There is no substitute for a nuanced understanding of subjects that goes beyond just Wikipedia references or ‘Googled’ information. It matters enormously if our youngsters aren’t curious about the world.
#Doon School #Education #Google #Memory #Rote learning #TheOddAngle
The US Fed has announced an official inflation rate it will be targeting — 2 percent. It proposes to make policy more transparent.
Extending yourself to buy property to live in may be okay, but those who do so purely as investment could come to grief.
There is something extremely seedy about the way the inexorable finish to the glittering careers of India’s finest ever quartet of middle order batsmen is being dissected with complete insensitivity.
Government deficits are the ever-present threats to growth. This is the underlying message in the third quarter monetary policy review
The RBI could have offered a repo rate cut if only the government had achieved some measure of fiscal consolidation.
The Indian government has a very strange approach, to criticise foreign media highlighting India on one hand, while trying to prevent access to any criticism of the country from within the nation’s borders.
Well Kodak, you may be down but hope that you are not out.
The RBI boss, who will unveil a review of Monetary Policy on 24 January, has a tough tightrope walk to execute this time.
Even after a year, the finance ministry has not appointed a full-time CEO for UTI Mutual Fund. This is not on
Yields on eurozone debt have fallen, but don’t assume that the crisis is abating. This is just the result of the ECB’s liquidity boosting activities.
Australian paceman Peter Siddle, who took 5-49 in India's first innings, was named Man-of-the-Match, while the Man-of-the-Series was his captain Michael Clarke. #India vs Australia #Mahendra Singh Dhoni #Michael Clarke #Rahul Dravid #Ricky Ponting
Facts and fiction get dangerously mixed up in the case of Antrix-Davos deal. The Padma Vibhushan awardee appears to be the fall guy.
#Antrix #ConnectTheDots #G. Madhavan Nair #ISRO #Radhakrishnan Nair
Twitter insisted its commitment to free speech remains firm, and sought to explain the nuances of its policy, while critics — in a barrage of tweets — proposed a Twitter boycott and demanded that the censorship initiative be scrapped. #InsecureNet #NewsTracker #social media #Twitter
Starr said the drug was actually stashed in two bags that were stamped with the sky-blue U.N. logo of a world map in an apparent effort to masquerade as diplomatic pouches, which are not supposed to be inspected. #Cocaine #New York Police Department #NewsTracker #United Nations
Voters today lined up before 2,357 polling stations across nine districts of Manipur as elections began in 60 assembly constituencies amid tight security.
#Imphal #Indian general election in Manipur #Manipur #Manipur2012 #O Ibobi Singh
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is in “serious talks” to poach veteran Bloomberg LP executive Lex Fenwick to run its Dow Jones publishing business.
#Bloomberg #Dow Jones & Company #Michael Bloomberg #News Corporation #NewsTracker #Rupert Murdoch #United States
Miffed with reports that its senior players were contemplating retirement after failing in the Test series loss to Australia, the Indian team management today rejected the speculation.
#Adelaide #Australia #Cricket #IndiavsAustralia #MS Dhoni #Rahul Dravid #Sachin Tendulkar #Team India #Virender Sehwag #VVS Laxman
Tiger Woods produced the sort of assured performance that helped him compile a record 623 weeks at the top of the rankings, to move within two strokes of the lead at the Abu Dhabi Championship.
#Golf #Luke Donald #NewsTracker #Rory McIlroy #Tiger Woods
The cup match is the first meeting between the teams since Liverpool striker Suarez was given an eight-match ban for racially abusing United left back Evra. Follow Firstpost for all the live updates from 1800 IST.
#FA Cup #football #KickingAround #Liverpool #Manchester United
Bouncing back from losing the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Romney has a 9-percentage point lead over Gingrich in Florida, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.
#Florida #Mitt Romney #Newt Gingrich #United States #US2012
Mohammad Saif, secretary-general of APML, said Musharraf did not want his return to overshadow a contempt case being heard in the Supreme Court against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani.
#Asif Ali Zardari #NewsTracker #Pakistan #Pervez Musharraf #Yousaf Raza Gillani
The U.N. Security Council was to meet later to discuss Syria before a possible vote next week on a new Western-Arab draft resolution aimed at halting 10 months of bloodshed.
#Bashar al-Assad #Middle East #NewsTracker #Syria #United Nations
A neglected segment in Uttar Pradesh by all parameters, but women get nothing more than lip service from parties.
Indian businessmen are grieving that Davos has lost its faith in the India story. But given the Davos gabfest’s horrendous record of reading the future, that’s probably a good thing for India.
To our Municipality, an absent Little Master deserves a job completed to perfection. The rest of us, no. Still, it’s election time in a few weeks. I’ll remember.
Twitter’s announcement that it is enabling censorship of tweets by country has the Twittersphere up in arms. But is this a cold-blooded business move or simply poor communication from Twitter?
The Republic Day Parade which includes spectacular displays from the different states, has a spirit of celebration which makes it nothing short of a festival.
If constitutions and laws are meant to regulate our behaviour, it is the constitution that has failed us.
New Delhi is still in the grip of winter. But some residents of the capital are especially hard-hit. One and a half lakh people in the capital are homeless. What happens to them on a winter’s night?
The Special One is now in danger of being sacked for the first time in his career after being jeered by the fans and losing the faith of his players.
The Sahara Group, in an affidavit filed with the court on 4 January, has disclosed a complex web of over 200 companies, in some of which the group invested public money raised through OFCDs.
America is back said Obama in his State of the Union. But it’s not back as the old action hero. Shaken by a bleak recession, this America wants to be a different kind of superpower.
To continue its success, it needs to fiercely hold onto one legacy from its founding father, that fearlessness to challenge its own current successes. They don’t compete with other companies so much as they constantly compete with themselves.
The boy who aroused derision and condescending sympathy in a Mumbai critic is now a national rage with A-listers from Kareena Kapoor to Shah Rukh Khan singing his delightful nonsense and him getting prime slots in Bollywood award shows and national TV.
With Rushdie a no-show at the Jaipur Festival even over a video link, the man to blame in Rajasthan’s Chief Minister who showed a complete lack of spine.
Engineers from three social networking giants fire back at Google’s integration of Google+ pages into its search results with Don’t Be Evil, a browser button that gives users better results.
Centurion Ricky Ponting does not want Australia to “kill too much time” in their pursuit of putting up a huge first-innings total for taking 20 wickets could be hard work on a benign Adelaide Oval pitch.
Manipur is in a state of inertia with compounding problems ranging from a bad economy, unabetting militancy and a trigger-happy government.
The plight of the Indian couple in Norway reflects the cultural insensitivity of the authorities there.
The RBI’s pre-policy review does not hold out much hope for a dramatic reversal of tight money since the fiscal situation is going from bad to worse
The Telecom Watchdog has asked the SC to note Salman Khurshid’s pronouncements on the Loop and Swan cases which are helping the accused.
Freedom is a wonderful feeling but it must not be at the cost of the freedom of others.
The four authors who read passages from The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie’s banned book, have fled from the festival for fear of arrest. Notions of free speech too are packing their bags.
There is now a strong case for abolishing the position of state governors. They serve no useful purpose beyond harassment of elected governments.
The Tamil Nadu CM’s efforts to overturn the programmes and schemes of the previous DMK government are coming a cropper.
In a first joint interview, our two Monkeys hold forth on their investing strategies. Their advice: buy, hold, make money. Don’t sell in a panic
