US Consul General in Chennai Jennifer McIntyre today said through a US-India initiative called “ Economic and Financial Partnership” the US Government was working with India to develop financial instruments and public private partnership models to promote significant private...

State Bank of India (SBI) has joined hands with money transfer services company MoneyGram International and the latter’s principal agent Thomas Cook (India) Ltd to provide in-bound money services across SBI’s key branches. Initially, the services will be made available to SBI’s 100...

Even a tiny plot of land in India can be a ticket out of poverty. That’s because many government programs and benefits are tied to land ownership. One non-governmental organization is running a program to help the rural poor obtain the title to the land they till. Share...

Ashok Kokane sits amid his strawberries at Mumbai’s Crawford Market, a handwritten ledger across his knees and a fan of dirty 10 rupee notes at his hand. The lazy, dust-encrusted ceiling fans above are far past cleaning. There is a sense of timelessness here, in the lurking cats, the...

As usual, the Indians ignorant about globalization, are groping in a mess of disinformation and going berserk about Wal-Mart, which unfortunately has come to symbolize Multinational Retail Chains. I don’t mean the proud ‘American’ Indians who might have sent Columbus back had he...

India’s Parliament is in the middle of a big political brawl over the issue of fully opening up its vast retail sector to foreign investors. It started last week, when the Cabinet approved a plan to open “multibrand retail” (i.e., supermarkets and stores that sell a variety...

Ranbaxy Laboratories and the American authorities are inching toward a settlement over the Indian drug maker’s regulatory troubles in the world’s largest drug market, brightening its prospects of launching the low-cost version Lipitor - the blockbuster cholesterol lowering drug...

Weak markets are prompting capital-hungry entrepreneurs to knock on the doors of private-equity investors, and valuations are coming down, Akhil Gupta, chairman and managing director of Blackstone India, told the Reuters India Investment Summit. Share this:ShareEmail

(Bloomberg) – Zee Entertainment Enterprises, India’s biggest publicly traded media broadcaster, is in talks with Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. to expand distribution in the U.S. and plans to more than triple the number of homes it reaches in the country next year. Share t