• Can the Kamasutra be patented?

• PNB Gilts: Bonding with the best

• Entering beauty salons to bond with users

• PIO cards: Not worth the cost

• Globalisation & the Chinese bamboo

• Using the World Cup to promote business

• Household insurance policies are not foolproof

• Tribunal decision to shape telecom sector structure: analysts

• Home loans: It's the EMI that matters

• Judging a bank CEO's performance

• What the New Year holds

• Jaswant Singh and the Kelkar report

• The 'third man' in the Reliance empire

• How strong is the rupee really?

• Moral stupor in the midst of rising prosperity

• The way we were, the way we are

• Case of the sleeping regulator

• Creeping convertibility, RBI's gameplan

• Seeking a place to celebrate New Year's Eve? Here's help

• Equity markets still a good bet

• CAS regime: Cable TV users may have to pay more

• Jaswant Singh's meeting phobia

• Another battle of the bottle

• Shopping safely on the Web

• Yahoo! India in a revamp mode

• Jaswant Singh's 'maharaja' principle

• Baijal: The 'bulldozer' in the sell-off juggernaut

• Industry buoyant on selective investment

• GM mustard: Is health at risk?

• What to do if the builder tricks you?

• PPF is still one of the best bets around

• Towards full capital account convertibility?

• Signals from a mid-year review

• Kelkar Plan: Depreciation is not evasion

• Kelkar's mistakes

• Czars on the cutting-edge

• Dirt on the white collar

• Are fiscal deficits necessary?

• Style in store

• Are we game for it?

• How to put forex reserves to good use

• The Jumbo group's hidden protagonist

• Exports: Big bang to a whimper?

• It's boom time again for IT

• More on Kelkar panel's tax proposals

• Year-end is time for best deals on wheels

• ONGC keen to ensure India's energy security

• Should CAG visits be stopped?

• FM style

• High risk proposals

• Is the rupee undervalued?

• A parallel agenda for the RBI

• Finance ministry in a Web of dilemma

• Jobs@India Inc

• Jalan's real message: don't ask for more

• Cuts without conviction

• A new age calling

• The bigger bomb

• Bargaining for a cleaner world

• A Goliath's battle call

• Are pension fund schemes bad ideas?

• Strong rupee adds to IT firms' woes

• Chance to get state finances back on track

• HDFC: A problem of plenty

• The small screen sees a big battle

• Why you need personal accident insurance

• The state governments' precarious finances

• 'RBI should deregulate savings rate, cut CRR'

• HR helps unshackle people's latent energies: Mukesh Ambani

• Reforms: One step forward, two steps back

• The five-year growth chase

• India Inc votes for Rao, Vajpayee a distant second

• Riding piggyback on a soft Opposition

• Long on promise, short on implementation

• Some lessons in management from the Tatas

• How high priced are India’s Busan medals?

• A limited edition

• Keeping pace with technology

• Jaswant Singh’s first 100 days

• The Rs 50,000-crore food scam

• In defence of privatisation

• The economics of housing

• Healthcare? What healthcare?

• Is it worth taking voluntary retirement?

• Raunaq Singh: An unfulfilled wish

• Why they think we are junk

• Beyond the ratings blame game

• The investment drought

• Dating troubles

• For a closer cut

• The Murdoch googly

• A cash hat-trick

• How to privatise PSUs

• Why UTI's bailout may not pinch

• The cost of losing a 'B'

• A R Rahman: Composing a winning score

• S&P downgrade is a timely warning

• A day trader's diary

• The tangled knot of TDS

• Accounting firms: Time to redo numbers

• Needed: Bulls in the PSU shop

• Cashing in on the comeback

• Arun Shourie's tactical errors

• The stalling of India's industrial engine

• UTI bailout: Common man feels the pinch

• Metro rail: Putting Delhi on track

• The southern shopping spree

• Divestment: Will the horse fly again?

• US-64: Keep it assured

• Fiscal impact of bailouts

• Why divestment matters

• The proof of the bail-out…

• Cellular phone war hots up again

• Does North Block have too many advisors?

• How to prevent conflicts in businesses

• Cricket: FMCG firms fight to keep rivals off

• Making room at the inns

• No governance, no growth

• Markets need the oxygen of money

• The high-flying dinosaur

• The Rs 100,000-crore man

• State finance: A Debt wish

• Tata Finance: Scripting a public scrap

• Nasscom: Going for an upgrade

• Transparency, anyone?

