A team from Pratham had arrived at a village in Uttar Pradesh to assess if the children could read, but the village head was dismissive. Lying shirtless on his cot, he told them all children in the......
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdrew on Sunday from consideration to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke after fierce opposition from within the Democratic Party hurt his......
Markets erased early morning gains towards the end of the day and ended flat. The Sensex dropped to a low of 17,182 after trading in a range bound fashion for most part of the day. The BSE......
Marc Lowlicht is annoyed. The head of the wealth management division at Further Lane Asset Management is tired of people confusing what he does with mere investment management. The latter is more......
At the end of last year, Bill Miller, manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust lamented that he had purchased Citigroup at what he thought was a bargain price, only to see its shares drop lower as the......
One of the more vexing aspects of trying to make sense of today's laboured financial markets is determining if we are officially in a recession. While it might seem very much like an actual......