Jun 25 2008
Pakistani women in general have supported a suggestion put forward in a post-budget debate session in the Punjab Assembly that taxes should be imposed on beauty salons.
Jun 25 2008
India and China saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed.
Jun 24 2008
In a bid to prevent incidents like rape and illicit sex in shops and other business premises, the Kota Bura municipal council in Malaysia has reportedly issued a circular directing the fairer sex, particularly Muslim women, not to sport bright-coloured...
Jun 24 2008
Is globalisation killing Indian entrepreneur? This is a funny thought. The established wisdom is that globalisation has created the milieu for the emergence of Indian multinationals and that our companies are taking over foreign companies.
Jun 24 2008
As uncertainty continues over the Indo-US nuclear deal in view of the political crisis in India over the agreement, the US on Monday said every passing day was making it harder to get it through.
Jun 23 2008
It could be comic or tragic, depending on your sense of morality. In what I see as stunning news from the United States, 17 schoolgirls have entered into a ‘pregnancy pact.’ Staff at a secondary school health clinic in the city of...
Jun 23 2008
Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) popularly known for its products brand name Amul has become India’s first billion dollar co-operative unit after touching the record annual turnover of Rs. 5,255.41 crores (52.554 billion...
Jun 23 2008
Indian private and public sector companies have filed less number of carbon revenue generating projects in value and volume terms from January to June 2008, compared with the same period last calendar year.
Jun 23 2008
Most of the world cannot travel. With a far higher rate of people with passports than Americans (for example) means living in New Zealand I have a better chance than many. And, of course, poorer countries are much more likely to be visited than to...
Jun 20 2008
Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation’s news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had...