a rugged sports utility vehicle; braving pelting rain on drilling... |
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Brics offer investors a varied harvest (06 May 09:40) |
| It was in November 2001 that Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill coined the term now used to describe the rapidly emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, in the research paper "... |
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Riches rise from Mumbai slum clearance (06 May 08:00) |
| Seven years ago, the Jatias, a Mumbai hotelier family, bought land in the city's derelict former textile mills district that was partly occupied by slums and was faced by a large shanty town... |
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Bharti in $37bn bid for MTN (06 May 12:15) |
| Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile operator, has made a multi-billion dollar bid for control of Johannesburg-listed MTN, a powerful player in Africa and the Middle East, that would make i... |
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India considers ban on trading in food futures (05 May 04:45) |
| India's finance minister said on Monday he was considering a blanket ban on trading in food futures, underlying growing concerns in Asia over the role of hedge funds and financial market tra... |
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The Post-American World (05 May 11:05) |
| The Post-American WorldBy Fareed ZakariaAllen Lane £20, 304 pagesFT bookshop price: £16 |
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ArcelorMittal in talks with Angang Steel (05 May 06:20) |
| ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steel producer, has held informal discussions with Angang Steel about working with China's second-largest steel company in an effort to extend its presence... |
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India's Hinduja plans to spend $50bn (05 May 06:15) |
| The Hinduja business family is planning investments of about $50bn in the next five years in India and abroad, led by a planned foray into oil and gas in Iran. |
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Hinduja plans to spend $50bn (05 May 02:40) |
| The Hinduja business family is planning investments of about $50bn in the next five years in India and abroad, led by a planned foray into oil and gas in Iran. |
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ArcelorMittal in talks on link with Angang Steel (05 May 02:35) |
| ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steel producer, has held informal discussions with Angang Steel about working with China'ssecond-largest steel company in an effort to extend its presence ... |
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Options widen for enthusiastic investors (05 May 12:30) |
| Interest in India's economic growth and potential has prompted a flurry of fresh opportunities for sophisticated international equity investors to gain exposure to the market through futures... |
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India's battle with return of inflation (05 May 12:10) |
| The Indian coalition government led by Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party leader, and Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, is watching the return of inflation to India with understandable alarm... |
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Arcelor cuts its holding in China Oriental (04 May 10:25) |
| ArcelorMittal has sold part of its stake in a Chinese steelmaker it wants to control so it can meet the minimum free float requirement in Hong Kong where the shares trade. |
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Krakatau steel stake sparks hot contest (04 May 10:25) |
| The competition to buy up to 40 per cent of Indonesia's state-owned Krakatau Steel has intensified with BlueScope Steel of Australia,and Tata Steel and Essar Steel, both of India, expressing... |
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Garden gear: Tents (03 May 06:00) |
| Entertaining space can be made all the more so by lavish tents and their near relatives. A good example was the Turkish Tent at Painshill near London about which Sir John Parnell wrote, in 1... |
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Scare tactics (03 May 05:55) |
| This is the time of year when a gardener's thoughts turn to planting. But while spring means new growth, it also brings with it birds, mice, rabbits and other animals hungry for seedlings. G... |
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'Our house is a gallery' (03 May 05:55) |
| John Makepeace OBE, 68, is an internationally acclaimed furniture designer. Examples of his work can be found in many public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, an... |
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Reaction from London business leaders (03 May 04:45) |
| London business leaders said they looked forward to working with Boris Johnson to tackle the City's weaknesses. |
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Cobra returns to UK to cut costs (03 May 12:00) |
| Cobra Beer, the India-themed lager brand that outsourced production to Poland, is to shift the bulk of its brewing back to the UK to save money due to soaring transportation costs and the st... |
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Camel demand up as oil price soars (02 May 11:40) |
| Farmers in the Indian state of Rajasthan are rediscovering the humble camel. |
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Austria, incest: real news at last (02 May 11:10) |
| The Austrian incest story - the one about the "devil dungeon" or the "sex-hell pit", to use The Sun's descriptions - is the archetypal tabloid story. It is violent, macabre, conducive to eas... |
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Tata to launch banking arm if rules ease (02 May 04:10) |
| India's Tata group is moving to launch a full-service bank should restrictions preventing industrial groups from owning substantial stakes in banks be relaxed. |
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Strength turns to weakness for Indian bank rules (02 May 03:35) |
| When the banks of the former South-East Asian "Tiger" economies in countries such as Indonesia and Thailand all but collapsed during the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, their peers in I... |
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India's Adani plans $1bn IPO (01 May 11:35) |
| India's Adani Groupis planning a $1bn-$1.5bn initial public offering of its power unit, making it the first company to test the waters in the country's stock market since the troubled listin... |
