Business

Top 3 things to remember before choosing an online investing website

By Guest Blogger at 13 April, 2009, 7:48 am

One of the reasons online broking as an investing tool has become popular because the user can avoid the hassles of negotiating stock prices or even for that matter the stock with their brokers. Online broking is an easier way to deal with your own portfolio without any outside interference so that later on you [...]

IPL falls prey to politics

By Ritika at 23 March, 2009, 7:57 am

The IPL is slated to move out of India for this season as the government feels ill equipped to provide security protection for the matches because the IPL dates are clashing with the election dates. So we will still have the India Premier League but out side India. It may have sounded really funny if we did not have millions riding on this decision.

Return of Sarkari Naukri and Sarkari Babus

By Ritika at 12 March, 2009, 7:26 am

A couple of years when all was hunky dory in our recession free lives, my mother had found a reason to get worried about: To somehow get her only daughter married and according to her friends, an NRI working for an IT firm would be the best match. My mother often told me that how the world has changed topsy turvy since her days. During her marriageable days, getting your daughter married to someone working in a private firm was not opined to be a good watch. Parents were also wary of sending their daughters to a faraway land whereas public jobs were supposed to be the safest, well paid and ensured a life long guarantee. IAS cadres had the highest rate in the dowry market followed by boys working in PSUs.

The Monetary Economy: An Imperfect Model (Part I)

By Akhilesh at 12 March, 2009, 6:49 am

All human beings for majority of our lives are governed by one major factor “Money”. It has been built into our psyche since childhood that money is going to govern the kind of status you have in the society and most importantly money is going to be the measure of your wealth.

Future of competition in the Indian DTH market

By Aditya Mhatre at 7 March, 2009, 11:22 pm

The DTH market in India is relatively nascent but is getting crowded very quickly. In the past 3 months, two solid competitors like Airtel, Reliance have entered the market and Space TV, a Star TV venture, is awaiting government approval. The future of competition in the DTH market is not going to be in the [...]