Overview: As seems often to be the case a counter-trend move began in the foreign exchange market on Tuesday and continued into Asia today. In the current context, this meant a dollar pullback. Although move...
India and Russia have announced a major arms deal, violating US sanctions. Energy sector sources also say New Delhi will purchase 9 million barrels of Iranian oil. Both moves will test India’s relations with the...
The Indian rupee has turned out to be Asia’s worst-performing currency this year as the nation’s economy struggles with rising oil prices, a widening current account deficit and broader emerging market concerns. The rupee has...
Conversations with a fellow pilgrim: Meaningful conversations between Ezilarsan PKP and Radhika on Life, Startups, Growth and many other areas. Ezilarsan PKP: What is happiness and where to find it? Radhika: Happiness arises from within....
With at least 135,000 people killed annually in road accidents, India has more traffic fatalities than anywhere in the world. Without coherent regulations, this number is set to grow. Murali Krishnan reports. In one of...
Interview on Trade Relationship between Bangladesh & India with Pratim Ranjan Bose, Chief of Bureau of The Hindu Business Line, Kolkata. Ezilarsan PKP: How Bangladesh and India can combine their synergies in the textile so we...
US business magnate Warren Buffett has made a surprise entry into India’s digital payment market, with his Berkshire Hathaway reportedly injecting some $360 million into Paytm, India’s largest digital payments platform. Warren Buffett’s investment would...
It is paradoxical that it is in a country like India that economists are so serioulsy taken the climate change subject head-on. Particularly in the equivalent of the Report on the Nation’s Accounts. The Economic...
High fuel prices, fare wars and a depreciating rupee are making it difficult for Indian airlines to stay aloft. Despite increased passenger numbers, observers say operating models have to change. Jet Airways, India’s second-largest airline,...
Savarna can mean an astrologer, or a son of a Brahmin man and a Kshatriya mother, or of the same colour, appearance, caste or tribe. That was in ancient Sanskrit; more recently it has come...
While the Indian government celebrates its success at having electrified every village in the country, not all households are assured of a constant and consistent power supply. Vasudevan Sridharan reports. On April 28 this year,...
What a beautiful sight! Look around at world’s leaders such as Donald Trump or Xi Jin Ping; would you be sorry if you did not get another look at them? And then look at Justin...