'You look with hope at a politician who comes along and promises to change all that: 10 million new jobs every year, no need to touch someone's feet to get an introduction to an employer. And fix......
At some stage this fall in the quality of life will begin to hurt anybody's popularity, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi. Photograph: Press Information Bureau......
'What I remember best is the vigour with which she threw herself into the job, the passion she had for issues, particularly those that affected the poor.' Kalpana Sharma remembers her friend, the......
'Who are these people on the streets?''They are youth and students who were hoodwinked, bluffed by Modi for the last seven years, with a promise of 2 crore jobs every year.''And Mamata sings the......
'The confidence of the Opposition will go up and alliances will be easier to form if it becomes apparent that the BJP is losing ground in the north of India,' says Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Voters......
If Cyrus's protestations of having no knowledge of his imminent dismissal are to be taken at face value, he was extraordinarily naive and insulated from the ground reality.There were enough straws......
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is regarded as credible by global financiers, says A V Rajwade. Image: Rajan took prompt measures to increase dollar supplies and restore confidence in the rupee.......
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on Monday praised the dream budget presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram in 1997, but wondered why the FM could not repeat the same later. Dr Singh made this......
"Newspaper columns are not always meant for posterity. Many of them are forgotten even before the day is out! However, some columnists deserve not just a wider readership but also deserve to be......
The annual economic editors' conference in Delhi remains like the corner of the wall in the house where as a kid you marked your height with a pencil every year to see how much you had grown.Now......