• Short and long-term interest rates

• Life has turned a full circle: Nandan Nilekani

• 'It's painful to admit, but Ram Naik is right'

• Hyderabad, Kochi best Indian ITES bases

• Indian software firms begin to hire again

• Deveshwar's daring gamble

• Time to stock up

• Indo-US ties in a tangle

• 'RBI must use forex reserves productively'

• Industrial revival needed to lessen drought impact

• How many more bailouts for the UTI?

• Who'll counter the Unit Trust of India?

• Rising NPAs: Where has all the money gone?

• Why India lags behind in attracting FDI

• Making a metal monolith: Kumaramangalam Birla's new giant

• Comparison game

• Cricket spins back

• Indian economy: Policies to support growth

• Signs of recovery visible

• Dhirubhai's genius, and relevance

• Who's afraid of FDI in print?

• Memo to FM: Pamper Mumbai, not Delhi

• A day trader's manual

• A three-way dogfight in the Indian skies

• Check your insurance policy before going abroad

• The Ambani magic that spawned a giant

• Can India excel in sports?

• Premji's view on new economic drivers

• The road ahead for the new FM

• The return of Jaswant Singh

• Why some nations cannot develop

• Those 'dragons' on wheels...

• Fighter of the Fourth Estate

• UTI: Saving a leviathan

• Insurance: rude shock awaits car owners

• Tamil Nadu's biotech park for women a damp squib

• Are the Plan targets realistic?

• Be there before the rally begins

• Media in the FDI arena

• P2J or J2P? The job market dilemma

• Oil sector: fuelling a titanic battle

• Need to use divestment smartly

• An alternative to metro rail

• Japan looks beyond bullets

• What we need to learn from China

• Borrowing money to buy shares is not investing

• Dressing to change

• Turning back to textiles

• Financial economy: master or servant?

• Learn before you leap in the IPO mart

• Divestment and governance

• The gilt bubble bursts

• Blame it on the finance minister

• Finding a new calling

• Couriering losses

• Adventure in the air for flying Indians

• Another Bhopal in the making in Mumbai?

• The true cost of reservation

• Stay invested in safe and sound stocks

• Have insurance, will fly

• The Citi factor

• Bollywood's fling with the Wild West

• Driving into a new league

• Tax more, lose more

• Now, it is time to compete

• Economists versus administrators

• The great Indian war chest

• Should Yashwant Sinha go?

• Forex: From here to uncertainty

• Sashi Chimala: From software to coffee

• India needs to open up economy further for sustained growth

• Ten years of Indian reforms: The unfinished agenda

• Top companies gun for ISB graduates

• Toll-free service for IT jobs launched

• Slowdown, job freeze hit IIM graduates too

• 'A Budget that lacks overall vision'

• Budget 2002-03: rediff.com's special comprehensive coverage

• Unravelling the mysteries of state-level performance

• Why some Indian states have grown faster than the others?

• 'Nehruvian economics hit India's growth'

• The Mauritian hardsell

• Flying the real Tricolour

• Immigrating to the United States

• Immigrating to Canada

• What the year 2001 was like for India Inc

• Is First Global being persecuted, or being brought to justice?

• Building bridges via trade

• Concrete set to replace salt

• The Wintech stroy gets murkier

• IT industry woes: layoffs, ban on foreign jaunts, cost-cuts...

• Firms go back on job offers, students panic

• The Berkshire weekend: An American tradition

• K V Kamath: taking ICICI to dizzying heights

• Employees groan as IT firms slash salary hikes

• Simputer: the computer for the masses

• Stocks crisis takes a toll on family ties too

• Greed, fear and a fatal attraction

• Madhavpura Bank: A ready-reckoner

• Wooing hi-tech tourists to God's Own Country

• How WTO regime will impact various sectors

• Indian industry braces for WTO regime as QRs are lifted...

• With deregulation round the bend, oil sector boils over...

• US firms bullish on India development centres

• 'Sebi isn't doing its job'

• Frightened Balco workers want peaceful end to crisis

• 7 Days That Shook the BSE

• Rise & Fall of K-10 Stocks

• IIM graduates' salaries go through the roof

• Tata AIG plans cyberinsurance for IT industry

• How the quake tax will affect you

• 'The markets are safer today than they were in the past'

• Life's not a bed of roses for Kannauj's perfumers

• 'It makes more sense to shift base to China', says Jaisukh Patel

• The Carat Czars

• Mutual funds in Y2K

• Big biz-school buzz bowls Bombay's brats

• Stocks in 2000: Winners and losers

• Govt keen to fix power problem permanently, says Suresh Prabhu

• 15 pros pick the best stocks for 2001

• 'The 21st century is the century of gas'

