Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the minimum guaranteed income promised by the Congress to the poorest of poor is a "surgical strike on poverty" for which former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram......
Chief Minister MK Stalin has shown that he is cut from a different cloth when it comes to embracing what is current, modern and absolutely necessary. Thus, even while retaining the spirit and......
Rajeev Srinivasan on whom the Congress might put forth as its leader in 2014 It was amusing to see some soi-disant intellectuals and pundits pontificating on whether Gujarat Chief Minister......
Two of the greatest modern exponents of yoga began their life in Mysore, under the tutelage of the legendary Krishnamacharya. For both of them, life was yoga. And yoga was life, says Sunaad......
Shaktikanta Das is a master of the finest balancing act who listens to all but takes his own decisions, discovers Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The 87-year-old......
Optimistic about the passage of long pending GST bill in the Parliament, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has told American investors that continued focus on fiscal consolidation and......
On October 1 Indian-American Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. Announcing her appointment, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde hailed the......
The RBI now brings in important and contentious changes directly through voluminous Master Directions, or Master Circulars With prodding from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the......
SBI's Bhattacharya is ranked second on the list, while ICICI's Kochhar is 5th and Axis's Sharma is 19th in the State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya is ranked 2nd. Photograph: PTI Photo.......
Raja Sen isn’t reviewing Shuddh Desi Romance or telling you its story because he thinks you should have seen it already. Here’s why he thinks this film is one of the year’s most......
Cricket icon Sunil Gavaskar celebrates a magnificent 75th birthday on July 10th. Sunil Gavaskar, known for his fearless batting, started his Test career on March 6, 1971. He went on to become the......
When he ended his Test career, he held the following Test records: Most Tests (125). Most consecutive Tests (106). Most runs (10,122). Most hundreds (34). Most scores of 50 or more (79). Most......
It was this day, March 6, in 1971 that Sunil Manohar Gavaskar made his debut in Test cricket. Gavaskar -- the first cricketer in history to surpass the 10,000 runs mark in the longest format -- was......
Having produced the maximum number of international cricketers across three formats, even the staggering statistics will not be able to tell the kind of impact Mumbai has had on Indian cricket over......
Local youngster Prasanna Rao, an International Master, surprisingly held top seed Aleksandrov Aleksey of Belarus to a draw in the fourth round of the 4th Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament......