Covid Vaccine IP: How Big Pharma lobbied against India

Communications between the USTR and the world's most powerful pharmaceutical and trade lobbying groups reveal that many raised concerns about India's push to exempt Covid vaccines from intellectual......

'US won't play mediating role in Kashmir'

'Is Trump going to play a mediating role? Can he play a mediating role? It's out of the question.''Kashmir is an Indian responsibility.' IMAGE: United States President Donald J Trump with Prime......

The elite's classrooms

The government is internationalising Indian higher education in quite the wrong way, says Devesh Kapur The Indian government recently announced a grant of Rs 25 crore to Oxford University for the......

Sharad Pawar's brinkmanship and coalition pains

Sharad Pawar's real grievances have to do with the frustration of his prime ministerial ambitions, and his inability to gain high stature, including the Number Two slot in the Cabinet, says Praful......

'Chanda Kochhar chapter is behind ICICI Bank'

'She was either overconfident that nothing will happen to her or she underestimated the gravity of the allegations.' IMAGE: September 12, 2016, Chanda Kochhar and Sandeep Bakhshi, then ICICI......

'India will feel impact of future financial crisis more than in 2008'

'I can confidently say there will be another financial crisis soon enough, and probably more than one global crisis within the next century, given the increasingly integrated nature of the global......

Raghuram Rajan's mantras for growth

Be it escaping the I-T sleuths or securing finance from a bank and not repaying it, Indian businessmen has a way of finding solutions to everything through quick fixes or ‘jugaads’. In......

Visionary Budget but devil lies in the implementation

Image: India set for high growth. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters     The government has provided a long-term vision, avoiding any "big-bang" reforms but the devil will be in the......