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    • The Growth Net Summit: Discussing the reform agenda

      At the Growth Net 5th Annual India Summit, Shereen Bhan got together with Prakash Javdekar, HRD Minister, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon, Uday Kotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Henny Sender of The Financial Times and Nicholas Stern, professor at LSE to discuss the reform agenda in India.

    • Tata Steel to pay millions into UK pension fund: Report

      Indian steel giant Tata Steel has reportedly offered to pay "hundreds of millions" of pounds to its 130,000 member-strong pension scheme in the UK to facilitate a merger of its European steel business with German steel giant ThyssenKrupp.

    • Fears growing over US stock market bubble: Robert Shiller

      The Nobel economics laureate told the Financial Times that his valuation confidence indices, based on investor surveys, showed greater fear that the market was overvalued than at any time since the peak of the dotcom bubble in 2000.

    • Uber plans to increase security staff to 100 people: FT

      The company, which was recently valued at $50 billion, would hire around 25 additional employees.

    • Greece's Tsipras asserts control over party congress vote

      Greece's ruling Syriza movement backed a call on Thursday from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to hold an emergency party congress as he seeks to assert his control over rebel lawmakers balking at new bailout talks.

    • In talks to sell its 50% stake in The Economist: Pearson

      The move comes on the heels of Pearson's sale of the Financial Times newspaper to Japanese media group Nikkei, announced this week as its focuses on its education business.

    • Tsipras under pressure over covert Syriza drachma plan

      It is not clear how seriously the plans, attributed to former Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, were considered by the government and both ministers were sacked earlier this month.

    • FT buy marks Nikkei's long-delayed English news foray

      Nikkei's USD 1.3 billion purchase of the Financial Times from Britain's Pearson PLC marks the culmination of decades of attempts by the Japanese household name to break into mainstream English-language media.

    • Japan's Nikkei to buy FT Group for $1.3 bn

      The deal did not include the FT Group's 50 percent stake in The Economist magazine. Pearson said the FT Group contributed 334 million pounds of sales and 24 million pounds of adjusted operating income in 2014.

    • 'Cairn Energy to vote against Vedanta-Cairn India merger'

      Cairn Energy's objections were over "fundamental disagreements over valuations", and its preference for "holding an investment in an energy company rather than a distributed resources group," the newspaper said, citing one person with direct knowledge of the matter.

    • Deutsche Bank CEO Anshu Jain misled Bundesbank: BaFin

      The German regulator has been investigating Deutsche Bank and the role it played during the financial crisis when a global inter-bank lending rate mechanism was being manipulated.

    • Morgan Stanley chief defends 25% pay hike

      Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO James Gorman defended the 25 percent pay hike he was awarded last year – reportedly the highest among Wall Street chief executives – saying it was justified by the bank's performance.

    • Five FPIs challenge MAT before Bombay HC; hearing on May 6

      Five foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from the US and the UK today moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Income Tax department's demand for Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on the profit earned from trading in stocks and bonds.

    • 'India needs to be self reliant for economic growth'

      Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for The Financial Times believes that given the economic slowdown & other challenges all over the world including US, Europe and China, India should lean to be a self reliant market.

    • Is G20 converted into euro crisis summit? Experts discuss

      As the world struggles to get a grip on the situation, a panel including James Lamont, the South Asia bureau chief of The Financial Times; Paul Beckett, the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal and Meghnad Desai, the emeritus professor of Economics Lord discuss the implications of all these issues.

    • Wikileaks: Significance and consequence explored

      What does the recent spate of Wikileaks amount to? Has it embarrassed the politicians and bureaucrats involved, or is the press exaggerating their importance? Join Karan Thapar and guests to find answers on the latest episode of India Tonight

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