Born in Chennai in 1957, Sainath completed a master's degree in history before turning to a life of journalism. At Blitz, a Mumbai tabloid, he rose to be deputy chief editor and became a popular columnist. In 1993, he changed course.
The attack comes in the backdrop of the regulatory authority uploading about one million comments on net neutrality
The Tamil Nadu govt's recent declaration of nationalising cement companies brought to fore several disturbing facts about the govt and the pernicious cement cartel.
The party's steady flow of money from industrialists has all but dried up, leaving a cash crunch so serious that it's been forced to crowd-fund for a candidate.
The Fortune 500 company -- it recently improved its rank to 135 -- has identified forward integration into petrochemicals as its next big business opportunity.
India Inc is rearranging its investment itinerary with little known investment destinations like Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Orissa gaining a place on the country's economic roadmap.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
Local businesses are fretting over reform setbacks.
The roll out of Reliance Retail's fresh food format stores has hit a wall in West Bengal, where a key constituent of the state government is against big businesses entering agriculture and allied fields.
It's not longer mere talk. Radio Frequency Identification is silently making its presence felt in India and everybody from the big business houses, government, defence to farmers are flaunting it.
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, who engineered the acquisition of Hutch-Essar in India, has accused unsuccessful rival bidders of trying to derail the deal and sought transparency from Indian regulators in M&A approvals.
Swedish Prime Minister Lofven lauded India as 'global power' and said the two countries are a 'perfect match'.
'What is forgotten but is actually as important for a society's long run success is morality.' 'Morals and trust are the nuts and bolts of an economy.' 'Without those you can get short run success, but not long-run development.'
'We must all commit to sharing less nonsense and quarrelling less on social media.' 'We could use that time instead to meeting and speaking to our friends and family instead of 'liking' their posts.' 'Zuckerberg will be the poorer for that, but our lives will be so much richer,' says Rahul Jacob.
Aroona Irani is all set to showcase her newest serial.
'Embedded with the divisive regime, they administer heavy doses of the opium of religion and nationalism day in and day out,' observes Mohammad Sajjad.
In a note to his students titled 'In a Background of Elections - The Development Debate', Dr Frazer Mascarenhas, principal of Mumbai's St Xavier's College, slams Narendra Modi's Gujarat and is in all praise of United Progressive Alliance's Rojgar Yojana and the Food Security Act
Top businessmen often seek refuge in the animal kingdom to describe their situation
The wealth of India's richest 1 per cent increased by over Rs 20.9 lakh crore during 2017.
Import of fine wine to India has emerged as one of the '12 best new business opportunities in the world' compiled by a Fortune group magazine.
Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari known for promoting innovative ideas in transportation, created a stir some time back when he pitched for 100 per cent electric mobility by 2030. In an interview with Megha Manchanda & Jyoti Mukul, he talks about the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) and electric vehicles.
The government will "revamp" the Small Farmers Agri-business Consortium to convert it into a venture capital fund, finance minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.
Kenyans convicted of doping offences will face at least three years in prison and heavy fines under a draft law to be submitted to parliament, the chairman of a government-backed anti-doping task force.
On the Christmas eve, Indian-made jewellery, clothing and other products are a huge hit with the shoppers here as hundreds of them throng an ongoing Indian trade fair.
'Lower rates are only part of the solution and sometimes not the right solution at all.'
Sounding critical of and disappointed by the collections presented at the Lakme India Fashion Week, big business houses said the designers should shun duplication of designs and trends, be more organsied, and "edit" their presentations.
While Juventus look forward to a first Champions League final in more than a decade and the riches that success brings, former employees at the Italian giants' Singapore-based soccer school push on with their fight for unpaid wages.
'Who is telling the truth? Former finance secretary Ajit Kumar or disgraced former UTI chairman P S Subramanyam?' asks Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
The trouble is largest FDI projects in India have had a tragic history.
'The youth associated with this movement were extremely talented.' 'But I personally believe violence cannot change anything in the world.'
'The three tycoons I deal with in the first chapter -- Ambani, Mallya and Adani -- in their own way represent the change that has come over India.' 'Of the three of them, Mallya is the most fun. He was terrific.' 'And I don't say that because I tell the story in the book of his golden toilet.'
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