T N Ninan: Pointing at billionaires

The question mark in the headline in T N Ninan's column "A right to offend?" (Weekend Ruminations, January 10) is significant. There can be no two opinions about the unqualified condemnation of the brutal attack on the editorial office of the ...

A news report has said " Pakistan moved aggressively Thursday against an Islamic charity with links to militants suspected in the Mumbai attacks, freezing the group's assets, putting its leaders under house arrest and padlocking its offices. The moves against ...

The murder of a dozen journalists (including cartoonists) in the office of a French satirical magazine is an extreme manifestation of intolerance and hate, and to be condemned. Islamist elements are now well known for their intolerance of anything ...

Since history can give us interesting perspectives on current issues, it is instructive to look back to a previous time when oil prices were at or near the current price of $60 per barrel. That was nine years ago, in 2005-06 - when India's average ...

Back in 2005-06, the government subsidy on petroleum products was a modest Rs 2,930 crore T N Ninan | New Delhi January 2, 2015 Last Updated at 22:10 IST Since history can give us interesting perspectives on current issues, it is instructive to look back to a ...

TN Ninan joins the jury panel comprising Srinivasan K Swamy and Swaminathan S Aiyar, for the awards that recognise excellence in financial journalism BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | December 10, 2014 TN Ninan, Chairman of Business Standard, ...

It is said that only 30 per cent of businesses survive long enough to be handed down to the next generation of family owners. At that rate of attrition, the chance of a business surviving to the third generation is nine per cent, and to the fifth ...

come to the rescue of the Indian economy? That's the question which the government has asked, in the finance ministry's mid-year review of the economy. Some economists outside the government, too, have been asking the question, since most of the leading ...

that Indians imported last year, for reasons other than re-exporting as jewellery, was about $25 billion. They preferred investing in gold to alternatives like putting money in productive assets. Meanwhile, the value of Indian debt bought by foreigners last ...