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Electric cars may be cheaper than gas guzzlers in seven years, says report

The phasing out of diesel and petrol cars earlier could add an extra 14,000 jobs to the automobile industry in the UK

Meet HRD minister Prakash Javadekar, Parivar's practical 'shishya'

In granting 62 universities autonomy, the minister has demonstrated his ability to achieve policy objectives against the odds

Key deals last week: ADV Opportunities Fund, Softbank, Accel India, & more

There were 17 deals worth $198.30 million and 5 Private Equity Exits worth $1.85 million in the last seven days ended March 21, 2018

DFIs make way for pensions as PE investors

PE funds from the 2006-08 vintage have under performed as they invested at high valuations

PE investments see 67% growth in January-February: Grant Thornton

Most of these investments took place in the energy and natural resources, real estate, IT&ITES, and start-up sectors

Vienna is world's most liveable city, Baghdad still worst, says survey

With a population of 1.8 million, Vienna topped the survey for the ninth year in a row

Air India lures high-flying suitors as airline undergoes privatisation

So far, three airlines have reportedly evinced interest in buying the ailing, state-owned airline. Here is a look at what they could hope to gain

Phone addiction: Here's how many US drivers still text behind the wheel

US road deaths surged by 14.4% between 2014 and 2016

Walmart vs Amazon: lines between the two sides blur in Battleground India

With the Arkansas-based retail chain holding talks with Flipkart, the stakes for both giants have gone up a notch

Newsmaker: Meet Naresh Agarwal, Bear Grylls of Uttar Pradesh politics!

Agrawal in his 3 decades of chequered political career, has been associated with all major political parties in UP, including the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party

MMT, Yatra and Goibibo renew partnership with Oyo to boost business

Online travel portals are stepping away from solo sojourns to make room for Oyo

Watch out, Rolex: Japan takes on Swiss in bid for wealthy wrists

Forty years after nearly wiping out the Swiss watch industry with cheap quartz models, Japanese brands like Seiko and Citizen are eyeing the high end of timekeeping

UP bypolls: Pravin Kumar Nishad is the David who beat Goliath in Gorakhpur

A protege of the BSP creator-builder, Kanshi Ram, Dr Nishad's plank was carving out a sub quota for the Nishads within the 28 per cent reservation earmarked in education and jobs for the OBCs

IFC backs private equity funds in India that are facing rough weather

The problem is that most of these funds have under-performed: they have returned less than a fourth of this money, yielding single-digit returns for the portfolio

India's leadership in cost-efficient generics is unchallenged: Sanjiv Kaul

Price erosion has been in excess of 15 per cent last year and will perhaps be at similar levels this year due to sales channel consolidation, says Kaul

The secret to Australia avoiding recession: Mass immigration

Governments from the US to the UK to Europe have clamped down on immigration as voters are increasingly drawn to populist parties blaming foreigners for widening social and economic inequality

The dilemma over bauxite duties: Hurting miners, helping aluminium firms

Whenever high export duty is imposed to conserve resources, overseas despatches fall steeply as in the case of iron ore and now, non-metallurgical grade bauxite

A TOT for the road: Highway monetisation plan under PPP finally takes off

Six years after the idea was mooted, the road ministry gets started on the Toll-Operate-Transfer mechanism to raise funds for financing future projects

In real estate, it pays to put women on the board, shows study

While the average representation of women on REIT boards rose to 15.5 percent from 8 per cent in the past decade, that still trails the 22 per cent average for the S&P 500, according to the study

Biplab Kumar Deb: Fit and proper pracharak

Tripura's first BJP chief minister-designate owes his climb to prominence to several mentors in the RSS, in which he has served since the early nineties