The Times of India

One reason for widespread dismay at the toppling of the Vajpayee government is that several Bills which looked like being enacted after years of delay now stand torpedoed. So it is not just Vajpayee\’s fortunes that have been affected, but […]

When the Vajpayee government was voted out of power, the vast majority of newspapers favoured a fresh poll. They felt horse-trading in the political marketplace was both immoral and futile, and that the voting public should be approached for a

Most reactions of sectional groups to the budget were predictable. But one surprised me, very pleasantly. This was the positive reaction of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM). Does this mean we are about to witness the evolution of a more

The share of services in India\’s GDP has shot up to 46.6 per cent, leaving the share of industry far behind at 27 per cent. Is this healthy or unhealthy? Optimists feel India has successfully leapfrogged over the conventional transition

Open economies are highly vulnerable, so put up your shutters to flows of global capital. That was the lesson drawn by most people from the East Asian crisis. They noted how China and India, which had capital controls, with stood

Many of us are horrified by the burning of Christians and their churches. But not the RSS. You, its most cogent spokesman, say the Church is well known as a semi-political and semi-commercial organisation that use money and fraudulent claims

It will lead to market manipulation by businessmen in league with politicians, warns Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar. SHOULD the government-run Employee\’s Provident Fund invest part of its money in the stock market? This suggestion, made repeatedly at budget time, has

It will lead to market manipulation by businessmen in league with politicians, warns Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar. SHOULD the government-run Employee\’s Provident Fund invest part of its money in the stock market? This suggestion, made repeatedly at budget time, has

Welcome to the brave new world of telephone advertising. It could simultaneously cut the fiscal deficit, accelerate rural development and economic growth, kill small newspapers and magazines, and provide free telephone calls. The idea has been pioneered in the US

As Mr Yashwant Sinha prepares for his next budget, he must be crossing his fingers and hoping the global economy revives, expanding India’s export prices and volume in deep recession in East Asia is ending, and the US economy continues