Billionaires have always called the shots in India

'James Crabtree ignores the emergence of a nexus between business and politics going back to the 1920s and talks of it as a new child of 21st century India,' says Shivanand Kanavi. IMAGE: Vijay......

Profit booking drags Sensex 167 points lower

Markets have closed the trading session on a lower note as investors turned cautious and booked profits with oil and financial shares leading the decline. The Sensex closed lower by 167 points at......

Airport privatisation: Another scam in the making?

The UPA government is trying to push through the second wave of airport privatisation before the elections and the controversial elements of this process threaten to harm the sector, according to G......

Decline, recession, stagflation, crisis, crunch...

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except......