Carbon question

Oil at $100-plus a barrel incentivises search for all kinds of substitutes and/or alternative oil extraction technologies.

Whisky sour

In wine is truth. And the truth is, according to a recent survey, wine may at last be getting ready…

Hold your breath

Has King Chuk De Khan dumped hockey for cricket? Everyone at the Kolkata launch of the filmstar?s Indian Premier League…

Hike for all

Five Pay Commissions and 50 years later, there are two clear lessons. The wage gulf between government officers and their…

Subsidy? No way

Does the $15 billion loan waiver for defaulting small and marginal Indian farmers amount to an agriculture subsidy? Will it…

Guesstimates

First, the bad news. India is ranked a lowly 65th by the annual travel & tourism competitiveness report of the…

Our animal spirits

The trillion-dollar question for the trillion-dollar Indian economy now is how deeply the economic slowdown has affected investment sentiment.