How to DEFEAT the NEXT Pandemic

Illustrious international thinkers met at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2021 to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world at large and the accompanying economic......

Star-studded economic panel marks Stalin's break with past

Chief Minister MK Stalin has shown that he is cut from a different cloth when it comes to embracing what is current, modern and absolutely necessary. Thus, even while retaining the spirit and......

'One education policy for all states not viable'

Thrusting one education system on all students across states, irrespective of their socio-economic status, is not a viable idea, one of the panelists of a six-member committee, formed by the Bengal......

Sheena Bora case: Why did her lawyers give Indrani a drubbing?

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......

The man who will advise Modi on economic affairs

Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and at the......

Sewage cycle to clean life in slums

Pedal power may hold the answer to cheap and efficient sewage removal in some of the world's poorest slums -- if the work of a Cambridge University researcher can be taken into large-scale......

Highlights of Union Budget 2008-09

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented his fifth Budget in Parliament on Friday. Following are the highlights: Changes in I-T slab. Threshold of exemption for all Income Tax assesses......

Communication's the name of the game

Almost everyone in India, not just students, needs to attend a course on writing skills. Earlier this week I was at a workshop at Bombay University. It was organised by the indefatigable Padma......