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DU colleges seek 'Superman' for college admissions

There is a need to first check the educational qualifications of those responsible at these colleges to set such absurd cut-offs

Claude Smadja: A Greek band-aid

At best, the deal between Athens and its creditors can buy time for a realistic solution to be found

Akash Prakash: A week in India

The government has a plan to turn around the economy

Geetanjali Krishna: If not Maggi, then what?

How the UP FDA, Modi govt are making me healthier by banning Maggi noodles

It is only after the lead in my veins has settled down, have I caught on to the govt's plan

Why Flipkart and Snapdeal may still not list in India

Most e-commerce firms with 'Singapore holding structures' would opt out of the new Sebi platform

Looking beyond PM Modi's many spectacles

It seems like the Twitter-selfie craze compels the PM to put on a mega show every few months

Bibek Debroy: Milking ICE

In part one of a series, the author uses data on income distribution to show how India's Consumer Economy (ICE) survey is worth deeper analysis

William Pesek: Samsung has Korean investors in its pocket

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) is already in a deep relationship with the Lee family. It would be a heartening surprise if NPS said 'no' to Samsung. Sadly, it has 18 billion reasons to s

Are Indian corporate executives out of touch?

Kanika Datta believes that Vishal Sikka, instead of touching Narayana Murthy's feet, could have expressed his admiration in other ways

All that glitters is not solar

For all the PM's ambitious talk about solar power, there remain significant challenges on the ground

Growth, fiscal deficit and the two prices of money

A V Rajwade says it is better to sustain a higher fiscal deficit if the funding is for investment

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: News broadcasting's data fetish

The Broadcast Audience Research Council could face the same trouble as TAM if it cannot stop its most vocal users from cherry-picking data

The threat from China

A K Bhattacharya: Barking up the wrong tree

Andy Mukherjee: Mr Modi's home run

Struggling, corrupt construction industry will be challenged by the prime minster's $250-billion plan

Recapitalisation of PSU banks must be based on performance

It is far more efficient to give more capital to each of a few relatively healthy banks than to spread it thin over all of them

Finance Ministry's 'compliance window' is an amnesty scheme for black money hoarders

Clever wordplay does not change the fact that the government is going pretty easy on some tax offenders

Vandana Gombar: Norway's coal exit creates ripples

While this decision by the fund could inspire other large investors, the fossil fuel divestment movement has already been building up considerable steam

William Pesek: Chinese investors swimming in a bubble

The sudden sell-off suggests China's stimulate-growth-via-stocks plan may be approaching an endgame. The govt will surely try to backstop the market but there will come a time when the tide turns and