'Our grandparents' generation knew one another.' 'In our generation, you could go a lifetime without meeting someone from the other country,' British Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie tells Rahul Jacob.
GIFT is a financial centre almost entirely devoid of bankers and, indeed, of people.
590 cricketers -- including 370 Indian players and 220 overseas players -- will go under the hammer during the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
'Not only are four of the top five fathers, but Federer famously injured a knee, weakened by years of twisting and turning on tennis courts, early this year while giving his elder pair of twins a bath.'
The primary problem is that India's garment factories are too small and they typically have 150 people and about 80 machines.
'The American fear of the Chinese military is overblown. The countries that should be concerned are China's neighbours,' Jeffrey Wasserstrom tells Rahul Jacob.
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Being public sector employees, they still saw no reason to stir themselves unduly.
'Chinese real GDP growth is 7.1% and India's is 7.4%'.
The BJP would seem just the sort of party that would embrace Aadhaar. Every other page of its manifesto makes some reference to changing governance in this country. So why is there no discernible difference in the positions of the BJP-led government towards Aadhaar and the dysfunctional approach of Chidambaram under the United Progressive Alliance, asks Rahul Jacob.
With a middle class still so small and no apparent leaps in productivity on the farm or in manufacturing on the horizon, India faces its own age of diminished expectations.
Chinese govt has itself to blame for first trying to slow down the property market and later propping it up.
He is the 14th player in history and only the second Indian to reach the milestone.
China's economy is worse than it really is, but then these are emblematic of the baffling self-congratulatory mood that exists in India today.
The IMF's predictions for India's near-term growth may seem rosy, but the usual caveats apply - that is, we are apt to under-perform.
India must first improve working condition, then it can concentrate on Make in India concept.
Whether India can create labour-intensive factory jobs instead that it needs to put millions to work in the next few years looks very unlikely.
On Wednesday, the Chinese authorities extended a ban on sales of shares by large shareholders.
The two nations share a problem of corporate debt gone bad that is so large and opaque.
PM Modi's China visit may strengthen ties between both the countries.
The agrarian crisis must be met with similarly speedy responses.
The Chinese billionaire and founder of Alibaba is said to be planning a significant investment in business to business e-tailing as well as payment services and logistics companies.
China's obsession with exports and electronics assembly can also be attributed to having learned from the Singaporean textbook.
Has Make in India's mascot, the metal lion, begun to rust?
'In contrast to the generally buoyant tone of the Economic Survey in January, he sounds uncharacteristically pessimistic, saying that forces in the world economy -- slowing global trade, protectionism, robots -- will limit India's manufacturing to levels well below what propelled East Asia's economies decades ago.'
India will look to plug the chinks in its armoury and provide finishing touches to its preparation for the four-Test series when it takes on the West Indies Cricket Board Presidents' XI in the final warm-up match, starting in Basseterre, St Kitts, on Thursday.
No large nation has done less to feed its millions of poor than India has in the past decade or two since the beneficial effects of the Green Revolution wore off.
From a ruling party's perspective, the BJP is in a sweet spot; editorial independence and analytical coverage of governance is rapidly declining
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The prejudices the Chinese carry with them mean they are not natural global managers.
Sadly, for hundreds of millions in India, that inequality from their birth and the utterly inadequate schooling and health care they receive thereafter mean that the lottery is stacked against them.
The city is becoming more democratic as the past embraces the future says Rahul Jacob.
India have won six ODI series on the trot. New Zealand have never won an ODI series in India.
Does s/he turn violent when the gadget is taken away?
India has undermined its own credibility.
India's new chief coach Anil Kumble will be keeping a keen eye on speedster Mohammed Shami's fitness along with the form of opener Shikhar Dhawan when the team begin its tour of West Indies.
If this Budget was not packaged and sold as a Budget for the poor and for farmers, Narendra Modi would have lost the next election.
Rahul is fascinated by history and ancient texts
'In one mansion we visited, I was told the doors in the back courtyard had to be kept closed because to have the front and back doors open at the same time would result in Chettiar wealth flowing away,' notes Rahul Jacob after a memorable visit to Karaikudi.
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