Indian class of Samuelson by Devadeep Purohit
A professor in formal attire, driving his own Beetle to the sprawling Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus and turning…
Read MoreRich nations dividing developing countries to weaken voice, says China by Aarti Dhar
China on Monday accused the developed nations of trying to “split” the developing countries to weaken their voice at the…
Read MoreSLP against land acquisition for Nano dismissed by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with a Gujarat High Court judgment dismissing a petition which challenged land…
Read MoreWater and sustainable agriculture by S Janakarajan
The key message of the book is that agriculture in South Asia is quite heavily stressed due to A complex…
Read MoreSC throws out Nano land plea by Samanwaya Rautray
The Supreme Court today dismissed a Gujarat farmer’s petition against allotment of fertile agricultural land in Sanand for Tata Motors’…
Read MoreA voice of sanity and reason on China by Sandeep Dikshit
For generations of China watchers, Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea was an objective interpreter of the tumultuous events which unfolded in the…
Read MoreA New Brand Driver by Ashok V Desai
We Indians implicitly believe in India’s great past. Recently, that past has been given a statistical underpinning by Angus Maddison.…
Read MoreThe foremost academic economist of the 20th century by Michael M Weinstein
Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died…
Read MoreWalkout at Copenhagen by Jayanta Basu
India, China and 128 other countries briefly walked out of the climate change talks here today in protest against the…
Read MorePoverty up, social schemes to get boost by Pradeep Thakur
The Suresh Tendulkar committee report revising upwards poverty estimates across the country may further strain government finances with many of…
Read MoreNow, an ambulance scam by Dhananjay Mahapatra
In a new twist to the alleged Rs 5,600-crore scam in giving away contracts for ambulance and emergency healthcare services…
Read MoreThe great synthesiser
If Paul Samuelson, who died this weekend at the ripe age of 94, has been described in many obituaries as…
Read MorePain of India’s ‘tiger widows’
Climate change is forcing humans and tigers in the Sunderbans delta of eastern India into closer contact – and attacks…
Read MoreIndia opens Pandora’s box over proposed new state by Mahesh Rangarajan
The near total political paralysis of one of India’s largest states, Andhra Pradesh, over its proposed carve-up, raises fresh questions…
Read MoreRs 32-lakh sedan for governor’s wife? by Yogesh Naik
While the Union government has been harping on the need for fiscal rectitude, the Maharashtra Raj Bhavan has sent a…
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