The Cola rage

I have a problem with the media blitz around colas and their pesticide content. To me, it seems too 'politically correct'. It is true that the easiest thing to do in India is to bash the US, its......

Aadhaar is based on unscientific thinking, fallible biometric data

Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that do not age, wither and decay with the passage of time, says Gopal Krishna.......

Repositioning India's brand

Part I: Is South Asian Studies undermining India? Brand Management by other countries in USAIndia is under-represented in American academia compared to China, Islam/Middle East and Japan, among......

26,000-Mw Maharashtra projects may be delayed

The fate of power projects of nearly 26,000 Mw in the economically fragile Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra hangs in the balance. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has told......

Inflation control no bar to growth

I frankly cannot figure out the frenzied excitement of the commentariat (the new buzz word denoting the entire community of commentators) every time the Reserve Bank of India Governor, Dr Y V......

Visionary Budget but devil lies in the implementation

Image: India set for high growth. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters     The government has provided a long-term vision, avoiding any "big-bang" reforms but the devil will be in the......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

The Murali report

The School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, last month examined for the third time the bowling action of Sri Lankan off-spinner Muthiah Muralitharan,......