Iyer, popularly called Param, is keen to return to the US where he had spent several years working with the World Bank at its Washington office -- a job he later quit to become road manager for his......
'I can tell you the case that hurts me the most is the one in which the little boy is forced to sign the Kohinoor over.''You take a mother away from a child, you surround him with grown ups......
Here is US President Barack Obama's much-awaited speech on the Afpak policy. THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Please be seated. Before I begin today, let me acknowledge, first of all, Your......
The Sri Lankan ethnic crisis has simmered and boiled for decades without a solution in sight. As the Lankan army closes in on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in what is believed as the final......
India's elite educational institutions have been producing first-rate scientists, engineers, and managers who helped India's information technology sector take off during the 1990s. Far less......
The World Bank has decided to extend an additional soft loan of $1.05 billion (Rs 4,772 crore) to the government to improve the quality of education under two major schemes on elementary and......
The World Bank has approved a $600 million credit to support the India's ongoing Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a nationwide centrally sponsored education programme designed to provide children aged 6 to......
Policymakers scrambling to keep the world economy from settling into the 'new mediocre' of sluggish growth can no longer rely on global trade to do the heavy lifting. International trade helped the......
Terrorist links and sale of personal data by business process outsourcing units, among others, are making corporate India very jittery about hiring prospective candidates.In fact, its not just......
Global economic slowdown hit them too in 2008, but private equity and venture capital investors -- who usually help shape new business ideas -- are looking to bounce back in 2009 by capitalising on......