Eco may have bottomed, but no signs of recovery yet: Gokarn

This refers to Subir Gokarn's column "When role models fail" (Muddy Waters, June 2). In the mid-1940s, India saw a number of selfless heroes. Subhas Chandra Bose, who cleared the Indian Civil Service examinations, did not accept the plum post and lead a ...

Education is an essential priority for India, both to equip people to function as members of society and also to keep them abreast of technology and developments that they will need in the workplace. Rapid economic growth such as India enjoyed ...

India is the world's second most populous country, and the largest democracy. In a series of video commentaries starting today, Ill take a look at challenges India is facing both internally and externally. Today, the gap between the people we have ...

We are constantly told that America needs to import its engineers from abroad—specifically China and India—in order to make up for a perceived talent deficit in the United States. As with most nuggets of current wisdom, this bromide loses some ...

India has made laudable progress in increasing access to education and building a strong policy and planning framework for education. The next challenge is ensuring a quality education system which produces positive learning outcomes for all ...

The fundamental issue in both the spectrum and the coal allocation situations is the valuation of these previously public assets as they were transferred to private ownership and control, notes Subir Gokarn When a company sells assets, shareholders are entitled to know how the assets were valued. Some are easy; there is an active market and prices are relatively visible.Others are more complicated.In the absence of market opportunities, the management will need to persuade shareholders that ...

Rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) reverberated at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s annual general meeting today, with participants saying inflation was a major problem in many emerging economies, ...

outlined the need to expand capacity through innovative delivery mechanisms and thereafter ensure proper certification of programs through industry associations. An eminent panel of speakers from Government, Social Sector and Academia shared their ...

A chat with Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution TEXT SIZE : A | A | A TOOLS Picture by Tribhuwan Sharma RELATED STORIES Strobe Talbott, 66, has been travelling to India since 1974. His career spans journalism, government service, ...