At the end of the day, for many worldwide, the ongoing mutual attacks between Israel and Iran would seem a contest devoid of any moral high ground and only a bout between two ordinary adversaries,......
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been awarded the 2107 Nobel Peace prize. The Geneva-based organisation, seeking to eliminate atomic weapons through an international......
‘To give the Nobel Prize to a group, which led the effort to produce a still born baby is either the height of optimism or the depth of despair. 'To imagine that no one contributed to global......
In a veiled attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his defence of khap panchayats, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday described them as retrograde organisations which cannot......
'Only when India's adversaries are convinced that India has both the necessary political and military will and the hardware to respond to a nuclear strike with punitive retaliation that will......
The meltdown in the markets and the slowdown in the US may severely hamper corporate India's investment plans. "Raising money will be difficult," concedes Sajjan Jindal, CEO, JSW Steel. "It is the......
Describing its choice as a "vote for the future", a distinguished four-member jury selected State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Om Prakash Bhatt as Business Standard's Banker of the Year for......
HDFC Bank managing director Aditya Puri, ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, and Axis Bank MD and CEO Shikha Sharma did not receive their bonuses in full for financial year 2016-17 Illustration:......
The financial year ending Saturday saw such big-ticket events that set the directional tone for the country’s business journey. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com. Beyond the hoopla......
Kotak Mahindra Bank has decided to buy a 15 per cent stake in Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) for Rs 459 crore (Rs 4. 59 billion) from Financial Technologies India (FTIL). The deal values MCX at Rs......