With its political colour dominated by less than democratic trends, BRICS currently leaves some of us wondering -- where in this grouping is there an assurance that human freedom will be respected......
When Joe Biden was elected as one of the youngest United States senators in 1972, one of the first letters that he received was from Mumbai, with the sender having the same last name as his.......
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently.We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of......
These days it is not the number of followers that make or break leaders. It is television.BJP leader Arun Jaitley first earned his spurs on television. The lawyer with the razor-sharp brain used......
India and China, the two most ancient civilizations of the world, enjoyed remarkably wonderful relations in the first millennium since the birth of Christ. Even in the second millennium,relations......
'As our per capita income increases and various demographic segments emerge, the need for various kinds of protection and risk covers will become even more explicit.' Photograph: Kind courtesy LIC......
Reliance Capital Asset Management, controlled by Anil Ambani, has sold a 5 per cent stake to Eton Park Capital Management in a deal that for the first time puts a value on India's largest mutual......
'At the first board meeting I chaired, I sensed that corporate governance is an issue in this company.''I started taking steps that may have aggrieved a few.''This has now become a mission I intend......
Eighty-six new foreign institutional investors have registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of Indiain the first four months of calendar 2006. With this, the number of FIIs to have set up......
Even after the split, UTI Mutual Fund continues to hold the largest market share of 14.47 per cent closely followed by ICICI Prudential, HDFC Standard Life and Templeton in the over Rs 1,00,000......