News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
The likes of SRK, Nirula and Mallya are in the race to own an IPL team for the upcoming Twenty20 series.
'I've always wanted to be a pilot; setting records is the icing on the cake.'
Brown, a former governor of California and a good friend of the Indian community, termed it as shocking and unacceptable.
Casual labour, which is the type of employment provided by agriculture, yields much lower wages -- of the order of Rs 291 per day. Labour would not voluntarily shift to this lowest wage-rate sector unless it had no better option, observes Mahesh Vyas.
Most of India knows Deep Sidhu as the man who planted the Sikh religious flag on Red Fort.
The account turned bad before Chaudhari took over as SBI chairman and the asset was sold to AARC following an open bidding process, months after Chaudhari retired, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is the new entrant to the list and ends up holding the first position.
'Today, practically everything has become virtual; even weddings are taking place on Zoom calls.'
'Today, practically everything has become virtual; even weddings are taking place on Zoom calls.'
The biggest loss of jobs among salaried employees was of 'white-collar professional employees and other employees'. Among these are engineers including software engineers, physicians, teachers, accountants, analysts and so on, who are professionally qualified and are employed in some private or government organisation All the gains made in their employment over the past four years were washed away during the lockdown, reveals Mahesh Vyas.
General Asad Durrani's disclosures could leave considerable egg on the face of those currently wielding the stick in Pakistan, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
One of the finest minds on foreign exchange management, monetary and fiscal policies, on debt and currency markets, on bank management and governance, and indeed on almost every aspect of modern finance and banking passes into the ages.
Navi Indran Pillai wants to inspire people to feel beautiful.
In a princely offering, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday donated gold ornaments worth around Rs 5 crore to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala for fulfilling the vows he had made for realisation of separate Telangana.
Public sector banks are inefficient, poorly governed and beset by largescale corruption.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.
May be the strong United States growth will lead the world back to a period of growth and help us all put this painful recrimination behind us.
In related findings for India, the FATF in a report brought out last month, chronicled the use of banking channels to fund the activities of the banned terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Congress received donations worth over Rs 66 crore and NCP garnered about Rs 14 crore from individuals and business entities in fund contributions of over Rs 20,000 in the last financial year while BJP was among the parties which did not disclose such details to the Election Commission till the November 30 deadline.
'For Modi and Shah, the humiliating setback is bigger than the electoral defeats in New Delhi and in Bihar in 2015.'
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.
Or, what will the Indian policy process allow it to be, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'The government has said it has kept its powder dry to fight the true battle against the debilitating influence of the pandemic.' 'The release of the shocking economic data this week should act as the fuse for using that powder now.' 'Further delays will make the battle that much harder,' notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Now, the world over, policymakers are dusting off their copies of Keynes' classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and figuring out whether there are any answers there to our own challenges of growing our economies.
'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.' 'It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,' External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar points out when delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture-2020: India and the Post-Covid World.
Most adult Indians should have access to bank deposits, credit and remittance facilities as well as insurance and mutual fund products in the next decade, and technology will play a big role in this transformation, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
'The wonderful thing about being a journalist is that when someone tries to muzzle your work, it's a badge of honour.' 'You know you've done something right,' Priyanka Pathak-Narain, the author of Godman To Tycoon: The Untold Story Of Baba Ramdev, tells Sunil Sethi.
The power to cause societal pain, at least to some segments of society, is intrinsic to the nature of technological innovation.
Startups in India need low-cost debt for working capital, which is impossible to get.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Ajit Balakrishnan reflects on pariahs, small businesses, and blockchains.
Ajit Balakrishnan on mapping the Business Serengeti.
India has reached a significant milestone on Friday (November 28) by achieving Rs 100 lakh crore or 100 trillion market cap.
