Modi in Singapore: Bolstering a pivotal relationship

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit is an attempt to move the Indo-Singapore relationship to the ‘next level’. Singapore has been one of the top investors in India.......

A blow-by-blow account of what happened in Parliam

It was one of the most tantalising days in Parliament. Parties debated for and against the nuclear deal. MPs crossed swords, armed with allegations and statistics. As the nation was glued to the......

'He believed that strength respects strength'

Dr V S Ramamurthy began his career at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay, Mumbai, in an era when Dr Homi J Bhabha was a father figure at the nuclear establishment.Dr Ramamurthy has made......

India has no plan to upgrade education!

Until fifty years ago there were several world class universities in India: Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta, and Delhi are names that come to mind. Some of the world's greatest scientists of the......

Govt readies sweeping reforms for PSBs

The governance reforms, as an official put it, would bring in measures to track the performance of the executive-rank employees of the banks, intensively. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The......

An SC verdict that rattled India's high and mighty

The spectre of Singur and now its verdict is looming large on the future of many of Bengal’s projects, especially the state government’s industrial parks that are vacant. As many more......

The 10 highest paid Indian-American CEOs

Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare? Image: Satya Nadella with Bill Gates. Photograph, courtesy: Microsoft     Rs 525......

India's economic theory fashion cycles

'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy, says Ajit Balakrishnan. A good place to start understanding that economic theories are subject to fashion......

'Ganguly's ouster was wrong'

As part of a series of weekly chats on cricket, Prem Panicker appeared on the rediff Chat at 1300 EDT/1000 PDT on December 15. Following is a transcript of the chat. Earlier transcripts: - 'On form......

'The 1983 team was much more Indian'

When Kapil Dev's team conquered two-time champions the West Indies on June 25, 1983, a new chapter was written in India's cricket history. As 66-1 outsiders, India's chances of making it to the......