New York Times tops Trump's 'Fake News' awards

United States President Donald Trump has declared The New York Times as the winner of the ‘Fake News Award’. Among other recipient of Trump’s unique award were ABC News, CNN,......

US lawmaker opposes Dr Gupta's nomination

Even before CNN's chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr Sanjay Gupta has had a chance to take President-elect Barack Obama up on his offer for him to be the nation's......

What the relaunch of Obama 2.0 means for the world

Now freed of the daunting task of running for office again, will the original inspirational Obama resurface? Wonders Shreekant Sambrani So Barack Hussein Obama will remain the most powerful person......

The working of India's democracy

Not so long ago, in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president of the US, all of us - in India and the rest of the world - hailed it as the triumph of American democracy. For the first time,......

Paul Krugman: Economist, columnist, Nobel laureate

Paul Krugman is perhaps most widely known as a columnist in The New York Times. On the day that he was awarded the Nobel prize in economics for 2008, his column sharply criticised the Bush......

American Paul Krugman wins Economics Nobel

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday announced that American Paul Krugman has won the Nobel economics prize "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity." "What......

Subbarao pooh-poohs Krugman's boring banking idea

Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao on Wednesday contested the idea of "making banking boring" to bring back economic stability, mooted by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in the wake of global......

How S&P got governments on the run

The recent downgrade of the United States sovereign credit rating by Standard and Poor's has left many people speechless. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has likened S&P's attitude to that of "a......