'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.''Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.''What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?' IMAGE: A......
Rediff.com’s Sanchari Bhattacharya speaks to Sanjoy Roy about the prominent authors attending the Jaipur Literature Festival this year. "It is a bumper harvest this year," Jaipur......
In the seventh edition of Jaipur Literature Festival, not only there would be writers to discuss topics ranging from economics to food, politics to fiction and everything else in between but there......
Two Nobel Laureates, four listed writers of this year’s Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, winners of Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Crossword Prize and film stars......
Scores of Indian American politicians, administration officials, media personalities and activists were among the 320 guests at the first state dinner of the Barack Obama presidency in honour of......
108 economists, social scientists said it was imperative that agencies like CSO and NSSO are not subject to political interference. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com A group of 108 economists......
13 eminent economists, including former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and current International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, in a report have asked the political establishment not to......
The pipeline for well-qualified and experienced policy economists at senior levels of government has broken, leading to a growing dearth of suitable candidates for top economist positions, says......
India may need to take a fresh look at its monetary policy, says Amartya Lahiri, professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Lahiri, who has written several papers, including......
Speech of P. Chidambaram Minister of Finance PART A Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2005-06. 2. Last year, while presenting the Budget, I had suggested that the vote in......