Donald Trump's victory has been ascribed to the anger of the white working class in the US over the discontent caused by globalisation because of the curtailment of job opportunities....
After a convivial evening at King's College on the Strand, when he boarded the Victoria Line to Earl's Court, Professor Ron Geaves experienced the first public reaction to a Donald Trump victory....
Fidel Castro, the iconic Cuban revolutionary leader who died on Friday, will be remembered in India for his close association with the Nehru-Gandhi family and especially his "sisterly" ties with former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - which he sealed with a bear hug during the Non-Aligned Summit in New Delhi in 1983....
As a teenager, he once wrote to a US President congratulating him on his re-election and requesting a $10 bill because he "had never seen one and would like to have one of them", but within a few decades, turned to be the nearest but most long-lasting bugbear for a whole series of American Presidents, who tried their best to dislod...
In an intense discussion on the life of Kasturba Gandhi and her relationship with husband, Mahatma Gandhi, author Neelima Dalmia Adhar sparked a controversy saying "some people may even call him a paedophile", only to retract later....
The national income, that is the GDP of the country, can decline by about 2 percentage points as a result of what has been done. This is an underestimate, not an overestimate," said Manmohan Singh, a former Finance Minister and Reserve Bank of India Governor, during a debate in the Rajya Sabha....
Alarmed by the drastic fall in trade, commerce and business activities by around 75 percent post-demonetisation, traders in Maharashtra have demanded various types of concessions to help tide over losses since the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were demonetised on November 8 in an ostensible bid to control black money and weed out ...
Contending that there was no chance of ending black money "until we destroy the conditions which encourage it", eminent bureaucrat-turned-politician, H.M. Patel, who was Finance Minister in the Janata Party government, said that demonetisation only ended in inflicting "a great deal of hardship on a great many innocent people"....
With less than a week to go for her daughter Kavya's marriage, Swapan Nath of Jadavpur, Kolkata, seems a desolate figure in front of a city ATM outlet. With the sudden announcement of demonetisation by the central government, it seems the sky has fallen on the veteran government clerk's head....
Ideally, a robust and functional collaboration should exist between industry and academia. That would augur well for any country, given that it would enable the growth of the education system and also produce employment-ready workforce....
