By Aditya Rao

For a sport that is played by just 12 countries on a regular basis, the amount of money it generates is simply phenomenal. Cricket is no longer about being that elitist sport played by the members of the East India company.

It’s about cash, plain and simple and when it comes to that India runs the show.

I ran across Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s profile on Facebook today as I was examining my network. It seems the bull himself is discussing stocks and politics and networking with the in crowd. I’ve sent him an introduction to see if he’ll accept me into his network, so I’ll keep you updated. I imagine his network is getting some good stock advice

Aditya Rao

Global Pharma and Ranbaxy DealIt was by no means the easiest decision for Malvinder Singh, the CEO of Ranbaxy laboratories to sell his stake to a Japanese company. After all this was the company started by his family years ago and made into one of the biggest Pharma companies in the world.

But at the end of the day, it was probably the right thing to do. For quite some

The India blogging industry is still nascent with many still trying to reach a large audience. Unfortunately, India has been slow to adopt the internet with some estimates as low as 42,000,000 for both dial up and broadband. There are still some early blogger “celebrities” that are making an impact and we highlight them below using a five point criteria. In order to make the list, the blog subject matter needed to be primarily about India or related to India.

Aditya Rao

If you had bought a single share of Neyveli Lignite a year ago then as of today you would have nearly doubled the value of that share. That’s a gain of almost 100 percent.

But by no means should this particular stock be seen in the light of a short term gain because the majority stake holder in this company is the government but at the same time it is an excellent long term prospect.

Neyveli Lignite is India’s

By Aditya Rao

Aditya Rao

BigTVFew people would ever dream of trying to upstage India’s most prosperous media conglomerate TV18 unless of course you’re Anil Ambani and you’ve got the Reliance juggernaut backing you up all the way.

By Vipin Agnihotri

As expected by many of the experts, it’s official that Non-resident Indians (NRIs) are remitting more money back home. The India Street has been informed that individual remittances from Indians working abroad have surged 50 per cent at $8.6 billion in the first quarter of 2007-08, as compared to $5.9 billion in the year-ago period.