Retailers target brisk biz with Black Friday sale Brands like H&M, Zara, Uniqlo, Samsung, Sony, Adidas, and Puma have taken centre stage this year with campaigns promoting their…
Wanted, an all-inclusive approach towards Saarc Nepal is up in arms and so she should be. The abject poverty in this Himalayan kingdom, the rigid and… April 22, 2006 00:00 IST
Can merit and social justice be compatible? The debate generated by the proposal to reserve 27% seats in Union educational institutions for backward classes has predictably been… April 21, 2006 00:00 IST
Sense and sensibility vs pride and prejudice Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?s call last month for a roadmap to full capital account convertibility (CAC) has generated a torrent… April 20, 2006 00:00 IST
Where the umpire and player begin to merge In recent years, regulators around the world, including the International Organisation of Securities Commissi-ons (Iosco) have been grappling with ?conflict… April 17, 2006 00:00 IST
Originality and continuity add to value There was a time when a buyer with Rs 1 crore could buy up whole galleries full of our contemporary… April 16, 2006 00:00 IST
The huge hidden costs of strikes are missed Officials of State Bank of India (SBI) have reportedly said that the recent strike cost the bank enormously. Employees do… April 15, 2006 00:00 IST
Public-private-partnership: no panacea Public-private-partnership (PPP) is a favoured fashion. Its newly discovered virtues endow it with almost magical qualities to resolve the many… April 15, 2006 00:00 IST
Globalisation and worsening inequalities Going by a number of recent surveys by McKinsey, Pew, Gall-up and AC Nielsen, India is one of the few… April 15, 2006 00:00 IST
Not reservations, this policy is about statism There are 265 universities, 13,150 colleges, 8.821 million students and 0.427 million teachers (2003 figures) that make India one of… April 12, 2006 00:00 IST
Needed, a deep and liquid bond market From April 1, 2006, the FRBM Act prohibits the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from participating in the primary debt… April 11, 2006 00:00 IST
The treadmill of unnecessary consumption ?Are these shopping malls going to be the new temples of India?? I asked the current flamboyant finance minister. ?What?s… April 11, 2006 00:00 IST
Stock behaviour this week was a warning Is there a scam this time? Is this another stock bubble? Ever since the Sensex crossed 8,000, retail investors have… April 10, 2006 00:00 IST
Market expands, fakes flourish The recent Christie?s auction of March 29-30 has seen a lot of media hype about fakes. So has the last… April 9, 2006 00:00 IST
Third Front? For whom, and for what? Mulayam Singh and Chandrababu Naidu have joined hands! Both created myths of being architects of building huge conglomerates in their… April 8, 2006 00:00 IST
China is wagging a theatrical finger Some time last month, China held its National People?s Congress, which culminates in the China Develop-ment Forum. Stephen Roach of… April 8, 2006 00:00 IST
An ideal opportunity to act decisively The failure of prosecution in a spate of recent cases has re-focused public attention on our justice system. Distinguished jurists… April 7, 2006 00:00 IST
Atal?s blessings to smoothen yatras Two days before the twin raths are set to roll out, the BJP is once again on a damage-control mode.… April 5, 2006 00:00 IST
The Sensex is already showing signs of vertigo On August 20 last year, Madhukar, then a whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), startled… April 3, 2006 00:00 IST
Delhi Unlock Update: Police, admin deploy teams to enforce Covid-appropriate behaviour as markets set to reopen
Keep Covaxin only for second jabs in respect of 18-44 category: Delhi govt to private vaccination centres
