'The steady poverty reduction achieved over the last three decades could be largely reversed in this one financial year with hundreds of millions sliding below the red line,' warns Devangshu Datta.......
'The feeling is growing that if India slips in the realms of liberal tenets, it will be a tragedy not only for the country, but also for the world because it will lose a remarkable role model,'......
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world's smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the prize for......
Three British scientists -- David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz -- on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for revealing the secrets of exotic matter, the Nobel jury said. "This......
By piling more pressure on governments, central banks risk not accomplishing much and yet provoking a political backlash that could threaten their independence Central bankers who led the charge......
An implicit understanding has grown over the last several decades that in addition to controlling inflation, most shortcomings in real sectors and of growth can be addressed by central bank......
It is likely that in the last quarter of 2010, there may be another round of convulsions in western economies. And this could hurt India too, says Jaimini Bhagwati. January 2010 is the first month......
Out of strength, sometimes, comes sweetness. Nine years ago, when Ikea, the Swedish furniture company, was being challenged over the use of child labour, its executives decided that instead of......