More often than not unskilled workers end up getting a raw deal.
Provided they have all the details, shareholders are best placed to do this.
Air India vacates posh Berkeley Square space, will it leave Nariman Point?
Non-Resident Gujaratis can claim formidable achievements in most fields.
Muthalik's done for panties what bra-burning did for lingerie sales.
A first-hand account of how global banks got into the mess they're in.
Raju need not fear ostracism once he's out - society will embrace him. Size is a national obsession. Indians have stashed away more than anyone else -- a noble $1,456 billion -- in Swiss banks. We thrive on superlatives. Even Jawaharlal Nehru rejoiced in the Suratgarh farm being "the biggest farm in Asia".
Chinese guides would rather you shopped instead of anything else
Bankrupt West Bengal has more VIPs with security than rich Maharashtra.
Banning children from work is fine only if there is a plan to support them.
Looking for crumbs from Obama doesn't say much for India Shining.
The world needs more regulation today, not a return to autarky
But the more significant development is that just as politicians took over pujas some years ago, NRIs, hi-tech and market managers are now moving in. I have nothing against them except that it would be sad if professional commerce overwhelms the spirit of collective youthful effort that traditionally sustained public pujas.
The Ambassador and Nano plants are in the same district. Now to get the Bajaj Lite
That's one of the reasons behind the Vietnamese cosying up to India.
India cannot abandon ethnic Indians abroad. But to be effective, its expressions of interest must be diplomatic and must balance several factors.
Manmohan Singh faced stiff competition in Singapore. No, not at the East Asia Summit or in meetings with the Asean. But the rival attractions of two imaginative exhibitions on India's past and an exhaustive three-day conference titled "Early Indian Influences in Southeast Asia" eclipsed his presence while China's Wen Jiabao basked in media glory that reflected the reality of economic and military power.
Apparently, there are something like 25 million passports in the country, in addition to those of about five million semi-skilled and unskilled Indian workers in the Gulf, southeast Asia and elsewhere.
Mukesh Ambani doesn't need my support but the agitation against Reliance shops in UP and West Bengal does draw attention to a certain sneaky trait in Indian life.
But even the word maid, relatively neutral in English, is beginning to acquire chakrani overtones in Singapore, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
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