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INDIAN WILDLIFE – CAN THE TIGER SAVE ITS STRIPES? 

“Going in quest thereof, one of our Soldiers, a Youth, killed a Tiger-Royal; it was brought home by 30 or 40 Combies (Koonbee), the Body…

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Book Review: My Years in an Indian Prison 

So much is being written about political prisoners in India these days, that the layman might succumb to the temptation of focusing more on the…

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CHINA DISCUSSING SIX LOANS WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

18 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 18, Reuter – China is negotiating with the Manila-based Asian Development Bank for…

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JAPAN STRUGGLES TO USE ADB TO RECYCLE SURPLUSES

20 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 20, Reuter – Japan’s attempt to use the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to…

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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK STILL AWASH WITH FUNDS

20 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 20, Reuter – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is still awash with funds,…

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SUITABLE CHINESE PROJECTS HARD TO FIND — ADB HEAD

27 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 27, Reuter – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has found it difficult to…

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TAIWAN SAYS ROW OVER NAME CHANGE CONTINUES WITH ADB

27 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 27, Reuter – Taipei has ended a two-year boycott of the Asian Development…

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JAPAN-U.S. TUSSLE LIKELY TO DOMINATE ADB MEETING

27 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 27, Reuter – The Asian Development Bank annual meeting starting on Thursday is…

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SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS WANT OWN DEVELOPMENT BANK

28 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 28, Reuter – South Pacific island nations want to form a new regional…

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AQUINO SAYS ADB LEADERSHIP SHOULD REMAIN ASIAN

28 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 28, Reuter – The Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting opened with a call…

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ADB COMES UNDER FIRE FOR LENDING POLICIES

29 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 29, Reuter – The Asian Development Bank’s lending policies came under fire at…

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TAIWAN CONTINUES PROTEST OVER NAME CHANGE AT ADB MEETING

29 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 29, Reuter – Taiwan delegates to the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting continued…

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ASIAN RICE SUPPLY PLAGUED BY SHORTAGES, SOARING PRICES

24 May 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  LOS BANOS, Philippines, May 24, Reuter – Asia’s rice producers, reeling from the effects of…

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INTERVIEW-ADB chief not pessimistic over Yamaichi

24 November 1997  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The collapse of Yamaichi Securities could signal the end…

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ASIA 2020 – Malthusian meltdown? The odds are even

27 November 1997  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  NEW DELHI, Nov 27 (Reuters) – “May you be the mother of a hundred sons.”…

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The Dauphin and the Figurehead

Timing is everything, and with a number of state elections soon, leading to the general election next year, cynicism and opportunism are manifest. The Congress-led…

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Garam hawa

India must construct an enlightened climate change policy ‘FOOD PRICES set to rise as floods ruin crops’. ‘Prime Minister promises aid to flood victims’. Does…

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READING THE BAR CODES

“UPON MY WORD: India’s prisons are stuck in a time warp” STRANGE HOW time’s machine travels back and forth at warp speed. Two hundred and…

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Manila Unloads Sugar Stocks to curb price rise

17 July 1987  Reuters News  English  (c) 1987 Reuters Limited  MANILA, July 17 – The Philippines” Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) has ordered all its reserve…

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Ready For Battle

I remember sticking an aluminium one-yen coin and a copper one-US-cent coin to my computer screen in Tokyo around the mid-1990s and watching in fascination…

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IT’S THE ELECTION, STUPID

The economy is whirling around in a populist spiral Pranab Mukherjee is starting to look worryingly like a feckless heir squandering his generous inheritance while…

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The Best Companies To Work For

Know one’s onions” means to know one’s subject well. But do we really know why our economy fares as it does, how supply and demand…

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Going Nowhere

I remember my first car with great fondness. It was a Fiat 1100D, and I crashed it barely a month after my wife and I…

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Pester Power

Remember when mall meant a tree-shaded promenade in Shimla or one of those picturesque cantonment towns, and plastic was when your grandmother graduated from tin…

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Tyre Prices – Vastly Over-Inflated

Tyres are one essential commodity over which the Government seems to exert no control whatsoever. In the last six months prices have risen twice. And…

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A Battle Supreme

Titled Judiciary: At­tacks and Survival, the speech had been long in coming, the speaker delayed, first by an attack of diabetes in March and then…

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From Flood To Trickle

Large advertisements in Delhi newspapers-last fortnight announced that Mother Dairy was being forced to dilute the fat content of milk supplied to the capital’s citizens…

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Mysterious U-Turn

Although it is a blasphemous thought, it has cropped up in many a legal mind during the last few weeks: if bets were placed on…

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Jagannath Mishra-Cleared By The Court

HE INDIA-RUBBER man, Jagannath Mishra, had done it again. For months, the Bihar chief minister’s political fate had hung in the balance while the Supreme…

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Cheating The Hangman

Convicted killers Billa and Ranga were expected to make headlines last fortnight. Make news, they certainly did, but not the way everybody anticipated. Instead of…

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Hanging Fire

The Quality of justice seemed to be under tremendous strain last fortnight. At issue was the vexatious question of capital punishment. As usual, the shock…

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Until Death Do Us Part

No Amount of civilised debate can take away from the savagery of the traditional Indian marriage. In the last few weeks, eight women have died…

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Snag In The Rope

Anticlimax has become the boon companion of the Supreme Court. When the court reopened on July 18 after its summer vacation, it was shadowed by…

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Lemmings or Llamas?

The US is on life support, and Asian creditors led by China, which holds $1.16 trillion of US treasuries, control the intravenous drip. Asian central…

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BANK THE RESERVE

The Reserve Bank Of INDIA (RBI) IS the best-run company in India: transparent, diligent, accountable, and (ostensibly) in­dependent. Its official capital is a paltry Rs…

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ENOUGH ALREADY

I wish the government would stop trying to defend demonetisation. Every time there is bad economic news, the government jumps up to proclaim that demonetisation…

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HOW TO MAKE MORE WITH LESS

How much a hurry is prime minister Narendera Modi in? It depends on your horizon. By one measure, he has 22 months, but then he…

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NOISE OFF

My family cracks up every time we watch Noises off, the rambunction 1992 comedy. Maybe we find it funnier because we live in such a…

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Glass Half-Full?

We can hope that in the run-up to the next general election we will not suffer the type of jolts to our nervous systems that…

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FUTURE TENSE

So let’s see: 2018 is supposed to be a good year for India. We have low inflation, the monsoon may be normal, manufacturing is finally…

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