Leaders of today can pay homage to Sardar Patel by being realists, calling a spade a spade, having sound advisors, playing to our strengths etc, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
A recent survey of 100 chief executives conducted by Nielsen for The Economic Times said 80 per cent want Modi to become prime minister.
The 1990s team worked wonders because the leaders took care to build a tier of competent secretaries and advisors under them.
The actor's photograph flaunting her stretch marks has been liked by nearly 7 lakh followers on Instagram.
'Decisions on nuclear power have so far been taken by a small select group, primarily interested in profiteering from their actions, stating 'secrecy' as necessary from the national security point.' 'This argument is false, because we are dealing with the 'civilian' nuclear power sector, which is open even to the IAEA,' says Dr A Gopalakrishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.
Stricter intellectual norms can help India grow faster.
'Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may be anxious for a farewell visit to Washington in October,' says retired Ambassador K C Singh, 'but bending backwards on America's PRISM policy is going to earn him scorn at home and contempt abroad.'
We need to make start-ups, instead of small businesses, part of the priority sector, says Shubhashis Gangopadhyay.
'One lesson to emerge out of the Modi-Putin summit is that India can be more self-confident that it possesses inherent strengths to leverage its interlocutors to influence Pakistani policies,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Whether this happens because DGCA actually cares about the future of the national carrier or for other motives is not clear.
East European countries have better rating than India though their economies are not as stable as the latter.
Cheil India has a strong presence in the retail and shopper marketing space.
Ajinkya Rahane has been a conspicuous absentee from the ongoing Indian runfest against Sri Lanka but the middle order batsman appears to have the backing of the team management ahead of the tour of South Africa later this month.
Realistically, coal will be the major fuel for electricity generation in India, as in America, for a long time.
Former batting great Sunil Gavaskar believes India and Pakistan must start a dialogue to pave the way for the revival of regular matches between India and Pakistan.
India's regional policy has fallen between the two stools of pragmatism and principle. It's time India revisited and rectified its approach. Relations with neighbours deserve nothing less, says Praful Bidwai.
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Every time we pointed out the overwhelming evidence of diesel's toxicity, we were brushed aside.
Rajan addressed a group of investors in Boston on Thursday.
Henry Kravis, co-founder of global private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, thinks India should go for a bad bank to deal with bad assets in banks. In an interaction with journalists in Delhi, he says there are plenty of opportunities in India. He was joined by India CEO Sanjay Nayar.
India's real GDP growth is set to exceed 7 per cent for CY-2015.
'The subsequent generations of Indians abroad are free from such baggage of the past. They may be intolerant of the mosquitoes and the heat when they come to India, but they are proud of their heritage and the achievements of their parents abroad. India, to them, is a brand, which gives them added advantage in their highly competitive environment,' says T P Sreenivasan.
According to him, since India has a low fiscal deficit, a low current account deficit and lower inflation, there is no need for being too dependent on foreign money for growth.
There is no large economy in the world where the bulk of the physical infrastructure has been built by the private sector; it has almost always been done by the government.
Walee Bukhatir and Mazhar Khan, the men who drive cricket in the UAE, tell Harish Kotian/Rediff.com what the game is missing by India and Pakistan not playing at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
>There's still hope and plenty to play for, says Rediff.com's Aruneel Sadadekar.
he is the most prominent Indian leader whose inner values and outer actions demonstrate an evolved higher level of responsible leadership.
From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020.
Lack of political consensus on economic reforms a key concern.
Saab believes co-developing Tejas Mark II would end need for Rafale. Ajai Shukla reports
Harish Kotian/Rediff.com highlights what Virat Kohli needs to ponder about, after the Galle defeat
IHS said low regulated gas prices have precipitated a supply shortfall in India, but proposed that reforms to the pricing formula could yield higher domestic production and boost India's economy.
Anybody who's plugged in to the modern, globalised world will understand why, says Kanika Datta.
As an ideal, economic democracy is not easy to define, but its core principle is to prevent any concentration of wealth that inhibits economic freedoms of society as a whole.
RE of GDP for 2015-16 show that the economy grew 7.9% in 2015-16, rather than the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent.
Experts said a future rate cut would depend on the inflation.
India has not been able to compete with countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam.
With the losses incurred by oil marketing companies (OMC's) on selling regulated fuels below their market prices (under-recoveries) reaching alarming levels, an urgent corrective action, like hiking the price of diesel, has become imperative, says a Crisil study.
'He always used to say, 'I have taken up this post to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and I will do it during the time I am here'.'
For India to endorse Nepal's Buddhist conference will be like sipping from a poisoned chalice, warns former RA&W official Jayadeva Ranade.
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