State Bank of India chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya will be India’s nominee for the post of managing director and chief operating officer at the World Bank. If she succeeds, Bhattacharya, 60, will be the first Indian to be holding an important managerial position in an international financial institution. The closest was
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India may seek $7.5 billion in extra spending to spur growth
India may seek parliamentary approval to spend about $7.5 billion more on roads, railways and other public programs over the next five months, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to spur growth and create jobs. The new spending, details of which are still being worked out,
Saudi Arabia, Japan’s Soft Bank plan $100 billion tech fund, one of world’s biggest
Relations between Pakistan and India deteriorate further- Law of the Indus- A.G. Noorani
The deteriorating relations between India and Pakistan is casting its shadow on the water sharing agreement on the Indus river which was reached after the partition of India in 1947. Can India unilaterally break the agreement which has survived even after four wars between the two countries. A.G. Noorani a
The Muslim question: Raucous debates in France about the compatibility of Islamic practices with republican values- Dileep Padgaonkar
United Nations new Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ appointment unlikely to stir UN’s stagnant waters
The UN was remarkably effective in the immediate years after the Cold War, thanks to the bonhomie that existed between Washington, Moscow and Beijing. Today, the world is criss-crossed with fault lines and not just between these three. The result is international agreement by the lowest common denominator and the
Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan Bob Dylan broke the barrier between traditional literature and popular music- Vir Sanghvi
India’s Surgical strikes against terrorists in POK US understands India’s anger but does not explicitly back surgical strikes- Sushil Aaron
President Obama’s special assistant Peter Lavoy said recently that he empathized with the perception that India should respond militarily to terror attacks. It is not clear if he explicitly backed surgical strikes against Pakistan, as some in India claim he did. But Islamabad got a firm reminder how close India-US
Muslim personal law: Get a just code, not uniform code-Faizan Mustafa
This may be difficult for television anchors to accept but many jurists do question the idea that all law must come from the State. The divide between the socialists and liberals is clearly visible. “Legal pluralism” and “radical libertarianism” are well-recognized scholarly traditions. There is a consensus that the State
Triple talaq row: There’s scope for reconciliation between Islam, modernity- Zia Haq
On the one hand, the regressive majority discourse has been like this: if Muslims want sharia, they could go to Pakistan. The social contract for Muslims, unfortunately, has been such that they are forced to trade votes for protection, rather than progress. On the other, the All-India Muslim Personal Law