Two-time Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur has been named for the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna posthumously, a Rashtrapati Bhawan communique said on Tuesday on the eve of the......
Pranab Mukherjee's book The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years takes the readers through the economic and social unrest of the period leading up to the emergency, rise and......
Mamata Banerjee, the stormy petrel of West Bengal politics, once again proved a master strategist decimating the new Left-Congress combination and the Bharatiya Janata Party all of whom sought to......
Indira Gandhi with a young Pranab Mukherjee. The 1975 Emergency was perhaps an “avoidable event” and Congress and Indira Gandhi had to pay a heavy price for this......
Mamata Banerjee was on Friday sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time, heading a 42-member ministry. Banerjee, 61, was administered oath of office and secrecy......
Declining GDP growth, persistently high consumer inflation, poor public finances and worsening macro-economic indicators. In such a scenario, should Indian companies chase growth or consolidate......
At $161 bn, corporates' forex borrowings have grown at a CAGR of 15.6% since 2008, outpacing GDP and earnings growth in dollar terms. India Inc’s dollar exposure continues to grow at a fast......
Foreign institutional investors bought debt instruments worth a little over $10.5 billion in 2014, beating the previous high of $10.13 billion in 2010. There was a sell-off last year, as FIIs......
In an environment of stagnant revenue and falling profitability, cash flows can only be improved by cutting cost, though this could upset growth prospects, notes Krishna Kant. The monetary......
For events separated by time, it’s common to search for parallels. This is exactly what many are doing in the current economic crisis: Growth is at a decadal low, trade and current account......
Dev Anand would have turned 100 on September 26, 2023. His movies, his music and his mannerisms are etched in our hearts, and we salute the man who gave us so many cine memories to cherish with a......