Abode of turmoil It is an eloquent comment on the deplorable state of the country’s higher education system that Visva Bharati, a central university founded by none else than India’s first Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, was allowed to remain shut for about six weeks from September 24.
And then there were none... Justice RV Raveendran recusing himself from the case of the warring Ambani brothers on the grounds that his daughter was employed in a law firm which was advising Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is, at one level, in keeping with the finest traditions of the judiciary.
Bottoming out The trade numbers for September 2009, released earlier this week by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, broadly conform to the trends that are visible in the global economy.