'ISI has planned it from the start'

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The past is not a foreign country

'Despite a quarter century since India began the uphill battle of moving away from its peculiar hybrid of imperial-feudal-socialism, it remains distressingly -- and sometimes reassuringly -- the......

Exclusive! Old friends say 'Modi is our dream merchant'

'Only he can bring change in India that all of us have been dreaming of since we saw America for the first time when our plane touched down at JFK airport.' Narendra Modi's friends in New York and......

Reading this book is a little like eating at Barbeque Nation

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Who's the fairest of them all? Emami-HUL spat revives an old brand war

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Government is playing poker with banks

'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,' says S Muralidharan,......

Sensex ends 257 points lower on weak global cues; Infosys dips 4%

  Benchmark share indices ended lower on Thursday, amid weak global cues, as investors booked profits after recent gains with index heavyweight Infosys leading the decline on concerns over......

No woman director in 56 NSE-listed companies

All listed firms were required to have at least one woman director on their boards from April 1, 2015, as per a Sebi directive. As many as 56 companies including Tata Power, Alstom India, state-run......