8 tax-smart tips for the salaried
It will pay salary-earners to be tax-smart so that they can get to keep more of the hard-earned money. Patni stake sale buzz gets stronger
Investment banking sources say the three Patni brothers have now agreed on the sale process, along with private equity player General Atlantic. RSS slams adoption of Western growth model
Addressing a public meeting in Bangalore, he said though it was encouraging to note that Indian companies were acquiring firms globally, incidents of farmers' suicides could not be ignored. Bold and snappy:2 state-of-the-art digital cameras
Don't be fooled by their diminutive looks - these babies have enough megapixels to portray in detail your picture-perfect moments. RIL may fuel India Inc's overseas M&A drive
The deal by India's largest private sector company controlled by Mukesh Ambani, if closed, will make it one of the largest petrochemical outfits in the world. 3G spectrum winners can use it only after June
"We will ensure the winners in the 3G auction start using spectrum only after June 2010?as the armed forces would need time to shift operations which might be possible only by June 2010," DoT Secretary P J Thomas said. Computer call: When your PC becomes a phone
VoIP services come in real handy to make cheap overseas calls. 5 reasons behind the rise of China
The media started talking of a world dominated not by G-7, but by G-2 consisting of the US and China. Maternity insurance: Working women have the edge!
Broadly speaking, maternity insurance should include all costs related to pregnancy, from delivery to care in hospitals. There are some maternity insurance that also covers the prenatal visits. For example, ICICI Lombard's Health Advantage Plus offers health insurance with OPD cover that would include pre-natal tests and medication expenses. SMC to hire 3,000 in next 3 years
Domestic brokerage firm SMC Group said it plans to hire 3,000 professionals and open 3,500 offices in the next three years to expand network in the country. How to get higher interest on savings bank account
How about some facility that would give you the best of both worlds, the liquidity of a savings account and the interest rate of a fixed deposit? Auto-sweep facility does exactly this. Microsoft, News Corp in talks on Web content
Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine Nurturing talent: ICICI, Infy among world's best
The Indian arm of global FMCG major Unilever, Hindustan Unilever, was ranked at the fourth spot, Aditya Birla Group was at the sixth spot, Infosys Tech was ranked eighth and another IT major Wipro cornered the 10th slot. '367k housing units in seven metros by 2011'
"Our extensive research reveals that as the real estate sector's growth continues to improve, the country will witness a supply of 138,000 residential units in 2010, 57 per cent more than the supply seen in 2009." India: No access to 11 of 16 US dual tech regimes
Lifting of restrictions on these dual use technologies is one of the major areas of focus of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he meets US President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday. No replacement for US dollar: PM
Responding to questions about the economic crisis in the United States, the prime minister said: "There is a temporary setback and temporary questioning, about relevance of the American model, but I have seen these things much before." Modi woos Maruti to set up car plant in Gujarat
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wooed Indian auto giant Maruti Suzuki to set up a car project in Gujarat and said that the state government would provide all the facilities to it. Effective data processing need of the hour
Event processing aims to identify meaningful events within volumes of digital events and then analyse its impact from the macro level. IOC fire burns Rs 100-cr hole in GIC's pocket
GIC chairman and managing director Yogesh Lohiya told reporters on the sidelines of a conference that the sum insured for the IOC complex was Rs 230 crore (Rs 2.30 billion), of which GIC had re-insured 30 per cent and this will be liable for about Rs 70 crore (Rs 700 million). What India needs to do to transform the economy
The time may have come for India to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10-and 20-year scenarios.