Starting tomorrow, the world’s rich and powerful assemble in Swiss ski resort of Davos for an annual summit that, over the years, has come to mean different things to different people. Read more

In poll-bound Gujarat, the latest slugfest between the Congress and the BJP is over who can do better in building houses for the new influencers in the state’s politics — people in the low income groups riding on the back of rapid urbanisation. Read more

Dear Mr Khan,

It is heartening to see news reports that the government has launched a nationwide campaign against malnutrition amongst children and that you are the ambassador for this noble endeavour. Read more

Every time I go to Bhubaneswar, I end up making queries about land rates, hoping I would be able to buy a plot for my post-retirement housing. But each time I return disappointed. Land prices and housing costs in the city have risen so much that the middle class — for whom Bhubaneswar once was a dream city — has been priced out. Read more

When a ruling party goes for a ministerial reshuffle closer to the end of its tenure, the exercise is often expected to be tailored to the upcoming elections. Such conventional wisdom, however, appeared to be missing when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the biggest-ever cabinet reshuffle of his time on Sunday. Read more

This monsoon season we are likely to get up to 10% less rain than a normal year, according to the latest indications from the Met department. If that shortfall was evenly spread across the country, the impact on the nation’s agricultural output and the farmers would have been limited. Read more

As I write this blog, I can see at least five stories on rape, violence against women and child abuse, among others, making up the news list on a day when there hasn’t been much action in the nation’s capital to report. Read more

Speculation has it that Congress President Sonia Gandhi will likely charm Trinamool firebrand Mamata Banerjee into supporting the UPA’s candidate for the next president. And as of now, our dear Pranabda remains a frontrunner for Raisina Hills. Read more

Last week, the government released a set of statistics that have since caused much anxiety over where the Indian economy is headed to. Read more

Census details for Delhi are out. From car-owning households to phone connections and Internet access, the city-state has seen all such “indicators of development” register robust growth between 2001 and 2011. And that is not surprising as everything has worked for Delhi to gain more than most other parts of country from India’s sweeping economic transformation over the past two decade. Read more