Limits to India's engagement with China

Dr Manmohan Singh would be faced with very few choices in Beijing given the Chinese conceived notions of the world today and India’s low ranking in their calculus, says Srikanth Kondapalli.......

'Dalit vote will divide in 2019'

'Modi is the first BJP leader to try to include Dalits in its fold.''But the rank and file of his party is backward and want to bash up Muslims and Dalits whenever they have a chance.' In Raisina......

The rise and fall of Lula and Brazil

'He is the man,' US President Barack Obama had said at a G-20 gathering, enhancing Lula's stature.Six years later, has Brazil's impressive economic growth turned to sand?Will a President, who......

China's wealth gap worsens: Survey

The average Chinese family's assets in 2012 were valued at 439,000 yuan ($66,596). One per cent of Chinese households own one-third of the nation's total assets, vastly increasing the gap between......

China's wealth gap goes higher than warning levels

The Gini coefficient, which reflects the wealth gap between rich and poor, was at 0.474 level for China in 2012 -- well above the warning levels, a report has said. Known as the Gini coefficient,......

Rich-poor gap widens: China faces instability

A spectre of instability awaited China as the widening gap between rich and poor reached 'dangerous levels of wealth inequality', a report by a Chinese NGO has said ahead of a key meet of the......

Covid leaves Indian adults poorer by 6.1% in 2020: Credit Suisse

The drop was amplified by exchange rate depreciation: at fixed exchange rates, the loss would have been 2.1%. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Covid-19 pandemic that brought life to a near......