Why the rich give gold to temples

'Rich Indians don't give cash, they give gold. Why?''Because cash is spent by temples on prasad or doing some charitable work.''Gold remains intact with god,' says Aakar Patel. Next year will mark......

Chennai's story needs to be heard

No one imagined that this could happen to Chennai. We were just a happy little town content with our Kollywood and Coffee, but humanity has won over once again, says Pavithra Selvam. The rains......

Why the regional journalist is at threat

The murder of journalists in 2015 underscore the rising power of regional language media, especially local-language newspapers, says Nilanjana S Roy Those who killed, killed in the open. Thugs......

Big win for Modi-led NDA predicts exit polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is projected to form the government at the Centre with exit polls on Monday night giving between 249 and 290 seats to the Narendra......

5,275 wilful defaulters (+ Mallya) owe banks Rs 56,621 crore

India’s five leading wilful defaulters are Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd and associate Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds, Zoom Developers, Kingfisher Airlines, Beta Naphthol and Raza......

Decline, recession, stagflation, crisis, crunch...

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except......

IT greats who changed the world

Marc Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergei Brin and Larry Page of Google, Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft -- are they visionaries, missionaries or monopolists? A bit of all, says B S......

Indian economy on stable growth path

I deeply appreciate the invitation from the ISAS to address this august gathering of policy makers, eminent academics, and market participants of Singapore. Singapore is an important financial......

It's going to end by me getting a clean chit: Modi

FormerIndian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modiin his first full interview since his suspension as commissioner of the Twenty20 league in April believes he is innocent and is confident of......

Why I am praying for Brazil to lift the Cup

B S Prakash, India's Ambassador to Brazil, on what it is to be in Brazil during the World Cup. I am at this huge party in the South African embassy, here in Brazil. It is the opening match of the......