The man who stole India's past

'It was only relatively recently that Subhash Kapoor was able to secure the sources in India, Afghanistan and Cambodia, that allowed him to get the really highest level objects, and that helped......

A Canadian visa in New York is no cakewalk

'I decided to record the experience because the country concerned was Canada, a country that prides itself as a champion of human rights around the globe.... It appeared to me that the Canadian......

Obama appoints woman pujari to inter-faith panel

President Barack Obama has appointed the first Hindu community activist and one of the first Hindu women priests in New Jersey, Anju Bhargava, to the White House Office of Faith-based and......

Get up and get rich

One Sunday, lazily flipping through television channels aimlessly -- who doesn't -- I stopped at an unusual sight. The screen showed the visage of Donald Trump, familiar to all American television......

Deepak Parekh: The man with a penchant for doing things right

Parekh has made clean business not only a cornerstone of how the HDFC group is run, but also embodies that spirit in his dealings with others in the world of business and politics. Writing about......

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has throat cancer

JP Morgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he has been diagnosed with throat cancer but his condition is curable and will soon begin treatment while continuing to be "actively involved"......

JP Morgan Chase to pay $1.7 bn in penalties for Madoff ties

The US prosecutors have secured a whopping $1.7 billion penalty from banking giant J P Morgan, which has been criminally charged for ignoring warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme......

'Lehman investments: JPMorgan must face lawsuit'

A federal judge on Wednesday said JPMorgan Chase & Co must face a lawsuit by a pension plan that accused it of mismanaging its money by investing in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc notes before that......

Watching The Clock at MoMa

New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcased The Clock, a meticulous effort showing clocks and watches from thousands of films from the last 100 years of cinema.It is 7.45 am when......

Glimpses of Bollywood in the Big Apple

"This is not fair, this is not fair at all," said a young woman to her friend looking wistfully at the stage. "All this is so beautiful but we have to get back to work." She was watching a group......