Sanskrit motto stays in IIM-A logo after faculty protests its dropping

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-Ahmedabad) on Friday said that the Sanskrit motto has not been dropped from its proposed new logo. Photograph: Kind courtesy IIM A/Instagram. Some......

3.2 million Indians may have died from Covid: Study

About 3.2 million people could have died from Covid in India by September last year, six-seven times higher than reported officially, according to a study based on one independent and two......

'Democracy is not a destination'

'Democracy cannot be taken for granted. It has to be fiercely guarded.' IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit A Shah at a meeting of BJP polling booth workers at the Lal Bahadur stadium......

Top management guru C K Prahalad passes away

Dr C K Prahalad, one of the world's renowned management gurus, passed away in San Diego, United Stateson Friday. He was 68. Prahalad, 69, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. He was a......

Govt appoints three new external RBI MPC members

The government on Tuesday appointed three external members -- Ram Singh, Saugata Bhattacharya and Nagesh Kumar -- to the RBI's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee for four years. Photograph:......

The amazing resilience of Indian economy

We are approaching the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse. Lehman's filing for bankruptcy on September 15 last year triggered the near-collapse of the western financial system and......

MPC's Repo Rate Decision Not Unanimous

Dr Nagesh Kumar, one of the three new MPC members, wanted the MPC to reduce the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%. IMAGE: Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das. Photograph: Francis......

Will New MPC Members Cut Interest Rates?

. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters While top economists are of the view that the Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) may not cut the repo rates, they also said it would......