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How Housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav could have done better by investing in social skills

Start-ups need to invest in building personal skills, especially for senior management teams, says the author

Do we need more people like housing.com's Rahul Yadav?

We need more Yadavs, not because he has allotted all his shares to employees but because he is truly passionate about being an entrepreneur and providing real solutions to real-life problems

Bhupesh Bhandari: Dealing with Rahul Yadav

Greece crisis: Possible scenarios and the opportunity

The fundamentals remain same for India given little direct entanglement with Greece but massive volatility in the Eurozone will affect trade

Making sense of the real exchange rate of the rupee

If the REER is to be restored to its 2004-05 level, the rupee has to depreciate a lot, says V K Sharma

Cyrus Mistry drives a Tata Safari. Will TCS investors ride in Jaguars?

Does India's most valued company give hope to its investors that they, too, might drive a Jaguar some day?

No distinction between FDI and FII a dampener for insurance sector

While raising the foreign investment limit, the government clubbed FDI and FII flows

Peter Eavis: Global debt - An ailment with few cures

Central banks can make debt less expensive by pushing down interest rates. However, they cannot slash debt levels to bring quicker relief to borrowers. In fact, lower interest rates can persuade some

M J Antony: For a 'just' cause

Motor vehicles accident tribunals are quite tight-fisted when the claim of a widow, children or dependents is decided

Subir Roy: What's the new ETA for acche din?

What the government can and is already seeking to do is improve the ease of doing business and facilitate investment in infrastructure. But the problem is, all wisdom says 'hasten slowly' in these are

Govt should leave airfares to mark

Air travel is not a poor man's necessity and it is no business of the government to fix fares

Lalit Modi and dejà vu UPA

Lalitgate has served as a reminder for how similar our mainstream political parties are in resisting institutional reform.

Simply infusing more funds won't solve problems of PSBs

NPAs are an open wound, from which the bleeding needs to be stopped before more capital is transfused

Neil Irwin: Transformational moment

Greek leaders think the offer on the table from European governments and IMF is lousy, requiring still more pension cuts and tax increases in a depressed economy

Shailesh Dobhal: The family in Indian business

In peace and at war, firms remain tethered to promoter families in a uniquely Indian way

The Emergency is not history - it is a warning

This is the problem: a powerful government that believes its anger is right and justified does not need the emergency clause to replicate the Emergency

The opportunity in Greece crisis

Default could cause massive turmoil and possible short-term damage to a portfolio of Indian stocks

Hugo Dixon: Financial engineering to Athens's rescue

The eurozone won't accept the write-off of the 'zero-coupon' debt. But the Greek government's proposal to split most of the eurozone debt into two parts could be modified to make it workable

Theophilos Argitis & Marcus Bensasson: Greek PM Tsipras seeks to stave off defections over EU aid plan

Tsipras is seeking to assuage his party's left flank by focusing revised austerity plan more on tax increases for firms and high-income individuals, instead of spending cuts

Devangshu Datta: Attention focused on Greece and China

Indian markets could continue to be dominated by external considerations as the possibility of Grexit looms large and China's equity markets see sharp corrections