Barely three months ago, there were as many as five women heading PSBs. It was considered the best period for women employees in ‘sarkari banks’,...

Sheel Kumar Roy never imagined the steely resolve that lay behind the soft voice of 86-year-old Lily Thomas when she greeted him on that fateful day...

In a complex country like India, where imaginative leaders are needed to make the best of emergent realities, Manmohan Singh failed to provide that...

Will history be kind to Manmohan Singh? Yes, believes Prof G K Chadha, former vice-chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and now president of...

In Islam, earning (or paying) interest is considered haraam, and it makes sense, given the countless lives ruined by usurious moneylenders. But it...

When Mohammed Pervez, 25, wanted a small loan to buy a cartwheel and start his own small business of selling fruits, none of the 14 public-sector bank...

Till a few years ago, polio was not uncommon in India. But there has not been a single case of polio in the last three years, and India will be...

1 April 2014 would usher in not only a new fiscal. It would also ring in a new dawn for nearly 2.40 million people infected with HIV/AIDS.Having been...

When finance minister P Chidambaram met the top honchos of the 26 public sector banks (PSBs) for a quarterly performance review meeting in New Delhi...

A bahubali (musclemen) once upon a time turned politician now, former member of parliament Pappu Yadav (officially Rajesh Ranjan) has now shown the...

Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at the Washington-based conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has co-authored a working paper...

As he boarded the flight back to New Delhi after what could be his last foreign trip as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh could well be right if he...