Individual investors started returning to collective investment vehicles after the 2014 general elections, hoping for a reset to an economy held back by corruption scandals and policy paralysis. They doubled down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock November 2016 currency ban pulled 86 percent of people's cash into bank accounts.

The RBI's steadiness on rates was born of its belief that inflation was close enough to the bank's target zone. Now, you might disagree with this belief -- as I do -- but there's no question that the central bank's monetary policy committee was doing its job as it saw it.

Hundreds of scientists have worked for the last three years to understand just how pressing is the need to limit global warming. The answer - very, very pressing indeed.

It is a ghost election with secret candidates and invisible voters. Even before tomorrow's first phase of polling for Urban Local Bodies, the BJP has already got seven municipal committees in the Kashmir Valley. The party says its 75 nominees have been elected unopposed. 60 percent of 600 municipal wards in 10 districts of the Valley have either a ...

The truth is now out. Arun Jaitley's pretend achievements as Finance Minister have amounted to no more than squeezing the lemon till the pips squeak. They are squeaking so loudly that his government has been compelled to reverse policy and lower by a tithe the zooming prices of petroleum products.

The latest social media jibe on the rupee goes something like this: once it crosses 75 to the dollar, it will be become part of the Marg Darshak Mandal, the BJP's panel of retired statesmen. There are few cracks, however, at the IL&FS crisis, which threatens potential collapse for the markets and the country's financial network. Here's a 10-point g...

Mayawati is mercurial and a maverick. She is temperamental and volatile The Congress has just realised how difficult it can be to get her as a partner. As it became apparent that an alliance between Mayawati and the Congress could be necessary, not just advisable, for the Congress to defeat the BJP in the coming elections in Madhya Pradesh and Raja...

Mayawati's scathing attack on the Congress and her decision to contest Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh alone are a windfall for BJP President Amit Shah who has been working overtime to ensure that the proposed mega-alliance (mahagatbandhan) between Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, Mayawati's BSP and the Congress remains the opposition's castle in the...

Now that the government is backing its liabilities, IL&FS presumably can survive on a thinner layer of equity than it would have otherwise needed.

India, Japan, Germany and Brazil form the G4 who stake a claim for a permanent seat at the UNSC. They even suggest a compromise -- give us a permanent seat without the veto power.

It's thoughtless but not necessarily bigoted. But even a series as beloved as Harry Potter needs diverse characters to stand the test of time.

The world's biggest repository of citizen information, India's Aadhaar database, is now beyond the private sector's reach. That was the verdict last week by the country's top court, which refused to strike down the entire biometric-based system as unconstitutional. Now only the government can use it, and that's a problem.

I'm sure if all of us are determined, we can turn this into a clean nation in twelve months' time. Let us take this commitment that before Mahatma's Jayanti in 2019, we will create a clean India on every level - on the streets, at home, in rooting out corruption, and in our own minds and hearts.

In a feisty news conference, the US President seemed to go out of his way to attack female reporters.

If it is a Mani Ratnam film, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of expectations and Chekka Chivantha Vaanam does not disappoint