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Cambridge lures Tanaka professor (01 May 11:10) |
| The University of Cambridge's Judge business school has appointed Tanaka Business School's Jaideep Prabhu to the recently announced Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian Business and Ente... |
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Strength turns into weakness for Indian bank rules (01 May 11:00) |
| When the banks of the former South-East Asian "Tiger" economies in countries such as Indonesia and Thailand all but collapsed during the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, their peers in I... |
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Rebooting the Indian green revolution (01 May 09:00) |
| Ajit Singh, a farmer in the poor northern state of Uttar Pradesh, had never seen a computer until four years ago when ITC, the Indian agribusiness-to-hotels conglomerate, installed a PC in h... |
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Move to restrict foreign doctors rejected (01 May 07:45) |
| The House of Lords on Wednesday threw out the government's bid to give British and European Union junior doctors preference over other non-UK physicians for training posts, in a decision tha... |
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Essar Steel takes over Esmark (01 May 06:35) |
| India's Essar Steel is to take over Esmark of the US in a $668m cash deal, underlining the determination of Indian companies to continue acquisitions in spite of the global credit crunch. |
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Engaging India: Cheerleader conservatives (01 May 06:35) |
| Engaging India is an online column analysing the issues, trends and forces behind the business and politics shaping India and its impact on the world. Engaging India appears on Thursday morn... |
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Mumbai arrives in style (01 May 03:25) |
| In the past few months, shell-shocked air travellers emerging from Mumbai's domestic terminal 1B could have been forgiven for thinking they had somehow landed in Singapore. |
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Mumbai skies set for congestion crisis (01 May 02:30) |
| The skies over Mumbai are set to face a congestion crisis early next decade with the Indian financial capital's existing international airport likely to be overloaded with passengers even af... |
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Cairn India $800m pipeline approved (01 May 12:50) |
| Cairn India has received a government approval that will enable it to proceed with the development of a pipeline to transport oil from its flagship fields in Rajasthan. |
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The Short Veiw: World equities (01 May 12:25) |
| Who has benefited most from the period of monetary easing that the Federal Reserve started last August? For investors, there is a surprising but clear answer: Latin America. |
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How Europe can shape the global system (01 May 12:00) |
| The end of the unipolar moment, underlined by the American fiasco in Iraq and by the ascendancy of China, Brazil and India, raises again questions about the structure of the global system an... |
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Bumpy ride for India airport projects (30 April 08:50) |
| When the private consortium in charge of building and operating Bangalore's airport inquired last year about what was happening with the state government's road construction projects, it got... |
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GM losses widen as US market flags (30 April 08:25) |
| General Motors GM on Wednesday reported a wider net loss of $3.3bn for the first quarter as the flagging US car market and problems at GMAC, its financing arm, and Delphi, its biggest suppli... |
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Aditya Mittal: The father, son and the great steel titan (30 April 08:00) |
| One of the youngest - and most enigmatic - executives in any large company is Aditya Mittal, the 32-year-old chief financial officer of ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker. |
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India steps up war on inflation (30 April 01:15) |
| India's central bank reduced liquidity in the banking system for the second time in a fortnight on Tuesday, in a further sign of anxiety about soaring inflation in a country where most peopl... |
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Oil and gas specialists sought (29 April 05:15) |
| Specialist engineers and executives with oil and gas experience have never had it so good. |
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Asian stocks look to Fed rate verdict (29 April 02:50) |
| Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday, with Hong Kong and Shanghai lifted by good results from some big Chinese banks and Mumbai rising in relief after India's central bank kept interest rates ... |
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The price of exotic genius (29 April 08:10) |
| Hugh Grant, the actor, pocketed a profit of more than £9m ($17.9m) when he sold a silkscreen print of Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol in November, just six years after he bought it for abou... |
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Headhunters: Demand running ahead of supply (29 April 07:25) |
| Headhunters working in the cash-rich Gulf are hoping economic uncertainty in Europe and the US will mean more qualified and experienced candidates will consider moving to the region. |
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Finance: Welcome outlet for talent (29 April 07:25) |
| "Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai - or goodbye!" That's the refrain reverberating around the City of London these days as financial giants tighten their belts amid ongoing financial meltdown and rece... |
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Gas pipeline tops Iran-India agenda (28 April 11:55) |
| The proposed $7.6bn gas pipeline from Iran to India will be at the centre of discussions between the two countries' leaders on Tuesday, as they meet to strengthen their economic relations at... |
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The binge culture of banking must be changed (28 April 11:30) |
| Afriend, who is a teacher, lamented to me recently: "For years we have been told that bankers were paid so much because you were cleverer than the rest of us. Now it turns out you were not c... |
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