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India Inc. is profitable. So why isn’t it investing?Indian companies are making record profits, but they are not investing in new factories or infrastructure. This is creating fewer jobs and ...
If you read this five books you will be richer in 2025, says Warren Buffett; which are the books?If you want to get richer in 2025, Warren Buffett has five books that can help guide your way. Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Buffett has ...
Donald Trump or Kamala Harris: These voters will decide who will win the U.S. presidential electionsA tiny percentage of voters from swing states known as the Torn Twenty could swing the election in favour of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump ...
Wall Street warns of 'Black Monday' repeat just in time for 36th anniversaryAs the 36th anniversary of "Black Monday" approaches, concerns are rising on Wall Street about the possibility of a similar market crash. T...
A look at some foreign envoys who nurtured ties with IndiaMany memorable figures, including a Nobel laureate, an economist, scholars and writers nurtured ties with India.
India@70: How India, the original globaliser, has begun playing with the world againIndia’s economic rise, and the professional skills and family values of people of Indian origin worldwide, have also earned brownie points ...
Mahatma's grandson Kanubhai Gandhi dies in SuratMahatma Gandhi's grandson and ex-NASA scientist Kanubhai Gandhi died at a private hospital in Surat on Monday. He was 87 year old.
The Planning Commission must be replacedThe Planning Commission may be dead, with the adjective consciously excised. But there are reasons one needs a replacement.
- Future Tense
In its greatest days, it was a city of small, even insignificant, income by modern standards. William Shakespeare lived in a country with a...
- On Wisdom and Events
The fatal blow to the conventional wisdom comes when these ideas fail signally to deal with some contingency to which obsolescence has made...
- Ideology and Posturing
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behaviour, but in the field of social ideas, it is the touchstone of acceptability…. ...
The John F Kennedy regime: Years of Indo-US bonhomieKennedy came to India’s help when it was getting beaten by China in the 1962 war, funneling billions of dollars of aid in the years before ...
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru permitted CIA spy planes to use Indian air basePandit Jawaharlal Nehru approved overflight by U-2 missions covering the border areas with China on November 11, 1962, the independent Nati...
- Independence Day: Interesting and lesser known pictures from Times Archives
Some pictures from August 15th are well-known, but we’ve brought some of the lesser known, but still interesting, ones.
Is Montek Singh Ahluwalia's plan panel worth Rs 100 crore a year?In addition to expenditure on toilets, foreign trips & poverty numbers, there have been question marks about growth & projections, says Bib...
- In Tamil Nadu House, Jaya goes poetic, doles out leadership mantras
Jayalalithaa goes poetic on Wednesday, in praise of the state's policemen, and then drop vignettes of leadership mantras.
- Rice for Galbraith in Madras, auto for Hillary in Chennai
Clinton would appreciate that times have indeed changed from the 1960s, when the US committed $1 bn for the 1st 2 yrs of India's 3rd 5-yr p...
- Chennai munch: Mid-day-meal impressed John Kenneth Galbraith fifty years back, auto does same for Hillary Clinton now
Tamil Nadu has been able to notch a high rate of school participation and completion rates among all states in the country.
- Obama unable to solve economic problems: Fidel Castro Text
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said that Barack Obama is incapable of solving the problems faced by the US.
- Galbraith means more to Asia today than Friedman
Therein lies the rub regarding the belief that unfettered markets solve the world’s problems. Today, Stiglitz argued, “money is flowing uph...