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......
Judith Brown is the Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at Balliol College, Oxford. Born in India in 1944 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge, Dr Brown is a specialist......
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......
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......
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......
As staff at the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering wait patiently in a conference room, a loud rumble shatters the silence. "Must be him," someone says. Alain E. Kaloyeros has just pulled......
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......