The ideal hedge fund should be like a good local restaurant: reliable, high-quality, a loyal group of customers, and unknown to the rest of the world.

Shanghai is rapidly regaining its position as China's dominant financial center. And investors betting on Hong Kong's once-indisputable place in Asia should think again.

Like every year budget, this year's budget too had highs and lows for different sectors. Many of the fiscal reforms introduced in the budget have been advanced keeping in view the introduction of the GST. The increase in the excise rate seems to be a step towards smooth implementation of GST. On indirect tax front, there have been several changes in this year budget.

The proposed amendments of modifying the income slabs for levying personal income tax brought some joy and glee to the individuals. With the slab rates broadened substantially and increase in tax saving investment limits, the Finance Minister has increased the disposable income of the taxpayers.

He's the man corporate India trust and Nasser Munjee doesn't disappoint. He sits on as many as fifteen corporate boards from Tata Motors to Britannia, giving them crucial advice. Few people know the Indian infrastructure space as well as he does, given that he was part of the dream team that built HDFC and started IDFC.

It's a bank that's been in India for more than 150 years and looking at its latest results its evident that India is going to be where the action is for Standard Chartered Bank.

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, the country's third-largest conglomerate, feels Budget 2010 is a terrific budget. Talking about disinvestment, Birla says Pranabda typically undercommits and overperforms and I think the target he has talked about - Rs 40,000 crore is very doable.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says that the budget may be inflationary but it's not because of the fuel price hike. In a post-Budget interview, he tells Bloomberg UTV Editor-in-Chief Govindraj Ethiraj that the UPA alliance still does not have the "magical" number to push through reforms...

The film was a bad one, even though it starred the Big B... well he isn't guarantee for good cinema… As I sleep walked to find myself a cab, aching to close my eyes on my new lavender pillow, I was aware that I couldn't have dreamed of taking a cab by myself at this hour in any other city in India...

"In the primary issuance process, Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) that currently pay only 10% margin while applying will be required to pay 100 per cent money in line with what other investors are required to do for all the issues that open on or after May 1, 2010"

The comma spliced title of the film kept me intrigued for quite some time. The nitpicker in me hit the books to find a reason as to why the words 'road' and 'movie' are separated by a comma? Here's what I found out: It has to do with a train.

Rhythm abound, Leaving Home, foremost, is a film about time. It’s an attempt to crunch nearly three decades of lived history of Indian Ocean in two hours. Watching the final cut, a worthy precipitate of the 195 hours of shot footage, I realised why editing is the most painful part of filmmaking.