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Singaporean roots in India

Tata's Syamal Gupta is exploring an India-Singapore Friendship Society to strengthen common interests at a non-official level

Shipping Theseus

Ship of Theseus is an extraordinary departure from anything else Mumbai has made

Where panchayat is lord and master

Social exclusivity: Too posh for their own good?

Growing inequality threatens to kill meritocracy

A poor debate on poverty in India

Estimates for the number of poor should be reworked by taking into account their deprivations and living conditions, such as access to basic services, shelter, public health and education

Mr Abe's 'great country'

The author explains why Japan is - or may be - back, and why it matters

Circular reasoning

When you are in a crisis that cannot be called a crisis for fear of precipitating a bigger crisis, monetary policy making becomes incomprehensibly difficult

Arctic's greenhouse effect

Melting polar ice could cause hefty damage faster than we think

Congress' small window

Has Narendra Modi peaked too early?

Why the statistics on the country's poor is meaningless

If govt data is to be believed, a massive 133 million people have moved out of poverty in seven years

Aviation Ministry should stop worrying about airfares

Aviation ministry should concentrate on improving the fundamentals of the sector and stop worrying about fares

Setting some conditions

What the government needs is an IMF programme - without the IMF

Signs of a north-eastern sunrise

Exciting times may be ahead for the much neglected north-east region with several turnkey infrastructure projects coming to fruition, opening opportunities to closer links with Myanmar for business

An Asian Machu Picchu?

Mahendraparvat's discovery could have a greater impact on Cambodia's tourism which forms the biggest chunk of the country's GDP

Shinzo Abe's balance of power

The rupee, over growth 

RBI and government fighting the symptoms, not the disease

Father of poverty line takes estimates with a pinch of salt

Yogender Alagh who headed first ever task force on poverty line in 1978 is dismissive of present methodology devised by Suresh Tendulkar

Opinion:Did RBI panic on the rupee?

Were the rupee measures a panic reaction?

Outside of IT, pharma and FMCG, it is better to be net short

Realty has taken a hammering and it's likely to take more of a beating if interest rates don't fall

The doer as demagogue

Reviving the 2002 discourse suggests Narendra Modi is unsure if the Gujarat Model will work at the all-India level