In an exclusive interview, the CEO of Chennai Super Kings talks to Business Standard about the reasons for staying away from women's IPL

Sports

Business Standard

With the invasion turning into a misadventure for Putin in the face of a spirited Nato-backed Ukrainian defence, the world can only hope the 2 nations reach at least a brokered ceasefire deal in 2023

A war-torn world: How Russia-Ukraine conflict dictated geopolitics globally

Ukraine

Their firm, Geniemode, today has over 250 suppliers in India and Bangladesh to serve some of the biggest names in fashion globally

Upheaval gripping AEL may expose billionaires, including Wilmar International, controlled by family of the richest person of Malaysia and world's second-richest Walton family, to the market turmoil

Adani, Gautam Adani

World food prices fell in January for a 10th consecutive month, and are now down some 18% from a record high hit last March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations food agency said

FAO estimates higher cereal output

Reuters

India's head coach Graham Reid has resigned from his position of India's head coach. But should he be the only one held responsible for the Hockey World Cup debacle? Not really, here's why

Indian hockey players during the crossover match against New Zealand in the Hockey World Cup 2023. Photo: Hockey India

Hockey World Cup 2023

Budget 2023-24 would be in paperless form, as done in the last two years, and would be available on the 'Union Budget Mobile App' for hassle-free access by Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Budget

Press Trust of India

The company last week announced to slash 6 per cent of its workforce, or about 600 staffers, globally, and Ek announced that he was too ambitious in investing ahead of their revenue growth

Spotify

IANS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said amid global economic turmoil, India's budget will attempt to meet the hopes and aspirations of common citizens and be a ray of hope for the world.
Addressing the media ahead of the Budget Session of Parliament, Modi said recognised voices in the world of economy were bringing positive messages from all sides.
The prime minister said the Budget, to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, will strive to fulfil people's hopes, aspirations and also boost the hopes with which the world is looking at India.
"The ray of hope being seen by the world will glow brighter -- for this, I firmly believe the finance minister will make all efforts to meet these aspirations," Modi said.
He also noted that President Droupadi Murmu was delivering her maiden address to the joint sitting of Parliament at the start of the Budget Session.
The President's speech is the pride of the Constitution of India, the pride of India's parliamen

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said amid global economic turmoil, India's budget will attempt to meet the hopes and aspirations of common citizens and be a ray of hope for the world

A 'cyberpsychologist' has written a thought-provoking book on how the internet is altering our behaviour in fundamental ways

Cyber syndromes

With the Western world rethinking the role of aid, the leading Southern nations need to ensure they work the aid money judiciously

Lost opportunities in aid diplomacy

Hardeep Singh Puri's book 'Perilous Interventions' focuses on military interventions in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen

The irrelevance of Security Council

The book raises important questions and compiles numerous views and contestations

Secularism unbound

Through the 1980s, assassination - or accidental deaths - of political leaders in the sub-continent was a common affair. At the very beginning of the decade, Sanjay Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, died in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances that still feed speculations. Then, on October 31, 1984, his mother and then Indian prime minister, Indira Gandhi, was shot dead by her bodyguards, who had been turned by Khalistani militants - leading to a genocide against the Sikh community in Delhi. Four years later, Pakistan president Zia-ul-Haq died in a plane crash - also an assassination - on August 17, 1988. Finally, on May 21, 1991, Indira's son and Sanjay's brother Rajiv was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber during an election campaign in Sriperumbudur in south India.One of the last journalists to meet him was Neena Gopal, who was covering the elections in India that year, for Dubai-based Gulf News. During the final car ride to Sriperumbudur, Rajiv told

The anti-Clinton brigade

Murray Laurence discusses four decades of his travels in India in his new book, Subcontinental Drift

India in cliches

Human factors in the automation debate

A book cogently argues that the rise of artificial intelligence need not threaten jobs if humans learn to work with, rather than against, machines

Death of a politician: Personal recall

Although much has been written on Gandhi's views, little attention has been paid to those who carried out his agenda for constructive work

Gandhian economics revisited

The book describes how he achieved one of the most dramatic corporate turnarounds in US history, not only paying back the loan by the end of 2012, but also returning a profit of $22.7 billion

Anatomy of a turnaround

Ever since Hitler came to power, writers have been trying to fathom him, and he is already the subject of major biographies

Hitler, without myths

P V Narasimha Rao

Sanjaya Baru's account of the people and action behind the 1991 economic policy reform is fascinating, even when it veers towards being biased

