Social media has liberalized human expression! Through a Twitter or a Facebook account, we express ourselves relentlessly over a bundle of issues. It is a kind of revolution that has sparked real life movements, globally....
India VIX calculates and depicts investor’s perception of volatility in the near term. This gets calculated on the best bid and ask price of a Nifty contract and this calculation is for a near term....
With 176 million Muslims in India is the second largest Muslim nation in the world! Although predominantly Hindu, India has always been a land of diverse religion and cultural practices. One of the finest attributes...
There are 195 sovereign states, according to the United Nations, and two “observer states” (Vatican and Palestine). The high income countries in North America, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific account for about 15% of the sovereign...
Most scaling businesses now are disruptive technology-based solutions – Be it the taxi aggregators like OLA/Uber or Online marketplaces or retail brands / product aggregators like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal. As these technology companies / market...
There are three, and arguably interrelated, known unknowns that are seemingly on everyone’s mind. First is the decline in global equity markets. Is this simply a long overdue correction? Wasn’t August 24 some sort of...
The ongoing Syrian refugee crisis is indeed the darkest phase of world history after the WWII years! Unprecedented in its size and the scale of ripple effects the crisis has exhibited how disjointed our modern...
This year alone two Bollywood flicks (Baby- Jan 2015 and Phantom-Aug 2015) replete of patriotism and valor offered an alternative manner of neutralizing terror assets used by Pakistan’s secret intelligence service ISI to avenge the...
The influx of the Balkan refugees is the price Germany is paying for its covert geopolitical adventures in the Balkans.So around 40% of refugees infiltrating into Germany are from the Balkans! For the reader’s convenience...
Another Parliament session has come to an end. When Congress was ruling it was the turn of BJP to disrupt the Parliament. This time it was the Congress Party that assumed the role. BJP had...
From a technical perspective, the US dollar looked vulnerable to start the week, but the 8.5% drop in Chinese shares in Shanghai provided additional fuel. The linkage between the two is that global headwinds may...
This is what two unnamed container shipping executives, one from an Asian carrier, the other from a European carrier, told the Wall Street Journal about the containerized-freight fiasco on the China-Europe route: “We are now...
