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Only way to address questions by Cyrus Mistry is to break Tata’s legacy
October 26, 2016, 11:57 PM IST
Throughout the 1990s, Ratan Tata, then Tata group chairman, spent much of his time consolidating and asserting his hold over the group and chalking out a strategy for major group companies. Tata Steel, Tata Motors…
October 26, 2016, 11:57 PM IST
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Real reason why Congress never took credit for pre-2014 surgical strikes in Pak
October 10, 2016, 3:06 PM IST
The hunters have become the hunted. In a span of just ten days, Indian politics has turned upside down proving once again that there is no substitute for smart realpolitik when it comes to changing…
October 10, 2016, 3:06 PM IST
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Kejriwal is amateurish and government should not bow to silly demands for evidence release
October 6, 2016, 3:12 PM IST
The ludicrous depths to which political and intellectual discourse has sunk in this country is best seen in the kerfuffle over the Indian Army’s cross-border raid into Pakistan. Just so that the ridiculous nature becomes…
October 6, 2016, 3:12 PM IST
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Dr Urjit Patel is no ‘chamcha’ and rate cuts may well trigger a growth boom
October 5, 2016, 2:14 PM IST
Comparisons are always odious but it is difficult to escape one when the incumbent at a central bank is a successor to the high-profile, flamboyant and successful governor like Raghuram Rajan. Three years ago, on…
October 5, 2016, 2:14 PM IST
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Take that Modi critics! Rajan, Arundhati Bhattacharya hint at expanding economy
August 17, 2016, 11:36 AM IST
State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya is not one to exaggerate or embellish a point. After months of dealing with the bad loan mess and cutting through the clutter of State Bank bureaucracy, she…
August 17, 2016, 11:36 AM IST
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PM Narendra Modi forces Congress flip-flop on Balochistan
August 16, 2016, 11:07 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third independence day speech on Monday was widely panned for being boring and unimaginative but he seems to have a hit a homerun at least on one point, the reference to…
August 16, 2016, 11:07 AM IST
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GST: Big bang Modi’s forward march
August 5, 2016, 5:24 AM IST
Just over three years ago when the BJP national executive met in Goa to appoint Narendra Modi as the campaign committee chief ahead of the 2014 elections, the media narrative and secular intelligentsia debate was…
August 5, 2016, 5:24 AM IST
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The un-Republican speech of Donald Trump
July 27, 2016, 3:40 AM IST
When was the last time you heard a Republican presidential nominee denouncing free trade in his convention acceptance speech? Or, better still, when was the last time a Republican nominee railed against corporate special interests,…
July 27, 2016, 3:40 AM IST
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PM Narendra Modi’s memo to his Cabinet: Work hard, stay out of the limelight
July 7, 2016, 12:31 AM IST
US President Teddy Roosevelt was fond of quoting a proverb to embellish his foreign policy strategy of quiet, intelligent diplomacy with the threat of use of sufficient force always lurking in the background: ‘Speak softly…
July 7, 2016, 12:31 AM IST
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Is this another Lehman moment? Maybe, but India will come off better
June 24, 2016, 11:29 AM IST
“Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.” The dawn of a bright Friday, a few days after the summer solstice has brought…
June 24, 2016, 11:29 AM IST
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Rexit: Should not have let Raghuram Rajan go
June 20, 2016, 4:45 AM IST
In 1990, when social media was not yet born and consumer internet was still a gleam in the eyes of some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, a struggling Indian prime minister was contemplating his dark political future….
June 20, 2016, 4:45 AM IST
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Raghuram Rajan is the RBI governor that India needs, but not the one that India deserves
June 8, 2016, 1:14 AM IST
It is easy sometimes to miss the most important development in favour of a populist narrative. On Tuesday, RBI chief Raghuram Rajan declined to discuss his future at the central bank and chose to lob…
June 8, 2016, 1:14 AM IST
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Tempest in a teapot: No need for RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan to explain comments
April 21, 2016, 4:04 AM IST
Criticism about RBI governor Raghuram Rajan’s comments on the Indian economy appears to spring from a sense of outrage. How dare a central bank governor belittle India’s achievements in a global forum is the question…
April 21, 2016, 4:04 AM IST
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Monetary policy in the times of volatile markets
February 16, 2016, 2:52 AM IST
Stanley Fischer, the US Fed vice chairman, the other day alluded to the frustration and uncertainty often felt by monetary policy makers when confronted with wild and volatile markets often with a mind of their…
February 16, 2016, 2:52 AM IST
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Congress has no business talking about corruption
February 12, 2016, 7:07 AM IST
The year is 1973. A young angry politician summons the chairman of a prominent public sector bank to demand that his bank release loan to his upcoming car company. A few weeks ago before the…
February 12, 2016, 7:07 AM IST
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Message from India’s GDP report: Economy not booming but clearly recovering at divergent speeds
February 9, 2016, 3:59 AM IST
If Monday’s sharp late market sell-off can be attributed to fears of bad third quarter GDP numbers, Tuesday should ideally see a bounceback in stocks as GDP surprised on the upside and there were revisions…
February 9, 2016, 3:59 AM IST
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Markets likely to return to normalcy in 2016
December 30, 2015, 2:04 AM IST
“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict; those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” The ancient Chinese poet Lao Tzu would not have even dreamed about the powerful forecasting tools of 21st century when he made the…
December 30, 2015, 2:04 AM IST
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With Fed hiking rate after nine years, the US is entering a new period. As is India
December 18, 2015, 5:52 AM IST
George Bernard Shaw once noted that in gambling, the many must lose in order that a few may win. The acerbic Irish playwright was most definitely talking about gambling in the traditional sense. In the…
December 18, 2015, 5:52 AM IST
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Forget the Fed rate hike and cheer for the US economy
December 7, 2015, 1:49 AM IST
As the world teetered on the brink of financial catastrophe in 2008, the shenanigans of bankers and traders in the US who used loopholes in rules and regulations to prop up asset prices and take…
December 7, 2015, 1:49 AM IST
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Stick to movies, Mr Aamir Khan
November 27, 2015, 4:42 AM IST
Diehard Aamir Khan fans will remember the 1989 movie Raakh. The rest of us won’t. In this dark thriller, which won three national awards, Khan, fresh from the success of his debut Qayamat Se Qayamat…
November 27, 2015, 4:42 AM IST
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