Global economy yet to come out off the boil

Although companies have been able to tap bond markets, the recovery of global financial markets is shakyAfter initially falling more sharply than in the first 12 months of the Great Depression of......

PM on how to build a poverty-free India

This is the text of the speech ofPrime Minister Manmohan Singh at 92nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association, Bhubaneshwar: I have also personally known many of the stalwarts who......

Column: Can we afford the draft direct taxes code?

M Govinda Rao on the shortcomings in the code. The unveiling of the draft code on direct taxes is a part of the programme of "building a trust-based simple, neutral tax system with almost no......

G20 Summit: The 7 big messages

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that he saw seven big messages emerging from the just concluded Summit on Financial Markets and World Economy held in Washington. Cautioning that the......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......