Gold has held up better than many expected.
Sweden has the world's highest negative rate.
The narrative in America after Donald Trump's victory sounds like the questions and debates that took place in India after May 2014. Were both electoral results all about jobs and economic anxiety? Mihir S Sharma doubts it.
'When we make these action machismo films, the stupidest thing is to show that the hero sails through a thousand people. It's a tradition we have grown up with.' 'We don't have the basis of creating a Bruce Lee or a Jackie Chan.'
China's economy is in transition, with rising wage costs and massive overcapacity.
All Is Well spends two hours desperately tickling the audience but the overall impact is one of torture, says Raja Sen.
Lack of basic sanitation affects people's dignity.
#GiveItUp but no matching LPG connections for BPL
'Rarely do you come across a leader of a free world who meets another leader of a free world and serves him tea in a suit that chants his name. Over and over again.'
All you have to do is visit www.digitalindia.gov.in
The days of 365-days-a-year, eight-hours-a-day employment are pretty much over, especially as an attractive political promise.
If democracy is to survive and thrive, duties have to be as important as rights and tolerance must be the foundation of public and private life.
The case based on "random materials" like loose sheets, papers, e-mail print outs is "merit less" as they are "inadmissible materials" having "no evidentiary value under the law, the court said.
A recent research found that those in high-stress jobs with little control over their workflow die younger or are less healthy than those who have more flexibility and discretion in their jobs and are able to set their own goals.
Some cigarette-smokers may switch to beedis, or gutka, which is probably not the outcome the health ministry wants.
Flustered FIFA officials shut down a media conference in New Zealand on Thursday after being inundated with questions about the sport's latest scandal.
Rather than make it a BJP or anti-BJP battle, it is more important to have a dialogue with the protesting students and understand their psyche, feels Devanik Saha.
Average monthly searches for 'bull market' have gone down significantly from May-June peak.
Experts feel select companies in banking, automobiles, financial services & real estate will gain from lower interest rates
No country has grown without educating its people. India's shameful lag in primary and secondary education has persisted for several decades, and the crisis in higher education is now threatening a social and political calamity, says Ashoka Mody.
Uber is suing Ola for $7.5 million to compensate for lost revenue and goodwill, alleging the Indian market leader created about 94,000 fake user accounts with the ride-hailing service and used them to make more than 405,000 false bookings
After helping the government in policymaking since October 2014, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian is returning to academics and will be teaching at Harvard Kennedy School on a visiting position. In an interview to Dilasha Seth and Somesh Jha, he says the ease of doing business agenda needs to move forward and India must try to integrate with the global value chains. Edited excerpts.
India's rising GDP may have propelled the middle class to become richer, buy new cars, travel around the world and build assets, but it further pushed the economically disadvantaged and poor into poverty and drudgery, says Devanik Saha.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed rival groups Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee and Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee to maintain status quo on the management control of Gurdwaras in Haryana till further orders and directed the state government to take all steps to maintain law and order.
C Christine Fair, an acclaimed Pakistan expert who teaches at Georgetown University rebutted some of the common perceptions of Pakistan.
The analysis is based on the free-float market capitalisation.
'Anything that is anti-growth is demonised because growth is the biggest religion.' 'Growth is synonymous with progress. In fact, it is the opposite.' 'Exponential growth is cancer.'
In the midst of a raging row over the conversions in Agra by Hindutva outfits, the Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah on Friday favoured a strong law to stop forcible conversions.
A rapid fall in crude oil prices has meant the RBI is a year ahead of its inflation-targeting schedule
IT companies have, in recent times, re-invested gains arising from a weaker rupee.
To be sure, this is not some stunning new revelation that our equity markets are beholden to foreign flows.
Despite the low prices, commodities are risky investments
'Wealthy Indians don't give as much as Americans because they believe they must leave their wealth to their children.'
If oil prices rise, the government would face an uncomfortable political decision.
'If not, we can become frighteningly chaotic, more chaotic than what we are today.' 'In today's environment in the country, we still have a window of opportunity.'
Cheil India has a strong presence in the retail and shopper marketing space.
Anushka Saboo explores the possibilities of whether the grass is really greener on the other side.
Theoretically, there is an inverse relationship, but other factors need to fall in place for it to work well this time
Foreign exchange reserves as a percentage of India's total external debt were 73 per cent at the end of December 2015.
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