The PMs challenge

When the honble Supreme Court asked why the Prime Minister had not acted on Mr Subramanyam Swamys request for prosecuting the then telecom minister A Raja,it raised two issues: one of procedure,and.. Read full story

Zero-sum game

Zapping the brain with a minuscule electrical current to galvanise dormant mathematically-orientated cells sounds uncomfortably like an experiment worthy of Dr Frankenstein's mad laboratory.

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Decontrol diesel

The incongruity referred to by environment minister Jairam Ramesh about big, fuel-thirsty automobiles of the rich running on subsidised diesel is not exactly new.

Even as the ric.. Read full story

Enamoured, challenged

With the country's equity markets booming, it is but natural that Axis Bank should want a bigger role in this space.

And when its closest private sector rivals, ICICI Bank and HD.. Read full story

Commoner is queen

Pusillanimous Prince Charles deviated from the royal fold only so much as to wed the daughter of an earl as indeed his grandfather had done before him before making an honest woman of an untitled old .. Read full story

Case for advance ruling

The Supreme Court's interim order directing Vodafone to deposit a slice of the disputed tax amount of . 11,000 crore and provide a bank guarantee for the balance signals that India's tax authorities h.. Read full story

Systemic collapse

The building collapse in east Delhi on Monday, which killed 67 and injured 80, is just the latest in the series of such incidents that regularly maim life in urban India.These point to multiple, syste.. Read full story

A Raja by any other name

Not a day goes by without the TV news channels changing the initial A in the country's just-resigned telecom minister's name.In the wake of the reported mother of all scams on the sale of 2G spectrum .. Read full story

Right on Mr Tata

Mr Ratan Tata did not exactly offer a blinding new insight when he talked of political power being used to collect rent or offer patronage.But the fact that he chose to bring up the subject in the aft.. Read full story

Déjà vu

The reported travails of the largest life insurance company, the public sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), illustrate, once again, the perils of assured-returns schemes.Whether in the c.. Read full story