Economy & Policy

Global miner Rio Tinto has predicted that while China's demand for iron ore, copper, coal and aluminium will grow during the next 15 years, India will soon take the lead for further demand.

• Malaysian Indian businesses in dire need of 100,000 foreign workers
• Railways earn Rs 157.47 crore through commercial advertising in trains
• Pranab Mukherjee wants tax collection to be more humane
• Walmart under fire for cutting price of black Barbies to nearly half of white ones
• Mukherjee says inflation not due to food shortage

Markets & Investing

The Himalaya International Limited, India's first frozen food company, has entered the rapidly expanding nutraceuticals and dietary supplements market with the launch of its product under the brand name-'1 Daily'.

• Sanvei overseas bags Tamil Nadu commercial taxes department contract
• China becomes world’s second-largest producer of manufacturing output
• Maruti Suzuki creates February reord in sales
• Stock graphs can mislead investors into making wrong decisions
• Now a model to predict when stock markets will crash

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Advertising & Marketing

Australian model Lara Bingle and cricketer Michael Clarke have been dumped as the faces of Synergy Drinks following their split.

• Computer power button design chosen as NYC’s new condom logo
• Consumers complain despite differences in education, age
• Michelle Obama ”bends it like Beckham” to promote anti-obesity campaign
• John Lennon’’s son defends decision to use father’’s footage in car ad
• Brain scan – the marketing tool of future?

Real Estate

Cardiff University scientists have come up with innovative sound-mapping software based on human hearing, which will help architects design out unwanted noise.

• Now, ‘hearing’ maps to help architects
• Brit man becomes first person in the world to sell house on Twitter
• Budding designers compete at fashion event in Bangalore
• India to promote environment friendly buildings
• Jammu witnesses’ real estate boom despite recession

Hospitality & Tourism

Gay couples can head to Mount Everest for marriage, as Nepal tourist board is hosting world’s highest same-sex marriage on the base camp of the mountain in a bid to boost the country’s tourism industry.

• Nepal tourist board to host world’s highest gay marriage on Mt. Everest
• Madrid govt urged to add siesta to list of protected Spanish cultural icons
• Brit travel agents offer Auschwitz tour with booze and strippers
• Miniature Bible a major attraction in among people in Coimbatore
• Malaysia aims to draw 650,000 Indian tourists