With poor improvement in the global economic outlook and poorer one for the Indian economy, corporate houses have experienced moderation in growth, which halved to 9.1 percent in 2012-13. This is vis-a-vis 18.5 percent growth in sales in 2011-12 f
With poor improvement in the global economic outlook and poorer one for the Indian economy, corporate houses have experienced moderation in growth, which halved to 9.1 percent in 2012-13. This is vis-a-vis 18.5 percent growth in sales in 2011-12 f
Recently there was a ‘Festival of Madurai Cuisine’ at a swanky hotel here in Chennai, and as a Madurai person myself my first reaction was one of immense happiness, primarily over the fact that someone had managed to put Madurai and cu
Human life can be measured in terms of decades but the emergence of a new system, after demolishing the old system, should be measured in terms of centuries. As we get set to celebrate 66 years of India’s independence, the country is on the
It was three years before the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008, which took down with it the global economy, that Raghuram Rajan rung the first warning bells. Today, as the Indian economy continues to flounder, Rajan, who has been a popular choice
It may be a bit strange and rather curious coincidence. Jailed Gujarat police officer DG Vanzara discovered his ‘god’ Narendra Modi had feet of clay around the same time as godman Asaram Bapu fell from grace and was booked for a rather
A year after women’s representation in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) was increased from 33 to 50 percent, women have emerged as the top performing corporators in the civic body. A report by P
On August 30, prime minister Monmohan Singh did something he has rarely done in recent times. He put his point across uber-aggressively while ticking off the raucous opposition: “Have you heard of any country where MPs shout and walk to the
Note: On Sunday, September 1, top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders met some of the BJP’s tallest leaders – LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and party president Rajnath Singh. On agenda reportedly was a quick decision to name Gujar
Wajahat Habibullah, the first chief information commissioner of India, gave the central information commission (CIC) a strong foundation and Satyananda Mishra, an IAS officer of 1972 batch from Madhya Pradesh cadre, managed its evolution. Mish
While many are seeing a sudden assertion of its identity by the Central Bureau of Investigation after the supreme court called the country’s premier probe agency a “caged parrot” of the government, former Uttar Pradesh DGP Pr
On January 8, the Bombay high court said the Insurance Regulation and Development Authority (IRDA) can go ahead with the process of finalising regulations for settling insurance claims and for the role of third party administrators (TPAs) and powe
Notwithstanding the slowdown in the steel market, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) registered a 16% growth in sales during the month of August ’13 by selling 10.86 lakh tonnes of steel products as compared to 9.38 lakh tonnes in corre
The government’s plan to merge associate banks with the State Bank of India (SBI) has not gone down well with the banking employees’ associations. Protesting against such a move the All India Bank Employees’ Association
Dark economic clouds hang over India. The rupee is in a free fall, economic growth has faltered, the twin deficits (fiscal and current account) have gone haywire, policy makers seem unable to make up their minds, and experts talk of an Asian crisi
When Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit placed government advertisements in 2007-08 ahead of the assembly elections, she would not have imagined what kind of publicity she was buying. Using government funds to promote her party must have helped h
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill says: No unilateral cancellation of flats The promoter shall not cancel the allotment unless he has sufficient cause to cancel i
So, 66 years of independent India later, have we fulfilled our duties to citizens (as political leaders representing them), especially those who are relatively young? I feel New Delhi (parliament and the government) has failed to me
There are at least seven pillars on which the edifice of the election commission (EC) is solidly built: The constitution of India Acts and rules made there under Judicial support T
In the last few weeks, two issues related to the Indian economy have been in the headlines. One is the debate, not a very pleasant one at times, between two of the most famous economists India has produced, on the growth versus development questio
