The year 2015 may well turn out to be a watershed in global macroeconomic adjustment.
Rahul is going about the restructuring of the Congress leadership in a gradual, deliberate fashion: No sudden jerks, no abrupt moves. So while seniors like Janardan Dwivedi were edged out, Ahmed Patel has been retained.
'Constitutional narratives are forged both inside and outside courtrooms,' says Rohit De.
Shops, business establishments and petrol pumps continued to remain shut during the day even on the eve of Eid on Monday.
'It is entirely possible that Sonia Gandhi wants her son to be prime minister.' 'If so, it is game, set and match to the BJP,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Silver, platinum and palladium all declined.
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IT market is forecast to grow 2.8 per cent in dollar terms and 5.1 per cent in constant currency from 2012, Gartner said in a statement.
'There was no need for opting for such an elaborately and expensively organised spectacle,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The Gita teaches you to be truthful, refrain from criticism and manage your emotions wisely.
The ruling party sharply countered the comment, saying the Congress had "demeaned and defamed" Hindus of India.
Here's a collection of images of the past week.
A new generation of scholars -- this time, sociologists and anthropologists, who hitherto have been busy with researching social practices of primitive tribes and social structures like India's caste system -- are starting to cast their eyes on the financial sector.
'It disappoints and saddens me no end that Mahua has allowed herself to be carried away by the Goebbelsian onslaught mounted on the BJP and Narendra Modi by certain vested interests which find themselves exposed and thrown out of the gravy train,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
With no payments coming in, HAL for the first time ever taken a bank loan of Rs 7.81 billion.
Rupee is under pressure against the dollar say currency watchers.
From the political maelstrom in Washington to the humanitarian disaster in Yemen to the deadly unrest along the Israel-Gaza border, photographers captured a world in turbulent transition.
Greece's financial crisis has intensified.
There has been no discussion so far on cutting Plan expenditure, the Planning Commission said on Thursday even as it asked states to maintain fiscal discipline.
The Finance Ministry has started preparations for Budget 2014-15 by asking different central ministries and departments to come out with their estimates of receipts as well as expenditure for the next financial year.
The vote leaves Greece in uncharted waters: risking a banking collapse that could force it out of the euro.
The MPs voted in favour of the Queen's Speech by 323 votes to 309 with a majority of 14.
The United Kingdom's embattled opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, on Tuesday lost a no-confidence motion brought against him by his Labour party MPs in the wake of UK's shock Brexit vote.
Net tax receipts in the first half of the fiscal stood at Rs 3.23 lakh crore (Rs 3.23 trillion), or 33.1 per cent of BE, the data released by the Controller General of Accounts today showed.
'No country can ever be free to make its choices and remain independent if it continues to wear borrowed plumes,' warn Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Athens bowed to demands to phase out tax breaks for its islands.
Unlike football, which offends the sensibilities of some very conservative Muslims because it is normally played in shorts, cricket is played in long sleeves and trousers, in line with traditional dress codes. It also bears some resemblance to traditional Afghan children's games involving throwing and using sticks to hit smaller sticks or balls.
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
The IMF dashed any hope that Athens could avert default.
When the North Korean athletes took over, it became a more austere affair.
With Mother's Day around the corner, we thought of looking at how Bollywood's mommy fashion has evolved from Achala Sachdev to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
The falls meant that both crude futures were at their lowest levels since mid-April
The upcoming Budget gives Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a chance to let states boost spending.
'Don't let anybody tell you that Kadvi Hawa is a manifesto for the fight against climate change or that it's an austere, unforgiving movie.' 'This is an intensely felt, beautifully expressed piece of cinema,' says Sreehari Nair.
India's fiscal deficit touched Rs 4.57 lakh crore or 84.4 per cent of budget estimates in the first seven months of the current fiscal, reflecting signs of stress in government finances.
A cut in government spending would come at the cost of growth.
Both the Greek and Iranian deals are extremely imperfect and fraught with uncertainty, says Claude Smadja.
The euro skidded to a 6-week low of 133.700 yen in the early session.
Growing foreign travel is one sign of the radical change in rising India's vacation dynamic.
Tough conditions imposed by global lenders could cause an outcry.
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