Letters: PSBs woes

The Aam Aadmi Party has promised a 50 per cent cut in Delhi's electricitytariff. The Bharatiya Janata Party has promised a 30 per cent reduction. But the electricity distribution companies in the capital say they are losing money. If we are to figure out whom ...

They say life begins after forty. For Duke Ninan it took a little longer. To be precise, in 2011, at 55, his life took a new turn. Duke was on his morning walk when he saw an advertisement of a motorcycle. It was a Hero Honda Hunk. I bought it.

Cricket fans enjoying the India-West Indies ODI in Kochi on Thursday. - SUNOJ NINAN MATHEW Kochi: Hour and fifteen minutes to play. This mammoth stadium already 90% full. How many grounds/cities can generate such a response?(sic) An awestruck ...

Economy after economy has grown on the back of a cheap currency that gave a boost to exports, says T N Ninan.In March 2012, the rupee was about 51 to the US dollar - not much cheaper than it was a decade earlier. Through the latter half of 2012, exports continued to fall and soon the deficit on the current account (the sum of all trade, in both goods and services) was more than six per cent of GDP - over twice the danger level, and never reached before. The rupee came under pressure, ...

The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations is all but dead. Meanwhile, countries are busy signing bilateral and regional free-trade agreements - India has done so with South Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), for ...

India's higher education system has seen breakneck expansion over the last couple of decades. From 4.1 million students in universities and colleges in 1990-91, the number reached 17 million in 2010-11 - most of them at different stages of pursuing ...

Who needs three million unemployable graduates? email this article Message: Your Email: Send me a copy: Recipients' Email: Type address separated by commas Enter the characters shown in the image. Send India's higher education system has seen breakneck ...

India is getting younger, right? Wrong! In the steady drumbeat of the fact that half of all Indians are younger than 25 years of age, what has been forgotten is that the 0-25s used to account for 54 per cent of the population in the 2001 census ...

Twenty-five years ago, Kalahandi in Orissa (as it was then) provoked national outrage following reports of deaths from starvation. Now as then, Odisha is the country's poorest state, and Kalahandi and neighbouring Rayagada its poorest districts.