The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

'Independence came early because of the Naval Mutiny'

'These naval sailors should have been given due respect as freedom fighters.''February 18, 1946 should be as important as January 26 because that date changed everything.' Illustrations: Dominic......

Karna crisis: 2 Cong MLAs quit, high drama in Mumbai

Two more Congress MLAs resigned on Wednesday in another jolt to the beleaguered Congress-Janata Dal-Secular coalition government in Karnataka whose survival played out in three cities amid high......

As Delhi's air quality deteriorates, global reports express concern

As Delhi’s air quality continued to register alarming deterioration, the Supreme Court on Monday prohibited the plying of 15-year-old petrol and 10-year-old diesel vehicles in the national......

Google pushes UPI model of digital payments for US Fed

Citing the UPI’s phenomenal success in India, Google, in a letter to the Fed, said FedNow should be an open system, like the UPI. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters. The US Federal......

Trump names new US Fed chief

US President Donald Trump has tapped Jerome "Jay" Powell to lead the American central bank, bypassing Janet Yellen for a second term despite praising her excellent management of the world's largest......

Why Raghuram Rajan Raced At RBI

The speed at which he led the central bank in different areas -- ranging from internal reorganisation to inflation fighting, stabilising the currency, taking on rogue corporations, cleaning up bank......

Fed begins policy exit talks, split on view of US job market

Federal Reserve policymakers last month began laying groundwork for an eventual retreat from easy monetary policy with a discussion of how to best control interest rates as they remove trillions of......