Harsh V Pant Bashar al-Assad’s ouster and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s retreat underscore the importance of channelling people power through effective institutional frameworks Global turbulence continues to manifest itself in a myriad ways in different parts of the…
The current status of urban knowledge development, in form of accumulated knowledge, so recorded and accorded a formal status, in the syllabus of recognised courses or diploma and masters degress, of institutions of formal educations, like universities, is the bed rock of knowledge in any discipline.
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was in India earlier this week after assuming charge of the island nation in September.
The debate in parliament on the Indian constitution did not rise to the occasion. Neither side focused on how it has helped India stay together as one nation...
French economist Thomas Piketty does a major service by focusing public attention on the problem of inequality — of income and wealth.
The markets are flat. The rupee is down against the dollar, not so much because the rupee is weak — the real effective exchange rate of the rupee, trade weighted against six currencies, shows appreciation — because of the rise of the dollar against major currencies. US growth is robust, at the moment, and the resurrection of Donald Trump, with his promise of tax cuts and protection for US industries, has braced US stocks, relocating some equity funds back home to the US.
TK ARUN Should the Central Provident Fund Commissioner be sent to jail? He is culpable of multiple offences: one, contempt of the Supreme Court, two, administering mental torture to about 17 lakh pension applicants who have applied for higher pension,…