HindustanTimes When Kobe Bryant arrived in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a draft pick in 1996, he already seemed like a mammoth figure: The 17-year-old son of former player Joe “Jellybean” Bryant; inducted into world’s biggest basketball league ... More »
ET Q&A The perception among all small, medium and big business houses is that the North Block sees commerce through a suspicious lens, senior Congress leader Milind Deora told Krishna Kumar . Deora said this perception must go in order to revive risk appetite.... More »
HindustanTimes The government has yet again announced an attempt to privatise Air India. This is a good idea; it always was; a government has no business running an airline. Worse, running a loss-making airline that is loaded with debt (around Rs 60,000 crore)... More »
HindustanTimes The inability of international law to effectively address situations of mass human rights atrocities, in particular genocide, within States has been the source of much consternation for international lawyers. The term genocide, deriving from the... More »
BusinessLine Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s rhetoric and actions after the change in the Constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, have verged on being both hysterical and melodramatic. Barely a day after the decision, Imran Khan call... More »
HindustanTimes Once again, the West Bengal brigade of the CPI(M) has floated a plan to send party general secretary Sitaram Yechury to Rajya Sabha. Some of its leaders, albeit preferring anonymity (as it happens in regimented scheme of things in the crumbling ... More »
HindustanTimes At the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit last December, Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said that in the city’s elections, each party — including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — had to contest on the basis of development issues. Iden... More »
ET Q&A Siemens India has announced its biggest acquisition in India — electrical and electronics equipment maker C&S Electric. The buyout is intended to expand its presence in the country and pave the way for establishing a design and manufacturing hub that wi... More »
HindustanTimes It was 75 years ago on January 27, 1945, that the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front walked into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to let the inmates know that they were now free. While the liberation of the inmates ... More »
BusinessLine In the din around the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) imbroglio that threatens to force Vodafone Idea into bankruptcy and turn India’s telecom market into a duopoly or a near-monopoly, the law of unintended consequences on several non-telecom players... More »
BusinessLine Globalists often bemoan that the US under President Donald Trump is turning globalisation on its head by cancelling multilateral existing agreements, not joining others, and pursuing ‘America First’ policies. They charge that the US is becoming is... More »
HindustanTimes The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)’s decision to not contest the Delhi assembly polls is yet another sign of the cracks in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). To be sure, the SAD is a minor player in Delhi’s political landscape — it bagged only 0... More »