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Words like ‘Windows XP’ and ‘MS office’ (i.e. MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, et al) are household words among Indians today. Even a junior school student is aware of the Windows effect on the PC even before he has clicked the ‘start’ button. But has anyone heard of the recently growing strong...

Tata Steel?s $8 billion purchase of Corus, an Anglo-Dutch rival, says much about consolidation in the steel industry and about India?s acquisitiveness WHAT a difference a year makes. In 2005 Tata Steel, India's largest private-sector steelmaker, was an industry minnow ranked as only the...

THEY are the trend trackers of the world. Through surveys, polls and data crunching, market research firms help companies as well as the media spot emerging trends and gaze into the future. Their role could not have been more critical in a rapidly growing economy where technology, rising incomes...

The mainland's GDP has surged beyond forecasts. What's at stake if its economy doesn't slow? From investment curbs to crisis, here's a handy guide Global inflation fears, Middle East war jitters, and oil prices hovering at $76 per barrel—hey, there is no shortage of worries right now on the...