Pak Army Chief Will Now Stay Till Nov 2027

Whenever tenures of army chiefs were extended in the recent past, prime ministers were subsequently eased out of office by the same army chief, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at......

Mahatma Carter

Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician. Carter bears not a small resemblance to another leader of another large country, who was also in politics but......

Bill Clinton on what stops Gandhi's dream for India

Former US president Bill Clinton on Monday expressed his doubt over the realisation of Gandhi's dream of India given the continued internal differences in the country, particularly between Hindus......

Taxing ultra-wealthy can boost GDP by 2.73%: Piketty-backed Study

India needs to impose a 2 percent tax on net wealth exceeding Rs 10 crore and a 33 percent inheritance tax to deal with the problem of rising inequality in the country, a new research paper......

Top 1% Indians Earn 23% Of Income

Wealth, which can broadly be a measure of assets held as opposed to income earned, is unequally distributed. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   India's richest people now have a larger......

SC judges to get Harvard schooling

Harvard Business School will soon be training judges from the Indian Supreme Court. A programme to train the judges has been proposed where they would be attending a two-week advanced executive......

Reports of coal crisis baseless: Sitharaman

Amid reports of the ongoing coal shortage in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed that there is no shortage and termed these as “absolutely baseless”, saying India......

Arvind Subramanian likely to be chief economic advisor

Noted economist Arvind Subramanian is favoured as the choice for the government’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA).  It has been vacant since Raghuram Rajan resigned almost a year before, to......

US won't send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics

'The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC's ongoing genocide and crimes against......