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Comex gold ended lower on Friday, as a dollar rally prompted investors to sell ahead of the weekend. Along with weak Chinese Trade data, the euro ...

State-run C-DOT aims to put ‘Indian' at the centre of tech development.

We, the People, who had given to ourselves the Constitution guaranteeing the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and to assemble ...

Many taboos are going to vanish under the Direct Taxes Code. Capital losses can be set off against any income from ordinary and other sources now or in future without any time restriction.

Investment sentiment has dipped after September 2010, threatening to derail growth. A growth model that revives investment through reforms and puts aside fiscal profligacy is the need of the hour.

The Government is making a huge mistake. It is viewing as a simple law and order problem the refusal of citizens to put up with hide-and-seek on the issue of corruption and black money.

Decision-making at the IMF is designed to reflect the power of each country in the global economy. This seems particularly undemocratic in the context of choosing a managing director.

The next IMF chief must come from emerging economies to be able to withstand pressures and deliver the right solutions for Europe and the rest of the world. India should introspect on why it does not have a single acceptable candidate.

Post-Osama, Russia and China are giving Pakistan the cold shoulder. While the US reworks strategies in the region, India should seize diplomatic opportunities.

There are distinct parallels between the foray of Indian government into rural banking and the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US, observe ...

Financial holding companies would make for a neat and transparent control mechanism, and be more conducive to capital market operations.

The reaction of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to the country-wide outcry against corruption and the Government's seeming unconcern is that ...

Cricket was an English conceit that South Asians slowly acquired and then assimilated, rather as English had done with South Asia in the 18th and 19th ...

The dip in GDP growth during the last quarter of 2010-11, despite the turnaround in farm output, is a clear signal of an impending slowdown. A pick-up in investment demand would be necessary to keep the growth machine moving.

We tinker with trade and tariff measures, but ignore structural issues impeding food output.

Its strategic objectives could go way beyond India, to take on Israel and support Saudi Arabia. Besides, nuclear devices could fall into the hands of non-state actors.

The Baba Ramdev episode bares the idea of government in contemporary India. The average Indian household would be wondering why this man was thrust ...

If India is aspiring for IMF leadership, it is merely to affirm its long march from its colonial past. But IMF is a failed institution, its prescriptions ruining economy after economy. India can, instead, evolve its own brand of multilateralism.

Systems should change with the times. Former colonies like India, with their old laws, discourage entrepreneurship.

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad, says an ancient proverb. This is what comes to mind in the context of the Government's ...

Comex gold rose to near its highest in a month on Friday, boosted by a weak U.S. labour report that illustrated the fragile state of the economic ...

Miles away from his home in Australia, Drew Kelton, the President of Bharti Airtel's Enterprise Business sits in his Gurgaon office and occasionally ...

Mr Jairam Ramesh is right in asserting that the IITs do not measure up to global standards. The reasons for this are: lack of industry involvement, inadequate funds and infrastructure for research and stifling bureaucratic control.

If the presumptive profits are fixed, that leaves something on the table for industry.