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?
According to IDC, Android and iOS accounted for 95.7% of all smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013.
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
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totalled 968 million units in 2013, an increase of 42.3 percent from 2012, finds Gartner.
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.
In 2013-14, the government is compensating for a revenue shortfall by cutting plan expenditure and selling or milking its assets
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
The survey has also found that consumers decide to buy or sell property and car looking at the prices and not interest rates
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.
At this year's Auto Expo, Maruti Suzuki was the the biggest newsmaker.
HIgh inflation and low nominal interest rates have robbed the Indian saver of real returns over the UPA's tenure
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
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
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 />
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 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 />