US to India: retro tax law will hurt

Friday 20 April '12

GEITHNER TO PRANAB: 'Dampened enthusiasm on investment... looking at bilateral impact'

Warner Bros looks for a spell to replace Harry Potter

Monday 12 March '12

Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of many a TV or film adaptation, from Basil Rathbone''s 1940s films, to the recent BBC reimagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, to a new US series, which wil...

Betting industry makes Olympic preparations

Monday 12 March '12

The London Olympic Games, which actually get under way two days before the lavish opening ceremony in east London with two preliminary round games of women''s football at the Millennium Stadium in Car...

Games begin on streets of Mayfair

Monday 5 March '12

Brands such as Burberry, Fendi and Salvatore Ferragamo are spending tens of millions of pounds upgrading and extending their central London stores to look their best for an expected 11m Olympic touris...

Iran lauds Oscar triumph despite protest links

Monday 5 March '12

The Islamic regime in Tehran has welcomed the country''s first Oscar win for A Separation in the best foreign-language category, even though the opposition regards the film as an anti-government prote...

Outsourcing space: India''s hopes rest on its R&D hub status

Monday 5 March '12

At this time each year, India''s IT services industry waits patiently for the release of the budgets of its western clients banks, manufacturers and governments that will determine their business ov...

Ping, swipe or wave, pay by mobile

Monday 5 March '12

Vodafone, Visa allow purchases via mobiles, but customers may take time to switch

Exit Kodak''s name, synonymous with Oscars

Monday 27 February '12

The 84th Academy Awards has a guest list to rival any party in the world. Brad Pitt will be there, as will Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Meryl Streep and all the other stars of the silver screen

And the Oscar comes from …

Monday 27 February '12

RS Owens, the Chicago factory where the 13.5in Oscar statuettes are created, is fighting for its life

The princeling who is set to ascend the Chinese throne

Monday 20 February '12

Xi Jinping is expected to succeed Hu Jinato; there are few hints of his likely policies

Fake cancer drug fears fuel call for crackdown

Monday 20 February '12

Counterfeit drugs are a growing global problem and have become increasingly prevalent in the US, as more manufacturing moves overseas and illicit online drug stores proliferate.

Did the Raj mar the Taj?

Monday 20 February '12

The landscape was more prettily treed, Lord Curzon considered it overgrown and cleared it out

Crisis must not change India''s course

Monday 13 February '12

The reforms that made sense earlier still do; India should learn from the mistakes of the affected countries but remember they remain high-income ones, and why

A dogfight over Delhi

Monday 13 February '12

The Rafale deal with IAF is a major win for France and a big disappointment to the four nations in the consortium that lost out

Dampened prospects

Monday 6 February '12

As population growth outstrips agricultural gains, policymakers will have to juggle the conflicting need to provide food and jobs while curbing damage to the environment

'PM doesn''t even have power over his ministers''

Monday 6 February '12

Berlusconi says he won''t return to politics, delivers a lecture attacking Italy''s system

Davos Diary

Monday 30 January '12

The most gripping exchange during a session on Russia came when Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital once the biggest foreign investors in Russia and now a critic

Google protests EU''s proposed rules on privacy

Monday 30 January '12

Google has protested at draft European Union privacy rules that would regulate how companies store and handle personal information, saying that some measures could "break the internet"

What Europe could learn from America''s debt scramble

Monday 30 January '12

Last summer, some of America''s largest banks secretly stocked their ATM machines with the maximum possible supply of cash

Outlook now less bleak from this Alpine retreat

Monday 30 January '12

Worst fears not reinforced; nervousness replaces despair among business leaders at Davos

Pessimism hangs in mountain air

Friday 27 January '12

The only disagreement at Davos seems to be about how bad the economic crunch will be

The rise and fall of the sporting spirit

Monday 23 January '12

Mihir Bose''s new book examines how sport has become big business and how this change has 'altered the original concept of sporting spirit''

The gains from the games

Monday 23 January '12

In a period of austerity, the prevailing question in UK is: will the Olympics be worth the accompanying costs, inconveniences?

The bull elephant who left his mark

Monday 16 January '12

The Unquiet American, a book about Richard Holbrooke, is a must-read for anyone interested in public service and US foreign policy

Where do babies come from?

Monday 16 January '12

When you are 44 years old, single and looking to adopt, it just might be Siberia. Kate Burgess tells her story