Kerala IB to probe mysterious survey

Union Minister of State for Home, Mulapally Ramachandran told rediff.com that he had directed Joint Director, State Intelligence Bureau M Harisena Verma to probe a survey conducted by a Kochi-based......

The real issue with Electronic Voting Machines

Rajeev Srinivasan on how EVM problems are much bigger than technology or politics. The first of a two-part series. I have been doubtful about electronic voting machines for quite some time, based......

8 all-rounders win US Congressional gold medals

Shefali Kotta Madhusudhan, who graduated last month from West Windsor Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey, has put in more than 800 hours work in community volunteering, personal development,......

Why it is important for the RBI to arrest rupee fall

If the rupee continues to slide from Rs 60 level, it will have a negative impact on the country's fiscal deficit. Is the rupee fairly valued? Should the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allow it to......

What good are economists, anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a......

Happiness, growth and capitalism

In the late 1980s I received an impressive missive from the Crown Prince of Bhutan inviting me to a conference, which would seek to provide measures of a country's level of happiness to replace the......

Economists walk on the wild side of human behavior

Say you're going to come into a sum of money. Would you rather get $3,000 next week, or $3,800 in a couple of months?Well, that depends on whether you just ate a bag of candy, according to a recent......