The world is in freefall, with the US imposing strict tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico. In its reply, the trio has been obdurate, pushing the globe...

If you are rich, you are seen off with envious eyes to a new land and a brighter future. If you are poor, you are a criminal, especially if you come...

Snipping away at unkempt hair and sniping at thousands of crores in bad loans are vastly different. Get either wrong, though, and you will have a...

The scourge of unsolicited and SPAM calls is relentless and invasive. New kids on the block—interactive messages and robots—are only making life...

Business gymnasts tell us that things containing palm oil are all bad. ICMR and medical experts rubbish this and call it vilification. What really is...

Donald Trump has been loved, hated and baited. But he has seldom been ignored. His renewal as US President will see ambition, change and controversy...

Around the planet, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Legend has it that in St. Calais, it kept the grim reaper at bay. India too needs apples to...

Year 2024 will reverberate for long, for it exposed how insolence and audacity have infested our lives. Even the just-departed Manmohan Singh wasn’t...

…Only because stock markets are closed. The wild oscillation in indices is scary, exposing ‘experts’ who are reacting to romanticism and ignoring...

In India, bribery isn’t a vice, it is a parallel economy. Getting a driving license or a global order, nothing happens sans ‘chai-pani’. Corruption is...

Over 800,000 new cars worth Rs 2 lakh crore are gathering dust in stockyards, a gnarly symptom of the bad times afflicting the Indian automobile...

Self-styled messengers of God are being deified as reincarnations. Even those with criminal convictions are being celebrated, almost as if India has...