Indicorps: The saga continues...

Part I: Humanity that worksOn the surface, the notion of doing social work in India is not new, and Sonal is the first to admit as much. There are thousands of non-profits and NGOs in India,......

Hamid Ansari goes to bat for secularism

How has the Indian State, in principle and practice, given shape to the essential ingredients of the secular principle and composite culture? Vice-President Hamid Ansari attempted to answer this......

Fali Nariman among Padma Vibhushan awardees

Noted jurist Fali Nariman, well-known litterateur Khushwant Singh and former chief justice P N Bhagwati were on Thursday named for the prestigious Padma Vibhushan awards, while leading writer Javed......

Dr Nirupam Bajpai, the man who knows India's pulse

Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa......

Sustainable Development index: China 76; India 110

IMAGE: A man carries his mother to board a passenger train at a railway station in New Delhi, February 25, 2016. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters Sweden tops the chart and is followed by......

What exactly ails the world's advanced economies

The biggest failure of post-2008 economic policy has consisted in governments’ inability to find creative ways to write down unsustainable debts, says Kenneth Rogoff. Is today’s......

Sachs's initiative to end poverty

The fight to end poverty sometimes looks like an industry that depends on the poor's impoverished state for its own survival. Jeffrey Sachs's (noted US economist and Director of the Earth Institute......

Wealth of 100 richest Indians grew by Rs 12,97,822 cr during Covid: Oxfam

India's 100 top billionaires have seen their fortunes increase by Rs 12,97,822 crore since March last year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country and this amount is enough to give 13.8 crore......

Look what's trending on TV!

These are the television shows that will crackle and pop a lot longer than anything you'll get your paws on.  Billions This hard-as-nails stock market drama is about a US attorney (Paul......