India has so far succeeded in staving off the deadly virus that has claimed over 4,500 lives abroad.
New Delhi bureaucrats, accustomed to leisurely lunches, golf in the afternoon and long weekends, have been shaken out of their somnolence, say authors. Fear and suspicion hang heavy over the red-sands.
With the marathon season around the corner, even couch potatoes can train for shorter runs at the Delhi Half Marathon in November
Life inside the prime minister's official residence is highly regulated, but it comes with its perks, says Veenu Sandhu
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Condusive climate across states is crucial for manufacturing growth.
This week, after years of denying it, octogenarian politician N D Tiwari publicly accepted that Rohit Shekhar is indeed his son. For Shekhar, the change of heart must also come with a legal guarantee.
Inflation moderates, but a rate cut is unlikely.
It's time to re-examine government's role as owner of banks,
Dividend payouts seem recession-proof.
As Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma ruled out any possibility of a compromise, whispers were already being heard of a possible collapse of the talks.
B D Agarwal, who is India's largest manufacturer and exporter of guar gum powder is taking the Congress by storm Rajasthan
Security of tenure is important for a bureaucrat to work efficiently. There has to be some rationale behind posting a bureaucrat to a particular department, says former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian
The consumer price index has been in double digits for much of the past year, and was 9.8 per cent in September.
In January this year, with a view to cutting the subsidy on diesel, the government had decreed that all bulk users, such as the railways, state transport corporations, armed forces and all commercial establishments, would be charged the market price for diesel.
This is likely to put a brake on the fast pace at which Aadhaar cards have been issued so far to more than 400 million people.
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After a string of extremely low and even negative monthly numbers, the industrial sector grew by 2.6 per cent year on year, far exceeding expectations.
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The stock market responded to his speech by going up by over two per cent; the rupee also gained in strength, by about 1.45 per cent, against the dollar.
India Inc enables the US' frostiness to India.
Between 2000, when Steve Ballmer became the chief executive officer of Microsoft, and now, when he has announced his retirement, the company's earnings have more than doubled and its revenues have increased over three-fold.
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