• Our bid for Air-India has real merit, says pilots' guild

• Govt packing finance ministry with 'yes men', feel officials

• 'This government's agenda is to kill public sector companies'

• A dream merger comes unstuck: TCI, Thomas Cook call off talks

• Buyout craze grips Indian IT companies

• Progress for heritage: The inevitable tradeoff

• Net-over-cable set to enter boom time in India

• Maruti hits the skids, sales plummet

• Maruti aims to zoom ahead via price-cuts

• It's unnatural to have 80% market share, says Khattar

• Foreign car-makers closing in on Maruti

• PSU unions become realistic about privatisation

• From coffee to cyber cafes, and beyond

• Tanishq: Jewellers to the nation

• Changing corporate dress codes propel casual-wear mart

• Dot-coms boost sagging ad world fortunes

• Lack of jobs, tough laws in Gulf states hit Kerala's economy

• Branson's Virgin Air seeks to rule Indian skies

• Smart cards set to gain currency in India

• LIC, GIC tighten belts as MNCs come calling

• 'Nut King' J R Pillai to take on the might of MNCs

• Maran to the rescue of leather traders

• Trade unions, politicians flay Grasim's bid to sell Mavoor plant

• Air-India told to cut flab, pare costs to woo suitors

• Boom for software, gloom for others

• Bonanza for Karnataka as global funds pour in

• Brain drain-hit Indian IT firms yearn for techies

• Enron chief Kenneth Lay: The energetic messiah -- from The Economist

• Sinha under fire over 'Mauritius muddle'

• Second Home, Alone & Alert: Norman Prouty

• How to multiply your money without worrying about it

• Japan, Germany roll out red carpet for Indian IT whiz kids

• The return of the East India Company!: South India allures British firms

• Intel CEO Craig Barrett's vision of the New Economy

• 'IT Bill will boost e-commerce,' says Dewang Mehta.

• Giant who gave Godrej its global presence

• Goa scripts plan to attract tourists during monsoons

• Market research firm predicts colour television market's doom

• Archies plans Web site, e-commerce foray to counter e-greetings threat

• Car majors drive into used-car arena

• Leather industry sees move to harm India's clout in world market

• Konka aims to swamp India with low-priced, quality goods.

• Cyber-savvy Andhra Pradesh on verge of bankruptcy

• ESOPs: El Dorado for employees, vital tool for management

• India's Decade of Development: By Jeffrey D Sachs and Nirupam Bajpai

• Instant Gianthood: Banks lay to rest the concept of methodical growth

• Ahimsa Inc!: US animal activists slam 'unthical' leather goods exporters

• Walking the Liquidity Tightrope: Commentary on Credit Policy 2000

• 'India has venture capitalists with no knowledge': B V Jagadeesh

• Machine as CEO: Pursuit of competitiveness sparks labour unrest

• The rise and fall of FDI: Dropping fund inflows alarm India.

• Indian medicinal systems: Growth-drivers of knowledge economy.

• Economics focus: A century of progress -- from The Economist.

• Corporates bring hi-tech healthcare to Indian villages.

• Geo-political issues dominate gas pipeline from Iran to India.

• Caught & Bowled: Indian advertising in the post-Cronje era.

• 'Proactive' Maruti zooms ahead, as rivals and critics fall by the wayside.

• Pub-less Cyberabad upsets young e-ntrepreneurs'

• Grand tradition of Indian family firms: Need to keep the legacy alive

• Silicon Triangle holds great prospects for India: Harvard experts

• Kerry Packer packs punch into Indian foray, gets royal treatment

• Interest rate-cuts shape the New Indian Housing Dream

• The car wars: Global, domestic car-makers fight for Indian market pie

• Meet Gope Hathiramani, the richest Indian in France

• Corporates vie for tomorrow's managers at India's b-schools

• Superbank!: ICICI reinvents itself for the new economy.

• Silver screen as a shopping plaza

• The Tatas are back in the reckoning for Corporate India's leadership

• Agri experts decry India's silence on WTO issues

• Soulful social circuit: corporates mix consumerism with conscience

• Desi dream run or drubbing Down Under, advertisers swear by cricket

• The music-filled life and business times of M A Chidambaram

• Divestment: 'Govt is selling the jewellery to pay the grocer'

• Bust goes the Gulf Dream of Kerala's millions

• Osamu Suzuki: 'India is unstoppable in the new millennium'

• The Rediff Business Millennium Features

• Clinton in India: Implications for the economy, biz and bilateral trade

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