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The inadequacies of Company Law stand exposed after the Satyam case ruling in the US.

India gave World Cup co-hosts Bangladesh and Sri Lanka the cold shoulder, while not realising that cricket diplomacy cannot ever be an answer to its troubles with Pakistan.

Indian policy has many propagation mechanisms that convert a relative price rise into inflation. If policy-makers learn, from experience, to shut down such mechanisms, a low-inflation, high-growth scenario is possible.

In today's high-tech world, when consumers spend billions of dollars online, your product needs to be there, urges Sandy Abrams, in Your Idea, Inc. ( ...

Three prominent political figures are facing flak for making politically incorrect observations. The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has ...

  This morning when I stopped to buy vegetables from a local vendor while returning home from my walk, I was not at all surprised to see him fishing ...

Whether or not a Lokpal can check the monster of corruption, the fact remains that one citizen like Anna Hazare can move and shake the government of a powerful nation like India.

India-Africa ties are likely to get a boost when the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, travels to Addis Ababa for the second Forum Summit.

India celebrates the victory of money and glamour, not the game of cricket. The IPL, which has got under way, is an amplified form of sport-as-spectacle.

The seeming capitulation of the Government to Anna Hazare's demands has given rise to the euphoric feeling that politicians will now onwards be scared ...

There is no “silver bullet”, and a portfolio of options has to be looked at for a low-carbon outcome.

Airline pricing is based on several factors. Economists will tell us that this industry is ideal for price discrimination.

Anna Hazare is almost right. The time for niceties is long past and extreme methods are needed now, but...

By its stubbornness, the Government is only going to further infuriate the people and confirm their worst suspicions about its seriousness in weeding out the corrupt in politics and society.

Central bank policies have to be broadly consistent with overall economic policy objectives, but the central bank does need an element of operational autonomy.

A hundred years ago, the British moved their capital from Calcutta to Delhi. Fifty years ago, aged seven, I, too, moved to Delhi. In the first 50 ...

Even as our conscience pushes us to demand a higher and more meaningful poverty line, it must be accompanied by measures more sharply targeted at the chronic poor, particularly their nutrition and health.

A three-way partnership between organised retail, farmers and the government will help production of standardised products.

For someone who has spent more time on the playing fields of cricket than mastering the intricacies of language, Shahid Afridi, captain of the ...

Considering that more than 40 per cent voters in India are youth, one would have expected a number of scientific studies by psephologists and ...

The blueprint for the second agricultural revolution would have to include an effective strategy for improving productivity. Modernisation of the supply chain and the growth of agro-processing will make this strategy work.

The recent deceleration in month-on-month rates of growth of the index of industrial production has given the government cause for concern, though annual rates are still respectable. Do we have an explanation for this recent tendency?

The Indian cricket team's World Cup victory holds out excellent lessons on inspiring leadership and team management.

Gandhiji shall overcome and triumph. Any attempt to malign and dishonour the great architect of the Indian freedom struggle will fall flat.