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......
US President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a 17-member high-level team of advisers including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to guide him in......
One of the newsletters that I read recently had this to say about insurance policies in the US: "Advisors are beginning to discover some of the games that the larger life (insurance) companies......
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......
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......
At a time when foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have been sellers, there are some like Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), who are still......