India needs to consider whether the Donald Trump administration can actually deliver, observes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
'The army is using its might to teach them a lesson'
'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?' 'Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players in e-commerce and all but one player in telecom -- and it is very hard to justify this perception that the BJP is business friendly.' 'There will also remain the real risk of ideas seemingly gleaned from the pages of Amar Chitra Katha, overlaid with PowerPoint presentations,' predicts Rahul Jacob.
The South-East Asian country is a growing market for sponsors such as brewer Heineken and will give the region four races on the calendar again after the departure of Malaysia last year.
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India was among the 11 countries that abstained from voting on the resolution in the UN Economic and Social Council.
Questioning the bullet train in view of the investment needed in Indian Railways is similar to saying that India needed to invest in primary education rather than in IITs, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Modi had on Friday urged people to turn off lights at their homes for nine minutes at 9pm to display the country's collective resolve and solidarity to defeat the virus.
Thackeray would be taking over as chief minister more than a month after results of the Maharashtra Assembly elections were declared on October 24.
'It is because we treat them as our own people, and there is no difference between owners and workers here.'
'We always say "Beti Bachao" and "Beti Padhao", but there has to be "Beto ko padhao aur na samjhe toh thappad lagao".'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India has a chance to rise again as a global economic power and suggested that it could match with China and he has a "clear roadmap" to channelise entrepreneurial capabilities of country's 1.25 billion people.
Dr Talat Ahmad, vice chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia suggests important reforms in the Indian education system.
At the summit, India signed the SCO's memorandum of obligations, kick-starting the process of its accession into the group as a full member.
Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption
Gao Yu was found her guilty of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website.
Unidentified persons on Wednesday created a ruckus at the South Mumbai office of former Mumbai sheriff Nana Chudasama, to protest his 'anti-Marathi' banner.
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'Right now there are two battles, the one in our heads about the pandemic and 2, the actual pandemic itself.'
An inevitable consequences of advanced and rich economy is a fatter population, says a health economist and co-author of a new book, 'The Fattening America'.
'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'
'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'
'Others will think twice before attacking our space assets.'
'Facebook and Google no longer need to have infantry regiments and cavalry like the East India Company because they are inside everyone's phones listening to our conversations.'
Seeking an expansion of the UN Security Council, he said India, Japan and Germany should be included in the Security Council as permanent members but without veto power.
'The Himalayan people may not represent a large or politically influential section of the population, but India's security depends on them.' 'Let us hope Sikkim remains a beacon of stability,' says Claude Arpi after a recent visit to the picturesque north eastern state.
According to leaders of these economies who were speaking at a session at the 44th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, the BRICS economies would rebound over the next few years, despite having been hit to varying degrees by fallout from the global financial crisis.
The challenges of transition to stricter emission norm BS-VI from BS-IV and compliance to new safety norms thereby making vehicles costlier are lurking around the sector.
Combining affordable IT with native Indian ingenuity and entrepreneurship F C Kohli believed would enable Indian small businesses match anyone and thrive.
'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier regimes.' 'By the end of the 16th century, their revenue and judicial administrations exhibited an obsessive preoccupation with order, the efficient management of time, and a spirit of rational self-control -- all of them characteristics of early modernity,' point out Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman.
'The youth associated with this movement were extremely talented.' 'But I personally believe violence cannot change anything in the world.'
However, the number of confirmed cases reported by states rose by over 500 to cross 3,000 with at least 90 dead. While Maharashtra, Telangana and Delhi disclosed several new cases of the deadly virus infection, government officials said the numbers have risen in last few days mostly due to one event -- referring to the Tablighi Jamaat's religious gathering in the national capital attended by thousands of people last month.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Friday named 'Asian of the Year' by a leading Singaporean press group for being focused on India's development and getting the world "excited" about the prospects of the country again.
'What his minions do, we are not sure, but he has got to keep them under control. Pogroms against Muslims in India -- I don't think that is going to be his policy.'
'In Bollywood, the power is disproportionately in the hands of a few men, whether they are actors or producers or directors.' 'The woman who makes an allegation against them can forget working in the industry again.'
Investors expect more investment-friendly policies opening up more sectors for foreign direct investment
'An entrepreneur should always remain under pressure or he will die,' Vineet Rai tells Anjuli Bhargava.
'Modi skillfully navigated Trump's ego and pushed the right buttons.' 'Critics assailed Modi's speech for its personalism, but in the Trump era this is par for the course.'
The Paytm employee, who tested positive for the contagious disease with flu like symptoms on Wednesday, came in touch with 91 people in Gurgaon, an official said, citing his counterpart in the suburban town.
'If every consumer in India and China, totaling up to almost 3 billion, want to live like people in San Francisco, Stockholm or Singapore, can they afford to? Can nature afford it?'
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