K Natwar Singh wore many hats as he straddled the worlds of diplomacy, politics and writing but what remained consistent across decades was his sharp-wit and plainspeaking. IMAGE: Former External......
'Kofi Annan will be remembered more for his Nobel Prize and related glory rather than Rwanda and Volcker,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan with whom he worked in the UN. IMAGE: Former UN......
Natwar Singh's book is un-illuminating, largely self-justificatory, often contradictory, and at times tendentious. He is too preoccupied with depicting himself as a victim of the Congress party's......
The Supreme Court today slammed former former Union Minister Natwar Singh and his son for their delaying tactics in multi-crore Iraq's oil-for-food scam probe and granted green signal to......
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed petitions of former external affairs minister Natwar Singh and his son Jagat Singh seeking direction to the Enforcement Directorate to provide them all......
There are attempts to reconfigure the RBI's policy formulation processes. But it would need much more than monetary policy to revive animal spirits, notes Alok Sheel. The hyperinflationary 1970s......
The $2 billion loss by J P Morgan Chase is a failure of risk management, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, as the FBI launched an investigation into the issue. He also called for......
The effort of US President Barack Obama to make Wall Street accountable and prevent the collapse of financial institutions in the future inched a step closer as the House of Representatives passed......
A former deputy governor of the Bank of England, Howard Davies was instrumental in formation of the Financial Services Authority, UK's financial sector regulator, in 1997. He served as chairman of......
Domestic opposition weakens the prospect of Obama's proposals ever becoming law, says Dani Rodrik. When US President Barack Obama announced in late January his intention to seek tough new rules for......
Cricket is not just a mere sport in the Indian subcontinent. It brings together so many diverse Indian communities, based on language, religion, location...etc. Talented and great Indian cricketers......