Interview with Narayana Murthy
Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy has seen it all: bootstrapping an enterprise with what is loose change today, going on sales calls riding pillion on…
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Letter From The Editor
Democracy sometimes teaches strange lessons, and the strangest of them all is currently being acted out in the remote Northeastern state of Assam. Since January…
Letter from the Editor
There can be little more excitement for the media than to chronicle political events from inception to climax. Opportunities tend to be rare, but as…
FEELIN’ GOODĀ
Optimism is good, but let’s not be foolhardy It is good that we are feeling bucked UP at the beginningĀ OF 2018. Major economies expect growth…
MANILA OUTLINES 1988 BORROWING, BUDGET PLANS
7 January 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Jan 7 – The Philippine government will issue treasury bills and notes totalling 29.8…
PHILIPPINES MOVES TO SPEED UP DEBT/EQUITY SWAPS
19 February 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ EnglishĀ MANILA, Feb 19 – The Philippines plans to speed up its sluggish debt/equity swap program,…
Philippines Bit player in debt reform-fernandez
19 February 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Feb 19 – The Philippines’ 27.8 billion dollar foreign debt makes it a bit…
MANILA SPECULATORS PLAY ROULETTE WITH OIL STOCKS
18 March 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, March 18, Reuter – Volatile penny oil stocks have raised trading on Manila’s two…
PHILIPPINE GNP SEEN GROWING 6.1 PCT IN 1988
4 April 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, April 4, Reuter – The Philippines’ gross national product (GNP) is expected to expand…
JAPAN STRUGGLES TO USE ADB TO RECYCLE SURPLUSES
20 April 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, April 20, Reuter – Japan’s attempt to use the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to…
Nepal aims at independent central bank
22 May 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ KATHMANDU, May 22 (Reuter) – Nepal’s coalition government plans to grant the Himalayan kingdom’s central…
PHILIPPINES TO ASK BANKS, IMF FOR NEW LOANSĀ Ā
28 July 1988Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 28, Reuter – The Philippines plans to approach its creditor banks for a…
INDIA’S POLITICAL INSTABILITY SEEN SLOWING GROWTH
INDIA’S POLITICAL INSTABILITY SEEN SLOWING GROWTH.Ā 22 November 1989Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ Ā (c) 1989 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, NOV 22, Reuters – Political instability likely…
INSTABILITY SEEN SLOWING GROWTH IN RESOURCE-STRAPPED INDIA
INSTABILITY SEEN SLOWING GROWTH IN RESOURCE-STRAPPED INDIA.Ā Ā 22 November 1989Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ Ā EnglishĀ Ā (c) 1989 Reuters LimitedĀ Ā NEW DELHI, Reuter – Political instability likely…
JAPAN APPROVES $87 MILLION SPENDING PLANĀ
29 August 1992Ā Los Angeles Daily News ValleyĀ B2Ā English (Copyright 1992)Ā The Japanese government Friday approved an $87 billion spending package – the nation’s…
Japan’s economy sinks deeper into mire
14 September 1993Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1993 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuter) – Japan’s sickly economy has been contracting as its stubborn trade…
RBI will not allow rupee volatility – Chidambaram.Ā
29 August 1997Ā 14:33Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the rupee’s…
India raises import duties to fight deficitĀ
16 September 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (Reuter) – India’s government, clearly alarmed by a fiscal deficit that…
An Agenda for India
“Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” Ā Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange The ice…
What the Government Needs to Do Now
Despite the crisis, a clear message must be sent to the investor community that India is open for business. There was an initial spurt of…
Growth and the challenge of compensating the losers
India’s Economy is barrelling along at a growth rate of over 9 per cent, savings rates are up, investments are up, more jobs are being…
10 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business
They say nothing sharpens our minds as much as high danger or a threat to our survival. We are prepared to stand and fight when…
India’s Most Valuable Companies
From the Editor Once every year, we pay obeisance to the best and strongest companies in India. It is not grudging admiration. Our corporate icons…
India’s Best CFOs: Tips From The Finest Financial Brains
From the Editor I have a confession to make. Many moons ago, I studied to be an accountant and despite one of the world’s toughest…
Deal Chahta Hai
A laughter club in Mumbai is forced to “zip it” because a humourless neighbour is disturbed, not long after a 63-year-old cartoon unleashes a cleansing…
Low On Gas
From the Editor There are times when we at Business Today chafe at being a fortnightly. There is so much happening in business and the…
It’s the Elections, Stupid
The economy is whirling around in a populist spiral Pranab Mukherjee is starting to look worryingly like a feckless heir squandering his generous inheritance while…
Reserve Bank-Money to Burn
Of all the functions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there is one routine task crucial to the health of the economy: incinerating the…
Reaping The Whirdwind
Hiteswar Saikia was last Fortnight trying to settle into the hottest seat in India-the chief ministers hip of Assam. The diminutive, balding ‘politician had been…
The Burning Of Assam
The fuse has been burning for almost four years and the mood in the state has passed through all the faces of anger, despair and…
Excise Duty-More Slaps Than Sops
Pranab Mukherjee’s first budget, at first glance so redolent of status quo, is peppered with little booby traps. Two paragraphs in his speech have caused…
ITC – Haksar’s last Hurrah
Sentimentality rarely intrudes inĀ to shareholders’ meetings, but this one was different. Over 3,000 had gathered in the incongruous setting of a Calcutta cathedral compound…
A State Ravaged
It was beyond the ken of a civilised society, a bloodĀ spattered vindication of a heartless government’s sudden constitutional piety. The carnage began with a…
Friend in Need
The Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) is everybody’s favourite bugbear. So perhaps it was inevitable that it would be accused of having a hand in the…
Ends of Justice
So Ham-Handed and desperate for representatives of any stature in Assam has the Congress(I) become that it has jettisoned all concern for decorum and dignity…
HOW TO DO A MANAGEMENT BUYOUT AT 30,000 FEET
The next time you are flying somewhere, do not bury your nose in a book or plug in your earphones. Take a good look around.…
Show Me The Jobs
Let’s quit beating the bushes and chase the real quarry The government is striving mightily, but the needle is moving inexorably lower on the jobs…
Enough Already
The powers that be doth trumpet too much “There is no harm in sometimes being wrong-especially if one is promptly found out”Ā Ā Ā Ā …
Close, But No Cigar
What lies ahead? A messy GST rollout could be one shock too many after demonetisation… Finance Ministers take on a certain air when they think…
Keep The Ballast
We need our institutions as much as we need our democracy Narendera Modi’s first term in office will be bracketed by malodorous stand-offs with two…
Identify Yourself
We can barely keep count of ourselves, leave alone migrants The Fates Of the four million people whose names did not appear in the ‘complete…
Viral Fever
The only antidotes to fake news are truth and commonsense Start exercise your smartphone thumb, because the next big election will be fought on our…