AMIT KUMAR must be one of the few bankers in the world turning away depositors. The manager of a village…

The current contraction in global economic growth offers an opportunity to re-assess what will foster economic resurgence.  The sustained growth…

In one section of the university building where I teach, there is an enormous and motley collection of discarded computer-related…

With inter-state relations getting increasingly focused on integration, the impetus for summits and meetings has been on the increase. However,…

AS YOU drive west from Baroda — Gujarat’s cultural capital — towards the coast, it is hard not to marvel…

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Sunday to spend more on health care and education and make it easier for foreign…

India has blocked entry to a former US naval ship heading for break-up at a scrap yard on its west…

In a recent lecture, delivered in Mumbai in memory of Nani Palkhivala, the home minister, P. Chidambaram, attacked “left-leaning intellectuals”…

Those that have governed in tribal areas must share the responsibility for the negligence of the adivasis. The proposals for…

Reader responses to last week’s column on media-related malpractices during elections throw further light on this serious issue, which is…

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said the food price inflation would come down by the end of…

Exports from the world’s poorest countries should be granted duty- and quota-free access to markets, according to government officials, economists…

The Delivery Monitoring Unit set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Prime Minister’s Office to monitor the government’s…

IN the digital age, the implementation of the Right to Information Act, 2005, is deeply linked to the technology that…

A Human Rights Watch report emphasises the need for a system of recording and investigating all maternal deaths.  THE maternal…