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Satire on businesses, rivalry
27 March 2016 8:21 PM GMTFor a chemical engineer, who has spent a good part of the professional life as an expert in an area as interesting as fertiliser subsidy, his self...
‘Name, Shame’ policy for bad loan clean-up
13 Feb 2016 10:55 PM GMTEven as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan says the claims made by analysts on the size of bad loans in the country’s banking system...
Excise hikes in the offing?
12 Jan 2016 9:52 PM GMTDespite the crash in the global prices of crude oil, the consumers are being denied a decent and deserving cut in their transport fuel bills with the...
Jaitley’s clout has grown with latest cabinet expansion
13 Nov 2014 10:54 PM GMTThat the defence portfolio will be taken away from Arun Jaitley was a given. The lawyer-politician, who will turn 62 next month, had himself said in...
Why this sarkari fetish for Turkish towels?
15 Aug 2014 1:58 AM GMTThe chair in question can be among the most cozy ones with expensive Italian leather as part of its upholstery or the heavy iron ones with inter-woven...
Train of thought on track and wheels
9 Aug 2014 11:00 PM GMTA momentous decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, allowing 100-per cent foreign equity in big-ticket projects of Indian Railways for...
BRICS has arrived, so will the mortar
1 April 2013 12:53 AM GMTWith Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa concluding in Durban a cycle of one summit in each country, the BRICS bloc, in a rather short span...
Brics set to form bank to counter West-controlled World Bank-IMF
27 March 2013 2:39 AM GMTFinance ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have agreed on a Brics bank on the lines of the World Bank and International...
Food for art cooked in kitchens of yore
14 Dec 2012 11:11 PM GMTThey were once the key accessory of many a south Indian home. But today, these kitchen grinding stones have given way to modern gadgets, unmindful...
Hanging on to wrong numbers
22 Nov 2012 10:27 PM GMTThe debacle witnessed in the latest round of auctions of precious airwaves for India’s telecom sector where close to half the spectrum on offer went...
India’s reforms go beyond face value
8 Oct 2012 9:31 PM GMTThe battery of reformist decisions taken by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh government in the past month not just alter the perception of policy...
Ayurveda as a pillar of tourism
24 Aug 2012 12:30 AM GMTKerala has now set its eyes on pushing tourism centred around ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine and well-being, to the next level by...