Indian Economy

On November 24, 2011, the cabinet approved 51% FDI in multi-brand retail — then suspended the decision within days. The story of India's most politically

A reader meets Maneka Gandhi at a People for Animals launch and finds her hour-long talk impressive. A brief 2011 snapshot.

Mukesh Ambani's 27-storey Antilia was called the world's most expensive home — and sat empty amid reports its owners feared bad luck. Inside the 2011 story.

Manmohan Singh skips the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Perth — and the reason is Australia's refusal to sell uranium to non-NPT India.

A new generation of Mumbai's underworld families is walking away from the family business — training as pilots, doctors, engineers and bankers instead.

In September 2011, speculation swirled that Nandan Nilekani might quit UIDAI as Aadhaar faced opposition from within government — including the Home Ministry.

In 2011, World Bank economist Justin Lin forecast China would be twice the US economy by 2030. The forecast's hit-and-miss record is instructive.

From Indra Nooyi to Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai — how Indian-origin executives came to lead the world's biggest corporations.

Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh was arrested on September 6, 2011 in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam and sent to Tihar Jail after a dramatic courtroom appearance.

As CAG, Vinod Rai's 2G audit pegged the spectrum loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore — and made a quiet auditor the most feared man in Indian public life.

A Bangalore call-center firm could hire only 3 of every 100 graduates in 2011, exposing India's employability gap and the failures of its education system.

April 4, 2011: Parliament’s PAC questioned Ratan Tata and Niira Radia on the 2G spectrum case — Joshi called Tata candid and Radia evasive.

Placements are back, and IIT students are refusing employer bonds — asking recruiters to earn their commitment with better incentives instead.

A story did the rounds in 2010: a Mumbai chemist shop paying Rs 42 lakh a month in rent. On why the anecdote's plausibility was the real story.

Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court claiming the leaked Niira Radia tapes violated his right to privacy. On the collision of public interest and private

2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes, Karnataka mining, UP foodgrain, the IPL franchise row — on the scandals defining India in late

With season two of Pune Fashion Week announced, Maharashtra's second city is staking a claim against Mumbai and Delhi as a fashion destination.

Nepal planned to import India's Haryana and Sahiwal cow breeds to lift dairy output — a deal as much about shared heritage as milk.

In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.