A meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University in the United States has voted to remove the summer economic courses taught by Janata Party leader Dr Subramanian Swamy. The decision was taken after a heated debate, according to The Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper.
Businessman P C Mustafa wants Indian Americans to return home, Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza outlines how Indian tech companies could grow, Gaurav Dalmia has some investment recommendations while Subramanian Swamy warns that India is flirting with a debt trap.
'Businessmen are reluctant to invest because there is a fear that private investors are being targeted by various agencies.'
The American university, once the envy of the world, is in crisis, notes Ajit Balakrishnan in his latest column.
Global economy will have to grapple with few tough situations in 2015.
'Being one of the 150 million upper middle class consumers, I can vouch that the average expenses on white goods or clothing are minimal. Indians are not consumerist by nature,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu sounded a warning bell at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, last week, saying that big-ticket reforms would probably have to wait to be carried out for the next government, after general elections in 2014.
Economist and professor emeritus at London School of Economics, Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday questioned Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence in view of his endorsement of the Bhagvad Gita.
Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week.
Not for reasons related to personal financial problems or economic anxiety about the future, but...
There was no announcement from the government on guaranteeing a minimum basic income, which is the need of the hour. The announcements on portability of ration cards and affordable rental housing to workers are for the long and medium terms. Migrant workers need immediate relief.
Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya said that India is facing a health crisis that has led to a sudden stop of the economy.
Opposition to FDI in retail is misguided, says Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics in University of California, Berkeley.
In an interview, Rajeev Gowda, Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, explains how management education can connect to a career in politics and why women are seen in smaller numbers in both b-schools and in the political arena. The question is how many of us are willing to get our hands dirty? Read on!
'China's vulnerability on the global stage has given an opening to India to push for its own interests,' notes Harsh V Pant.
Modi has been established by this election as the "clear and favourite winner" for the 2019 elections.
The new social and political order calls for a reorganisation; but it is no guarantee for effective administration. We present a Business Standard debate where two experts have put forth their views.
"I'm taking a minute to respond... I do respect Raghuram Rajan as a great scholar who chose to be in the central bank in India at a time when the Indian economy was all buoyant," Sitharaman said during the lecture organised by the Deepak and Neera Raj Centre on Indian Economic Policies of the Columbia University.
Fair, who is a senior Fellow with the Counterterrorism Centre at West Point, said all of Pakistan's strategic and security threat perceptions have always centered around India and all of the military aid and weapons systems it has received from the US has been to beef up its arsenal vis-a-vis New Delhi.
Though the Bills of Punjab and Rajasthan have a lot of similarities, the one approved by the Chhattisgarh Assembly is structurally different. None of the three has tried to address a key demand of the agitating farmers in full, which is to make all payments below the MSP, within and outside mandis, illegal.
A shocking fact revealed by a pan-India survey that was flagged at a seminar of Dalit intellectuals
An Indo-Canadian professor has been appointed as British Columbia's regional research chair on Canada-India Business and Economic Development.
The US on Friday issued orders to ban popular Chinese social media apps TikTok and WeChat from Sunday to safeguard national security, weeks after India banned them, saying they were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country.
Experts said a dip in consumption expenditure indicated an increasing prevalence of poverty in the country.
Delays in action against black money by way of committees and studies will give time to corrupt politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats to divert their ill-gotten funds into shell companies, an eminent Jawharlal Nehru University professor has said.
Population expert \n\nProfessor Tim Dyson on how the huge growth of population in north India will affect the country.
Reforms have to accentuate if we have to reach a double-digit growth rate. That's the only way to be able to spend more on social issues like health and education, says Jagdish Bhagwati.
'Just see what kind of political, social and economic impact it will have when the number of unemployed goes up four times in one year suddenly.'
Dr Nandini Sundar, who filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court asking for the disbanding of armed Salwa Judum, on Friday said that there has been a 22 per cent increase of Maoist activities since Salwa Judum was launched.
Meet Dr Aaron K Chatterji whose academic research, policy work and public service has been recognised by the international nonprofit organisation.
Economists have said if a stimulus is needed it should be different from what was provided in 2008-09, when the economy faced the ripple effects of a global meltdown following the Lehman Brothers collapse.
The newly formed Republican Indian Committee in the United States has appointed Armeane M Choksi -- former World Bank official and venture capitalist and now real estate developer, adjunct professor and community activist -- as its first national president.
'Mamata is campaigning hard and not giving the BJP a walkover.'
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty says his 'big worry' is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true.
Rajan said he believes that capitalism is breaking down because it is not providing equal opportunities.
This is a high-stakes strategic conflict between a power which wants to preserve the status quo in its favour and one which wants to usurp that throne. The rest is all theatre, says Harsh V Pant.
'But that does not make him weaker than his adversaries.'
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