Centre cancels UGC-NET amid NEET fiasco

Amid a raging row over the medical entrance exam NEET, the Union education ministry on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of the UGC-NET following inputs that the exam's integrity may have been......

Sheikh Hasina's Biggest Blunder

'The dominance of her party also meant that the institutions became lopsided -- whether it was the bureaucracy or the courts or the military.''She centralised power to the extent that you would see......

NEET row: NTA DG shunted out; Centre orders CBI probe

Facing flak over alleged discrepancies in competitive exams, the Centre on Saturday shunted out National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Subodh Singh and handed over the probe into......

California senate panel passes bill to end caste bias

A bill seeking to explicitly ban caste discrimination in California has been unanimously passed by the state's Senate Judiciary Committee, amidst strong opposition from Indian-American business and......

Recession is over: Who are the biggest winners?

It is official. The recession is over! The United States' National Bureau of Economic Research has declared the recession that started in December 2007 ended in June 2009. The 18-month slump was......

Meet Gita Gopinath, IMF's new chief economist

She would be the first Indian to be occupying the coveted post at IMF after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan Alongside guiding Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on economic policies, Gita......

Harvard bestows rare honour on Indian economist

She is the third woman ever, and the first Indian after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to have received this outstanding honour. The iconic Harvard University's economic department recently named......

Bad quarterly numbers: Corporate performance poor

The collective relief that was felt on Friday, when the encouraging fourth quarter and full-year GDP numbers were released, may turn out to have been premature because of the continuing......