Narasimha Rao, a raconteur's view

What took them so long? That's the only question for the Nobel committee that finally chose Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.It's not as if some new work suddenly clinched the deal. Dylan has been recognised by anyone who cares about words - not to mention music - since the 1960s, when he almost immediately earned an adjective as his own literary and musical school: Dylanesque. His most recent album of his songs was "Tempest," back in 2012; he has since been paying tribute to the so-called Great American Songbook of pre-rock pop, like "Shadows in the Night," his 2015 album of songs Frank Sinatra had sung. But there's no question that Dylan has created a great American songbook of his own: an e pluribus unum of high-flown and down-home, narrative and imagistic, erudite and earthy, romantic and cutting, devout and iconoclastic, finger-pointing and oracular, personal and universal, compassionate and pitiless. His example has taught writers of all sorts - not merely poets

The one-man songbook

That book prompted a second when the next election came around in 1950

Inside India's oldest TV news brand

The author's feelings of guilt, gratitude, suffering, happiness, obligation, and so on are not usually central in an academic thesis

Uncommon saga of rural innovation

Diplomacy especially attracts presidential cronies, and those that buy their ambassadorships

Diplomacy and patronage

"The African-Americans love me," Donald Trump said back in January. Nine months later, evidence of that love is exceedingly rare. Polls put Trump's black support in the low single digits. In 1964, Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act in the summer and won the enthusiastic endorsement of the Klan, received six per cent. Ronald Reagan received 12 and nine per cent. Even John McCain received four per cent.Whether because of those numbers or despite them, the academic study of black Republicans is booming. Now we have Joshua D Farrington's Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP and Corey D Fields's Black Elephants in the Room. We may soon have more books on black Republicans than actual black Republican voters.Before Goldwater, the choice was not so clear, and Mr Farrington, who teaches history at the University of Kentucky, starts by reminding us that the great migration from the "party of Lincoln" did not happen all at once. A significant minority of A

Can you be black and Republican?

Mahatma Gandhi with the last Viceroy, Louis Mountbatten and his wife Edwina in 1947. It was Mountbatten's arbitrary choice of date for the British withdrawal, announced at a press conference, that underlined the British government's systematic failur

The general view is that the British worked towards an orderly transfer of power from India for decades before 1947

Scuttling from India

Writing for the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science in its September 1929 issue, Ramananda Chatterjee presented a perceptive analysis of the challenges Indian journalists faced in that period. This was around the time Chatterjee went to jail on sedition charges. Yet, the editor of The Modern Review, a monthly journal published in English, and Prabasi, its sister publication in Bangla, did not let his bitterness overtake a realistic review of the state of journalism, which has not lost its relevance.Chatterjee recognised that in spite of the draconian laws restraining the freedom to publish, there were other laws that provided some flexibility to Indian publications as evident from the rising number of newspapers and journals in the first few decades of the 20th century, his own included. Yet, Chatterjee struck a sombre note: "We have to serve and please many masters. The staff of those journals which are owned by capitalists have to serve them. They may not in all cas

The voice of pre-independence India

As brief histories go, this is one of the best that I have ever read in recent years. The author's intent is to explain, to even the lay but intelligent reader, just what it is that we can expect of our President.He succeeds marvellously. His message is clear: The President is not a rubber stamp.The book is smoothly written, the topics are logically selected, the discussion is uncluttered and, by going President-wise in the Appendix, the author has covered the terrain superbly. It is a must read for all educated Indians and one hopes that Indian language editions will be published soon.The problem is an old one: If you follow the British model of constitutional government, in which there is a head of state and a head of government, who is the real boss? Is the former bound to follow the advice of the latter or, if and when the occasion demands, can he or she tell the Prime Minister and the council of ministers to take a walk?Debtoru Chatterjee, who is remarkably silent about himself -

Why the President is not a rubber stamp

Not War, Not Peace? is a vital read for anyone interested in the protracted India-Pakistan conflict

Borderline strategies against jihad

Book News: Check out for latest book news, reviews, book launches and more on Business Standard. Explore now for new books reviews along with books writers and novel reviews and more.

Books News: Latest Book, Book Reviews, Book Features, Book Launches | Business Standard

Check out for latest book news, reviews, book launches and more on Business Standard. Explore now for new books reviews along with books writers and novel reviews and more.

Page 101 - Book News