How India botched up its war against COVID-19

India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence.It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with.Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved.We need to vaccinate India at a pace......

The business of cooperation

While receiving Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House last November, President Barack Obama had termed the United States-India ties as one of the 'defining relationships' of this......

Unfinished tasks of Bharat that is India

We may be free but the taks before us remain undone. Gopal Krishna offers a checklistIn the 63rd year of British parliament's Indian Independence Act dated July 18, 1947, 'to make provision for the......

Paid news could jeopardise democracy: Vice Prez

In a bold statement, Vice President Mohmmad Hamid Ansari on Wednesday reminded journalists their primary duty of protecting the people's right to information and referred to the 'pay packages'......

Govt nominees likely on more Sebi panels

While experts’ views are divided, the move is aimed at improving the coordination between the government and the regulator. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is overhauling......

Compliance norms for next round of airport privatisation relaxed

The airports chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are those in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati. The......

Sebi rejigs buyback norms, cuts IPO price band timeline

As per the new rules, the time line for announcing IPO price band has been reduced to two days from five days earlier, Sebi Chairman Ajay Tyagi said in Mumbai. Sebi plans to amend various norms......

The storm from Panama

As people struggle with effects of globalisation, political & business leaders need to realise what is legal may not be moral anymore, notes Claude Smadja The list of casualties is already quite......