Basic Business Management Skills
How can a business be managed effectively ? This article helps you acquire the basic business management skills.
The verb manage hails from the Italian word ‘maneggiare’ which means ‘handling’ (especially a horse), which is derived from the Latin word manus...
Shortfall in Kenya may boost tea prices: Analysts
Tea prices might go for a record high following a historical drop in Kenya's production, reduced supplies at the Mombassa tea auction and a rise in international market prices, analysts said.
Kenya tea is internationally used for blending...
5 mutual fund myths debunked
As financial planners, we routinely interact with investors who need help with their financial planning and investment needs. What never ceases to amaze us is the amount of misinformation doing the rounds, especially in the context of mutual funds. Expectedly...
Refer on Anant Shah: Why America continues to irritate India
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The foodgrain consumption in the US is estimated to have increased to 310.4 million tons in 2007-08 from 277.6 million tons in the previous year, showing 11.81 per cent jump.
Why America continues to irritate India
NEW DELHI: The continuing US criticism of India looks to be part of a game that America has been playing on India; but the latter has failed to understand the US demands over the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline.
US wanted India to evade the contract with...
Inflation soars to new 42-week high
Inflation surged to highest in 42 months led by increase in prices of tea, spices and fruits.
The wholesale price-based index rose 0.04 per cent points to touch 7.61% for the week ended April 26 from 7.57% for the week ended Apr. 19, 2008
Inflation had...
Rupee falls to one-year low of 41.77/dollar
Resuming its slide against the greenback, the Indian rupee plunged to its more than one-year low of 41.76/77 against a US dollar.
Heavy demand for US currency in view of high oil prices continued modestly on its short supply.
The Interbank...
Global carbon credit market doubles in a year
Global carbon credit markets have risen to $64 bn from $32 bn in 2007, according to a World Bank Report.
The market that enables companies to buy and sell the right to pollute doubled in value in 2007.
The market, which was created as a way to...
India bans futures in rubber, soya oil, potato, chana
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday banned futures trading in rubber, chana, potato and soya oil in an attempt to contain the price rise in essential commodities and curb the spiralling inflation rate in the country.
According to officials in...
10 rules for investing in gold
Timothy Green, a well-known international gold expert, reminds us of a historical truth: "The great strength of gold throughout history has not been that you make money by holding it, but rather you do not lose. That ought to remain its best credential". A...
India to be the 8th richest place by 2017
May 07, 2008 | 18:37 IST
India with its increasing number of millionaires is projected to be in the 8th position among the world's top 10 wealth centres by 2017, says a report by banking giant Barclays.
The report further says that emerging markets...
New PepsiCo Bottle Uses 20 Percent Less Plastic
May 7, 2008
In a drive to reduce the packaging of its products, PepsiCo. will unveil a new bottle this month that will be made with 20 percent less plastic and sport a trimmed label size.
The announcement comes as the beverage sector battles a...
Toshiba-JSW form JV to mfg, mkt steam turbines & generators
Toshiba Corporation and JSW Group today announced that Toshiba and JSW, one of India’s well-known business groups, have agreed to establish a joint venture company to manufacture and market super-critical steam turbines and...
Curiosity – A Shortcut on the Road to Genius
Open minded curiosity is an important quality for scientists, separating the genius from the mediocre, as can be seen from an incident in the life of Enrico Fermi.
Thomas Edison is famous for having said that "Genius is one percent inspiration and...
One US hamburger=5 lb of rice and 20 meals
A day after India's Defence Minister A K Antony lashed out at US President George Bush for 'denigrating' the food habits of Indians, Finance Minister P Chidambaram now says the government may be forced to ban futures trading in food items or essential...
Money lenders still lord over Vidharba region: CAG
MUMBAI: In 2007-08 more than six hundred distressed farmers have died in Vidharbha region as they continue to be dependent on money lenders with government relief work failing to attain its objectives.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of...
Gold rises on oil’s surge, hits $ 872
Gold rose nearly two percent at the New York mercantile exchange mainly on oil’s record high, which improved gold’s appeal as a hedge against inhalation.
Gold edged up to $872.00/873.00 an ounce from $871.15/872.55 late in New York on Monday, moving some...
Be a Possibility Thinker
There are a lot of possibilities to solve every problem we have.
Whenever you are faced with problems, what do you do? How do you view it? Is it something that is destructive? Something that could make a person fail?
There are several approaches a person can take...