The Cabinet has approved the National Identification Authority of India Bill and it is expected to be placed before Parliament…

The Companies Act of 1956 has been amended several times. But it needs complete overhaul. There were abortive attempts in…

Factor markets have generally been untouched by reforms and these are typically in the Concurrent list. Forests, various aspects of…

Most people will recognise this quote and its author. It was Mahatma Gandhi. However, this isn’t quite an exact quote.…

While no one can deny that Mani Shankar Aiyar has a tendency to shoot his mouth off, the second part…

There was a time when the agriculture minister proclaimed he was not an astrologer.

In September 1938, James Taylor was deputy governor of RBI. We don?t always notice it, but tucked away in one…

Just because we have made a mess of urban planning, we should not jump to the conclusion that urbanisation is…

Whether it is honour killings or Census, we never seem to be able to get away from caste. In part,…

So far, all that China has done is relax the yuan?s peg to the dollar. It is still pegged, but…

Lawrence Summers has several introductions. Right now, he is the director of President Obama?s National Economic Council.

Since 1991, product markets have largely been freed for manufacturing. Services are half-open, while agriculture is closed. But in addition…

There is a difference between government and governance and one should perhaps review UPA-2?s first year in…

Western legal regimes sometimes draw a distinction between gambling and gaming. Gambling is the act of betting on a future…

At one level, the precise number doesn?t matter, unless it crosses into double digits. Almost all discussion on inflation is…

The Human Development Report for 2009 states that 46% of India?s children under the age of 5 are underweight.