How steel can become the next oil for India

This year's rise in the current account deficit, the associated impact on the economy and subsequent measures to control the deficit...

RBI asks banks to fine-tune recovery, due diligence for NPAs

MUMBAI: In the wake of deteriorating asset quality in the banking system, which is hovering at record highs, the Reserve Bank today ask...

Sensex drops most in 11 weeks on fresh Fed tapering concerns

The benchmark Sensex today fell 406 points, the biggest drop in 11 weeks, as most European and Asian stocks declined on fresh conc...

New global trade pacts may cut out India, China

A new global trading system is being erected, almost unnoticed in India. One of its unstated aims is to check China's rise through ec...

Narendra Modi, a modern parallel of the ruthlessly ambitious Mughal emperor Aurangzeb

Who could imagine that Aurangzeb and Narendra Modi would have some things in common? But life surprises. To begin with, both are Guj...

Narendra Modi risks peaking too early & suffering from burn-out

n four decades since Narendra Modi stepped into politics as a junior apparatchik of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ), he would hav...

Modi should highlight Golwalkar, not Patel

Pursuing legacies is an enduring inspiration, both for those who want to be stimulated by examples of great lives and times as well as fo...

Voters are not swayed by macroeconomic data, but job creation

Every time growth numbers move up or down a few percentage points or the industrial production data is announced, there is a frenzy of hea...