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United Nations delists 32 Indian companies To regulate ethics among corporates, the United Nations has delisted nearly 600 companies, including 32 Indian ones as they failed to report on their progress. These companies lacked zeal to follow human rights, workplace and anti-corruption ethics.


FIIs cannot hold the market to ransom Rising oil price has affected our economy. Slackening of demand could make things a bit difficult for industry. In addition, hardening interest rates affect its margins. But the intrinsic strength is intact -- this is only a passing phase.


Panacea of inflation is to boost agriculture Countries like China and America never bothered about WTO, whenever they wanted to support farmers in any manner. But India always fears to announce any subsidies for farmers despite being a member of World Trade Organisations (WTO)


India shows red signal to Blackberry Finland based worlds largest cellular company Nokia has suffered the major setback when its cheapest cell phone got the red signal in India. Blackberry named cellphone, which was poised to hit the market seems to be invisible thereafter.


Rural telecom poised for explosive growth: Survey Of the next 250 million Indian wireless users, approximately 100 million (40 per cent) will be from rural areas. The FICCI - Ernst & Young paper notes that operators are driving down the handset costs to aid access in rural areas.


Textile industry demands ban on cotton exports Textile and clothing industry has urged the government to prevent the collapse of the sector. The industry is facing a crisis due to increasing cotton prices. The rise in the domestic market is basically because of the uncontrolled export of cotton.


Sensex blues for small and medium investors The rising oil prices have resulted in a massive fall in the Bombay Stock Exchange. The companies' stocks are going down time and again. The honeymoon time for the middle class families, mainly investing in the share market in recent times, is over.


India: An ideal place for medical transcription India is an ideal place for conducting medical transcription. It has a large population of educated English speaking people, IT professionals, the Internet revolution, and the computer-savvy new generation aided by free market policy.


How to improve strategy and execute Several companies use tailored strategic metrics to track the implementation of the annual plan, and others link its implementation to HR issues that influence the behavior of the executives who execute the strategy and management issues.


OPEC rejects India's call for a price band OPEC has rejected India's call for regulation of crude prices through a price band. India has blamed speculators for the rise in crude prices. The OPEC president has said that there was more than enough oil to meet the global demand.