Citing FDR's new deal, PM appeals to youth to take ownership of 'Viksit Bharat' goalPrime Minister Narendra Modi calls on the youth to help make India a developed nation by 2047. He highlights the importance of big dreams a...
Mohandas Pai vs IndiGo: Ex-Infosys CFO says they 'treat passengers badly' after AC issue. How the airline responded?Former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai criticized IndiGo airlines for leaving passengers on flight 6E 7407 without air conditioning on a hot Benga...
Capital markets to continue to surprise on upside; 3 big trends to bet on: Navneet MunotIndia's economy is poised for growth. The government is emphasizing manufacturing and infrastructure development. Public and private capita...
For independent India to survive, Green Revolution was inevitable: An ode to MS SwaminathanMonkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, the architect of India's Green Revolution, played a crucial role in transforming the country's food produc...
The way out of farm protests: How to make it a win-win for both farmers and Modi govtIf instead of tinkering with farm laws in a heavy-handed manner, GoI laid out a more comprehensive strategy to usher in a second Green Revo...
What Pratap-babu, accomplished diagnostician, could have prescribed the dynamic duoThere was no doubt about it. The Dynamic Duo had more than enough to deal with on their thalis. But being the Dynamic Duo — and determined ...
IndoSpace, Reliance Ind’s arm METL in JV for 55-acre logistic park in HaryanaThrough this joint venture, Indospace has acquired a 55-acre land parcel from METL and the latter will own a minority stake in the proposed...
View: Back to the future from food rationing to cash rationing!May be, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should add a new phrase -- 'queue up India'. This is not the India the people of this country dreamt o...
Indira Gandhi's rupee devaluation master stroke: The forgotten legacy of 6/6/66June 6, 1966 turned out to be a defining day in independent India's economic history. It was the day on which Indira devalued the rupee by ...
There are more problems with bread than just carcinogenic elements; focus should be on quality of wheatFactory-made bread, ‘untouched by human hands’ as ad campaigns promised, was a shining white sign of pure and healthy bread. But making bre...
Sarosh Zaiwalla: The international arbitrator from IndiaToday, Sarosh says, Zaiwalla and Co is a legal practice with 18 lawyers and annual revenues of about 4 million pounds (about Rs 40 crore).
India's Farming Saga: Mapping the UPA government's agriculture revolutionUPA policies have lead to a historical high agri output. This was possible because of govt’s thrust on improving agri inputs such as qualit...
Dr Sivaramakrishna Padmavati: Meet India’s first & oldest woman heart specialistI still touch and use my eyes and ears to treat patients, but I have to know technology, too. You can't stop the march of technology.
Richard Nixon sought to repair Indo-US ties after 1971 war"We wish now to resume relations that were interrupted in mid-1971 on the basis of this new situation," Richard Nixon had said.
A ban on the use of crops with transgenic traits is unscientific and India needs new technologies to raise farm yieldsBoth yield-enhancement and yield-stabilisation are critical for feeding a global population of over seven billion, and still increasing.
- Innovation needs more bitzua and chutzpah
India shares with Israel challenge, creativity and chaos, the three Cs that made it a patents powerhouse, but lacks channelisation.
- India puts ball in US court, won’t dilute wheat quality norms
Wheat-wise, it’s moving back to the past for India and the spectre of PL 480 is threatening to return.