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Budget 2014-15: Why did Chidambaram choose a 33-year trend growth rate?

Why did P Chidambaram choose a 33-year trend growth rate to show the UPA's performance as good and NDA as below trend? Was it to avoid telling us why growth faltered in the second half of UPA-2?

Mobile phone shipments surpass 1 bn mark in 2013; Android, iOS continue to dominate

According to IDC, Android and iOS accounted for 95.7% of all smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013.

How Chidambaram has screwed the next govt even before it takes over

The only way the next finance minister would be able to meet the fiscal deficit target would be by following Chidambaram's strategy of postponing expenditure

Smartphone sales surpassed feature phones for the first time in 2013: Gartner

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totalled 968 million units in 2013, an increase of 42.3 percent from 2012, finds Gartner.

IPL Auction 2014: Teams bring out big bucks for Yuvraj, Pietersen

On the first day of IPL auction, Royal Challengers Bangalore broke their bank to include India's 2011 World Cup hero and paid a record Rs 14 crore to buy the left-handed batting all-rounder Yuvraj Singh.

Selling a house to buy a car: Why UPA's indulgence is nonsensical

In 2013-14, the government is compensating for a revenue shortfall by cutting plan expenditure and selling or milking its assets

Dumb politics, dumb economics: UPA's binge years of 2009-11 killed growth in 2011-14

UPA-2 has achieved a dubious first: two years of sub-5 percent growth. This is the result of buying growth in the stimulus years of 2009-11, when the Congress overspent on subsidies and excise cuts

Urban consumers ditch gold for FDs, defer car and home purchases, finds survey

The survey has also found that consumers decide to buy or sell property and car looking at the prices and not interest rates

Why HDFC Bank's best days may be over: it will be a more normal performer from now

After two quarters of sub-30 percent growth, HDFC Bank may be shifting gears to a slower pace. This is entirely in keeping with the theory that outperformance cannot be sustained forever.

Auto Expo 2014: Maruti Suzuki wins hands down on Twitter

At this year's Auto Expo, Maruti Suzuki was the the biggest newsmaker.

Why Indians prefer gold and real estate: Savers have gotten a rotten deal

HIgh inflation and low nominal interest rates have robbed the Indian saver of real returns over the UPA's tenure

Holy S*#@! Twitter CEO and 2 co-founders just lost $900 mn

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and two of its co-founders, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, collectively lost $900 million, after the San Francisco-based micro-blogging company released on Wednesday its first earnings report since it went public in November last year

25 percent compulsory dividend payouts will bring retail investors back to equity

Indian retail equity investors area dwindling tribe. To bring them back to equity, the first step ought to be a compulsory dividend payout ratio for profitable companies

Bad economics, bad politics: How UPA is paying for its sins of 2007-09 with a lag

If you want to trace the roots of double-digit inflation, especially the politically vexatious food inflation, you have to go back to the follies of the final UPA-1 years: 2007-08 and 2008-09.<br /> <br />

HUL's domestic business grows 10%, but there are speedbreakers ahead

The consumption story remains weak in the current fiscal and things are not going to improve anytime soon. Secondly, a price increase in key raw materials (resulting from a weak rupee ) resulted in more price hikes and less offers and discounts in Q3.

Mumbai's unsold flats at all-time high of 1.3 lakh: 10 things you need to know

Mumbai requires nearly nine quarters to clear its unsold inventory while Bangalore and NCR will take less than six and quarters respectively. The number of unsold flats is the highest ever when compared to the number of under-construction flats in the city, said Samanthak Das, Director Research at Knight Frank.<br />